# Post x_1281927265589309400 - Post ID: `x_1281927265589309400` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-07-11T16:24:11.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1281927265589309400 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1281927265589309400/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1281927265589309400.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place. It is the other side that are criminals, including Biden and Obama, who spied on my campaign - AND GOT CAUGHT! ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 36,072 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.833Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T09:21:35.546Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Published concurrent with Roger Stone's sentence commutation, this post executes a complete DARVO sequence to preempt anticipated criticism: Stone's unanimous seven-count jury conviction is nullified by label ("illegal Witch Hunt"), Biden and Obama are reframed as the true criminals, and an unsubstantiated surveillance allegation is declared adjudicated fact ("AND GOT CAUGHT!"). All three core factual claims rate false to mostly false. A typo-laden parallel draft from the same session confirms Trump authored the original impulsive version; this post reflects aide cleanup with emotional markers preserved — a mixed-authorship artifact. Subject presents in a grandiose narcissistic state, counter-attacking rather than retreating from the anticipated criticism. Primary defenses of global denial, projection, and splitting operate simultaneously in a textbook malignant narcissism profile. The loyalty-reward dynamic — commuting Stone's sentence while publicly constructing an exoneration narrative — is consistent with the subject's documented pattern of treating legal protection as transactional currency within the inner circle. No cognitive deterioration markers relative to baseline. No danger indicators beyond routine delegitimization of named opponents. The post is formulaic within the established rhetorical repertoire; its primary analytical interest lies in the clean DARVO instantiation and the authorship evidence left by the parallel typo draft. # Analysis: x_1281927265589309400 — July 11, 2020 ## Authorship Attribution **Mixed authorship, medium confidence.** A parallel post from the same session contains the typo "tha never" — confirming Trump produced an impulsive first draft. This cleaned version corrects the typo and restructures a dependent clause ("including the fact that Biden and Obama illegally spied" → "including Biden and Obama, who spied"), consistent with aide editorial intervention. The ALL CAPS emotional signature ("AND GOT CAUGHT!") is preserved verbatim from the original, indicating the aide retained the affective core while polishing grammar. Posting time of 12:24 PM EDT is squarely business hours, reinforcing the aide-cleanup hypothesis. Authorship is best characterized as Trump-drafted / aide-published. --- ## Contextual Frame This post was published on the day Trump commuted Roger Stone's 40-month sentence — Stone having been convicted unanimously on seven felony counts including lying to Congress and witness tampering. The Supreme Court had also ruled earlier in the week that Trump's tax returns were not immune from a Manhattan DA subpoena. Both events constitute simultaneous sources of narcissistic threat: the Stone commutation invited bipartisan legal and ethical criticism; the tax ruling represented a direct institutional defeat. The post functions as anticipatory counterattack rather than reactive defense. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits Dominant facets: **angry hostility** (neuroticism), **assertiveness** (extraversion), low agreeableness. The post exhibits zero modesty or tender-mindedness. There is no acknowledgment of Stone's crimes, no engagement with the verdict, no concession to any legitimate grievance. Conscientiousness is low in the epistemic sense — factual accuracy is subordinated entirely to motivational goals. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency** overwhelmingly dominates over communion. The post is about power, control, and status protection. Stone is framed not as a friend but as a fellow victim of an illegitimate system — communion via shared persecution rather than genuine care. The core schema visible here: *the legal system is a weapon wielded by enemies and must be nullified by counter-narrative*. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Warrior-avenger who exposes real criminals while protecting wrongfully persecuted allies - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — the good campaign was corrupted by enemy surveillance; Stone's prosecution was a further contamination of justice - **Identity claim:** "I fight for those wrongfully targeted; I am the one who sees through the corruption" - **Contrasting other:** Obama and Biden as lawless intelligence-weaponizers, defined as mirror-opposite of subject --- ## Clinical Analysis ### Narcissistic Dynamics Subject presents in **grandiose** state. This is not the wounded, persecuted posture of vulnerable narcissism but the counter-attacking, self-righteous posture of grandiose expansion. The trigger is complex: the commutation invites criticism (potential narcissistic injury) but subject preemptively converts the narrative into a victory frame ("AND GOT CAUGHT!"). This is a common defensive maneuver — transforming anticipated injury into supply by claiming to have already won. **DARVO** sequence fully instantiated: 1. **Deny** — Stone prosecution was "illegal," never "should have taken place" 2. **Attack** — "the other side are criminals" 3. **Reverse Victim and Offender** — Stone becomes victim; Biden/Obama become the true defendants ### Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Denial | Pathological | Unanimous jury verdict nullified by label without engagement with evidence | | Projection | Immature | Criminality attributed to opponents at the precise moment of defending a convicted felon | | Splitting | Immature | Complete moral binary: Stone = innocent victim; opponents = criminals; no ambiguity | | Rationalization | Neurotic | Commutation implicitly justified by claiming prosecution was itself the crime | ### Paranoid Features The surveillance claim ("spied on my campaign") reflects persistent paranoid ideation that has characterized communications since 2017. Importantly, this claim has been repeatedly investigated and not substantiated at the level of illegality asserted. The phrase "AND GOT CAUGHT!" performs a rhetorical resolution — treating an unproven allegation as settled, adjudicated fact — which serves the paranoid schema by converting suspicion into confirmed persecution. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt" | **False** | Stone was indicted by a grand jury and convicted unanimously at trial on seven felony counts including obstruction, witness tampering, and five counts of false statements. No court found the prosecution illegal. Horowitz IG report found the broader Mueller investigation lawfully predicated. | | "Biden and Obama spied on my campaign" | **Mostly False** | FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016 based on Papadopoulos intelligence from Australian diplomats. Horowitz IG found investigation lawfully predicated though identified FISA procedural failures. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found no evidence of politically motivated illegal surveillance. Biden held no operational intelligence role in 2016. | | "Biden and Obama got caught spying" | **False** | Durham investigation (2020–2023) produced no convictions on the core illegal-surveillance theory. No individual was prosecuted for illegally surveilling the Trump campaign. One FBI attorney pleaded guilty to falsifying a FISA document — a procedural crime, not evidence of top-level political direction. | Overall Veracity: 7% ## Rhetorical Analysis - **"Witch Hunt"** — pre-loaded cognitive shortcut activating existing audience schemas; requires no argument, bypasses deliberation - **Whataboutism** — deflects from Stone's seven felony convictions to unproven Obama/Biden allegations; classic symmetry illusion - **ALL CAPS "AND GOT CAUGHT!"** — performs finality; declarative force substitutes for evidentiary standard - **Moral inversion** — prosecution reframed as crime; commutation reframed as justice - **False equivalence** — adjudicated criminal conduct placed on par with contested intelligence activities --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Post exhibits three gaslighting patterns simultaneously: 1. Denial of jury verdict legitimacy in the face of established legal record 2. DARVO reversal converting convicted felon into persecution victim 3. Assertion of counter-narrative ("AND GOT CAUGHT!") as settled fact, foreclosing audience doubt through tone rather than evidence --- ## Cognitive Status No novel markers. Vocabulary, syntax, and coherence are consistent with post-2017 baseline. The perseveration of "Witch Hunt" is a longitudinal pattern, not a new observation. The typo in the parallel draft ("tha") indicates rapid production and impulsive first-draft behavior, also consistent with baseline. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or temporal confusion detectable. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism pattern. Named individuals (Biden, Obama) are accused of crimes — within the subject's established rhetorical repertoire — but no language implies or invites action against them. --- ## Summary Published concurrent with Roger Stone's commutation, this post executes a complete DARVO sequence to preempt criticism: Stone's seven-count jury conviction is nullified by label ("illegal Witch Hunt"), Biden and Obama are framed as the true criminals, and an unsubstantiated surveillance allegation is asserted as adjudicated fact ("AND GOT CAUGHT!"). All three core factual claims rate false to mostly false. A typo-laden parallel draft confirms Trump authored the original; this version reflects aide polish with emotional markers preserved. The subject presents in a grandiose narcissistic state — counter-attacking rather than retreating — with primary defenses of global denial, projection, and splitting operating simultaneously. The loyalty-reward dynamic (commutation + public defense) is consistent with the subject's documented pattern of treating legal protection as transactional currency within the inner circle. No cognitive deterioration markers. No danger indicators beyond routine delegitimization of named opponents. The post is formulaic within the established baseline — its primary analytical interest lies in the clean instantiation of DARVO and the mixed-authorship artifact left by the parallel typo draft. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Parallel post from same session contains typo 'tha never' — confirms Trump-authored original impulsive draft - This version corrects typo and restructures dependent clause, consistent with aide editorial cleanup - ALL CAPS 'AND GOT CAUGHT!' preserved verbatim from original, indicating aide retained affective core - 12:24 PM EDT posting time is business hours, favoring aide involvement in publication - Formulaic 'Witch Hunt' vocabulary is Trump's established lexicon ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Anticipated criticism of Roger Stone commutation; simultaneous Supreme Court tax return subpoena ruling) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 15% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared victimhood frame — Stone's persecution mirrors audience's perceived persecution - Tribal signaling via 'Witch Hunt' as in-group identity marker - Triumphalist 'AND GOT CAUGHT!' invites audience to share in perceived victory over enemies ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Denial of jury verdict legitimacy despite established legal record - DARVO reversal converting convicted felon into persecution victim - Assertion of 'AND GOT CAUGHT!' as settled fact without evidentiary basis - Framing legitimate prosecution as criminal act by prosecutors ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt **FALSE** Stone was indicted by a grand jury and convicted unanimously at trial on seven felony counts including obstruction, witness tampering, and five counts of false statements. No court found the prosecution illegal. Horowitz IG report found the broader Mueller investigation lawfully predicated. Sources: United States v. Roger Stone jury verdict November 2019; DOJ OIG Review of Crossfire Hurricane December 2019 > Biden and Obama spied on my campaign **MOSTLY FALSE** FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016 based on Papadopoulos intelligence from Australian diplomats. Horowitz IG found investigation lawfully predicated though identified FISA procedural failures. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found no evidence of politically motivated illegal surveillance. Biden held no operational intelligence role in 2016. Sources: Senate Intelligence Committee Russia Report Vol. 5; DOJ OIG Review of Crossfire Hurricane December 2019 > Biden and Obama got caught spying **FALSE** Durham investigation (2020–2023) produced no convictions on the core illegal-surveillance theory. No individual was prosecuted for illegally surveilling the Trump campaign. One FBI attorney pleaded guilty to falsifying a FISA document — a procedural crime, not evidence of top-level political direction. Sources: Durham Special Counsel Report May 2023 Overall Veracity: 7% ## Tags - witch-hunt (95%) - roger-stone-commutation (98%) - darvo (90%) - projection (85%) - obama-spying-claim (88%) - grandiose-narcissistic-state (75%) - mixed-authorship (70%) - whataboutism (85%) - epistemic-closure (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Stone Commutation Fallout Drives Day-Long Defensive Counter-Narrative Operation** The day was dominated by fallout from the Roger Stone commutation, with Trump launching a sustained midday barrage defending the decision across multiple fronts. He attacked the Russia investigation as illegitimate, demanded a dossier author be jailed, labeled Biden and Obama as criminals, and went after the New York Times -- all within roughly an hour. The late-night hours featured a Goya Foods endorsement and attacks on Biden's mental fitness via Fox News surrogates. Notably absent from his feed: any mention of wearing a mask publicly for the first time during his Walter Reed visit, or the surging COVID-19 crisis hitting record daily case counts. The overall mood was combative and grandiose, with flashes of defensive anger whenever the Stone decision was addressed directly. Full digest for 2020-07-11: https://trump.fm/date/2020-07-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, July 11). Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1281927265589309400 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that..." X (Twitter), 11 Jul. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1281927265589309400. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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