# Post ts_113275108776120178 - Post ID: `ts_113275108776120178` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-09T02:29:50.851Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113275108776120178 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113275108776120178/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113275108776120178.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “HARRIS AVOIDS REPEATED QUESTIONS ON BORDER—TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT ON THE BORDER CRISIS” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (5:22), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > So the border crisis is a top issue for voters and in a shocking twist on 60 Minutes last night, Kamala Harris was actually asked in detail about the crisis to their credit, but of course she refused to answer not once, not twice, but three times. Take a look. The rivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did? It's a long-standing problem and solutions are at hand and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions. What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place? The policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem. But the numbers did quadruple. And the numbers today, because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half, but we need Congress to be able to act. Was it a mistake? Here with more, Texas Governor Greg Abbott. For three years she told the country that the border was safe, the border was secure, the border is secure, the border is secure. I didn't go to the border, but I haven't been to Europe. And then suing you and going after Ted Cruz, who they're trying to defeat in Texas, because both you and Senator Cruz have been fighting to keep Texans and the country safe. Your reaction to that? Listen, Sean, I think that interview is disqualifying. She has no answer to what's going on in the border. She has three and a half years, almost four years now in office as vice president and cannot articulate what needs to be done to secure the border. But on top of that, she was flat out lying to the American public, because she talked about from day one, they had solutions. To be clear, from day one, what they did was to gut all of the policies that President Trump put into place that secured the border far more secure than it's been in about 40 years. And ever since then, what Harris has done is refused to do anything to implement any type of border security. She's had more than three years. If there's any American who thinks that once she's elected president, suddenly she will have some great solution to secure the border, they're grossly mistaken. On top of that, Sean, she didn't say anything about the thousands of criminals who've been released across our country under their watch, knowingly allowing them in, making America far more dangerous. The last thing I will say is this, she falsely took credit for the decrease in border crossings. Know this and the action that they supposedly took was this June, border crossings begin going down last year as because of the border security measures that Texas put into place from Brownsville to El Paso, illegal border crossings have now gone down in Texas by 85%. Because they've gone down so much in Texas, that's why they've gone down a lot across the United States of America. Governor, we have dozens of Americans that have been murdered by Harris, Biden illegals, raped victims of other violent crime. We have cartels, we have gang leaders, we have drug dealers, we have known terrorists that they have allowed into the country. We see the human toll, we see the financial toll, and she wants to give them all free housing, food, healthcare, education, legal driver's licenses, free college education, and free sex change surgery, and also amnesty or a path to citizenship as she calls it. That to me would be rewarding, law breaking, and people that don't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty. Now, she's never answered that question. Sean, it's hard to imagine a border crisis getting worse than it currently is under the Biden administration, but worse it will get if Harris is elected. Because in addition to all of those enticements that you're talking about that would attract millions more people to come here illegally, the dangers that currently exist and the dangers that will exist under a President Harris are beyond the scale of what we can tolerate. Including among the victims is Jocelyn Nungary from Houston, Texas. Nungary from Houston, Texas, who was killed by, allegedly killed now by members of Trende Aragua. Trende Aragua is in the United States because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have opened the border and allowed them in. That's a life that should be still alive today and something that Kamala Harris does not call care about. Yeah, and by the way, you and Senator Cruz have been on the forefront of this. They're spending, what, up to $100, $200 million to take out Senator Cruz. Will they be successful? We have 10 seconds. So listen, Ted Cruz is in a tough race. He's been grossly outspent. Ted Cruz can use all the assets he can get to make sure he can defeat Colin Allred. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/275/108/154/807/010/original/09831e4ca86f4be3.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 13,917 - Reposts: 4,384 - Replies: 1,251 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.331Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T00:48:43.101Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Part of a five-post anti-Harris cluster on October 8–9, 2024, this post functions as maintenance-mode political aggression timed to the Butler, PA pre-rally period. The caption frames Harris's border posture as chronic, deliberate evasion, using Texas Governor Abbott as institutional authority to validate the attack. The "REPEATED" quantifier upgrades a debatable political criticism into categorical indictment — half-true at best. No rage, no dehumanizing language, no violence indicators. The elevated posting volume (five rapid attacks) is consistent with mild pre-rally hypomanic energy rather than reactive narcissistic injury. The cluster collectively deploys Firehose techniques: volume, repetition, and framing saturation across the "Harris = incompetent/unserious/failure" motif. Psychologically, this post reflects cold instrumental aggression in grandiose mode — the dominant-competence-adjudicator archetype rather than the wounded victim. The Warrior and Shadow archetypes are operating: Harris receives the projected disqualification Trump himself faces on multiple dimensions. Authorship is likely authentic or Trump-directed given late-evening EDT timing and ALL CAPS style, though the grammatical precision of the caption introduces minor ambiguity. No clinically significant deviation from campaign-period baseline. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-10-09T02:29:50Z ## Overview A single-sentence media-share post captioning a video clip of Texas Governor Abbott discussing the border crisis, framed as evidence of Harris's evasiveness. The post is one of five rapid-fire Harris attacks posted on October 8–9, 2024, in the lead-up to Trump's Butler, PA rally. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 02:29 = **10:29 PM EDT** (Trump in Butler, PA area for the pre-rally period, Eastern Daylight Time). Late evening falls squarely within Trump's authentic posting window. The ALL CAPS register, cable-news-clip-reshare format, and high posting volume are consistent with his documented Truth Social behavior. The grammatically clean em-dash introduces mild ambiguity about whether an aide formatted the caption, but the weight of stylometric evidence points toward authentic or directly Trump-supervised authorship. **Confidence: Medium-high (0.65)** --- ## Psychological Framework Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post exhibits very low agreeableness (adversarial, zero empathy toward target), high extraversion-assertiveness (dominant public proclamation), low openness (rigid ideological framing), and moderate conscientiousness (goal-directed campaign behavior). Neuroticism is relatively suppressed here — this is controlled aggression, not reactive rage. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/agency (0.78).** The post is not supply-seeking for Trump himself — he does not appear in the content. Rather, it functions as competitive dominance display: deploying institutional authority (a sitting governor) to delegitimize the opponent. The border crisis frame activates followers' security concerns and channels them toward Harris as the responsible party. **Schema activation:** Harris = incompetent/evasive/dangerous. This schema is reinforced across the five-post cluster with striking consistency: "EXPOSED AS A FAILURE," "AN UNSERIOUS WOMAN," "MIGHT SINK WITH BIDEN'S SHIP" — the border post slots into a premeditated narrative architecture. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Competence adjudicator / accountability enforcer - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — competent governance has been corrupted by an incompetent actor (Harris) - **Contrasting other:** Kamala Harris, explicitly constructed as evasive, unserious, and disqualified - **Identity claim:** Trump positions himself implicitly as the one who *does* answer questions, *does* face the border, *does* take responsibility — the inverse of the framed Harris portrait - **Archetypal pattern:** Warrior (enemies everywhere, sustained combat) + Shadow (projecting disqualification onto opponent while Trump himself faces documented evasiveness on policy specifics) ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features:** Moderate. The post reflects instrumental opponent devaluation — a consistent feature across the cluster. No grandiose self-reference in this specific post; grandiosity is expressed through the cluster framing Trump as the authoritative arbiter of Harris's fitness. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose mode. The fundraising gap (Harris $1B vs. Trump's $30M) represents a material narcissistic threat in this period, but this post does not reveal vulnerability processing — rather, cold offensive campaigning consistent with compartmentalization. **Defense mechanisms:** - *Projection (immature):* Harris is framed as the evasive incompetent, displacing scrutiny from Trump's own documented FEMA misinformation campaign running simultaneously - *Displacement (neurotic):* Abbott serves as the attack vehicle — aggression channeled through a proxy authority rather than direct personal assault --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The post compresses a political attack into news-headline grammar. Key rhetorical moves: 1. **"AVOIDS"** — active verb implying agency and intent; not "has not addressed" but deliberately "avoids." Converts press-relations behavior into character crime. 2. **"REPEATED"** — quantifier that transforms a single criticism into evidence of a pattern, amplifying severity without requiring specifics. 3. **Abbott citation** — appeal to authority from within the conservative institutional ecosystem; lends gubernatorial gravitas to an opposition attack. 4. **ALL CAPS register** — performs alarm and urgency; replicates the emotional register of breaking news or crisis reporting. 5. **Firehose technique** (cluster-level): Five posts in rapid succession exhaust Harris's brand identity from multiple attack angles simultaneously, overwhelming any single rebuttal. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Harris avoids repeated questions on the border" | **Half True** | Harris was consistently criticized — including by sympathetic journalists — for message discipline on border questions and her delayed visit to the physical border (September 2021). However, she did give border-related interviews and statements, and 'avoids repeated questions' overstates evasion as absolute rather than selective. The framing converts documented criticism into a categorical indictment. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Cognitive Status Insufficient linguistic material for assessment. Single-compound-sentence caption format structurally precludes analysis of syntactic complexity, word-finding, or coherence. No markers detectable. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No dehumanizing language, no violence imagery, no target + grievance + implied action structure. Standard electoral attack content. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Order attacker** in this framing: the existing order (under Biden/Harris stewardship) is presented as corrupt and failed. Trump implicitly positions as **order restorer** — the one who will reimpose competent governance at the border. Abbott serves as a legitimizing voice for the chaos-under-Democrats narrative. --- ## Longitudinal Note The five-post cluster on this date represents a coherent pre-rally mobilization pattern. The posting density and thematic repetition are consistent with Trump's documented campaign-period behavior. No baseline deviation detected. The mild hypomanic energy reading reflects context (pre-rally) rather than clinical concern. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Late evening post (10:29 PM EDT) falls within authentic Trump posting window - ALL CAPS formatting consistent with authentic Trump style - Media clip reshare format common in Trump's Truth Social posting pattern - Clean em-dash usage slightly atypical for unassisted Trump but not disqualifying - Part of a high-volume posting cluster suggesting an active, engaged session ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign cycle, pre-rally momentum building) Sentiment: -0.62 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Five posts in rapid succession attacking the same target across the same day suggest elevated energy and output - Pre-rally arousal: Butler PA rally next day contextualizes elevated posting volume - Not sufficient for moderate rating; within baseline campaign-period behavior ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared outrage reinforcement ('she's hiding from YOU') - Authority validation (Abbott as credible witness) - Implied urgency through ALL CAPS as emotional amplifier ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > Harris avoids repeated questions on the border **HALF TRUE** Harris was consistently criticized — including by sympathetic journalists — for message discipline on border questions and her delayed visit to the physical border (September 2021). However, she did give border-related interviews and statements, and 'avoids repeated questions' overstates evasion as absolute rather than selective. The framing converts documented criticism into a categorical indictment. Sources: General knowledge: Harris September 2021 border visit delayed, multiple documented press exchanges on immigration policy Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - border-crisis (85%) - harris-attack (90%) - media-reshare (75%) - preRallyPosting (65%) - abbott (60%) - all-caps-rhetoric (70%) - incompetence-framing (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Butler Pilgrimage and 60 Minutes Vendetta: A Multi-Rally Pennsylvania Blitz Fueled by Grievance and Grandiosity** Trump spent the day barnstorming Pennsylvania with rallies in Butler, Scranton, and Reading, anchored by an emotionally charged return to the site of his July assassination attempt. His sharpest anger was aimed at CBS's 60 Minutes, which he accused of illegally doctoring a Kamala Harris interview — a grievance he circled back to three separate times. He also lashed out at Howard Stern for interviewing Harris, calling him a "beta male" in an attack that read more like personal betrayal than political strategy. The overall mood was confident and aggressive, with brief flashes of anger but no sustained spiral — a high-volume campaign day where rally adrenaline and media grudges competed for attention across 27 posts. Full digest for 2024-10-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 9). “HARRIS AVOIDS REPEATED QUESTIONS ON BORDER—TEXAS... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113275108776120178 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“HARRIS AVOIDS REPEATED QUESTIONS ON BORDER—TEXAS GOVERNOR..." Truth Social, 9 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113275108776120178. 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