# Post ts_117532336220391714

- Post ID: `ts_117532336220391714`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-30T22:58:46.409Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532336220391714
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532336220391714/analysis
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## Post text

> Congressman Craig Goldman is an incredible Representative of Texas’ 12th Congressional District!
>
> A Fifth Generation Texan, Craig served as a State Representative for 12 years prior to becoming a distinguished and Highly Respected Congressman. In Congress, he is fighting tirelessly to Champion our Great Farmers and American Agriculture, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Advance American Energy DOMINANCE, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.
>
> Craig Goldman has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR CRAIG — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/texas/

## Engagement

- Likes: 114
- Reposts: 39
- Replies: 6
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-30T23:00:53.706Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-31T07:35:53.686Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## One template, six Texas districts in a row

This is one entry in a run of Texas House endorsements posted the same afternoon, covering TX-12, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 19. Each opens by praising the member's district ("is an incredible Representative of Texas' 12th Congressional District!"), gives a short bio, lists policies, and ends on a "Complete and Total Endorsement" plus a get-out-the-vote line. The Goldman text repeats whole lines from the Randy Weber post next to it: "Champion our Great Farmers and American Agriculture, Cut Taxes and Regulations," "Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military/Veterans." The Sell post shares the "Fifth Generation Texan" opener. What changes from post to post is the name, the district number and one sentence of biography. The rest comes from a shared block of text.

## Who wrote it

At 22:58 UTC on October 30 it was 6:58 PM Eastern, since daylight time ran until November 1. That is late business hours wherever he spent the day in the eastern time zone. Several things point to staff assembling the post from campaign material: a template reused across the whole batch, a precise biographical detail ("served as a State Representative for 12 years"), the third-person signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP," and a link to a voter-turnout site. His own habits show up only as house style: capitalized nouns ("Highly Respected," "Champion"), the all-caps slogans, and the folded slogan "Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE." That last one is a set phrase across the endorsement series, so it tells us about the template, not about who typed this post. Nothing in the text drifts, interrupts itself, contains a real error or reacts to something he just saw.

## What the praise is doing

All the affect is idealization of an ally. Goldman is "incredible," "distinguished and Highly Respected," and "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" The policy list is mostly the endorser's own agenda: tariff-linked "MADE IN THE U.S.A.," "Energy DOMINANCE," and a border the post calls "now very Secure," which is a claim of credit for his own administration. The praise works as a measure of loyalty. The candidate counts as good to the degree that he carries the endorser's program.

The post has no opponent in it, which is the absence that matters here. The De La Cruz endorsement from the same batch names "Bobby Pulido" as "a Radical Left Democrat" and uses the "Dumocrats" coinage, because TX-15 is competitive. TX-12 is a safe Republican seat in the Fort Worth area, and the Goldman post makes no comparison with an opponent. That suggests the hostile register in the series turns on where a race is competitive, as a campaign choice, and isn't a reflex in every post. The only threat image is the "always under siege Second Amendment," a stock line about a besieged in-group with no named attacker. It mildly signals grievance, and nothing in it mobilizes anyone against a person or group.

On personality and clinical frameworks the post adds very little. The grandiosity is borrowed: it raises up the ally, and the self-reference is limited to the signature and the border credit. Nothing here was triggered by an injury, and nothing in it is rage. The sequencing of the batch is the only behavioral signal, a campaign operation pushing district-by-district endorsements out a few days before the November 3 midterm. Because the text is templated, it can't be used to judge his cognition or language.

## Claims

The biography checks out. Goldman represented Texas House District 97 from 2013 to 2025, then won TX-12 in 2024, and his campaign describes him as a fifth-generation Texan. "Now very Secure Border" points to something real: southwest border encounters fell to historic lows in 2025 and stayed there. But "very Secure" is an evaluation and goes beyond what the encounter numbers measure. "Always under siege Second Amendment" and "fighting tirelessly" are opinion. The linked site is a generic turnout page and makes no factual claim of its own.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Craig Goldman served as a State Representative for 12 years before becoming a Congressman" | **True** | Goldman represented Texas House District 97 from 2013 until January 2025, when he took the TX-12 seat he won in November 2024. |
| "Craig Goldman is a fifth-generation Texan" | **True** | Goldman's official and campaign biographies describe him as a fifth-generation Texan. |
| "The border is 'now very Secure'" | **Mostly True** | CBP southwest border encounters fell to the lowest levels in decades during 2025 and stayed low into 2026. 'Very Secure' is an evaluation that goes past what encounter counts measure, such as got-aways and the overall state of enforcement. |

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- Posted 6:58 PM Eastern, inside the late business day
- Same template as five other Texas endorsements posted the same day, with whole policy lines copied word for word
- Exact biographical detail (12 years as State Representative, fifth-generation Texan) taken from campaign material
- Third-person signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Ends with a link to a voter-turnout site

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 55%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: assertiveness (directive endorsement and command to vote)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker conferring 'Complete and Total Endorsement'
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Unnamed threats to the 'always under siege Second Amendment'

**Identity Claims:**
- Architect of a 'now very Secure Border'
- Arbiter of which candidates are worthy

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Batch of midterm endorsements in the final days before the November 3, 2026 election)

Sentiment: +0.75

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct imperative to followers: 'GET OUT AND VOTE FOR CRAIG'
- Personal guarantee of the ally's loyalty: 'HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!'

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-31._

> Craig Goldman served as a State Representative for 12 years before becoming a Congressman

**TRUE**

Goldman represented Texas House District 97 from 2013 until January 2025, when he took the TX-12 seat he won in November 2024.

Sources: Texas Legislature Online member records; Ballotpedia: Craig Goldman

> Craig Goldman is a fifth-generation Texan

**TRUE**

Goldman's official and campaign biographies describe him as a fifth-generation Texan.

Sources: goldman.house.gov biography; Craig Goldman campaign site

> The border is 'now very Secure'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CBP southwest border encounters fell to the lowest levels in decades during 2025 and stayed low into 2026. 'Very Secure' is an evaluation that goes past what encounter counts measure, such as got-aways and the overall state of enforcement.

Sources: U.S. Customs and Border Protection monthly operational updates

Overall Veracity: 93%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- midterms-2026 (90%)
- templated-batch (90%)
- texas (70%)
- idealization (50%)
- border-credit (40%)

## That day

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

**Florida and Texas Republicans endorsed one district at a time, counting down to District 1, around a Daytona rally**

The Friday before the midterms came in two halves. From before dawn into the early morning he ran his own feed: a crowd clip full of golf banter, a claim that inflation is "way down" when the latest figures showed it rising, a meme in which Jesus tells Obama he "sent Trump," and more on the Russia investigation he says framed him. After a long quiet stretch, the campaign machinery took over the evening around a rally in Daytona Beach, posting near-identical endorsements for Republicans in Colorado, Florida and Texas district by district, counting down to District 1, at times several a minute. He stayed cheerful and boastful all day. The harshest words he shared were other people's, including an ad claiming communists and radical Islamists are taking over the Democratic Party.

Full digest for 2026-10-30: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 30). Congressman Craig Goldman is an incredible... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532336220391714
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congressman Craig Goldman is an incredible Representative..." Truth Social, 30 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532336220391714. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congressman Craig Goldman is an incredible Representative...," Truth Social, October 30, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532336220391714.

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