# Post ts_113040966262331890

- Post ID: `ts_113040966262331890`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-08-28T18:04:19.618Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> “HARRIS FLIP-FLOPS ISSUES SHE PUSHED AS BORDER CZAR”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (5:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Laken Hope Riley was found dead along a jogging path on campus after she never returned home from Iran. The suspected killer Jose Antonio Ibarra is in jail without bond and is facing a long list of charges like felony murder, kidnapping, and hindering a 911 call. The suspect in Laken Riley's murder, his name is Jose Ibarra, apparently has ties to a notorious Venezuela gang. The murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley casting a shadow over Vice President Kamala Harris as she campaigns in the state today. Riley was killed by an illegal immigrant who crossed into the U.S. under policies from the Biden-Harris administration. Now Harris is trying to flip the script by promising a tougher approach to secure the border. But can voters trust her? Let's bring in former Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem. Chris, you always give us who is exactly how you see it. So she's now running on policies that would indicate she believes that we should get tougher at her southern border. It's a bit of a different tune she's singing than what we've seen from her as Vice President Harris. Yeah, we're seeing more flip-flopping from her than we did in John Kerry in 2004 when he was in favor of the war against the war. I mean, you go back to when she was Attorney General, when she was Senator, when she's been Vice President, everything she has done has been to diminish and put up barriers against law enforcement that are trying to do their job, not barriers on the border, but actually just inhibiting our ability to do our job. And these examples, they're not fun to talk about, but they're the reality of what has happened when you defund ICE, when you reduce detention capacity, when you do not authorize criminal prosecutions for those that cross illegally, then these type of situations happen. And we see them play out, whether it's Lakin or Jocelyn or Rachel Morin or all the ones that have gone before her and continue to commit crimes across the country. It's just unbelievable. And I don't think it's going to work. I think the American people are going to see that she is not serious about this border security. Yeah, to be clear, this is where she has stood in the past with some of her perceived far left border policies. Watch and listen. You're confident this border is secure. We have a secure border. Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense rather than a crime to cross a border without documentation. Can we keep the hands up so we could see them? I think there's no question that we've got to critically re-examine ICE. I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals. All right. So you're not a criminal. You're not here illegally if you cross illegally. Let's re-examine ICE, she said in a previous interview. Go back to 2022 where she insisted our border is secure. Well, tell that to Lake and Riley's family, who over that period of time, this man who was able to walk over the border, entered the country to then murder their daughter, their loved one. And then we learned that he had ties to this dangerous, brutal gang that is now popping up in American cities, Tren de Aragua. We had a councilwoman outside of Denver yesterday talking about how brutal it is getting for residents there. Here's that councilwoman on America Reports yesterday. This gang, they are marking their territory. They are putting up their gang related graffiti on the blocks, on the areas that they have taken over. One time I stepped out of my vehicle and an alert whistle. This is how they're communicating by whistling. An alert whistle happened and I very quickly had to get back in my car. They had people posted all around different properties, up and down different blocks. So to your point, Harris can now promise and vow to be tougher on the border considering all that has happened, but all that has happened has happened under her and Biden's watch. So will the American public, the voter, buy it, Chris? Well, I sure hope not because everything they're doing is just a complete gas line and misrepresentation of the facts on the ground. The TDA that said Venezuelan gang is not just localized to one area of the country. They are making their presence known all around America and that is a threat to all Americans. That's why I continue to say border security is national security and public safety for these reasons. We have an immigration issue we've got to deal with, but we cannot conflate those and that's what Harris has been doing and they're trying to spin everything to a softer tone about immigration as opposed to being really tough on the border security apparatus. Not only do the victims' families go talk to them, go talk to the border communities that had to deal with this on the front end. Yuma, Arizona, El Paso, El Eagle Pass, now San Diego, Rio Grande, all of these communities all across the south of the border have been hit with this with a large amount of people, the tax burden, the amount of money we were spending to handle this problem that could have been fixed on day one if it had just left things alone and built off of what we had started and listened to the men and women of the Border Patrol and ICE as opposed to demonizing them. So she's run away from ever having been the border czar, but in all those interviews she never refuted that claim and it wasn't until now when she's running for president. We'll see how this question, hopefully questions, come up on the border in this sit-down interview that is now highly anticipated. Chris, thank you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/040/965/913/259/107/original/dc2dbb60c08fc139.mp4

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T12:19:45.529Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: ts_113040966262331890 | 2024-08-28 | Truth Social

### Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence, score: 0.15)**

Posted at 14:04 EDT — squarely within business hours. The post is a single seven-word headline in ALL CAPS followed by an attached video file. This matches the profile of Scavino-style campaign broadcast content: clean syntax, no typos, no elaboration, no personal grievance insertion. Contrast with same-day authentic posts reveals the divergence clearly: the gag-order tirade ("completely unConstitutional Gag Order... Leading Candidate... COUP against Crooked Joe Biden") and the social-media-engagement post ("IT'S ALWAYS FAKE WITH KAMALA") both display sustained capitalized prose, emotional escalation, run-on syntax, and personal victimhood framing. This post has none of that texture. The video attachment further signals a coordinated media operation rather than reactive posting.

### Psychological State

At the campaign level (not subject-level), this post represents a preemptive attack triggered by Harris's post-DNC momentum following her August 22 acceptance speech. The flip-flop frame is maximally portable — it requires no specifics from the audience, only pre-existing suspicion of Harris's authenticity. The "Border Czar" label performs efficient rhetorical reframing, converting a diplomatic root-causes mandate into an enforcement responsibility, making any subsequent policy moderation appear hypocritical.

No raw psychological material attributable to the subject is present. The post is a delivery vehicle, not an expressive act.

### Rhetorical Framework

- **Pejorative labeling**: "Border Czar" overstates Harris's operational role (she held a diplomatic mandate on root causes of Central American migration, not border enforcement operations)
- **Flip-flop attack frame**: Classic political attack requiring no supporting evidence — activates audience's prior beliefs
- **ALL CAPS**: Typographic aggression, consistent with campaign brand style
- **Implied contrast**: Accusation format without argumentative content, relies on confirmation bias

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Harris flip-flopped on issues she pushed as Border Czar" | **Half True** | Harris was designated to lead diplomatic efforts on root causes of Central American migration — not border enforcement. 'Border Czar' overstates her operational role. However, she did moderate some immigration positions after becoming the presidential nominee, giving partial basis to the flip-flop characterization. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 14:04 EDT — peak business hours
- Single clean headline with no typos or elaboration
- Video attachment suggests curated media operation
- No stream-of-consciousness or emotional escalation
- Structurally identical to broadcast PR copy

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Kamala Harris DNC nomination acceptance and post-DNC media coverage)

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Implied in-group validation (we know she flip-flopped)
- Capitalization as emotional amplifier

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Harris flip-flopped on issues she pushed as Border Czar

**HALF TRUE**

Harris was designated to lead diplomatic efforts on root causes of Central American migration — not border enforcement. 'Border Czar' overstates her operational role. However, she did moderate some immigration positions after becoming the presidential nominee, giving partial basis to the flip-flop characterization.

Sources: Known events context: Harris nomination and DNC coverage; General knowledge of Harris's 2021 diplomatic mandate

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- aide-written (90%)
- campaign-broadcast (85%)
- flip-flop-attack (80%)
- border-czar-framing (75%)
- post-DNC-counter-narrative (80%)
- video-attachment (70%)
- low-clinical-significance (90%)

## 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). “HARRIS FLIP-FLOPS ISSUES SHE PUSHED AS BORDER... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040966262331890
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“HARRIS FLIP-FLOPS ISSUES SHE PUSHED AS BORDER CZAR”" Truth Social, 28 Aug. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040966262331890. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“HARRIS FLIP-FLOPS ISSUES SHE PUSHED AS BORDER CZAR”," Truth Social, August 28, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113040966262331890.

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