# Post ts_117082899005949110

- Post ID: `ts_117082899005949110`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-08-12T14:00:58.757Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117082899005949110
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117082899005949110/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117082899005949110.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Trey Gowdy wrote a GREAT new book, “THE SOUND OF REGRET,” which is flying off the shelves. Trey is a great writer (New York Times Bestselling Author!), among many other things. GET HIS BOOK N0W, he never disappoints! President DJT

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,629
- Reposts: 2,061
- Replies: 821
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-08-12T23:01:25.742Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-08-12T15:27:25.264Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis — Truth Social, 2026-08-12, 14:00:58 UTC

### 0. Timing and Location Context

14:00 UTC converts to **10:00 AM EDT**. Mid-August has historically found the subject at Bedminster, NJ, or the White House — both Eastern time. This places the post squarely in **business hours**, a conventional aide-authorship indicator. However, timing alone is weakly diagnostic for this subject, who posts across the full 24-hour cycle, and the internal features of this post cut in the other direction (see §5).

### 1. Level 1 — Dispositional Traits

**Extraversion (high, salient):** The post is pure outward-facing enthusiasm — exclamatory ("New York Times Bestselling Author!"), imperative ("GET HIS BOOK N0W"), and audience-directed. Positive affect and assertiveness dominate; this is the gregarious, promotional register rather than the combative one.

**Agreeableness (moderate, situationally elevated):** Surface warmth is genuine in form — praise is unhedged and repeated ("GREAT," "great writer," "never disappoints"). Note, however, that the warmth is *conferred downward*. The subject positions himself as evaluator and amplifier, not peer. This is affiliation structured as patronage, which is a different construct from tender-mindedness. Baseline agreeableness remains low; this post samples an atypically warm slice of it.

**Conscientiousness (low):** No verifiable specifics — no publisher, release date, or content description. The endorsement asserts quality without demonstrating engagement with the object. The uncorrected typographic error ("N0W," zero substituted for the letter O) indicates the post was published without review.

**Neuroticism (low in this instance):** No angry hostility, no vulnerability, no grievance content. Notable given that an earlier post the same day amplified a Russia-collusion grievance item. The register shift within a single posting day is characteristic and does not itself indicate instability.

**Openness (low):** Vocabulary and syntax are formulaic. The endorsement template — [name] wrote a GREAT book, [superlative credential], [imperative purchase directive] — is one the subject has deployed for well over a decade with minimal variation.

### 2. Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: status, secondarily communion-instrumental.** The psychologically informative element is not the praise but the *act of praising*. Endorsement is a status-asymmetric transaction: only someone above can bestow it. "He never disappoints" is the language of a patron assessing a retainer's reliability record. The subject's own standing is reinforced not by self-description but by the structural position the post occupies.

**Schema of others:** Others are legible primarily through market validation. "Flying off the shelves" and "New York Times Bestselling Author" are the two adduced proofs of merit — both are sales-rank proxies, not content judgments. The world-schema is one in which commercial performance *is* quality. Consistent with a long-documented pattern of ratings, crowd size, and bestseller lists as terminal rather than instrumental values.

**Loyalty-reciprocity schema:** Gowdy occupies the category of publicly aligned figures. Amplification here functions as reward within a reciprocal-loyalty economy — a low-cost, high-visibility good the subject can distribute at will.

### 3. Level 3 — Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role: kingmaker/patron.** Unusually, the subject is not the protagonist of the narrative content — he is the *authority who validates* it. The sign-off "President DJT" performs this: a third-person institutional title appended to a first-person enthusiasm, collapsing the personal endorsement into an official imprimatur.

**Narrative sequence: neutral.** No redemption or contamination arc. No adversary is named — the post contains no contrasting other, which is genuinely atypical for this subject's corpus and worth noting as a baseline variance in the affiliative direction.

**Identity claims:** Implicit rather than asserted — arbiter of merit, distributor of attention, holder of an office invoked by initials.

### 4. Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

**Malignant narcissism composite: low for this post.** Antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic components are functionally absent. Narcissistic features register mildly and structurally: the self-titling sign-off, the assumption that one's endorsement is itself newsworthy, and the framing of another's achievement as something requiring one's certification.

**Defense mechanism: idealization (immature level).** "GREAT," "great writer," "never disappoints" — absolute, unqualified positive valuation with no nuance. This is the positive pole of the splitting axis that more commonly manifests as devaluation in this corpus. The same cognitive operation (all-good/all-bad categorical sorting) is at work; only the valence differs. Clinically, idealization of this intensity is notable because it is provisional — figures idealized in this register have historically been devalued with equal absoluteness upon perceived disloyalty.

**Trigger: maintenance.** No injury, no supply-seeking in the direct sense. Routine audience engagement and alliance-tending. Confidence: high.

**Narcissistic state: grandiose (mild).** Expansive, confident, socially dominant — but at low amplitude and without the defensive edge that characterizes injury-driven grandiosity.

### 5. Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: probably authentic (0.75), medium confidence.**

Authentic indicators:
- **"N0W"** — zero-for-O substitution, a keyboard-adjacency error published uncorrected. This is the single strongest signal. Communications staff proofread; this is a fat-fingered dictation-or-thumb artifact.
- **"President DJT"** sign-off — an idiosyncratic self-signature the subject adopted personally and uses inconsistently; not a staff convention.
- **ALL CAPS emphasis** on "GREAT" and the imperative clause.
- **"among many other things"** — a vague, conversational filler clause that trails off rather than specifying. Staff copy specifies.
- **Round, unattributed evidence** ("flying off the shelves") rather than a sales figure or list rank — matches the subject's documented preference for impressionistic quantification.

Aide indicators:
- 10:00 AM local posting time.
- Correct capitalization of the book title in quotation marks; otherwise clean punctuation.
- Promotional/commercial content, a category aides do handle.

**Reconciliation:** The typo and the personal sign-off outweigh the business-hours timing. Aides do not publish "N0W." Best read: authentic composition, possibly typed on a phone, plausibly at the subject's own initiative after being asked for a blurb.

### 6. Rhetorical & Propaganda Technique

- **Hyperbole/superlative stacking:** "GREAT," "great writer," "never disappoints."
- **Bandwagon:** "flying off the shelves" — social proof as purchase rationale.
- **Appeal to authority:** "New York Times Bestselling Author!" — invoked as a credential, notable given the subject's frequent hostility toward the same institution when its journalism is at issue. The Times is authoritative when its list is favorable. This selective-authority pattern is a stable feature of the corpus.
- **Direct imperative:** "GET HIS BOOK N0W" — call to immediate consumer action.
- **Testimonial:** classic endorsement structure.

No dehumanization, no violent imagery, no out-group construction.

### 7. Reality Distortion / Gaslighting

None present. "Flying off the shelves" is promotional puffery of the ordinary commercial variety — unfalsifiable enthusiasm rather than a counterfactual assertion about a documented event. It does not meet the threshold for reality distortion.

### 8. Archetypal Reading

**Primary: King (benevolent mode).** The archetype here is the sovereign distributing favor — the courtly gesture of elevating a subject before the assembled audience. Distinctly *not* Warrior, Trickster, or Victim, the three modes that dominate this corpus. The King archetype in its benevolent-order aspect is a comparatively rare sampling.

**Shadow content:** Minimal. Nothing is being projected outward; there is no enemy to carry disowned material.

### 9. Order/Chaos Positioning

Order-affirming and status-quo-neutral. No grievance is articulated. Hierarchy is *reinforced* rather than attacked: the post enacts a patron-client structure and elevates an in-group member's status without diminishing anyone. This is the affiliative maintenance function of the account rather than its mobilization function.

### 10. Danger Assessment

**None.** No target, no grievance, no implied action. No stochastic-terrorism elements. Clean.

### 11. Cognitive Status

Syntax is simple but well-formed; the sentence containing "among many other things" trails vaguely but resolves. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration, neologism, confabulation, or temporal/name confusion. **"N0W" is a keyboard error, not a phonemic paraphasia** — the substitution is graphemic (adjacent key/visual glyph), not sound-based, and should not be coded as a language-production marker.

Lexical complexity is low, but this is *register-appropriate*: promotional endorsements in this corpus have been syntactically simple since 2011. Comparison against grievance-register posts from the same day would inflate any apparent decline. **No deviation from the promotional-register baseline.** Longitudinal comparison against a matched sample of book/product endorsements from 2012–2020 would be the methodologically sound test and would strengthen any claim in either direction.

### 12. Summary Judgment

Low clinical significance. This is the account's routine alliance-maintenance function operating normally. The analytically interesting features are structural rather than symptomatic: the patronage framing, the categorical idealization (as the mirror of the more familiar categorical devaluation), the "President DJT" institutional self-signature attached to a personal enthusiasm, and the selective deference to the New York Times when its authority is convenient. None of these individually warrant flagging; collectively they are useful baseline data on the non-aggressive end of this subject's affective range.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trey Gowdy is a New York Times bestselling author." | **True** | Gowdy co-authored "Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Nation" (2018, with Senator Tim Scott), which reached the New York Times bestseller list, and authored "Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade" (2020), which also charted on the New York Times list. The credential as stated is accurate. |
| "Trey Gowdy has a new book titled "The Sound of Regret."" | **True** | Confirmed across multiple independent primary and secondary sources. Fox News Books issued a press release on August 3, 2026 announcing "The Sound of Regret" by Trey Gowdy and Christopher Greyson, distributed via PR Newswire and carried by ADVFN. The book is a legal thriller and the direct sequel to Gowdy and Greyson's "The Color of Death" (released August 26, 2025), continuing the story of Assistant DA Colm Truesdale. It is the Fox News Books imprint's 20th title. The publisher is Fox News Books / Harper Influence (a HarperCollins imprint), with an on-sale date of Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Retail listings exist in three formats: hardcover (ISBN 9780063582033, Amazon ASIN 0063582031), ebook (ASIN B0FLKH4TTR), and audiobook narrated by Toby Ricketts (ISBN 9798228990630). Fox News Books maintains a dedicated product page with purchase links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, HarperCollins, Target, and Apple Books. Gowdy discussed the book on Fox News Radio's "Q & Trey" on August 6, 2026, giving listeners a first look at what he called the next installment in his fiction trilogy, and announced it in a Fox News video segment. The Post and Courier covered it as his second legal thriller. Book Notification's bibliography lists it with the August 25, 2026 date.

Two nuances worth recording. First, at the time of the post (August 12, 2026), the book was forthcoming and available only for preorder — it had not yet been published. The claim that Gowdy "has a new book" by that title is nonetheless accurate, since the title was publicly announced, catalogued, and orderable. Second, the post credits Gowdy alone; the book is co-authored with Christopher Greyson, who is described in the publisher's materials as one of the top 100 Kindle authors of all time with over 3.5 million copies sold.

A correction to the first-pass groundwork: the bibliography it relied on (Unified 2018, Doesn't Hurt to Ask 2020, Start, Stay, or Leave 2023) omitted The Color of Death, Gowdy's 2025 fiction debut and the immediate predecessor to this book, as well as The Friendship Challenge (2018, with Tim Scott). Separately, a Wikipedia article titled "The Sound of Regret" exists but refers to an unrelated 2006 debut album by the American alternative rock band Amity Lane — a potential false-negative trap for title-only verification. |
| "The book is "flying off the shelves."" | **False** | The claim fails on a decisive timing fact the first-pass analysis did not establish: the book was not yet published when the post was written, so it could not have been selling at any rate at all.

The post is dated August 12, 2026. The on-sale date for "The Sound of Regret" is Tuesday, August 25, 2026 — thirteen days later. This date is confirmed by four independent sources: the Fox News Books press release of August 3, 2026 ("will release ... on Tuesday, August 25th"), the same release distributed via PR Newswire, Book Notification's bibliography entry, and retailer catalogue listings. Fox News promotional material from the announcement period described the book as available for pre-order, and Gowdy's own August 6, 2026 Fox News Radio segment presented it as a "first look" at a forthcoming title rather than a book on sale.

Because no copies had shipped to any retailer, there were no shelves from which copies could be flying. There are correspondingly no sales figures, no print-run or reprint data, no retailer sell-through information, and no bestseller list placements — a title cannot appear on the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, or USA Today lists before its publication week, and no such placement is reported anywhere for this book.

I also tested the most charitable reading, that the phrase loosely refers to strong preorder demand rather than literal retail sales. Targeted searches for preorder rankings, Amazon sales-rank data, or any chart position for the title returned nothing: no source reports preorder performance figures for "The Sound of Regret." So even the generous interpretation is unsupported by any evidence, while the literal claim is contradicted by the publication schedule.

Context on the surrounding marketing claims, which are accurate and should not be conflated with this one: Fox News Books states it has sold more than 3.7 million copies since its 2020 launch, and the predecessor novel "The Color of Death" was a genuine New York Times bestseller. Gowdy's status as a New York Times bestselling author is true. But a publisher's track record and an author's prior bestseller are not evidence about the sales velocity of an unreleased title. The claim is rated false rather than unverifiable because the book's unavailability at the time of the post is itself affirmative disconfirming evidence, not merely an absence of data. |

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- "N0W" — zero substituted for letter O, an uncorrected keyboard-adjacency/glyph error; staff-written copy is proofread
- "President DJT" sign-off — idiosyncratic personal self-signature, used inconsistently, not a staff convention
- ALL CAPS emphasis on "GREAT" and the imperative "GET HIS BOOK N0W"
- "among many other things" — vague conversational filler that trails off rather than specifying, atypical of staff copy
- Impressionistic quantification ("flying off the shelves") rather than sales figures or list rank

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 74%
- Agreeableness: 52%
- Conscientiousness: 28%
- Neuroticism: 18%
- Openness: 24%

Strongest facet: positive affect / assertiveness (Extraversion), with situationally elevated warmth expressed as patronage

**Motives:**
- Agency: 58%
- Communion: 44%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** Kingmaker / patron — notably not the protagonist of the content, but the authority who validates it, bestowing status downward on an aligned figure
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None — the post contains no named adversary or out-group, which is atypical for this corpus and constitutes a mild affiliative-direction variance from baseline

**Identity Claims:**
- Arbiter of merit — one whose endorsement certifies quality
- Distributor of attention and favor within a loyalty economy
- Officeholder, via the institutional sign-off "President DJT" appended to a personal enthusiasm
- Reliable judge of others' reliability ("he never disappoints")

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Publication of a book by a publicly aligned figure; probable blurb or amplification request)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct imperative to the audience ("GET HIS BOOK N0W") framing the follower relationship as one of actionable instruction
- Institutional self-signature ("President DJT") that positions the endorsement as an official communication to constituents rather than a personal opinion
- Insider-favor framing: amplification presented as a reward distributed within a loyalty economy the audience is invited to witness

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-08-12._

> Trey Gowdy is a New York Times bestselling author.

**TRUE**

Gowdy co-authored "Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Nation" (2018, with Senator Tim Scott), which reached the New York Times bestseller list, and authored "Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade" (2020), which also charted on the New York Times list. The credential as stated is accurate.

Sources: Publisher records for Unified (Tyndale Momentum, 2018); Publisher records for Doesn't Hurt to Ask (Crown Forum, 2020); New York Times Best Sellers list archives

> Trey Gowdy has a new book titled "The Sound of Regret."

**TRUE**

Confirmed across multiple independent primary and secondary sources. Fox News Books issued a press release on August 3, 2026 announcing "The Sound of Regret" by Trey Gowdy and Christopher Greyson, distributed via PR Newswire and carried by ADVFN. The book is a legal thriller and the direct sequel to Gowdy and Greyson's "The Color of Death" (released August 26, 2025), continuing the story of Assistant DA Colm Truesdale. It is the Fox News Books imprint's 20th title. The publisher is Fox News Books / Harper Influence (a HarperCollins imprint), with an on-sale date of Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Retail listings exist in three formats: hardcover (ISBN 9780063582033, Amazon ASIN 0063582031), ebook (ASIN B0FLKH4TTR), and audiobook narrated by Toby Ricketts (ISBN 9798228990630). Fox News Books maintains a dedicated product page with purchase links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, HarperCollins, Target, and Apple Books. Gowdy discussed the book on Fox News Radio's "Q & Trey" on August 6, 2026, giving listeners a first look at what he called the next installment in his fiction trilogy, and announced it in a Fox News video segment. The Post and Courier covered it as his second legal thriller. Book Notification's bibliography lists it with the August 25, 2026 date.

Two nuances worth recording. First, at the time of the post (August 12, 2026), the book was forthcoming and available only for preorder — it had not yet been published. The claim that Gowdy "has a new book" by that title is nonetheless accurate, since the title was publicly announced, catalogued, and orderable. Second, the post credits Gowdy alone; the book is co-authored with Christopher Greyson, who is described in the publisher's materials as one of the top 100 Kindle authors of all time with over 3.5 million copies sold.

A correction to the first-pass groundwork: the bibliography it relied on (Unified 2018, Doesn't Hurt to Ask 2020, Start, Stay, or Leave 2023) omitted The Color of Death, Gowdy's 2025 fiction debut and the immediate predecessor to this book, as well as The Friendship Challenge (2018, with Tim Scott). Separately, a Wikipedia article titled "The Sound of Regret" exists but refers to an unrelated 2006 debut album by the American alternative rock band Amity Lane — a potential false-negative trap for title-only verification.

Sources: https://press.foxnews.com/2026/08/fox-news-books-bestselling-co-authors-trey-gowdy-and-christopher-greyson-return-with-new-legal-thriller-the-sound-of-regret; https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fox-news-books-bestselling-co-authors-trey-gowdy-and-christopher-greyson-return-with-new-legal-thriller-the-sound-of-regret-302841310.html; https://www.foxnews.com/books/the-sound-of-regret; https://radio.foxnews.com/2026/08/06/q-trey-the-sound-of-regret/; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402663781112; https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Regret-Trey-Gowdy/dp/0063582031; https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Regret-Trey-Gowdy-ebook/dp/B0FLKH4TTR; https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Regret-Novel-Trey-Gowdy/dp/B0GYFYYNHZ; https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Sound-of-Regret/dp/B0GSGY9PR4; https://www.booknotification.com/authors/trey-gowdy/; https://www.postandcourier.com/spartanburg/news/spartanburg-trey-gowdy-second-novel/article_20cdeaad-3f80-444a-aa33-f1c61970341f.html; https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/share-news/FOX-NEWS-BOOKS-BESTSELLING-CO-AUTHORS-TREY-GOWDY-A/99034536; https://www.amazon.com/Color-Death-Novel-Trey-Gowdy/dp/0063451913; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Regret

> The book is "flying off the shelves."

**FALSE**

The claim fails on a decisive timing fact the first-pass analysis did not establish: the book was not yet published when the post was written, so it could not have been selling at any rate at all.

The post is dated August 12, 2026. The on-sale date for "The Sound of Regret" is Tuesday, August 25, 2026 — thirteen days later. This date is confirmed by four independent sources: the Fox News Books press release of August 3, 2026 ("will release ... on Tuesday, August 25th"), the same release distributed via PR Newswire, Book Notification's bibliography entry, and retailer catalogue listings. Fox News promotional material from the announcement period described the book as available for pre-order, and Gowdy's own August 6, 2026 Fox News Radio segment presented it as a "first look" at a forthcoming title rather than a book on sale.

Because no copies had shipped to any retailer, there were no shelves from which copies could be flying. There are correspondingly no sales figures, no print-run or reprint data, no retailer sell-through information, and no bestseller list placements — a title cannot appear on the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, or USA Today lists before its publication week, and no such placement is reported anywhere for this book.

I also tested the most charitable reading, that the phrase loosely refers to strong preorder demand rather than literal retail sales. Targeted searches for preorder rankings, Amazon sales-rank data, or any chart position for the title returned nothing: no source reports preorder performance figures for "The Sound of Regret." So even the generous interpretation is unsupported by any evidence, while the literal claim is contradicted by the publication schedule.

Context on the surrounding marketing claims, which are accurate and should not be conflated with this one: Fox News Books states it has sold more than 3.7 million copies since its 2020 launch, and the predecessor novel "The Color of Death" was a genuine New York Times bestseller. Gowdy's status as a New York Times bestselling author is true. But a publisher's track record and an author's prior bestseller are not evidence about the sales velocity of an unreleased title. The claim is rated false rather than unverifiable because the book's unavailability at the time of the post is itself affirmative disconfirming evidence, not merely an absence of data.

Sources: https://press.foxnews.com/2026/08/fox-news-books-bestselling-co-authors-trey-gowdy-and-christopher-greyson-return-with-new-legal-thriller-the-sound-of-regret; https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fox-news-books-bestselling-co-authors-trey-gowdy-and-christopher-greyson-return-with-new-legal-thriller-the-sound-of-regret-302841310.html; https://www.booknotification.com/authors/trey-gowdy/; https://radio.foxnews.com/2026/08/06/q-trey-the-sound-of-regret/; https://www.foxnews.com/books/the-sound-of-regret; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402663781112; https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Regret-Trey-Gowdy/dp/0063582031; https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/share-news/FOX-NEWS-BOOKS-BESTSELLING-CO-AUTHORS-TREY-GOWDY-A/99034536; https://www.postandcourier.com/spartanburg/news/spartanburg-trey-gowdy-second-novel/article_20cdeaad-3f80-444a-aa33-f1c61970341f.html

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Tags

- endorsement (95%)
- alliance_maintenance (85%)
- idealization (80%)
- hyperbole (75%)
- bandwagon (70%)
- appeal_to_authority (65%)
- selective_authority_nyt (60%)
- status_conferral (70%)
- patron_kingmaker (70%)
- king_benevolent (60%)
- typo_uncorrected (80%)
- president_djt_signature (75%)
- low_significance (85%)
- positive_valence (75%)
- no_contrasting_other (55%)

## That day

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

**He declared a "WALL OF STEEL" across Hormuz while transits there hit a weekly low**

Most of what went out under his name today he didn't write. Two big batches — pre-made congratulation graphics for primary winners late the night before, then a wall of nearly identical Florida endorsements fired off at about one every twenty seconds around dinnertime — accounted for thirty-eight of the day's forty-nine posts. The exception came mid-morning, when he declared the U.S. had total control of the Strait of Hormuz and said the naval blockade was being called a wall of steel by everyone, at a moment when shipping through the strait had fallen to its lowest in a week and Iran was publicly saying it could just outlast him. An evening endorsement in Oklahoma curdled into an attack on the state's attorney general, whose offense was having said he had no opinion about the impeachment. He slept a normal night, and said nothing about the judge who cleared more Epstein files for release or about the lawsuit over selling advance access to these very posts.

Full digest for 2026-08-12: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-12/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, August 12). Trey Gowdy wrote a GREAT new book, “THE SOUND OF... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117082899005949110
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Trey Gowdy wrote a GREAT new book, “THE SOUND OF REGRET,”..." Truth Social, 12 Aug. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117082899005949110. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Trey Gowdy wrote a GREAT new book, “THE SOUND OF REGRET,”...," Truth Social, August 12, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117082899005949110.

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