# Post ts_117491184147454321 - Post ID: `ts_117491184147454321` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-23T16:33:15.609Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117491184147454321 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117491184147454321/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117491184147454321.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The judge in the Charlie Kirk case is doing a terrible job! This case should be tried within a month, not three years — and it should be over with! The judge is desecrating the memory of the Great Charlie Kirk, while taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to. The whole Country is mocking him and our “Legal” System. JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE! President DONALD J. TRUMP ## Engagement - Likes: 19,743 - Reposts: 5,688 - Replies: 1,799 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-30T16:01:51.208Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-23T16:51:49.544Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the morning a Utah judge was set to choose a trial date for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, Trump posted that the judge was "desecrating the memory of the Great Charlie Kirk" and doing "a terrible job." The "three years" he complained about came from the defense's request for a 2029 trial. The judge hadn't ruled on it, and reporting before the hearing had him pressing both sides to set dates. The post blames the judge for a delay the defendant asked for. The language turns a procedural question into sacrilege. Kirk is idealized, the judge is devalued, and scare quotes around "Legal" stretch the contempt to the whole court system. The same week, Trump said a golf course project would go ahead despite a federal judge's order, so this fits a run of posts treating judges as obstacles. The judge isn't named but is easy to identify, and the post ends with a rallying chant. It doesn't suggest anyone act against him. Saying the answers are "already known" also undercuts the defendant's right to a fair trial in a case where the judge has already punished a prosecutor for comments that could sway jurors. The loose phrasing ("taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to") and the timing during the hearing point to Trump's own words, probably dictated. ## A scheduling hearing, recast as sacrilege The post went up at 16:33 UTC: 12:33 p.m. in Washington and 10:33 a.m. in Provo, Utah. That Friday morning, Judge Tony Graf of Utah's Fourth District Court had set a hearing to choose a trial date for Tyler Robinson, who is charged with aggravated murder in Charlie Kirk's September 2025 killing ([Herald Extra](https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/oct/22/judge-to-consider-robinson-trial-date-at-friday-hearing/); [Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/posts/utah/2026/10/23/tyler-robinson-trial-dates-to-be-set/)). The day before, Erika Kirk had filed a victim's motion for a speedy trial. The two sides' proposals were already public. The state wanted an 85-day trial starting Jan. 31, 2028, and said it could be ready by Oct. 4, 2027. The defense wanted a six- to seven-month trial in 2029 ([Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/10/22/tyler-robinson-doesnt-anticipate-trial-until-2029/)). The post's "not three years" figure matches the defense's request. The judge hadn't ruled on it, and the coverage before the hearing has him telling the attorneys to come ready to set dates ([KSL](https://www.ksl.com/article/51632514/judge-in-tyler-robinson-case-wants-attorneys-ready-to-set-trial-dates)). So the post blames the judge for a delay the defendant asked for, on the very morning the judge could have turned it down. That is distortion: the facts of the scheduling fight are bent into a story about one bad official. "Taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to" reads like a reaction to the hearing as it happened. The timing fits a morning session in Provo. The post doesn't say which questions it means. The phrase also treats guilt as common knowledge, when establishing guilt is exactly what a capital trial is for. "It should be over with!" asks for the case to be finished more than for it to be decided correctly. Calling the wish for speed "JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE!" makes it sound like justice. That is rationalization. ## The martyr idealized, the judge defiled The split is plain: "the Great Charlie Kirk" against a judge "doing a terrible job." "Desecrating the memory" moves the complaint from procedure to the sacred. A judge's caution becomes the defiling of a martyr. This is the contamination arc the post depends on: a revered figure's memory spoiled by an official who should have honored it. The scare quotes around "Legal" stretch the contempt from one judge to the whole system. The same punctuation shows up in his post that day calling the New York Times "ARTIFICIAL" and its polls "FAKE." Five days earlier he said a DC golf course renovation would go ahead despite a federal judge's order. All week, judges show up in his posts as obstacles to shame or ignore. He barely appears in his own post. There's no first person, only the signature. The grievance is borrowed. It mirrors the Kirk family's filing, and it speaks to an audience for whom Kirk is a fallen hero. The anger is real. But it is aimed at a ruling that hadn't been made yet, so it is out of proportion to anything the judge had actually done. The drive here is power over an institution that sets its own pace. The post demands that a state court move at the speed the president wants. ## Who wrote it A midday Eastern post points toward staff. The wording points the other way. "Taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to" is a loose, conversational complaint that an aide drafting from scratch would tighten. "And it should be over with!" is spoken idiom. The "Great" honorific and the quoted "Legal" are his habits. The clean spelling and the em-dash suggest dictation, maybe lightly edited. Best reading: Trump's own words, most likely dictated while following the hearing. The sentences are short and hold together. The one loose clause is vague about what it refers to but shows no word-finding error. Nothing departs from his 2020s posting style. ## Naming a judge in the middle of a capital case The judge isn't named, but only one judge sits on the Robinson case, so he is identifiable at once. A sitting president told his audience that this state judge was "desecrating the memory" of a murdered movement figure, on the day of a hearing, and closed with a chant. Two parts of the stochastic-terrorism pattern are here: an identifiable target and a grievance framed in sacred terms. The third part, implied action, is missing. The post demands a fast trial, not anything against the judge. The risk comes from the audience and the vocabulary. Kirk's assassination is the most emotionally charged political violence of the period for this base, and "desecrate" is a word that licenses more outrage than ordinary criticism. The post also costs the defendant's fair trial. In June the same judge held a prosecutor in contempt for media comments likely to prejudice the jury pool. A president announcing that the answers are already known adds to the venue problem the defense has already raised. ## Checking the claims The "three years" figure is real but belongs to the defense. The state's proposed date would put trial about two years and four months after the shooting. Blaming the judge for the delay doesn't hold, since he hadn't set a date when the post went up, and reporting before the hearing has him pushing to set one. "The whole Country is mocking him" names no source, and none turned up. Coverage of the case is procedural. Sources: - [Deseret News: Tyler Robinson doesn't anticipate trial until 2029](https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/10/22/tyler-robinson-doesnt-anticipate-trial-until-2029/) - [Herald Extra: Judge to consider Robinson trial date at Friday hearing](https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/oct/22/judge-to-consider-robinson-trial-date-at-friday-hearing/) - [KSL: Judge in Tyler Robinson case wants attorneys ready to set trial dates](https://www.ksl.com/article/51632514/judge-in-tyler-robinson-case-wants-attorneys-ready-to-set-trial-dates) - [Deseret News: Attorneys will meet in Provo](https://www.deseret.com/posts/utah/2026/10/23/tyler-robinson-trial-dates-to-be-set/) - [CNN: Judge holds prosecutor in contempt, keeps death penalty on the table](https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/us/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-contempt-ruling) - [CBS News: Robinson will stand trial for aggravated murder](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-murder-trial-ruling/) ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Charlie Kirk case is on track to take three years to reach trial." | **Half True** | At the time of the post, the defense had proposed a six- to seven-month trial in 2029, which would be about three-plus years after the September 2025 shooting. The state proposed starting Jan. 31, 2028, and said it could be ready Oct. 4, 2027. No date had been set; the hearing to choose one was the morning of the post. | | "The judge is responsible for the case taking so long ('doing a terrible job', 'taking forever')." | **Mostly False** | The long timeline came from the defense's proposal and its stated plan to litigate pretrial motions in 2027 and 2028. Before the hearing, Judge Graf told attorneys to come ready to set trial dates, and he had moved the case through a probable-cause ruling on Sept. 1, 2026. When the post went up, he had not yet chosen between the parties' proposals. | | "The whole Country is mocking the judge and the legal system." | **Mostly False** | No poll, survey or reporting shows a national reaction to Judge Tony Graf of Utah's Fourth District Court, let alone the country mocking him. Coverage on the day of the post (Oct. 23, 2026) and the day before treats the trial-date hearing as routine procedure. The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News/KSL, Daily Herald, ABC4 and NewsNation report the competing schedules: the defense wants a trial in the third quarter of 2029, and the state proposed an 85-day trial starting Jan. 31, 2028, saying it could be ready by Oct. 4, 2027. Graf ordered both sides on Oct. 6 to submit scheduling estimates and planned to set the date at the Friday hearing. The Tribune article reports no public reaction to the judge. The only pushback it describes is Erika Kirk's lawyer Jeffrey Neiman, and his filing targets the defense's timeline as 'absurd' and 'grossly out of line', not the judge. The judge has drawn some criticism, but from a small, mostly partisan set of voices: - Fox News contributors said he let the defense 'go on too far' and needed to 'toughen up' (January 2026). - In a July 9, 2026 Fox segment, John Roberts questioned his year of accommodating the defense. - In October 2025 there was angry online reaction after he let Robinson wear street clothes in court (an AOL/entertainment headline called it 'ridicule', but the article cites no actual ridicule). That is commentary from some cable hosts, analysts and online users, not mockery by the country. Gallup does find low trust in the courts: confidence in the U.S. judicial system hit a record-low 35% in 2024, and trust in the federal judicial branch was 46% in 2026. But those figures cover the system in general, are driven largely by Democrats losing trust in federal courts, and have nothing to do with this state case. The only polling tied to the case is a defense-commissioned survey of 200 Utah County residents (99% aware of the case, 64% already believing Robinson guilty). It measures pretrial bias against the defendant, not contempt for the judge. The claim takes some real criticism of the case's pace, mostly aimed at the defense, and inflates it into a nationwide mockery that no evidence supports. It's rated mostly false rather than false because some commentators did criticize the judge's handling and general confidence in the courts is historically low. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - Posted 12:33 p.m. Eastern, during business hours, which points toward staff - Loose spoken phrasing: 'taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to' - Spoken idiom 'and it should be over with!' - Signature habits: 'the Great Charlie Kirk', scare-quoted 'Legal' - Timing matches the live Provo trial-date hearing (10:33 a.m. Mountain), suggesting a real-time reaction ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 70% - Agreeableness: 10% - Conscientiousness: 35% - Neuroticism: 70% - Openness: 15% Strongest facet: angry hostility **Motives:** - Agency: 80% - Communion: 35% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Guardian of a martyr's memory and enforcer of swift justice - **Arc:** contamination - **Contrasting:** The Robinson trial judge and the 'Legal' System **Identity Claims:** - Defender of Charlie Kirk's legacy - Voice of what 'the whole Country' thinks - Judge of the legal system's legitimacy ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Trial-date hearing in State v. Robinson and Erika Kirk's speedy-trial motion the day before) **Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Judge Tony Graf (unnamed but identifiable) and the 'Legal' System - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.70 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) - idealization (immature) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Rallying chant addressed to the base: 'JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE!' - Shared grief for a martyr figure used to bond with followers - Invented national consensus: 'The whole Country is mocking him' ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - A sitting president publicly attacks the identifiable judge in a pending capital case on the day of a hearing - The judge's conduct is framed as sacrilege against a murdered movement figure ('desecrating the memory') - Ends with a mobilizing slogan aimed at an emotionally charged base - Declaring guilt settled ('people already know the answer') adds to jury-pool prejudice in a death-penalty case ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-10-23._ > The Charlie Kirk case is on track to take three years to reach trial. **HALF TRUE** At the time of the post, the defense had proposed a six- to seven-month trial in 2029, which would be about three-plus years after the September 2025 shooting. The state proposed starting Jan. 31, 2028, and said it could be ready Oct. 4, 2027. No date had been set; the hearing to choose one was the morning of the post. Sources: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/10/22/tyler-robinson-doesnt-anticipate-trial-until-2029/; https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/oct/22/judge-to-consider-robinson-trial-date-at-friday-hearing/ > The judge is responsible for the case taking so long ('doing a terrible job', 'taking forever'). **MOSTLY FALSE** The long timeline came from the defense's proposal and its stated plan to litigate pretrial motions in 2027 and 2028. Before the hearing, Judge Graf told attorneys to come ready to set trial dates, and he had moved the case through a probable-cause ruling on Sept. 1, 2026. When the post went up, he had not yet chosen between the parties' proposals. Sources: https://www.ksl.com/article/51632514/judge-in-tyler-robinson-case-wants-attorneys-ready-to-set-trial-dates; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-murder-trial-ruling/ > The whole Country is mocking the judge and the legal system. **MOSTLY FALSE** No poll, survey or reporting shows a national reaction to Judge Tony Graf of Utah's Fourth District Court, let alone the country mocking him. Coverage on the day of the post (Oct. 23, 2026) and the day before treats the trial-date hearing as routine procedure. The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News/KSL, Daily Herald, ABC4 and NewsNation report the competing schedules: the defense wants a trial in the third quarter of 2029, and the state proposed an 85-day trial starting Jan. 31, 2028, saying it could be ready by Oct. 4, 2027. Graf ordered both sides on Oct. 6 to submit scheduling estimates and planned to set the date at the Friday hearing. The Tribune article reports no public reaction to the judge. The only pushback it describes is Erika Kirk's lawyer Jeffrey Neiman, and his filing targets the defense's timeline as 'absurd' and 'grossly out of line', not the judge. The judge has drawn some criticism, but from a small, mostly partisan set of voices: - Fox News contributors said he let the defense 'go on too far' and needed to 'toughen up' (January 2026). - In a July 9, 2026 Fox segment, John Roberts questioned his year of accommodating the defense. - In October 2025 there was angry online reaction after he let Robinson wear street clothes in court (an AOL/entertainment headline called it 'ridicule', but the article cites no actual ridicule). That is commentary from some cable hosts, analysts and online users, not mockery by the country. Gallup does find low trust in the courts: confidence in the U.S. judicial system hit a record-low 35% in 2024, and trust in the federal judicial branch was 46% in 2026. But those figures cover the system in general, are driven largely by Democrats losing trust in federal courts, and have nothing to do with this state case. The only polling tied to the case is a defense-commissioned survey of 200 Utah County residents (99% aware of the case, 64% already believing Robinson guilty). It measures pretrial bias against the defendant, not contempt for the judge. The claim takes some real criticism of the case's pace, mostly aimed at the defense, and inflates it into a nationwide mockery that no evidence supports. It's rated mostly false rather than false because some commentators did criticize the judge's handling and general confidence in the courts is historically low. Sources: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/23/charlie-kirk-killing-defense-says/; https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/oct/22/judge-to-consider-robinson-trial-date-at-friday-hearing/; https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/oct/06/judge-in-tyler-robinson-case-orders-parties-to-submit-scheduling-estimates-for-trial/; https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/10/22/tyler-robinson-doesnt-anticipate-trial-until-2029/; https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/10/22/erika-kirk-demands-speedy-trial-after-robinson-defense-delays-to-2029/; https://www.ksl.com/article/51639654/tyler-robinson-doesnt-anticipate-trial-until-2029; https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/charlie-kirks-tyler-robinson-trial-date-erika/; https://www.abc4.com/news/charlie-kirk-shooting/tyler-robinsons-defense-aims-2029-trial/; https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/us/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-trial-timeline; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6400673380112; https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-presiding-over-tyler-robinson-case-urged-rein-defense-delay-tactics.amp; https://www.aol.com/entertainment/tyler-robinson-trial-chaos-judge-224803975.html; https://fortune.com/2024/12/17/americans-trust-judicial-system-courts-drops-to-record-low-gallup-poll; https://news.gallup.com/poll/715022/supreme-court-begins-term-historically-low-ratings.aspx; https://factually.co/fact-checks/media/tyler-robinson-media-courtroom-camera-rulings-public-perception-cfae39 Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - Charlie Kirk (100%) - Tyler Robinson trial (90%) - attacks on judges (90%) - splitting (70%) - distortion (70%) - institutional delegitimization (70%) - contamination narrative (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump announces a concession of Ilhan Omar's House seat that Democrats never made** Late at night after his Iowa rally, Trump went after Rep. Ilhan Omar. He claimed her real name was something else, brought back the unproven story that she married her brother, and announced that Democrats had given up her House seat, which never happened. In the same short burst he attacked the New York Times over polling, endorsed two Republicans and cheered the refilled Reflecting Pool in Washington. After a long night's break he came back angry at the Utah judge in the Charlie Kirk murder case, saying the judge was "desecrating" Kirk's memory over a slow timeline that the defense had in fact asked for. The rest of the day was travel to a Florida campaign event, a livestream link, an unexplained proverb about sickness signed with his own name, and an aerial photo of the National Mall, with each flash of anger fading quickly into routine posts. Full digest for 2026-10-23: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 23). The judge in the Charlie Kirk case is doing a... [Social media post]. 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