# Post ts_113545366863200868

- Post ID: `ts_113545366863200868`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-11-25T20:00:01.989Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought. Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME. Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. They have also used State Prosecutors and District Attorneys, such as Fani Willis and her lover, Nathan Wade (who had absolutely zero experience in cases such as this, but was paid MILLIONS, enough for them to take numerous trips and cruises around the globe!), Letitia James, who inappropriately, unethically, and probably illegally, campaigned on “GETTING TRUMP” in order to win Political Office, and Alvin Bragg, who himself never wanted to bring this case against me, but was forced to do so by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party….

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T18:36:20.316Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Post arrives on the day of Jack Smith's federal case dismissals but instead of celebrating, the subject immediately pivots to cataloguing grievances against remaining state-level adversaries — a pattern consistent with trait-level hostile affect that does not modulate in response to positive outcomes. The post exhibits the characteristic malignant narcissism triad: paranoid persecution framing (coordinated Democrat/DOJ conspiracy), grandiose uniqueness claims ("Nothing like this has ever happened"), and ego-syntonic sadism (gleeful exposure of Willis/Wade personal relationship). Four named individuals are characterized as corrupt, criminal, or incompetent to an audience of millions, maintaining documented harassment risk to named targets. The Bragg claim — that DOJ "forced" a state prosecutor to bring charges — is factually false and structurally inverts institutional reality, functioning as a gaslighting mechanism requiring followers to accept a demonstrably false account of how prosecutorial authority works. The two-part post structure (Part 1: persecution catalogue; Part 2: triumphant "WON" declaration) embeds a complete DARVO sequence within a redemption narrative arc. No cognitive degradation markers observed; the post is within established baseline for Trump's authenticated grievance rhetoric. Danger level is elevated due to named-target specificity but does not escalate beyond his documented rhetorical baseline.

## Post Analysis: ts_113545366863200868 — November 25, 2024

### Contextual Frame

This post arrives on the same day Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss both federal criminal cases against Trump (the Jan. 6 and classified documents cases), citing DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president. The post is **Part 1 of a two-part sequence** (the ellipsis-linked continuation — "….It was a political hijacking, and a low point…" — is logged separately as a same-day prior post). The psychological context is therefore a victory lap *combined with* an escalating grievance catalogue regarding the remaining state-level cases: Georgia (Willis/Wade), New York civil (James), and Manhattan criminal (Bragg). The subject cannot simply celebrate the federal dismissals; the grievance machinery continues even as the stated adversaries lose ground.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Location:** Post-election, Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL (he was president-elect, not yet governing from Washington). Florida observes Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) in November.

**Local time:** 20:00 UTC → **3:00 PM EST** — squarely within business hours.

**Stylometric markers cutting *toward* authentic Trump:**
- Continuation ellipsis structure (`….It was a political hijacking`) — a characteristic Trump multi-part posting pattern
- ALL-CAPS intensifiers for self-reference: "ME," "MILLIONS," "GETTING TRUMP," "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"
- Extended parenthetical asides: "(who had absolutely zero experience in cases such as this, but was paid MILLIONS, enough for them to take numerous trips and cruises around the globe!)" — stream-of-consciousness elaboration
- Personal attacks on named individuals with relish for biographical detail
- Emotional punctuation: exclamation marks, capitalization mid-sentence
- First-person grievance structure with self as protagonist-victim

**Stylometric markers cutting *toward* aide involvement:**
- 3 PM EST — not a late-night post
- Relative grammatical coherence (no obvious typos)
- Organized enough to name four separate legal adversaries in sequence

**Assessment:** The 3 PM timing is not disqualifying. Trump is known to post personally throughout the day, particularly when news directly concerns him. The Jack Smith dismissal would have been a high-stimulation event for Trump personally, and the stylometric fingerprint — especially the nested parenthetical with cruise-trip embellishment, the multi-part ellipsis structure, and the ALL-CAPS "ME" — is strongly characteristic of authentic composition. The lack of typos is notable but not decisive. **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump (0.70 confidence).**

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
- **Neuroticism (Angry Hostility):** Dominant. Even in a period of legal *victory* (federal cases dropped), the post exhibits sustained hostility toward four named adversaries. Angry affect does not modulate in response to positive outcomes — a trait-level pattern rather than a situational reaction.
- **Low Agreeableness:** Combative throughout. No acknowledgment of any merit in opposing positions. Names and personal details weaponized.
- **Extraversion (Assertiveness):** High. Post is assertive, dominant, and expansive. The addition of "ME" in ALL-CAPS is a naked assertion of centrality.
- **Low Openness (Value Rigidity):** The framing is absolute: the cases are *entirely* "empty and lawless," no nuance considered. Epistemic closure on all adversarial positions.
- **Conscientiousness:** Moderate. The post is organized enough to enumerate four adversaries and provide specific biographical detail, suggesting directed purpose (not pure impulsivity).

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
- **Agency motives dominant:** Power and vindication are the core motivational themes. The post is not about policy; it is about the subject's standing relative to legal and political adversaries.
- **Schemas of persecution plus invulnerability:** "I have been forced to go through" (persecution) co-exists with "I persevered, against all odds, and WON" (in the linked continuation). The subject simultaneously occupies victim and victor roles — the characteristic narcissistic oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states.
- **Zero-sum interpersonal schema:** Every legal action is recast as purely political warfare with no legitimate basis.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** Dual — the persecuted hero (wrongly targeted) and the ultimate triumphant winner (who prevailed despite everything). This is the signature Trump narrative structure.
- **Contamination-to-redemption arc:** A contamination sequence (legitimate democratic institutions "hijacked" by political enemies) is immediately re-scripted as a redemption sequence in the Part 2 continuation ("persevered, against all odds, and WON").
- **Identity claims:** "I have been forced to go through" — the claim that all legal adversity was imposed externally, never self-generated. The subject claims identity as historic uniqueness: "Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before."
- **Contrasting other:** Four specific named adversaries (Willis, Wade, James, Bragg) plus the abstracted "Democrat Party." Adversaries are portrayed as corrupt, personally motivated, and — in the case of Bragg — not even autonomous agents but tools of external political forces.

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### Clinical Analysis

**Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):**
- *Narcissistic features (high):* Grandiosity ("Nothing like this has ever happened"), entitlement ("should never have been brought"), historic uniqueness framing, demand for recognition of persecution
- *Antisocial features (moderate):* Repeated false claims presented as facts (see Fact Checks); contempt for legal institutions while accusing others of lawlessness
- *Paranoid features (high):* "Political hijacking," all legal actors cast as coordinated conspirators against one individual, belief in coordinated persecution
- *Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate):* The detail about Willis/Wade's "trips and cruises around the globe" carries a quality of gleeful exposure — pleasure in the humiliation of adversaries, not mere documentation of wrongdoing

**Narcissistic Trigger:**
The federal case dismissals (Jack Smith) are a narcissistic *supply event* — a validation of the persecution narrative, proof that cases were illegitimate. Yet the response is not satisfaction; instead, the trigger *amplifies* grievance output as the subject catalogues remaining perceived injuries. This is consistent with the classic pattern where narcissistic supply stimulates rather than sates the need for vindication.

**Narcissistic State:** Mixed — oscillating within the two-part post structure. Part 1 (this post) is primarily **vulnerable state** (persecution, victimhood, financial harm to taxpayers). Part 2 continuation shifts to **grandiose state** ("persevered, against all odds, and WON"). The rapid oscillation within a single split post is diagnostically notable.

**Defense Mechanisms:**
1. **Projection (Immature):** The subject accuses adversaries of acting "inappropriately, unethically, and probably illegally" while making factual claims that are themselves misleading or false (see Bragg claim below). Lawlessness is projected onto those enforcing law.
2. **Splitting (Immature):** Cases are 100% "empty and lawless," adversaries are wholly corrupt, no legitimate dimension acknowledged anywhere.
3. **Denial (Pathological):** The claim that cases had no legitimate basis denies documented evidence underlying each prosecution — the hush money payments, the documents retention, the Georgia calls.
4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Elaborate logical scaffolding constructed to explain why *all* cases, from *all* jurisdictions, with *different* legal teams, are simultaneously illegitimate.
5. **DARVO pattern:** Deny wrongdoing → Attack prosecutors personally → Reverse Victim and Offender (subject is the real victim, prosecutors are the real criminals).

**Cognitive Status:**
- No word-finding difficulties observed
- Syntax is complex (embedded parentheticals) but coherent
- Temporal sequencing intact
- The elaboration about Willis/Wade travel shows intact episodic recall
- *Baseline note:* Post does not show marked deviation from Trump's established rhetorical baseline for grievance posts. Complexity is within normal range for his authenticated posts.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole/superlative:** "Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before" — unverifiable absolute claim creating sense of historic uniqueness
- **False dichotomy:** All legal action = political persecution; zero alternative framing permitted
- **Ad hominem (personal attack):** Willis/Wade personal relationship weaponized; James campaign statements cast as criminal; Bragg characterized as lacking agency
- **Taxpayer appeal:** "$100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars" — framing persecution as civic harm, expanding the perceived victim pool beyond the subject to all citizens
- **Delegitimization of institutions:** State AGs, DAs, and federal DOJ all simultaneously cast as corrupt — epistemic closure machine disqualifying all oversight mechanisms
- **RAND Firehose (partial):** Volume of accusations across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously overwhelms ability to respond to any single claim in detail
- **Victimhood framing with power claim:** Classic authoritarian paradox — simultaneously claiming to be the most powerful person ("I WON") and the most persecuted

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Bragg claim:** The assertion that Bragg "never wanted to bring this case" and was "forced to do so by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party" is a significant reality distortion. The Manhattan DA investigation was a state-level matter; federal DOJ has no jurisdiction over state prosecutorial decisions. This claim reverses the actual institutional structure.
- **"Empty and lawless":** The hush money case resulted in 34 felony guilty verdicts from a Manhattan jury. Characterizing that as "empty" requires followers to reject the jury's findings entirely.
- **Epistemic closure mechanism:** By categorizing all adverse legal proceedings as "empty and lawless," the post creates a closed system where no legal accountability can be legitimate — a shared psychosis dynamic requiring followers to accept the wholesale rejection of multiple independent judicial processes.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted" | **Half True** | Jack Smith's office reported ~$9.2M for FY2023; total across federal and multiple state jurisdictions may approach claimed figure, but framing all legal cost as 'waste' is editorial and contested. |
| "Nathan Wade had absolutely zero experience in cases such as this" | **Mostly False** | Wade had prosecutorial experience as municipal court judge and private attorney; critics argued insufficient large-scale RICO experience, but 'zero experience' is demonstrably false. |
| "Letitia James campaigned on 'GETTING TRUMP'" | **Half True** | James made statements during her 2018 AG campaign about investigating the Trump Organization; the quoted phrase is an inflammatory paraphrase, not a direct quote, though the underlying factual basis exists. |
| "Alvin Bragg was forced to bring this case by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party" | **False** | Manhattan DA is a state office entirely independent of federal DOJ jurisdiction. Federal DOJ has no authority to compel state prosecutors to bring cases. This claim inverts actual institutional structure. |
| "Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before" | **Mostly False** | Presidential candidates and sitting officials have faced criminal investigations historically; while the specific combination is historically unusual, the absolute claim of unprecedented persecution is overstated. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- ALL-CAPS self-referential 'ME' mid-sentence
- Nested parenthetical aside with biographical embellishment (travel/cruises detail)
- Two-part ellipsis structure (….continuation) — characteristic Trump posting pattern
- Stream-of-consciousness accumulation of named adversaries
- Emotional punctuation: exclamation, capitalization mid-sentence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Ongoing state-level prosecutions (Willis/Georgia, James/NYAG, Bragg/Manhattan) remain active even as federal cases dismissed by Jack Smith)

**Rage:** Intensity 75% targeting Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, 'Democrat Party'
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.68

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 87%
- Antisocial: 52%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 58%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as fellow victims of taxpayer waste
- Historic uniqueness framing inviting followers to witness unprecedented persecution
- Named enemy construction providing specific targets for follower animus
- Victory claim at end of continuation post rewarding follower investment in narrative

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Four named individuals (Willis, Wade, James, Bragg) characterized as corrupt/criminal to an audience of millions — documented harassment risk in context of prior threat patterns against Trump legal adversaries
- Bragg falsely characterized as a DOJ tool — framing him as agent of a hostile conspiracy rather than a legitimate prosecutor
- Willis/Wade personal relationship exposed with gleeful detail — personal humiliation as dominance display, potentially intensifying follower animus toward named targets
- Coordinated conspiracy framing identifies a specific organized enemy requiring defeat — implicit call to oppose named individuals

### Gaslighting

- Bragg 'forced by DOJ' claim inverts actual institutional structure (DARVO: the law enforcement actor is cast as the one being coerced)
- Characterizing 34-count guilty verdict case as 'empty' requires followers to reject jury findings
- Coordinated conspiracy framing requires acceptance that all independent legal actors were operating in concert — a group loyalty test
- Epistemic closure mechanism: any adverse legal proceeding is pre-delegitimized as 'lawless,' making no accountability possible by definition

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted

**HALF TRUE**

Jack Smith's office reported ~$9.2M for FY2023; total across federal and multiple state jurisdictions may approach claimed figure, but framing all legal cost as 'waste' is editorial and contested.

Sources: DOJ Special Counsel expenditure reports; State AG budget disclosures

> Nathan Wade had absolutely zero experience in cases such as this

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Wade had prosecutorial experience as municipal court judge and private attorney; critics argued insufficient large-scale RICO experience, but 'zero experience' is demonstrably false.

Sources: Georgia disqualification hearing testimony, 2024

> Letitia James campaigned on 'GETTING TRUMP'

**HALF TRUE**

James made statements during her 2018 AG campaign about investigating the Trump Organization; the quoted phrase is an inflammatory paraphrase, not a direct quote, though the underlying factual basis exists.

Sources: 2018 NY AG campaign statements

> Alvin Bragg was forced to bring this case by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party

**FALSE**

Manhattan DA is a state office entirely independent of federal DOJ jurisdiction. Federal DOJ has no authority to compel state prosecutors to bring cases. This claim inverts actual institutional structure.

Sources: U.S. constitutional structure; DOJ/state AG jurisdictional separation

> Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Presidential candidates and sitting officials have faced criminal investigations historically; while the specific combination is historically unusual, the absolute claim of unprecedented persecution is overstated.

Sources: U.S. historical precedent (Aaron Burr, Spiro Agnew, etc.)

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- legal-grievance (95%)
- named-adversary-targeting (82%)
- persecution-narrative (90%)
- DARVO (88%)
- epistemic-closure (85%)
- triumphalism (65%)
- taxpayer-harm-framing (72%)
- institutional-delegitimization (83%)
- malignant-narcissism (80%)
- post-election-period (70%)

## That day

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

**Vindication Day: Smith Cases Collapse as Trump Pivots to Tariff Offensive**

A light posting day built around two major events: the dismissal of Jack Smith's federal cases and a surprise tariff threat against Canada, Mexico, and China. Trump opened with a routine political endorsement, then spent the afternoon celebrating his legal vindication — though the celebration curdled quickly into a grievance catalogue naming prosecutors he still wants held accountable. By evening, he had shifted entirely to an aggressive trade posture, threatening 25% tariffs on North American neighbors and 10% on China, framing it as border enforcement. The mood was triumphant and combative throughout, with only a brief flash of anger breaking the otherwise expansive tone.

Full digest for 2024-11-25: https://trump.fm/date/2024-11-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, November 25). These cases, like all of the other cases I have... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113545366863200868
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced..." Truth Social, 25 Nov. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113545366863200868. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced...," Truth Social, November 25, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113545366863200868.

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