# Post x_1275835791701422000 - Post ID: `x_1275835791701422000` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-06-24T20:58:51.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1275835791701422000 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1275835791701422000/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1275835791701422000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to apologize to General Michael Flynn (and many others) for what they have done to ruin his life? What about Robert Mueller and his Angry Democrat Cronies - Are they going to say, SO SORRY? And what about Obama & Biden? ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 50,292 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.825Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T08:40:37.417Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post exemplifies Trump's triumph-consolidation response pattern: following the Flynn appeals court ruling, rather than simply claiming vindication, the post escalates to demanding public apologies from a chained list of enemies (Comey → Mueller → Obama → Biden). This demand-for-humiliation structure reflects ego-syntonic sadism — the victory is incomplete without the adversary's prostration. Paranoid object-linking is prominent: four distinct individuals across law enforcement, prosecution, and the former executive branch are collapsed into a single coordinated criminal enterprise. DARVO is deployed in its clearest form — Flynn's twice-entered guilty pleas are erased entirely; investigators become the criminals. Splitting is near-total, admitting no complexity into the victim/perpetrator assignment. Robert Mueller's Republican registration is suppressed in favor of the 'Angry Democrat' label, illustrating active reality-distortion rather than error. Authorship assessment is high-confidence authentic Trump: the stream-of-consciousness enemy chaining, invented epithets ('Dirty Cops,' 'Angry Democrat Cronies'), and mocking ALL CAPS quotation ('SO SORRY') match his established stylometric fingerprint despite the business-hours timestamp. Danger is rated elevated: sustained labeling of named individuals as criminal conspirators carries cumulative stochastic risk without constituting explicit incitement. Cognitive markers show no deviation from Trump's established baseline — simplified syntax, rhetorical questions, emotional emphasis substituting for logical structure — all consistent with his 2015–present communication pattern. # Psychological Analysis: June 24, 2020 — Flynn/Comey/Mueller Post ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High — Authentic Trump (score: 0.78)** Local time in Washington, D.C. (EDT, UTC−4): **4:58 PM** — technically business hours, but Trump's personal engagement that day is corroborated by the "ashame" misspelling in the flag-burning tweet, suggesting he was self-posting throughout the afternoon. Stylometric markers are densely authentic: self-invented epithets ("Dirty Cops," "Angry Democrat Cronies"), cascading rhetorical questions, ALL CAPS mock-quotation ("SO SORRY"), and enemy-list escalation (Comey → Mueller → Obama → Biden) all match his established fingerprint. --- ## Contextual Trigger The D.C. Circuit Appeals Court ruled 2-1 on June 24 ordering dismissal of the Flynn case — a ruling Trump announced with evident satisfaction in an earlier same-day tweet. This post is the **triumph-consolidation response**: not content with legal victory, the post demands visible humiliation from adversaries. This is a characteristic pattern in Trump's victory-state communications — the win is psychologically incomplete without the enemy's confession and prostration. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits | Dimension | Salience | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Extraversion | Very high | Assertive, dominant public address; rhetorical performance mode | | Agreeableness | Very low | Zero concession to opposing perspectives; contemptuous framing | | Conscientiousness | Low | Impulsive, no deliberation; emotional chain-reaction to news | | **Neuroticism** | **High** | Angry hostility even in a victory state; perseverative grievance | | Openness | Very low | Rigid binary framing; no complexity admitted | --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas - **Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.85)** — The demand for apology is a dominance display, not a genuine request. It positions Trump as arbiter of moral accounting. - **Communion motive: Near-absent (0.05)** — Flynn is invoked as a symbolic victim, not as a relationship of genuine care; he serves rhetorical function. - **Schema — self:** Uniquely perceptive ("I see what they did"), righteous avenger, indispensable protector of the wronged. - **Schema — others:** Divided into pure victims (Flynn, "many others") and pure conspirators (Comey, Mueller, Obama, Biden). No intermediate category exists. - **Schema — world:** Organized around corrupt power structures that require a singular champion to expose and defeat. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** *Defender-Avenger* — Trump speaks on Flynn's behalf from a position of vindicated strength. He does not present himself as victim here; this is a grandiose moment, not a vulnerable one. **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — Flynn's arc is framed as persecution → vindication, with Trump as the agent who delivered justice. The "dirty cops" and "cronies" attempted a contamination, but the defender averted it. **Contrasting other:** The conspiratorial network of Comey-Mueller-Obama-Biden serves as the unified shadow — coordinated, criminal, humiliated. **Identity claims:** 1. "I recognized the truth when institutions did not" 2. "I demand accountability that others lack the courage to seek" 3. "I am the one who delivers justice for the wrongly persecuted" --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Components | Component | Score | Key Evidence | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic features | 0.75 | Entitlement to arbitrate apologies; grandiosity in speaking for Flynn | | Antisocial features | 0.45 | Labeling law enforcement as "Dirty Cops"; contempt for legitimate process | | Paranoid features | **0.70** | Coordinated conspiracy reading of four distinct actors; preoccupation with attack | | Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.55 | Demanding humiliating public apology as extension of victory; the "SO SORRY" mock quotation | ### Narcissistic Dynamics - **State:** Grandiose (triumph-elevated, not the wounded/vulnerable register) - **Trigger:** Supply-seeking through triumph consolidation; the court ruling provides a grievance-validation windfall - **Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.62) but in controlled, exultant rather than explosive form — the rage of the victorious, not the cornered ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** "Dirty Cops" attributes moral corruption to law enforcement — a projection dynamic given the corruption allegations surrounding Trump's own personnel decisions (Berman firing, June 19–20) 2. **Splitting (immature):** Total victim/villain binary; Flynn's guilty pleas are simply absent from the mental model 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Procedural DOJ case-dismissal (itself deeply contested; career prosecutors withdrew in protest) is reframed as categorical proof of innocence and prosecutorial criminality 4. **Acting out (immature):** Public demand for named individuals' humiliation rather than private satisfaction with the legal result --- ## Paranoid Object-Linking The most clinically notable feature is the **compression of four distinct actors** — FBI Director (Comey), Special Counsel (Mueller), former President (Obama), and former Vice President (Biden) — into a single undifferentiated criminal conspiracy. This paranoid object-linking, in which causally distinct events and persons are collapsed into one coordinated persecutory force, is consistent with Kernberg's description of the paranoid features of malignant narcissism. There is no acknowledgment that Mueller was a Republican, that the FBI operates under its own chain of command, or that the prosecution was initiated through a separate process from the Obama-era discussions. --- ## DARVO Analysis The post deploys DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) in near-textbook form: - **Deny:** Flynn's twice-entered guilty pleas are entirely erased. No acknowledgment that Flynn admitted to lying to federal agents. - **Attack:** Prosecutors become the criminals ("Dirty Cops," demanding they apologize). - **Reverse victim and offender:** Flynn is the ruined innocent; Comey et al. are the persecutors who should face accountability. --- ## Rhetorical Architecture The post's three-part rhetorical question structure creates a crescendo of culpability: 1. Comey + "band of Dirty Cops" (operational level) 2. Mueller + "Angry Democrat Cronies" (prosecutorial level) 3. Obama & Biden (executive/political level) This ascending hierarchy implies an orchestrated conspiracy stretching from field agents to the White House. The demand for apology is not sincere — it is a **dominance performance** inviting the audience to imagine enemies groveling. "SO SORRY" in mocking ALL CAPS makes explicit that the point is ritualized defeat, not reconciliation. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion - The DOJ's dismissal motion (filed under documented pressure, triggering mass resignation of line prosecutors) is presented as simple vindication — erasing the institutional controversy. - Flynn's legal jeopardy is attributed entirely to prosecutorial malice, bypassing his own conduct and admissions. - "Angry Democrat" applied to Mueller (registered Republican) is deliberate label-poisoning, not confusion. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Appeals Court upheld DOJ request to drop criminal case against General Michael Flynn" | **True** | The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on June 24, 2020, ordering district judge Emmet Sullivan to grant the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case. | | "Comey and his 'band of Dirty Cops' ruined Flynn's life" | **Mostly False** | Flynn twice pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents — in December 2017 and again in 2018. The investigation had legal predicate. The DOJ's later decision to drop the case was procedurally controversial (career prosecutors withdrew in protest). 'Ruined' overstates; Flynn's legal jeopardy resulted substantially from his own conduct. | | "Robert Mueller's team were 'Angry Democrat Cronies'" | **Mostly False** | Mueller himself is a registered Republican, appointed by a Republican deputy AG. Some team members had Democratic political affiliations, but characterizing the entire investigation as partisan 'cronies' misrepresents the appointment structure and professional backgrounds. | | "Obama & Biden bear responsibility for Flynn's prosecution" | **Half True** | Documented that Obama warned Trump about Flynn in January 2017 transition meeting, and Biden was present at January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting where Flynn's calls with Kislyak were discussed. However, the criminal referral and charging decisions were made by FBI/DOJ career staff, not directly by Obama or Biden. | Overall Veracity: 48% ## Danger Assessment: **Elevated** No explicit incitement, and stochastic terrorism threshold is not met. However, sustained public labeling of specific named individuals as criminals ("Dirty Cops") — in a context of documented violent threats against those figures — carries cumulative risk. The post contributes to the broader pattern of enemy-designation that, across the post corpus, functions to license hostility in the audience without explicit instruction. --- ## Cognitive Status No deviation from Trump's established baseline. Syntactic complexity is low (consistent with 2015–present pattern), reliance on emotional emphasis (capitalization, rhetorical questions) over logical structure is stable, and no word-finding anomalies, paraphasias, or temporal confusions are present. The mild hypomanic arousal elevation — rapid enemy-list expansion, pressured associative chaining — is consistent with his documented response pattern to perceived victories (cf. post-impeachment acquittal communications). ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - 'Dirty Cops' and 'Angry Democrat Cronies' are authentic Trump label constructions - Stream-of-consciousness chaining of multiple enemies (Comey → Mueller → Obama → Biden) - ALL CAPS 'SO SORRY' for emotional emphasis — authentic Trump stylistic marker - Three-part rhetorical question structure without expected answers is characteristic - Timing (4:58 PM EDT) is business-hours, but prior tweets that day include 'It is ashame' (misspelling) suggesting Trump was personally active ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Flynn appeals court victory) **Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Comey, Mueller, Obama, Biden - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.58 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated triumph-response to court victory — not proportionate to the legal significance of a dismissal - Rapid enemy-list expansion (four targets in one post) suggests pressured associative energy - Multiple rhetorical questions without pause or qualification signals heightened arousal state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 55% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inviting audience to share outrage at named enemies - Rhetorical questions position audience as co-investigators of injustice - Collective grievance framing ('many others') broadens identification beyond Flynn ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Named individuals ('James Comey,' 'Robert Mueller,' 'Obama & Biden') labeled as criminals ('Dirty Cops') — increases hostility-targeting risk toward private/semi-private individuals - Pattern of sustained enemy-attribution to specific named persons creates cumulative stochastic risk across the post corpus - No explicit incitement, but the demand-for-apology framing implies these individuals have committed prosecutable offenses against which action should be taken ### Gaslighting - Framing an FBI counterintelligence investigation as purely 'Dirty Cops' behavior — denies the legitimacy of documented legal process - Flynn's twice-entered guilty pleas are erased from the narrative; the dismissal is presented as simple vindication of complete innocence - DARVO pattern: investigators are cast as criminal perpetrators; Flynn (admitted liar to federal agents) as pure victim ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Appeals Court upheld DOJ request to drop criminal case against General Michael Flynn **TRUE** The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on June 24, 2020, ordering district judge Emmet Sullivan to grant the DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn case. Sources: Known events context; confirmed in Trump's own earlier tweet that day > Comey and his 'band of Dirty Cops' ruined Flynn's life **MOSTLY FALSE** Flynn twice pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents — in December 2017 and again in 2018. The investigation had legal predicate. The DOJ's later decision to drop the case was procedurally controversial (career prosecutors withdrew in protest). 'Ruined' overstates; Flynn's legal jeopardy resulted substantially from his own conduct. Sources: Court records; DOJ filing history > Robert Mueller's team were 'Angry Democrat Cronies' **MOSTLY FALSE** Mueller himself is a registered Republican, appointed by a Republican deputy AG. Some team members had Democratic political affiliations, but characterizing the entire investigation as partisan 'cronies' misrepresents the appointment structure and professional backgrounds. Sources: DOJ appointment records; Mueller's registered party affiliation > Obama & Biden bear responsibility for Flynn's prosecution **HALF TRUE** Documented that Obama warned Trump about Flynn in January 2017 transition meeting, and Biden was present at January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting where Flynn's calls with Kislyak were discussed. However, the criminal referral and charging decisions were made by FBI/DOJ career staff, not directly by Obama or Biden. Sources: Declassified FBI documents; Senate Judiciary Committee records Overall Veracity: 48% ## Tags - Flynn vindication (95%) - enemy-list construction (90%) - grievance-triumph (85%) - paranoid object-linking (80%) - DARVO (78%) - apology demand as dominance (75%) - Russia investigation (70%) - splitting (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Sleepless Victory Laps: Trump Mines Legal Wins to Counter a Week of Humiliation** Trump spent the day claiming credit for legal victories — a hospital price transparency ruling and the Flynn case dismissal — while dealing with a difficult week that included the Tulsa rally embarrassment, a DACA defeat, and surging COVID cases. A cluster of four posts between 1 and 4:30 AM Eastern suggests significant sleep disruption. The mood was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory, but brief flashes of anger broke through — a rant about flag-burning "lowlifes" in the predawn hours, and an escalating demand that Comey, Mueller, Obama, and Biden apologize to Flynn. The day ended with a terse "LAW & ORDER!" post against the backdrop of ongoing nationwide protests. Full digest for 2020-06-24: https://trump.fm/date/2020-06-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, June 24). Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1275835791701422000 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to..." X (Twitter), 24 Jun. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1275835791701422000. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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