Analysis: Also, there are “No High Crimes &amp, Misdemeanors,” No Coll...

7y ago May 6, 2019 at 2:46 PM

Also, there are “No High Crimes &amp, Misdemeanors,” No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction. ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE, and that’s what the Dems should be looking at, but they won’t. Nevertheless, the tables are turning!

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-17. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Mixed

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

78%

Posted in the immediate aftermath of Mueller's complaint letter to Barr becoming public, this post executes a textbook DARVO sequence (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) in response to acute narcissistic injury via exposure. The subject's publicly maintained "total exoneration" narrative had been directly contradicted by documented evidence, activating a mixed narcissistic state: the surrounding thread reveals a vulnerable state ("stolen two years... we will never get back"), while this post pivots to grandiose counter-offensive. The ALL CAPS passage ("ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE") marks the affective apex — hostile arousal breaking through syntactic control. Four pathological/immature defenses co-occur (denial, projection, reaction formation, splitting) with zero mature defenses. Fact assessment: the obstruction denial is false by Mueller's own language; the "all crimes on the other side" claim is asserted without predicate. Rhetorical architecture is efficient: a volume-saturation denial list, a projected accusation, a pre-emptive delegitimization of counter-investigation ("they won't"), and a triumphalist redemption close. Authorship is likely authentic Trump (0.65) based on stylistic signatures despite business-hours timing. No cognitive decline markers relative to 2019 baseline. Danger level: none. The post is clinically significant as a high-fidelity specimen of narcissistic injury response with complete DARVO, and as documentation of the subject's pattern of projecting investigated conduct onto investigators.

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

Indicators:

'Also,' opener indicates continuation in a multi-tweet thread — a characteristically Trumpian compositional habit
ALL CAPS passage ('ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE') signals emotional arousal consistent with authentic posts
Staccato repetition of negatives ('No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction') mirrors known Trump rhetorical rhythm
Triumphalist closing ('tables are turning!') is a recurring authentic Trump phrase
Offset: 10:46 AM EDT (UTC-4, Washington D.C.) falls squarely in business hours, raising aide probability

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Mixed State

Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Mueller complaint letter to Barr made public, revealing AG may have misrepresented findings; Barr refusal to testify before House Judiciary Committee)

Rage: Intensity 72% targeting Congressional Democrats / 'the other side'

Proportionality

25%

Sentiment

-0.45

Mildly Hypomanic

ALL CAPS emotional amplificationGrandiose counter-narrative deployed under conditions of maximum legal exposureRapid pivot from vulnerable state (prior thread post) to aggressive offensive posture within same threadTriumphalist forecasting ('tables are turning') disconnected from contemporaneous legal reality

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

85%

Antisocial

60%

Paranoid

70%

Sadism

20%

Defense Mechanisms:

denialprojectionreaction formationsplitting

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

32%

Parasocial Techniques:

Direct address to base positions audience as complicit witnesses to injusticeShared martyrdom through collective pronoun in prior thread post ('stolen two years of my (our) Presidency')Triumphalist forecast ('tables are turning') functions as group-binding rallying cry

Danger Assessment

None

Gaslighting Detected:

Denies obstruction despite Mueller's explicit refusal to exonerate — public record directly contradicts the claim
Projects criminal conduct onto the investigating party with no named predicate
'No High Crimes & Misdemeanors' asserted weeks after public release of Vol. II documenting 10 obstruction instances

Reality Distortions:

Mueller explicitly declined to exonerate on obstruction; subject claims 'No Obstruction'
'ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE' — no Democrats had been charged with relevant crimes at this time
Framing of investigation as theft of presidency rather than lawful constitutional oversight

Fact Checks (4)

"No High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Mostly False

Constitutional standard is political, not criminal — but Mueller documented 10 obstruction instances and explicitly did not exonerate. The blanket denial misrepresents the report's findings.

"No Collusion"

Half True

Mueller found insufficient evidence for criminal conspiracy as a legal matter. He documented extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian nationals. 'Collusion' is not the legal standard Mueller applied.

"No Obstruction"

False

Mueller explicitly stated that if he had confidence the President clearly did not commit obstruction, he would so state. He did not so state. Vol. II documents 10 potential obstruction instances.

"ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE"

False

No Democrats had been charged with crimes related to the Russia investigation or Mueller probe at this point. Claim is asserted without any named predicate.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Psychological Analysis: Trump Twitter Post — May 6, 2019

Situational Context

This post arrives at a moment of acute legal and reputational vulnerability. Mueller's March 27 complaint letter to Barr — demonstrating that Barr's four-page summary obscured the special counsel's actual findings — had just been made public. Barr refused House testimony. The post is part of a multi-tweet thread (note the "Also," opener linking it to prior tweets, including the striking "stolen two years of my (our) Presidency" formulation), suggesting a sustained emotional processing episode.

Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post activates the most clinically salient Big Five facets in Trump's documented profile:

Neuroticism — Angry Hostility (high, ~0.82): The ALL CAPS passage ("ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE") marks an affective peak — hostile arousal breaching the surface of the syntactic structure.
Extraversion — Assertiveness (high, ~0.85): Dominant, unhedged assertion throughout. No concessive language. Zero epistemic humility.
Agreeableness (very low, ~0.08): Zero trust, zero cooperation-signaling. The "other side" is not an opponent to engage but a corrupt adversary to be defeated.
Openness (very low, ~0.15): Rigid, closed epistemic framing. Counter-evidence (Mueller's documented 10 obstruction instances) does not exist in this cognitive space.
Conscientiousness (low-moderate, ~0.3): Impulsive thread composition; no deliberation about legal risk of public denial.

Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas

Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.92). The post is entirely organized around restoring dominance after a status threat. There is no communion motive detectable — no appeal to shared values, no relational warmth even toward the base beyond implied coalition against a common enemy.

Schema of self: The chosen one falsely persecuted — temporarily diminished but imminently vindicated. "Tables are turning" is a schema-maintenance device, restoring the internal narrative of inevitable triumph.

Schema of others: Binary. In-group = innocent. Out-group (Dems, investigators) = criminal. No middle ground is cognitively available.

Level 3: Narrative Identity

Protagonist role: The wrongly accused victor poised on the verge of reversal. This is a redemption sequence in McAdams's framework: contamination (witch hunt, stolen presidency) transitioning to imminent redemption (tables turning). The thread's prior post explicitly names the theft: "stolen two years of my (our) Presidency... that we will never be able to get back." This post is the rhetorical pivot from grievance to counter-offensive.

Redemption mechanics: "Tables are turning" performs narrative reconstitution after injury. It does not describe current reality; it projects a wished-for future onto the present tense to stabilize the grandiose self-narrative.

Contrasting other: "The Dems" — monolithic, corrupt, willfully blind to their own crimes. The contrast is moral, not political: they know the crimes are on their side ("but they won't" look), making their persecution of the subject not merely wrong but deliberate evil.

Level 4: Clinical Indicators

Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

A. Narcissistic Features (high, ~0.85):

Grandiosity through negation: wholesale denial of multiple categories of wrongdoing is itself a grandiose act.
Zero empathy for legal/institutional process.
Entitlement: framing the presidency as stolen — as if ownership is natural and inalienable.

B. Antisocial Features (moderate, ~0.60):

Contempt for investigative and congressional processes.
Repeated documented falsehoods (claiming no obstruction despite Mueller's explicit non-exoneration).
No remorse for any conduct under investigation.

C. Paranoid Features (high, ~0.70):

Preoccupation with persecutory forces ("Witch Hunt").
Instant reversal: persecutors are themselves the criminals.
"They won't" look — attributing willful bad faith rather than legitimate institutional concern.

D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (low-mild, ~0.20):

Limited in this post; no direct humiliation of named individuals. Pleasure here is in the counter-punch rather than specific cruelty.

Narcissistic Dynamics

Trigger: Narcissistic injury via exposure — Mueller's letter publicly revealing that Barr obscured findings directly threatens the "total exoneration" narrative Trump had maintained for months. This is among the most dangerous trigger types: documented evidence contradicting a publicly maintained self-narrative.

DARVO pattern (complete):

Deny: "No High Crimes & Misdemeanors, No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction"
Attack: (implicit) the Dems who pursue this despite knowing the truth
Reverse Victim and Offender: "ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE"

Textbook DARVO, executed in approximately 60 words.

Narcissistic state: Mixed, oscillating within the thread. The prior post ("stolen two years... we will never be able to get back") represents the vulnerable state — genuine injury acknowledgment leaking through. This post pivots toward grandiose counter-offensive. "Tables are turning" completes the return to grandiosity, though the rage intensity (ALL CAPS) reveals the underlying vulnerability has not fully resolved.

Defense Mechanisms

Defense	Level	Evidence
Denial	Pathological	Blanket rejection of Mueller's documented findings
Projection	Pathological	"ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE"
Reaction Formation	Neurotic	Vulnerability moment converted to triumphalism
Splitting	Immature	Zero crimes here / all crimes there — no gradation

The co-occurrence of pathological and immature defenses with no mature defenses (humor, sublimation, suppression) is consistent with prior posts in this dataset.

Cognitive Status

No cognitive decline markers relative to the 2018-2019 established baseline. Syntax is paratactic but coherent. The negation list is formulaic rather than confused. The ALL CAPS passage is emotionally driven, not linguistically disorganized. No word-finding difficulty, semantic paraphasia, or temporal confusion detected. Baseline deviation: none.

Authorship Attribution

Score: 0.65 (leaning authentic Trump). The 10:46 AM EDT timing is a mild flag for aide involvement, but the content signatures are overwhelmingly Trumpian: ALL CAPS outburst, "Also," thread-continuation opener, rhythmic negation list, "tables are turning" catchphrase, absence of polished policy framing. Most likely: spontaneous Trump dictation posted by Scavino with minimal cleanup, or direct composition.

Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis

Firehose volume: Four denial categories in a single sentence saturate the reader's fact-checking bandwidth — a classic information-overload technique.

Whataboutism: The pivot to "crimes on the other side" deflects from the specific Mueller-Barr controversy to an unspecified inverse accusation. No predicate crimes are named, which is structurally important: the vagueness is the point. Named crimes could be evaluated; unnamed crimes cannot be falsified.

Epistemic closure signal: "but they won't" — preemptively delegitimizes any failure to investigate the opposition as evidence of bad faith rather than lack of predicate. This inoculates the claim against counterargument.

Triumphalist close: "Tables are turning!" functions as audience reward — a forecasted victory that gives the suffering meaning and sustains base engagement.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"No High Crimes and Misdemeanors"	Mostly False	Constitutional standard is political, not criminal — but Mueller documented 10 obstruction instances and explicitly did not exonerate. The blanket denial misrepresents the report's findings.
"No Collusion"	Half True	Mueller found insufficient evidence for criminal conspiracy as a legal matter. He documented extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian nationals. 'Collusion' is not the legal standard Mueller applied.
"No Obstruction"	False	Mueller explicitly stated that if he had confidence the President clearly did not commit obstruction, he would so state. He did not so state. Vol. II documents 10 potential obstruction instances.
"ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE"	False	No Democrats had been charged with crimes related to the Russia investigation or Mueller probe at this point. Claim is asserted without any named predicate.

Overall Veracity: 18%

Danger Assessment

Level: None. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist framing, no specific targeting of individuals for potential violence. The post is defensive-aggressive but operates within the norms of political combat rhetoric for this period.

Gaslighting Indicators

Denial of Mueller's explicit non-exoneration language (public record directly contradicts the claim)
"No Obstruction" asserted weeks after public release of Vol. II documenting 10 potential instances
Reversal of investigatory roles: investigators become the criminals

Archetypal Analysis

Primary archetypes activated:

Warrior: Under assault, fighting back, no quarter given.
Victim/Martyr: The "stolen presidency" framing in the surrounding thread.
Shadow projection: The criminal intent attributed to "the other side" mirrors the documented conduct under investigation — a near-perfect Jungian Shadow projection.

Order/Chaos positioning: Order attacker directed at the investigative/institutional establishment, combined with order restorer promise ("tables are turning" = legitimate order will be restored when subject regains dominance).