# Post ts_113040436642111461 - Post ID: `ts_113040436642111461` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-08-28T15:49:38.254Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040436642111461 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040436642111461/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113040436642111461.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Former Federal Prosecutor, Katie Cherkasky… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:17), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > former president Trump has been indicted again in the election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The indictment was revised after the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling last month and here to react as former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkoski. Hello Katie, thanks for joining us. So you think this is purely political, right? There's almost no legitimate legal purpose to Jack Smith bringing this superseding indictment at this point because the issues that were raised by the Supreme Court with the immunity ruling needed to be litigated by the trial judge anyway and they could have certainly done that with the existing indictment so this seems like a pure headline grab in my opinion during the heart of the campaign season. They want these headlines right? Absolutely, there's again no chance that this case is going to trial before the election there are still so many challenges that need to be looked at with this case and of course if Donald Trump is elected this could very well be Jack Smith's final act at all in these cases so I think that this was a last-ditch effort to bring this to the forefront of the headlines again. These cases get so confusing there's New York there was Florida there's DC there other states this in Georgia this is the one about J-6 correct? Yes this is what they consider the main election interference case the kind of big case that deals with the fake electors schemes and things along those lines but certainly there's a lot of acts in those charges that deal with the presidency and the official acts that may or may not have been undertaken there. So the Supreme Court recently ruled that presidential immunity for official acts so how do we define official acts would this have been an official act and is Jack Smith just trying to narrow it down and frame it differently? Well according to Jack Smith the super seeding indictment attempted to interpret the Supreme Court's decision to take out things that they believe would be objectionable I think even based on the face of the new indictment there are still many things that are not in line with the Supreme Court's decision and that's why there's going to be several more layers of review at the trial level and then all the way up potentially through the Supreme Court before this could even go forward. All right let's look at President Trump's campaign courtroom calendar last September 5th the judge determines how DC federal election interference case should move forward then on the 16th of September the judge decided whether to throw out the verdict against Trump in the hush money case on the 18th sentencing for New York versus Trump on the 26 arguments begin an appeal of the 450 million dollar civil fraud judgment against Trump and his business associates then on December 5th arguments began in the appeal for the Georgia state election interference case what do you think the average voter is thinking are they thinking enough is enough we're going after Hunter Biden we're going after Donald Trump let's just have an election. I think that people are probably getting very frustrated with what I would consider a lawfare these are especially in the Jack Smith cases very novel legal theories these are not legitimate crimes that we've ever seen charged before so certainly it seems like a direct attempt to interfere with the election which is so ironic in a case that is alleging that Donald Trump did the same thing I don't think that there's any sort of hiding the fact that this is purely for political purposes especially with regard to the j6 case so this will not go forward until after the election there's no possibility for that to happen even if it does withstand the scrutiny on appeal OK, Katie. Thank you so much. Thank you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/040/436/416/961/645/original/e260c65b8ba390ef.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,534 - Reposts: 3,037 - Replies: 395 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.337Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:15:30.242Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Structural Overview This post is minimalist by design: a six-word attribution caption ("Former Federal Prosecutor, Katie Cherkasky…") followed by an embedded video clip. The ellipsis functions as a rhetorical hand-off — signaling "see what follows" — while the post text itself offers no independent claim or argument. Analysis of substantive rhetoric is constrained by the inaccessibility of the video payload; what can be assessed are the post's structural role, authorship probability, and contextual function within the same-day posting cluster. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (high confidence)** UTC timestamp 15:49:38 converts to approximately **11:49 AM EDT** on August 28, 2024. Trump's documented posting patterns associate authentic posts with late-night and early-morning activity in his local timezone; midday posts in clean, templated formats are strongly associated with aide-driven content distribution (consistent with Scavino operation patterns). Supporting indicators: - Zero orthographic irregularities — no typos, no ALL CAPS passages, no misspellings - Rigid template format (Credential/Name + ellipsis + video), repeated across same-day posts amplifying Hannity and Graham clips - No emotional affect markers: no exclamation proliferation, no reactive punctuation, no stream-of-consciousness digression - Clean media embed with standard attribution line — characteristic of a scheduled content pipeline --- ## Contextual Function **Defensive legal supply-seeking via third-party authority** The timing is notable. Jack Smith had just filed his 11th Circuit appeal seeking reinstatement of the classified documents case following Judge Cannon's dismissal. Importing a credentialed "Former Federal Prosecutor" as a sympathetic commentator is a structurally efficient defensive maneuver: the professional carries the legal argument while Trump merely amplifies, avoiding direct factual assertions subject to challenge. This is appeal-to-authority at minimum investment — six words and a video. --- ## Psychological State Assessment Insufficient textual signal for acute state assessment. The contextual pattern — Jack Smith appeal pressure combined with routine third-party validator amplification — suggests **maintenance/supply-seeking** posture with a defensive legal undertone. No narcissistic rage markers. No vulnerability language. No grandiosity expression in the post text itself. The post fits within a coordinated same-day content pipeline: Hannity clip, Graham quote, Harris interview criticism, Cherkasky legal commentary. The absence of any first-person Trump voice (all six words are pure attribution) suggests this node serves distribution rather than expression. --- ## Narrative Identity Trump is structurally absent from this post's text but implied as the **beneficiary** of Cherkasky's legal commentary — positioned as the subject of vindication rather than its author. The contrasting other is the prosecution apparatus (Jack Smith / DOJ). The narrative sequence is implicitly redemptive: external legal authority validates what Trump has claimed about his own prosecution. --- ## Limitations Without access to the video content, the substantive rhetorical and factual payload cannot be assessed. The analysis above is necessarily constrained to structural and contextual features. Any fact-check would require the video transcript. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (~11:49 AM EDT) - Clean template format: Credential/Name + ellipsis + video - Zero orthographic irregularities or affect markers - Matches Scavino-style media amplification pattern - Part of coordinated same-day content pipeline (Hannity, Graham, Cherkasky) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Jack Smith 11th Circuit appeal (contextual)) Sentiment: +0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party authority import: outsourcing legal credibility to former prosecutor - Ellipsis as anticipation device drawing audience into video engagement ## Tags - aide-authored (92%) - media-amplification (90%) - legal-defense-support (75%) - third-party-validation (85%) - supply-seeking-defensive (60%) - video-payload-unanalyzable (100%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Storms and Harris Fixation Frame a Controlled Day on the Georgia Campaign Trail** Trump spent the day campaigning in Georgia, stopping at a Waffle House in Savannah and announcing transition team additions like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. The morning brought brief flashes of anger over Jack Smith's appeal to reinstate the classified documents case and the ongoing Manhattan gag order, but neither episode spiraled out of control. The dominant thread was a relentless, daylong focus on Kamala Harris -- attacking her social media numbers as fake, hammering her policy flip-flops, and blaming her for everything from farm income declines to the housing crisis. The overall mood was confident and combative, with most posts reading as routine campaign messaging rather than anything out of the ordinary. Full digest for 2024-08-28: https://trump.fm/date/2024-08-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 28). Former Federal Prosecutor, Katie Cherkasky… [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040436642111461 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Former Federal Prosecutor, Katie Cherkasky…" Truth Social, 28 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040436642111461. 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