# Post ts_113087526207519866 - Post ID: `ts_113087526207519866` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-09-05T23:25:08.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113087526207519866 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113087526207519866/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113087526207519866.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Andrew Cherkasky: “Democrats want to see Trump prosecuted for their own lawfare benefit.” Leo Terrell: “It’s all politics. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are not a lawyer.” Alan Dershowitz: “I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states. But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse.” Bill O’Reilly: “The State of New York's image as a place of freedom and fairness is in tatters. There is no justice in New York…There is no question New York ranks up there with Venezuela and Cuba.” ## Engagement - Likes: 10,140 - Reposts: 3,207 - Replies: 282 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.336Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-26T14:45:32.036Z (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 post deploys a validation-by-proxy mechanism: Trump constructs a legal persecution narrative entirely through surrogate voices, leaving himself absent as a speaker. The Dershowitz quote — invoking 60 years of global legal experience to declare Trump's prosecution uniquely unprecedented — performs maximum narcissistic supply function while maintaining authorial distance. This reflects the vulnerable narcissistic pole: the grandiose self is under siege from ongoing felony conviction proceedings, and the response is to assemble a chorus of credentialed mourners rather than fight directly. The splitting operation (New York = Venezuela/Cuba) reflects immature defenses under sustained injury. Authorship is likely aide-curated (7:25 PM ET, zero original text, clean format), suggesting communications management of a persistently sensitive legal exposure. The post contributes to an ongoing epistemic closure project training followers to reject institutional legal processes as inherently partisan — a low-grade but cumulative danger pattern consistent with pre-authoritarian information dynamics. No acute danger indicators are present; the chronic delegitimization of courts and prosecutors represents an elevated baseline risk by normalizing the premise that extrajudicial grievance is warranted when institutions are "corrupt." ## Post Analysis: ts_113087526207519866 | 2024-09-05 ### Overview This post consists entirely of curated third-party quotes — four commentators (Andrew Cherkasky, Leo Terrell, Alan Dershowitz, Bill O'Reilly) — each uniformly asserting that Trump's New York prosecution was politically motivated, unjust, or historically unprecedented. Trump offers no original text. The absence of any personal framing ("ENJOY!," "Fake News!," or even a single-word editorial comment) is diagnostically notable and bears directly on both authorship and psychological state. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 23:25 converts to 7:25 PM EDT (Trump was likely in the New York/New Jersey or DC corridor; the Fox News Harrisburg town hall was pre-taped around this period, and a Wisconsin rally was scheduled for September 7th, suggesting eastward positioning or travel prep). **7:25 PM EDT** falls in the evening — not the late-night/early-morning window most characteristic of authentic impulsive Trump posts (typically 10 PM–4 AM), but also not cleanly inside business hours. The decisive authorship signal here is structural: **no original Trump language whatsoever**. Trump's authentic posts almost invariably bookend curated content with a personal editorial stamp, emotional punctuation, or self-referential gloss. The complete absence of these markers, combined with the clean, ordered formatting and selection of four substantively diverse but thematically convergent quotes, is consistent with aide-curated content — likely prepared by a communications staff member (Scavino or similar) selecting from the day's cable coverage. **Confidence: Medium.** The evening timing is ambiguous. The zero-original-text format tips the scale toward aide attribution. Score: 0.30 (aide-dominant, with possible Trump approval/selection involvement). --- ### Psychological Analysis **Trigger:** The post is a response to sustained narcissistic injury. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in the Manhattan DA case in May 2024; sentencing had been repeatedly delayed and was still pending at this date. The ongoing legal proceedings constitute a chronic, unresolvable injury to the grandiose self-image. This post is a **supply-seeking and grievance-broadcasting** response. **Narcissistic State:** Predominantly **vulnerable narcissism** — the post constructs a persecution narrative using external validators rather than direct grandiose assertion. The deployment of Dershowitz (invoked as a credentialed legal authority) is particularly telling: the subject cannot simply assert his own innocence with authority; he needs a Harvard law professor to say it has never been seen before in 60 years and across 40 states. This is the wounded self seeking powerful surrogates for validation. **Defense Mechanisms:** 1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The legal/commentator framing provides "intellectual" cover for what is fundamentally an emotional grievance. By citing lawyers and commentators, the persecution narrative acquires pseudo-analytical scaffolding. 2. **Splitting (immature):** The New York justice system is rendered wholly corrupt; Trump is wholly innocent. No complexity is admitted. O'Reilly's Venezuela/Cuba comparison is the most explicit splitting operation — placing New York in the same moral category as authoritarian states. 3. **Projection (immature):** "Democrats want to see Trump prosecuted for their own lawfare benefit" attributes bad-faith political motives to the prosecution — a projection that mirrors the accusation itself (pursuing legal action for political ends). 4. **Displacement (neurotic):** Rather than addressing specific legal findings, the post displaces onto the system's legitimacy, shifting the question from "did he commit crimes" to "is the system corrupt." **Parasocial Techniques:** The Dershowitz quote performs a specific function: it elevates Trump's legal plight to a globally historic injustice — "I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England…" This geopolitical escalation is designed to make followers feel they are witnessing a moment of civilizational significance, binding them to the subject through shared outrage. --- ### Level 1: Big Five Trait Expression *Note: With no original Trump text, trait inference is indirect — based on what is selected and curated.* - **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility):** Elevated. The entire post is organized around injustice and grievance. The selection of O'Reilly's inflammatory comparisons reveals an emotional set that endorses extreme framings. - **Agreeableness:** Very low. No conciliation, no complexity, pure adversarial framing. - **Openness:** Low. The epistemic closure is near-total — no counter-narrative or nuance is admitted. - **Conscientiousness:** Moderate (in the curation function — some effort in selection). - **Extraversion:** Moderate (using external voices rather than direct assertion is relatively low-dominance behavior for Trump baseline). --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate:** Power, status, and autonomy are all under threat from the prosecution. The post is fundamentally an exercise in status-defense and counter-narrative construction. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self-schema:* Historically persecuted, uniquely wronged, the subject of unprecedented injustice. - *World-schema:* The justice system is a political weapon; institutions cannot be trusted; New York is equivalent to Venezuela. - *Other-schema:* Allies (commentators) are wise and righteous; legal adversaries are corrupt politicians in robes. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Martyr/Victim. This is one of the clearest expressions of the victim archetype in Trump's posting history — he is not present as a fighter or winner here. He is absent, allowing others to describe his suffering. This is a less assertive, more wounded posture than his typical "counter-puncher" framing. **Contamination sequence:** Implicit — the greatest president, the man who "defended Israel and Jewish Americans more than any," is now subjected to the worst injustice in 60 years of legal history. Good → betrayed by corrupt forces. **Contrasting other:** New York's Democratic legal establishment, Judge Merchan (implied), Alvin Bragg (implied). **Identity claim:** "I am the victim of a historically unprecedented persecution." --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Key devices:** - **Testimonial (propaganda technique):** Four authority figures, each vouching from a different credentialing position (legal analyst, civil rights lawyer, Harvard law professor, veteran journalist). The accumulation creates the appearance of consensus. - **Anaphora and geographic accumulation (Dershowitz):** "China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states" — the list performs global authority while building rhetorical momentum toward the punchline of unprecedented injustice. - **False equivalence (O'Reilly):** Equating New York's justice system to Venezuela and Cuba collapses the distinction between democratic-rule-of-law states and authoritarian regimes — an epistemically distorting move that normalizes authoritarian comparisons. - **Hyperbole/superlative escalation:** "never seen a spectacle such as this" (Dershowitz) — the superlative frame is key to the persecution narrative. - **Appeal to authority:** The commentators are deployed as credentialed validators, not mere partisans. **Dehumanizing language:** Absent in this post. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Not present directly, though institutional delegitimization functions as a longer-term enabler. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Epistemic closure:** High. The post presents a closed evidentiary universe in which the prosecution is self-evidently corrupt — no alternative reading is admitted or engaged. **Reality distortion claims:** - Characterizing a jury verdict as "rigged" (referenced in the adjacent Rich Lowry post and implied here) denies the institutional legitimacy of a legal process. - Comparing New York to Venezuela/Cuba constitutes a significant distortion of comparative political reality. - "Lawfare" framing inverts the standard frame — the accused party presents itself as the victim of the law, not subject to it. **DARVO pattern:** Present structurally — the prosecution is repositioned as the aggressor; Trump is repositioned as victim. --- ### Cognitive Status *Assessment is severely limited by the absence of any original Trump language.* No direct cognitive markers can be evaluated. The post cannot contribute to longitudinal cognitive tracking. This is itself a note worth flagging: days on which Trump posts only curated content provide no cognitive data — which may be incidental or may reflect communication management by aides on days when original posting is deemed strategically unwise. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated.** The post does not contain direct incitement or dehumanizing language. However, the systematic delegitimization of the New York justice system — elevating it to the level of Venezuela and Cuba — functions as an ongoing institutional corrosion. Repeated framing of courts, prosecutors, and judges as corrupt political actors creates ambient conditions in which followers may feel justified taking extrajudicial action. This is a chronic risk pattern, not an acute spike. No specific targets are named in this post. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Democrats want to see Trump prosecuted for their own lawfare benefit" | **Unverifiable** | This is an opinion claim about Democratic motivations, not a verifiable factual assertion. The Manhattan DA case was brought by an elected Democratic official; whether this constitutes 'lawfare' vs. legitimate prosecution is contested. | | "I have never seen a spectacle such as this in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor (Dershowitz)" | **Unverifiable** | This is a first-person subjective claim about personal legal experience. Dershowitz has been a prominent Trump defender and is a partisan commentator on this case. The claim cannot be independently verified. | | "The State of New York's image as a place of freedom and fairness is in tatters / New York ranks up there with Venezuela and Cuba (O'Reilly)" | **False** | The comparative governance claim is factually false. New York has adversarial legal proceedings, elected officials, independent appellate courts, and constitutional due process protections. Venezuela and Cuba have authoritarian governments, politicized judiciaries without independence, and no meaningful rule of law. The comparison is rhetorical hyperbole with no analytical validity. | Overall Veracity: 33% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - 7:25 PM EDT — evening, not late-night authentic window - Zero original Trump text — no editorial stamp, no 'ENJOY!', no capitalized commentary - Clean structured formatting with four discrete attributions - Thematically convergent quote selection suggests editorial curation - Topic (legal persecution) is deeply personal to Trump — possible involvement in selection ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Manhattan DA prosecution / ongoing felony conviction) Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 5% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Validation-by-proxy: using authority figures to voice persecution claims, binding followers through shared outrage - Geopolitical escalation (Dershowitz listing China, Russia, Ukraine) to frame followers as witnesses to historic injustice - Credentialing cascade: four validators across distinct professional registers (legal analyst, civil rights lawyer, Harvard professor, journalist) simulating expert consensus ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Systematic delegitimization of state-level judiciary — frames courts as equivalent to authoritarian regimes - Epistemic closure framing: followers are trained to reject court outcomes as politically predetermined - Venezuela/Cuba equivalence normalizes authoritarian comparisons to democratic legal proceedings - Chronic accumulation: this post is part of a sustained pattern of institutional corrosion, not an isolated event ### Gaslighting - 'Lawfare' framing inverts standard accountability frame — accused party positioned as victim of the law - DARVO structure: prosecution recast as aggressor; Trump recast as historically persecuted victim - Jury verdict implied to be 'rigged' (via adjacent Rich Lowry post context) — denial of legitimate institutional process - New York compared to Venezuela/Cuba — distortion of comparative political reality to delegitimize democratic legal proceedings ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-26._ > Democrats want to see Trump prosecuted for their own lawfare benefit **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an opinion claim about Democratic motivations, not a verifiable factual assertion. The Manhattan DA case was brought by an elected Democratic official; whether this constitutes 'lawfare' vs. legitimate prosecution is contested. > I have never seen a spectacle such as this in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor (Dershowitz) **UNVERIFIABLE** This is a first-person subjective claim about personal legal experience. Dershowitz has been a prominent Trump defender and is a partisan commentator on this case. The claim cannot be independently verified. > The State of New York's image as a place of freedom and fairness is in tatters / New York ranks up there with Venezuela and Cuba (O'Reilly) **FALSE** The comparative governance claim is factually false. New York has adversarial legal proceedings, elected officials, independent appellate courts, and constitutional due process protections. Venezuela and Cuba have authoritarian governments, politicized judiciaries without independence, and no meaningful rule of law. The comparison is rhetorical hyperbole with no analytical validity. Overall Veracity: 33% ## Tags - lawfare-narrative (95%) - persecution-framing (90%) - validation-by-proxy (88%) - institutional-delegitimization (85%) - aide-curated (72%) - vulnerable-narcissism (80%) - manhattan-da-case (90%) - splitting-defense (75%) - false-equivalence (82%) - epistemic-closure (78%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign Day Fractured by Russia Narrative Revival and Legal Persecution Barrage** Trump split his day between active campaigning — a Hannity Town Hall in Pennsylvania and a speech at the New York Economic Club — and mounting grievance over the DOJ's renewed Russia election interference findings and his ongoing Manhattan conviction. The day's most alarming moment came at midday when he labeled named DOJ officials "Enemies of the People" in response to the Russia assessment. The evening was consumed by a six-post barrage of curated legal expert quotes attacking the Manhattan verdict, suggesting the conviction remains a deep and unresolved wound. Overall mood swung between campaign-trail confidence and bitter persecution, with the legal grievance ultimately dominating. Full digest for 2024-09-05: https://trump.fm/date/2024-09-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 5). Andrew Cherkasky: “Democrats want to see Trump... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113087526207519866 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Andrew Cherkasky: “Democrats want to see Trump prosecuted..." Truth Social, 5 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113087526207519866. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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