# Post ts_112748337838384920

- Post ID: `ts_112748337838384920`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-07-08T01:45:04.224Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748337838384920
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748337838384920/analysis
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## Post text

> ….“This is not because the charges were persuasive; they weren’t. This is not because the evidence presented was damning; if anything, it was damning for the prosecution who staked their case on a convicted perjurer’s word and sent a porn star who mistook a possum for a ghost to testify, even though she had no knowledge that was pertinent and contradicted her own public interviews in her testimony. The reason this case was rigged was simple: because this trial was less an American trial and more like a real-life repeat of the infamous Disney cartoon ‘Pluto’s Judgment Day,’ in which the titular dog dreams of being sent to Hell, where he is tried by a courtroom full of cats. Except that cats would probably give dogs a fairer hearing than this jury and (especially) this Judge gave Trump….

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,131
- Reposts: 3,155
- Replies: 261
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.345Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T10:21:27.910Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This concluding post in a multi-part externally authored series represents Trump's curated response to 34 felony convictions — one of the most severe narcissistic injuries in the longitudinal record. The prose is aide/externally authored (confirmed by first-person plural voice, zero errors, sustained literary sophistication), but Trump's amplification reflects a deeply vulnerable narcissistic state requiring elaborate persecution framing. The central rhetorical device — comparing the trial to Disney's 1935 short Pluto's Judgment Day, in which an innocent dog is tried by cats in hell — is a sophisticated, multi-layered move: it frames the verdict as infernal, renders judicial actors as an alien species, deploys absurdist humor to collapse legitimacy, and provides emotional resonance via childhood cultural memory. Defense mechanisms span pathological denial, immature splitting and projection, and neurotic rationalization, with Cohen and Daniels subjected to performative humiliation. The series executes textbook DARVO while constructing a hermetically sealed epistemic system in which no actor capable of validating the trial retains credibility. Danger level is elevated: systematic, formally credentialed delegitimization of courts and juries constitutes institutional corrosion at scale, even absent explicit violent imagery.

# Analysis: Truth Social, 2024-07-08T01:45:04Z (Post ts_112748337838384920)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-written / externally authored repost (confidence: high)**

The UTC timestamp converts to approximately **9:45 PM EDT** on July 7, 2024 — plausibly within Trump's authentic posting window. However, the stylometric evidence is decisive. The prose is almost certainly an excerpt from an external conservative editorial being reposted verbatim across multiple sequential posts. Key disqualifiers for authentic Trump authorship:

- **First-person plural throughout** ("we will not simply lob a charge," "we plan to prove our case") — Trump composes in first-person singular
- **Zero errors** across thousands of words in the full series
- **Structural enumeration** (Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly/Fourthly) sustained across multiple posts indicates pre-planned editorial architecture
- **Literary precision**: The 1935 Disney short *Pluto's Judgment Day* deployed as an extended, detailed metaphor requires cultural recall and analytical control inconsistent with Trump's documented extemporaneous style
- **Self-referential editorial awareness** ("at least, as much as we can in an editorial") — reveals institutional authorial consciousness
- All posts in the series open with "…." indicating excerpted/reposted external content

Trump's psychological contribution is the **act of curation and amplification**, not composition. The selection of this material reveals his state more authentically than any ghost-authored text.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
The content being amplified reflects and resonates with extremely low **agreeableness** (hostile, combative, zero concession of adversary legitimacy), high **neuroticism** specifically in the facet of **angry hostility**, high **extraversion** in assertiveness, and rigid low **openness** — the editorial's hermetically sealed epistemology admits no opposing validity.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Revenge / Agency.** The communion dimension is essentially absent. The entire multi-post series is structured around restoring status, exacting reputational punishment on Merchan/Cohen/Daniels, and demonstrating to the audience that Trump is the wronged party. The agency motive is expressed through elaborate legal and logical scaffolding — this is not passive victimhood but active, systematized counter-prosecution.

**Schemas activated:**
- *Self*: Persecuted innocent, categorically wronged by a species-alien system
- *Others*: Divided absolutely — allies (Turley, FEC chair) possess truth; enemies (Merchan, jury, prosecution) are constitutionally incapable of fairness
- *World*: American legal institutions have been so corrupted they now resemble a cartoon hell-tribunal

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
The **protagonist role** in this concluding post is the dog from *Pluto's Judgment Day*: innocent, bewildered, consigned to a hellish proceeding run by a species that cannot comprehend his innocence. This is a **contamination sequence** in its purest form — a great man dragged into an infernal system by malicious actors.

The **contrasting other** is rendered as literally inhuman: cats. This metaphor does more rhetorical work than surface mockery suggests. Cats are not merely biased humans — they are a different species with different values and different epistemology. The claim being encoded is not that the jury was prejudiced, but that they are constitutionally incapable of judging Trump fairly. This is a form of **epistemic apartheid** — Trump exists in a different moral category than his accusers.

The **identity claim** is maximalist persecution: the most rigged trial in American history, worse than any ordinary judicial failure, equivalent to a nightmare sequence in a Disney cartoon about damnation.

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## Clinical Analysis

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**State: Deeply vulnerable narcissism.** The 34-count unanimous conviction represents one of the most severe narcissistic injuries in the longitudinal record — public exposure, institutional condemnation, criminal label, loss of control. The multi-post series, running to thousands of words of elaborate justification, is proportionate only to the magnitude of the injury.

**Trigger**: Narcissistic injury from conviction/exposure. The known event (sentencing postponed to September 18) confirms the immediate legal context. The editorial series precedes the sentencing, suggesting preemptive reality-frame construction.

**Rage**: Present and intense (estimated 0.72/1.0) but entirely channeled through formal structure. This is rage *mediated* by institutional voice, which makes it more persuasively effective and more durable than raw affective outpouring.

### Defense Mechanisms (Vaillant Hierarchy)

1. **Denial (Pathological)**: The foundational move — wholesale rejection of trial legitimacy reframed through supernatural cartoon analogy. The verdict does not merely seem unfair; it is categorically outside the domain of legitimate American justice.

2. **Splitting (Immature)**: Absolute bifurcation. Trump/defense actors = principled, evidence-respecting innocence. All opposing actors = constitutionally corrupt, constitutionally alien. No gradient, no ambiguity.

3. **Projection (Immature)**: The editorial accuses the prosecution of "lobbing charges and expecting friendly audiences to accept them unquestioningly" — a precise description of the editorial's own rhetorical strategy with respect to its readership. The disowned technique is attributed entirely to the enemy.

4. **Devaluation (Immature)**: Cohen reduced to "convicted perjurer" (factually accurate but instrumentally deployed); Daniels to "porn star who mistook a possum for a ghost." Both moves serve simultaneously to dismiss testimony and perform sadistic humiliation for the audience's benefit.

5. **Rationalization (Neurotic)**: The enumerated legal arguments (Firstly through Fourthly) across prior posts provide extensive intellectual scaffolding for what is at base an emotional refusal of accountability. The formal structure *performs* rigor without constituting it.

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment
- **Narcissistic features**: 0.85 — grandiosity, entitlement, exploitation of legal narrative, lack of empathy for any trial participant
- **Paranoid features**: 0.80 — preoccupation with persecution, grudge-maintenance, perception of systematic coordinated attack
- **Antisocial features**: 0.45 — contempt for judicial authority, implicit disregard for rule of law
- **Ego-syntonic sadism**: 0.55 — the possum/ghost devaluation delivers pleasure beyond defensive necessity; it is performative cruelty for audience entertainment

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**The Pluto's Judgment Day analogy** is the rhetorical centerpiece and the most sophisticated device in the analyzed series. It functions simultaneously on five levels:
1. **Delegitimization**: Frames the verdict as categorically infernal, beyond normal judicial failure
2. **Dehumanization (subliminal)**: Judges/jury become cats — alien species — without overt slur
3. **Affect**: Channels rage through humor and absurdism, making the persecution claim emotionally palatable
4. **Cultural resonance**: 1935 Disney short invokes childhood innocence against adult persecution
5. **Plausible deniability**: "It's just a metaphor" — provides escape if criticized for the comparison

**DARVO structure** across the full series: Deny (trial was rigged, charges were invalid), Attack (Merchan is unconstitutional, witnesses are liars), Reverse Victim and Offender (Trump is the persecuted party in his own criminal trial).

**Firehose technique**: The volume of the series — multiple posts, thousands of words, enumerated legal points — is itself persuasive. The sheer exhaustiveness signals that the injustice is real and serious, even if individual readers cannot track every argument.

**Projection-as-accusation**: The preemptive disclaimer ("unlike the prosecutors, we will not simply lob a charge and expect friendly audiences to accept it unquestioningly") deploys the very rhetorical technique it disavows.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting is present** and systematically deployed:
- A unanimous jury verdict, reached after a public trial, is reframed as a nightmare equivalent to cartoon damnation
- Merchan's jury instructions (consistent with New York law) are characterized as unprecedented unconstitutional manipulation
- Costello's sanctioned courtroom defiance (shouting "Jeez!" at the judge) is reframed as understandable "frustration and befuddlement"
- The prosecution's act of bringing a criminal case is equated with species-level incapacity for justice

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## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Analysis

**Primary archetype**: Persecuted innocent / wrongly condemned dog. Secondary: Warrior-victim hybrid — the post-conviction Trump who has been martyred but not defeated.

**Order-Chaos positioning**: The editorial positions Trump as the defendant of *legitimate* order (constitutional rights, proper jury instructions, fair evidentiary standards) against a *corrupt* order (Merchan's courtroom as rigged system). The cats-in-hell metaphor locates the trial entirely outside the domain of American legal civilization.

**Shadow projection**: The qualities attributed to the prosecution — arbitrariness, corruption, disregard for evidence, bias — are precisely the qualities the editorial demonstrates in its own construction.

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## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

No explicit violent imagery or direct eliminationist language is present. The danger is institutional and long-duration:
- **Systematic judicial delegitimization** at scale: if courts are hell-tribunals run by cats, no verdict against Trump can be legitimate
- **Hermetically sealed epistemic system**: the series preemptively discredits every legitimating actor, leaving the audience no pathway to accept the verdict
- **"Rigged" licensing**: the persecution frame provides psychological permission for extrajudicial responses among the most radicalized segment of the audience
- **Coordinated volume** suggests institutional infrastructure, not individual venting — the campaign is designed for durability, not just emotional release

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## Cognitive Assessment

**Not assessable from this post.** The text is externally authored; Trump's own language production cannot be evaluated. No cognitive markers are attributable to the subject.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Michael Cohen is a convicted perjurer" | **True** | Cohen was convicted of lying to Congress in 2018, among other crimes |
| "Jury did not need to agree on what specific crime Trump committed" | **Mostly True** | Merchan's instructions permitted non-unanimity on predicate unlawful means, consistent with New York legal precedent — a contested but not fabricated legal point |
| "Former FEC chair was blocked from testifying that Trump's actions didn't violate campaign finance law" | **Mostly True** | Defense expert Bradley Smith's testimony was limited by Merchan rulings; documented and a legitimate point of legal controversy |
| "Stormy Daniels mistook a possum for a ghost" | **Half True** | Daniels made documented statements about paranormal experiences; the specific possum detail appears to be an embellishment or conflation |
| "Disney's Pluto's Judgment Day (1935) features Pluto tried by cats in a hellish courtroom" | **True** | The 1935 Disney short exists and accurately matches the description |

Overall Veracity: 82%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- First-person plural 'we' voice throughout confirms institutional/editorial authorship
- Complex subordinate clause architecture sustained across thousands of words inconsistent with Trump's documented speech patterns
- Structured enumeration (Firstly/Secondly/Thirdly/Fourthly) across multiple posts indicates pre-planned editorial architecture
- Zero typos, misspellings, or syntactic breakdowns across the full series
- Specific cultural reference to 1935 Disney short deployed as extended metaphor atypical for authentic Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (34-count felony conviction in Manhattan hush money trial, looming sentencing)

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Judge Merchan, jury, prosecution witnesses, Manhattan DA system
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 55%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared victimhood construction: they did this to Trump, they could do it to you
- Credentialed authority citation (Turley, FEC chair) to validate persecution narrative
- Humor via absurdist analogy to create emotional bonding through mockery
- Volume and exhaustiveness signaling that the conviction deserves serious counter-effort

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic, multi-post, formally credentialed delegitimization of American judicial system at scale
- Hermetically sealed epistemic system leaving audience no pathway to accept verdict legitimacy
- 'Rigged' framing provides psychological license for extrajudicial responses among radicalized audience segment
- Coordinated volume suggests strategic institutional campaign rather than reactive venting
- Cartoon-hell framing encodes the radical claim that Trump's situation is categorically outside legitimate American justice

### Gaslighting

- Unanimous jury verdict reframed as supernatural persecution equivalent to cartoon hell-trial
- Merchan's legally standard jury instructions characterized as unprecedented injustice
- Costello's sanctioned courtroom defiance reframed as understandable 'frustration and befuddlement'
- FEC expert testimony limits (judicial ruling) reframed as deliberate suppression of exculpatory truth
- The act of prosecuting a criminal case recast as species-alien persecution

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Michael Cohen is a convicted perjurer

**TRUE**

Cohen was convicted of lying to Congress in 2018, among other crimes

Sources: DOJ conviction record

> Jury did not need to agree on what specific crime Trump committed

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Merchan's instructions permitted non-unanimity on predicate unlawful means, consistent with New York legal precedent — a contested but not fabricated legal point

Sources: Trial court record

> Former FEC chair was blocked from testifying that Trump's actions didn't violate campaign finance law

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Defense expert Bradley Smith's testimony was limited by Merchan rulings; documented and a legitimate point of legal controversy

Sources: Court record

> Stormy Daniels mistook a possum for a ghost

**HALF TRUE**

Daniels made documented statements about paranormal experiences; the specific possum detail appears to be an embellishment or conflation

Sources: Trial testimony reporting

> Disney's Pluto's Judgment Day (1935) features Pluto tried by cats in a hellish courtroom

**TRUE**

The 1935 Disney short exists and accurately matches the description

Sources: Disney filmography

Overall Veracity: 82%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (95%)
- persecution-narrative (92%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- judicial-delegitimization (88%)
- DARVO (85%)
- literary-analogy (82%)
- hush-money-trial (95%)
- epistemic-closure (82%)
- witness-devaluation (75%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Dual-Track Day: Coordinated Legal Grievance Campaign Collides With Triumphalist Biden-Collapse Harvesting**

An unusually high-volume day split between two competing emotional registers. The evening hours were dominated by a staff-orchestrated campaign to delegitimize his criminal conviction through serialized legal essays, while the afternoon saw gleeful curation of hostile-source quotes confirming Biden's post-debate collapse. One authentic flash of rage emerged early morning — a terse command to Fox News to stop airing critics — before the day settled into disciplined, largely aide-managed messaging. The sheer volume (53 posts) reflects institutional mobilization more than personal agitation, with the legal defense series functioning as coordinated wound management ahead of September sentencing.

Full digest for 2024-07-08: https://trump.fm/date/2024-07-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, July 8). ….“This is not because the charges were... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748337838384920
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "….“This is not because the charges were persuasive; they..." Truth Social, 8 Jul. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748337838384920. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "….“This is not because the charges were persuasive; they...," Truth Social, July 8, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112748337838384920.

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