# Post ts_113619585487044555 - Post ID: `ts_113619585487044555` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-12-08T22:34:48.315Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113619585487044555 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113619585487044555/analysis ## Post text > https://rumble.com/v5x01qz-leo-terrell-bidens-trying-to-protect-his-cronies-after-his-criminal-operati.html ## Engagement - Likes: 14,115 - Reposts: 3,695 - Replies: 505 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:00:14.736Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_113619585487044555 | 2024-12-08 | Truth Social ## Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to a Rumble video featuring conservative commentator Leo Terrell, with zero original text. It represents the lowest-signal post type available for psychological analysis — all interpretable content must be inferred from selection behavior and contextual framing rather than language production. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Lean aide-written (low confidence)** Trump was in Paris on December 8, 2024, attending the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening ceremony — his first international trip since winning the election. Converting 22:34 UTC to Paris local time (CET, UTC+1) yields **23:34** — late evening, nominally within authentic Trump's known posting window. However, several factors complicate this: - **No original text**: The primary stylometric discriminators (typos, capitalization patterns, sentence structure, emotional register) are entirely absent - **Full-day pattern**: All five same-day posts are bare URL shares — no original commentary on any of them. This volume and uniformity of link-only posts is more consistent with a scheduled content queue than spontaneous browsing - **International travel context**: Trump was occupied with high-profile diplomatic meetings (Macron, Zelenskyy, Prince William, Meloni). A communications aide managing routine base-engagement content during this period is operationally plausible **Verdict**: Authorship indeterminate. The timing is consistent with authentic Trump, but behavioral pattern is consistent with aide management. Confidence: low. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers **State: Grandiose / Maintenance** The post occurs during the peak post-election euphoria window — roughly six weeks after Trump's 2024 election victory, during a period of highly favorable external validation (international recognition, diplomatic meetings, a string of favorable media coverage). The full day's posts construct a coherent information environment: 1. MAGA mandate validation (Substack) 2. Economic vindication (WSJ) 3. Middle East foreign policy credit (Dershowitz) 4. Tariff defense (AMAC) 5. Anti-Biden criminality (Leo Terrell / Rumble) This is **maintenance behavior** — routine audience supply and narrative consolidation rather than a response to acute narcissistic injury. No signs of triggered rage or vulnerability state are detectable. **Trigger type**: Supply-seeking / maintenance. The anti-Biden framing serves dual functions: continuing the opponent-criminalization narrative developed during the campaign and laying groundwork for a counter-narrative against any DOJ actions in the transition period. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection** (immature): The video title frames Biden as operating a "criminal operation" protecting "cronies" — the precise mirror image of the legal jeopardy Trump himself faced across four criminal indictments. Sharing this content without commentary constitutes implicit endorsement of a projective reversal: Biden is the criminal, Trump is the exposer of crime. --- ## Narrative Identity (Level 3) The protagonist role being performed across the day's posts is **victorious surveyor**: a leader who has won, is now receiving international acknowledgment, and who simultaneously documents the crimes of the vanquished opposition. The contrasting other — Biden as criminal operator — is necessary to sustain the redemption narrative (persecution → victory → vindication → exposure of true criminals). --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical mechanism here operates entirely through selection and implicit endorsement. By sharing the Rumble video, Trump (or his aide) transmits the "Biden criminal operation" frame to followers without making the direct claim and thus without incurring direct accountability for it. This is a well-documented political communication technique: - **Surrogate amplification**: Leo Terrell, a Black conservative commentator, provides an additional legitimizing function — the framing reaches the audience through a voice that complicates simple partisan characterization - **Pre-packaged framing**: "Criminal operation" and "cronies" are rhetorical bombs embedded in the video title before any argument is made; followers absorb the frame even without watching --- ## Cognitive Assessment **Not assessable.** No original language was produced. A bare URL share provides no data for vocabulary, syntax, coherence, or other cognitive markers. No baseline comparison is possible from this post. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, dehumanization, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present or implied by the linked content description. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Biden is trying to protect his cronies after a criminal operation" | **Unverifiable** | This is an interpretive political characterization, not a falsifiable factual claim. It refers to Biden's end-of-term pardons and clemency considerations, which are constitutionally authorized executive acts. Whether they constitute 'protecting cronies' after a 'criminal operation' is political opinion, not a fact claim subject to verification. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Longitudinal Note This post is analytically thin in isolation but interesting in pattern context. Days of pure link-sharing — particularly during international travel — are a recurring signature of aide-managed content in the Trump Truth Social archive. Cross-referencing with other confirmed travel periods would strengthen or weaken the aide-attribution hypothesis for this day. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp of 22:34 UTC converts to ~23:34 CET (Paris, where Trump was attending Notre Dame reopening) — late evening, borderline authentic window - No original text whatsoever — pure URL share, which removes the most reliable stylometric signals - All same-day posts are also bare URL shares, suggesting a scheduled or aide-managed content queue rather than spontaneous reactive posting - Absence of typos, ALL CAPS, or emotional commentary is consistent with aide curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Post-election transition period; routine base engagement) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Content curation as implied endorsement — sharing without commentary signals strong approval while maintaining plausible deniability - Leo Terrell as surrogate voice — a Black conservative commentator used to broaden perceived coalition legitimacy ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Biden is trying to protect his cronies after a criminal operation **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an interpretive political characterization, not a falsifiable factual claim. It refers to Biden's end-of-term pardons and clemency considerations, which are constitutionally authorized executive acts. Whether they constitute 'protecting cronies' after a 'criminal operation' is political opinion, not a fact claim subject to verification. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - link-share (100%) - anti-Biden (80%) - surrogate-amplification (70%) - maintenance-posting (70%) - transition-period (60%) - aide-probable (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **From Paris, Trump Claims Credit for Assad's Fall and Rewards Loyalty With White House Posts** Trump posted from Paris following the Notre Dame reopening, spending the morning with a sweeping take on Assad's fall in Syria that pivoted into a pitch for himself as Ukraine peacemaker. The rest of the day was low-energy and largely staff-driven — a perfume ad, a batch of favorable media links, and a couple of video shares filled the afternoon and evening. The day closed with four transition appointments, most notably his personal attorney Alina Habba as White House Counselor, a pick that said more about loyalty than credentials. No anger, no attacks, no drama — just steady-state self-promotion from abroad. Full digest for 2024-12-08: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 8). https://rumble.com/v5x01qz-leo-terrell-bidens-tryi... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113619585487044555 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://rumble.com/v5x01qz-leo-terrell-bidens-trying-to-prot..." Truth Social, 8 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113619585487044555. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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