# Post x_1044991766309621760

- Post ID: `x_1044991766309621760`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2018-09-26T16:47:06.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships - a total low-life!

## Engagement

- Likes: 138,700
- Reposts: 34,814
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.396Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-16T03:40:08.858Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Post from September 26, 2018 attacking attorney Michael Avenatti following his release of Julie Swetnick's sworn statement alleging Kavanaugh's presence at parties where assaults occurred. Context includes compound narcissistic injury: Avenatti had previously represented Stormy Daniels against Trump, and the prior day's UN laughter incident created accumulated wounding.

Assessed as authentic Trump composition (0.82 confidence) based on characteristic insult taxonomy ("third rate," "total low-life"), awkward informal syntax, and reactive emotional pitch. Midday timing is atypical but plausible given acute political siege.

The post deploys a preemptive witness-discrediting strategy: attacking the attorney rather than addressing the substance of the allegation, rendering the messenger low-status before the testimony can be heard on its merits. Defense mechanisms include devaluation, projection (accusing the accuser's counsel of "false accusations"), and displacement. The vague threat ("past record and relationships") functions as a counter-narrative seed — introducing suspicion without specific claims that could be refuted.

Clinically, this is a high-confidence expression of Kohutian narcissistic rage: disproportionate, identity-protective, and object-annihilating. Rage intensity is high relative to the trigger (an attorney filing a client's statement). The mixed narcissistic state — grandiose surface posture with underlying vulnerability — is consistent with the subject's documented pattern under sustained external challenge. Malignant narcissism composite markers are all present at moderate-to-high levels. Danger level: elevated, due to named-target framing and covert threat signaling.

Full analysis embedded in content field above.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Avenatti is a 'third rate lawyer'" | **False** | At time of posting, Avenatti was among the most publicly prominent plaintiff's attorneys in the United States, representing Stormy Daniels, receiving wall-to-wall cable news coverage, and briefly speculated about as a 2020 Democratic candidate. The claim is rhetorical derogation, not factual assessment. |
| "Avenatti made 'false accusations' on Judge Brett Kavanaugh" | **Unverifiable** | Swetnick's sworn statement had just been released. The underlying allegations were never adjudicated. Subsequent events (Avenatti's 2020 conviction for unrelated extortion) complicated his credibility, but did not retroactively establish the Swetnick statement's falsity. At time of posting, 'false' was assertion, not established fact. |
| "Avenatti made false accusations 'on me' (Trump)" | **Mostly False** | Avenatti made numerous public allegations against Trump in the Stormy Daniels matter. Whether those were 'false' is contested; some claims were legally pursued and contested. The characterization of all of them as 'false' is not established. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Classic Trump insult taxonomy: 'third rate,' 'total low-life' — these are recurring Trump-specific degradation formulas
- Run-on sentence structure with em-dash-free stream-of-consciousness chaining
- Personal emotional reactivity: direct response to a fresh personal/political wound
- Slightly awkward phrasing 'like he did on me' — aide would smooth to 'as he did with me'
- Midday UTC (12:47 PM ET) is business hours, which slightly argues for aide; however, UNGA week in NYC with Trump deeply agitated about Kavanaugh coverage makes impulsive midday posting plausible

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Michael Avenatti / Julie Swetnick accusation release)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting Michael Avenatti
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.87

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple high-intensity posts within same day covering disparate topics (economic metrics, Kavanaugh prayer, personal attack on Avenatti)
- Elevated grandiosity in concurrent economic posts ('WAY MORE TO GO!') contrasting with attack-mode in this post — rapid affective switching
- Escalating output rate consistent with agitated, pressured ideation during UNGA/Kavanaugh crisis week

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- displacement (immature)

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

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Presupposition of shared contempt ('a total low-life') — invites followers to pre-judge alongside him
- Vague threat signaling ('look at his past record and relationships') — cultivates shared suspicion without specifics
- Appeals to loyalty by framing Kavanaugh defense as a moral obligation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Named individual targeted (Avenatti) with maximal personal derogation ('total low-life') to audience of tens of millions
- Covert threat signaling: 'past record and relationships' implies subject holds damaging information, could mobilize followers to investigate
- Pattern of naming targets + articulating grievances without explicit call to action (stochastic terrorism precursor conditions present at low level)
- Prior context: Avenatti was subsequently harassed by Trump supporters following such posts

### Gaslighting

- Categorical assertion of 'false accusations' regarding a sworn statement without engaging any evidentiary substance — demands audience accept subject's dismissal as dispositive
- DARVO partial move: positions subject as prior victim of Avenatti ('like he did on me'), inverting the victim/offender framing in the Kavanaugh context
- Motive-attribution ('just looking for attention') forecloses serious consideration of the allegation by presupposing bad faith

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-16._

> Avenatti is a 'third rate lawyer'

**FALSE**

At time of posting, Avenatti was among the most publicly prominent plaintiff's attorneys in the United States, representing Stormy Daniels, receiving wall-to-wall cable news coverage, and briefly speculated about as a 2020 Democratic candidate. The claim is rhetorical derogation, not factual assessment.

Sources: General knowledge — Avenatti's public profile September 2018

> Avenatti made 'false accusations' on Judge Brett Kavanaugh

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Swetnick's sworn statement had just been released. The underlying allegations were never adjudicated. Subsequent events (Avenatti's 2020 conviction for unrelated extortion) complicated his credibility, but did not retroactively establish the Swetnick statement's falsity. At time of posting, 'false' was assertion, not established fact.

Sources: Known events: Julie Swetnick Accuses Kavanaugh

> Avenatti made false accusations 'on me' (Trump)

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Avenatti made numerous public allegations against Trump in the Stormy Daniels matter. Whether those were 'false' is contested; some claims were legally pursued and contested. The characterization of all of them as 'false' is not established.

Sources: General knowledge — Avenatti/Daniels litigation 2018

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- narcissistic_rage (88%)
- preemptive_discrediting (85%)
- devaluation (82%)
- kavanaugh_hearings (90%)
- avenatti (95%)
- projection (72%)
- covert_threat (65%)
- compound_narcissistic_injury (80%)
- reality_distortion (70%)
- ad_hominem (90%)

## That day

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

**Siege Mentality: UN Laughter Reverberates as Kavanaugh Crisis Deepens and Avenatti Draws Fire**

Trump spent the day managing fallout from multiple colliding crises — world leaders laughing at him during his UN address, a third Kavanaugh accuser coming forward, and simmering Rosenstein tensions. Late-night posts adopted a defensive, wounded tone, casting law enforcement and Democrats as corrupt persecutors. By morning he pivoted to economic cheerleading, touting consumer confidence and jobless claims as implicit rebuttals to the prior day's humiliation. The sharpest moment came at midday with a blistering personal attack on attorney Michael Avenatti, the day's clear peak of anger, before the afternoon settled into routine endorsements and rally promotion.

Full digest for 2018-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2018-09-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2018, September 26). Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1044991766309621760
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false..." X (Twitter), 26 Sep. 2018. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1044991766309621760. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false...," X (Twitter), September 26, 2018, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1044991766309621760.

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