# Post ts_113672813493636573

- Post ID: `ts_113672813493636573`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-18T08:11:23.244Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.” Thank you to Congressman Barry Loudermilk on a job well done. Newsmax, by Greg Kelly.

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:15:00.204Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 3:11 AM local time at Mar-a-Lago (authentic authorship, high confidence), this post represents institutionalized narcissistic revenge: converting a years-long grievance against Liz Cheney — whose role on the January 6th Select Committee constitutes one of Trump's most acute intra-party narcissistic injuries — into an anticipatory legal threat, now that incoming executive power makes such threats actionable. The psychological state is grandiose rather than vulnerable; the subject is no longer the persecuted but the sovereign. Defense mechanisms include projection (investigator recast as criminal), rationalization (personal vendetta wrapped in institutional language), and devaluation. The macro-rhetorical structure is DARVO: the entity that investigated Trump's conduct is recast as the true lawbreaker. A partisan subcommittee report is presented as a near-definitive legal finding. The post is clinically notable primarily for its danger implications: an incoming president with DOJ appointment authority is publicly naming a specific political opponent as a likely federal criminal and calling for FBI investigation — a pattern consistent with use of prosecutorial apparatus as a political weapon. Danger level is elevated. No indicators of cognitive disruption; consistent with subject's behavioral baseline for punitive, retaliatory posts against named enemies.

## Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-12-18T08:11:23Z (ts_113672813493636573)

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time at posting:** Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL) is UTC−5 (EST). 08:11 UTC = **3:11 AM local time.** This is a classic late-night/early-morning window strongly associated with authentic Trump posting. The voice is consistent with his established style: punitive framing of a named enemy, third-party attribution laundered through Newsmax (Greg Kelly), a brief congratulatory aside to a loyalist (Loudermilk), and the characteristic lack of elaboration. Confidence: **high** for authentic authorship.

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### Psychological Trigger and Narcissistic Dynamics

This post is best understood as **deferred narcissistic revenge**. Liz Cheney's role on the January 6th Select Committee represents one of the most acute narcissistic injuries Trump sustained from within the Republican party — a fellow Republican publicly prosecuting the case for his culpability in an insurrection attempt. The injury has been nursed over years; this post converts institutional power (incoming presidency, compliant subcommittee) into an anticipatory threat.

The post is not purely reactive to a fresh stimulus. It is **maintenance of a grievance narrative** — keeping Cheney "in trouble" in the public consciousness while also signaling to loyalists that retribution is being organized. The trigger type is compound: original narcissistic injury (Cheney's committee work) + current supply-seeking (demonstrating power to punish enemies pre-inauguration).

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The post does not present as wounded or victimized; it positions from power and anticipatory dominance. Cheney is cast as already cornered. This reflects the post-election shift from vulnerable narcissism (the period of prosecutorial pressure) to expansive grandiosity (the period of perceived vindication and incoming power).

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### Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist role:** The Avenger/King — justice is being served, enemies are being brought low, order is being restored
- **Contrasting other:** Liz Cheney, cast explicitly as a criminal
- **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc — "I was falsely persecuted by Cheney's committee; now the truth emerges that she was the lawbreaker"
- **Identity claims:** Implicitly: "I was right all along; those who came for me are now exposed"
- The framing inverts the January 6th committee's logic entirely: Cheney is now the subject of investigation, Trump is the recipient of the committee's findings. This is textbook **DARVO** at the macro-political level.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature):** Cheney's committee investigated potential lawbreaking; Trump's post now accuses Cheney of lawbreaking. The investigative role is flipped. The subject attributes to the persecutor the very violations she was investigating.

2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** By citing the Loudermilk subcommittee and Newsmax as sources, the post wraps vindictiveness in the language of legitimate institutional process ("subcommittee," "FBI," "evidence"). The aggression is laundered through institutional language.

3. **Displacement:** The rage is no longer directed at abstract enemies or media — it is focused on a specific named individual, consistent with the grandiose phase where enemies can be individually targeted rather than diffusely railed against.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Appeal to authority (institutional):** "subcommittee," "evidence obtained," "FBI" — all signaling legitimate process
- **Appeal to authority (media proxy):** Attributing via "Newsmax, by Greg Kelly" — outsources the accusation while benefiting from its spread; maintains plausible deniability ("I'm just reporting what they found")
- **Threat by implication:** "could be in a lot of trouble" — not a direct threat but clear signaling of anticipated legal jeopardy for a named individual
- **Faint praise for loyalist:** "Thank you to Congressman Barry Loudermilk on a job well done" — classic patronage reward for a loyalist who has delivered desired political product
- **Direct quotation framing:** The embedded quote ("numerous federal laws were likely broken") performs certainty that the hedged word "likely" technically undercuts. The structure of the post presents the quote as more definitive than its language supports.
- **False dichotomy (implicit):** The framework positions Cheney as either criminal or not, with the subcommittee having resolved the question — ignoring that a House subcommittee's partisan report is not a legal finding

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### Danger Indicators

This post presents **elevated danger** on several dimensions:

1. **Specific named target:** Cheney is identified by name with the implication that FBI investigation is warranted. Coming from an incoming president with direct authority over the Justice Department, this is not merely rhetorical — it signals intention to use state power against a specific political opponent.

2. **Institutional threat vector:** Unlike posts that merely express anger, this post deploys the language of law enforcement ("FBI," "federal laws," "violations") against a named individual. This normalizes prosecutorial targeting of political enemies.

3. **Chilling effect signaling:** The post's audience includes Republican officials who might consider criticizing Trump. Cheney is an object lesson: dissent from within the party leads to being named as a federal criminal by the incoming president.

4. **Harassment amplification:** Naming Cheney in this way, with criminal framing, at 3 AM to a Truth Social audience, predictably triggers harassment campaigns. While not stochastic terrorism in the strict sense (no call to violence), it provides a target and a grievance frame to an audience with demonstrated capacity for threats and harassment.

**Stochastic terrorism assessment:** The post does not explicitly call for or imply violence against Cheney; it invokes legal/institutional harm. Accordingly, stochastic terrorism (strict definition) does not apply, but the danger level of using executive power as a weapon against a named political opponent is classified as **elevated**.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "A subcommittee obtained evidence stating 'numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI'" | **Half True** | Rep. Barry Loudermilk's House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight did release a report in December 2024 containing language of this nature, alleging Cheney improperly coached witness testimony. However, this is a partisan Republican subcommittee report — not an independent legal finding, grand jury referral, or DOJ determination. The hedged language ('likely broken') is structurally more tentative than Trump's framing implies, and no independent legal authority has endorsed the conclusions. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 83%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 3:11 AM local time (Mar-a-Lago, EST)
- Punitive, vindictive framing of named enemy consistent with authentic style
- Third-party attribution via Newsmax/Greg Kelly — characteristic laundering technique
- Brief congratulatory aside to loyalist (Loudermilk) is authentically Trumpian
- Absence of polish or formal announcement language unlike aide-written posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Liz Cheney / January 6th Select Committee (deferred injury now being avenged))

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Liz Cheney
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 65%
- Paranoid: 58%
- Sadism: 52%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Reward signal to loyalist base (justice being served)
- Invitation to share in vindication against mutual enemy
- Framing of incoming presidency as mechanism of retribution

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Specific named individual (Liz Cheney) targeted with criminal framing by incoming president
- Explicit call for FBI investigation of named political opponent — signals intended use of DOJ as retaliatory weapon
- Chilling effect signaling to other potential Republican dissenters
- Predictable harassment amplification against named target
- Normalization of using prosecutorial apparatus against political enemies

### Gaslighting

- DARVO macro-structure: the entity that investigated Trump's potential crimes is recast as the true lawbreaker
- Partisan subcommittee report presented as objective legal determination
- Framing inverts the factual record of who was subject to investigation and why

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> A subcommittee obtained evidence stating 'numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI'

**HALF TRUE**

Rep. Barry Loudermilk's House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight did release a report in December 2024 containing language of this nature, alleging Cheney improperly coached witness testimony. However, this is a partisan Republican subcommittee report — not an independent legal finding, grand jury referral, or DOJ determination. The hedged language ('likely broken') is structurally more tentative than Trump's framing implies, and no independent legal authority has endorsed the conclusions.

Sources: House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight (Loudermilk, December 2024); Newsmax/Greg Kelly reporting on the subcommittee findings

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- named-target-threat (82%)
- retaliatory-prosecution-signaling (78%)
- DARVO (85%)
- grandiose-narcissism (75%)
- loyalist-reward (65%)
- institutional-power-as-weapon (80%)
- Cheney (95%)
- authentic-trump (83%)
- newsmax-laundering (70%)
- epistemic-closure (65%)

## That day

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

**Architect of Chaos Blames Everyone Else: Trump Torpedoes Spending Deal Then Rewrites the Script**

Trump's day swung from late-night confidence — ambassador picks, orders to the Senate, musings about annexing Canada — to a reactive evening dominated by the government funding crisis he and Elon Musk had helped create. A quiet morning of staff-curated article sharing gave way to escalating blame-shifting as a Trump-backed spending alternative failed badly in the House. The mood darkened through the evening, with Trump issuing increasingly heated threats against fellow Republicans and insisting Democrats were solely responsible for the chaos. Throughout it all, he maintained an alternate version of events in which he bore no responsibility for the shutdown crisis he helped engineer.

Full digest for 2024-12-18: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 18). Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113672813493636573
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the..." Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113672813493636573. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the...," Truth Social, December 18, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113672813493636573.

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