# Post x_1313642403044167700

- Post ID: `x_1313642403044167700`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-10-07T04:48:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1313642403044167700/analysis
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## Post text

> Can’t believe these con men are not yet being PROSECUTED. Pathetic! https://t.co/FXn48qMHdE

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 29,980
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.850Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T15:38:09.845Z (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 occurs at 12:48 AM EDT, two days after Trump's discharge from Walter Reed following COVID-19 treatment with dexamethasone — a corticosteroid with documented neuropsychiatric effects including insomnia and agitation. The midnight timing, impulsive truncated syntax, and absence of specificity are consistent with authentic Trump authorship and corticosteroid-mediated wakefulness. Post participates in a dense same-day cluster fixated on prosecuting Russia/Mueller investigation figures, reflecting the chronic narcissistic injury schema: "investigators/adversaries are unpunished criminals." Defenses active include projection (attributing criminality to others), splitting (binary moral world), and acting out (midnight prosecution demands). The "Pathetic!" dismissal functions as a devaluation ejection performing emotional dominance. Danger assessment is elevated — not due to this post in isolation but as part of a sustained institutional delegitimization pattern targeting named political opponents before a presidential election, with a large and engaged audience. Dexamethasone effects on mood, impulse control, and sleep architecture are a clinically relevant confound for this 72-hour post-discharge window and should be factored into longitudinal baseline comparisons. No acute cognitive markers detectable in the limited text.

# Psychological Analysis: October 7, 2020 — "con men" Prosecution Post

## Authorship Attribution
**High confidence: authentic Trump.** UTC 04:48 converts to 00:48 EDT at the White House, where Trump had returned two days prior after COVID hospitalization. The late-night timing, truncated reactive syntax, ALL CAPS emphasis, and characteristic "Pathetic!" dismissal are all consistent with well-documented authentic posting patterns.

## Contextual Frame
This post is embedded in a dense same-day cluster fixated on prosecution demands, Russia investigation declassification, and adversary criminality (Mueller/"18 Angry Democrats," "Hillary Clinton Email Scandal"). The subject had been discharged from Walter Reed two days earlier after treatment for COVID-19, including dexamethasone — a corticosteroid with documented neuropsychiatric effects: insomnia, mood elevation, and irritability. The midnight timing is noteworthy in this context.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Dominant facets activated:
- **Neuroticism/Angry Hostility**: High — indignant, agitated, demanding action
- **Agreeableness (low)**: Dehumanizing label ("con men"), zero epistemic charity toward targets
- **Conscientiousness (low)**: Impulsive midnight post with no specificity or deliberation

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motive dominance** — the post is structured as a demand for punitive power to be exercised. The subject experiences the non-prosecution of perceived enemies as a personal failure of the system, not an abstract legal matter. This reflects the characteristic fusion of personal injury and institutional grievance.

**Schema activated**: "I am surrounded by criminals who are protected by corrupt institutions that refuse to act." This schema — chronic in the subject's posting — intensifies under stress and physical vulnerability.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Righteous witness to injustice / frustrated authority figure
- **Contamination sequence**: "The system should prosecute these criminals → the system refuses → injustice continues"
- **Contrasting other**: "Con men" — criminalized, contemptible, exploitative
- **Identity claim**: I see clearly; I am not fooled; I demand accountability

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
The subject presents in a **mixed narcissistic state** — the vulnerable pole (persecution framing, institutional failure to protect) activating toward grandiose expression (implicit authority to demand prosecution). This oscillation is characteristic.

**Trigger**: Chronic narcissistic injury from Russia investigation, reactivated by same-day media/legal developments. The injury type is *exposure* — the investigation implied criminality on the subject's part, which is intolerable and must be reversed by criminalizing the investigators.

**Rage**: Present at moderate intensity (0.65). Expressed through dismissive contempt ("Pathetic!") rather than explicit threat. Disproportionate to any specific triggering event identifiable in this post.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Projection** (immature): "Con men" attributes criminal deception to adversaries — mirroring accusations of corruption and dishonesty directed at the subject.
2. **Splitting** (immature): Binary world of prosecutable criminals vs. righteous authority; no intermediate moral positions.
3. **Acting out** (immature): Midnight demand for criminal prosecution, impulsive and unanchored to specific legal development.

### Malignant Narcissism Profile
- Narcissistic features: 0.75 — grandiosity, entitlement (to demand prosecution), devaluation
- Antisocial features: 0.55 — contempt for legal process norms, delegitimizing rule of law to punish opponents
- Paranoid features: 0.65 — persecution by unpunished "con men," institutional betrayal
- Ego-syntonic sadism: 0.35 — "Pathetic!" as pleasurable contempt display

## Rhetorical Analysis
The post achieves significant persuasion work in eleven words:
- **"Con men"**: Dehumanizing reduction eliminating legal/political nuance; recruits audience to criminal frame
- **"Can't believe"**: Pseudo-incredulity presupposing shared outrage; collapses audience into subject's emotional state
- **"not yet"**: Temporal grievance marker — implies inevitable prosecution while indicting slow institutions
- **"Pathetic!"**: Sentence-final devaluation — performs emotional dominance, terminates engagement

**Propaganda techniques**: DARVO pattern (subject as victim of unpunished criminals), Firehose normalization (one of multiple same-day posts building prosecution narrative).

## Archetypes
**Primary**: Warrior + Victim hybrid — fighting against injustice while being victimized by the system's failure to act. **Shadow projection**: criminality and deception attributed entirely to "them."

## Order/Chaos Dynamics
**Order attacker**: The post attacks the existing legal/institutional order as corrupt and captured — it protects criminals rather than prosecuting them. The subject positions himself as the legitimate authority being thwarted by illegitimate institutional actors.

## Danger Assessment
**Elevated**. The post participates in a sustained pattern of delegitimizing legal institutions and demanding prosecution of named/unnamed political opponents. While this specific post lacks explicit stochastic terrorism markers, the sustained pattern of identifying "criminals" who deserve prosecution — directed at a large, engaged, and volatile audience — warrants monitoring as a cumulative risk factor rather than an isolated post.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Political opponents ('con men') have committed crimes and should be prosecuted" | **Unverifiable** | Post does not specify targets; linked content not fetched. Russia investigation produced documented findings; no investigations concluded prosecutable crimes by the named investigators. |
| "Implicit: Russia investigation figures engaged in criminal conduct" | **Mostly False** | The Mueller investigation was a lawfully authorized federal investigation. Inspector General Horowitz found no evidence of political bias in investigation initiation. Durham investigation ultimately produced minimal prosecutorial results. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Post timestamp converts to approximately 12:48 AM EDT at the White House — deep late-night, consistent with authentic Trump posting pattern
- Truncated, reactive construction ('Can't believe') with no grammatical setup or context
- ALL CAPS emphasis on 'PROSECUTED' — characteristic emotional amplification technique
- Single exclamation mark followed by 'Pathetic!' — trademark dismissal phrase used repeatedly in authenticated posts
- Absence of event-announcement structure or polished framing that would indicate Scavino authorship

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Perceived political opponents from Russia investigation / Obamagate narrative)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Unnamed political opponents ('con men') linked to Russia/Mueller investigation
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.82

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Midnight posting during dexamethasone treatment window (discharged Oct 5, post Oct 7)
- Rapid-fire same-day posting cluster on persecution themes
- Elevated indignation and demand-making at abnormal hours

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 35%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 18%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Outrage invitation ('Can't believe') — pulling audience into shared indignation
- Vague referent ('these con men') recruits audience to fill in the target, increasing personal investment
- Rhetorical helplessness ('Pathetic!') positions subject as frustrated righteous actor

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained institutional delegitimization pattern — framing legal/political opponents as unpunished criminals
- Midnight prosecution demand directed at large, emotionally primed audience
- Part of same-day cluster building adversary-criminalization narrative pre-election
- Dehumanizing label ('con men') applied to unnamed political targets

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Political opponents ('con men') have committed crimes and should be prosecuted

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Post does not specify targets; linked content not fetched. Russia investigation produced documented findings; no investigations concluded prosecutable crimes by the named investigators.

Sources: Mueller Report (2019); DOJ Inspector General Report (2019)

> Implicit: Russia investigation figures engaged in criminal conduct

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Mueller investigation was a lawfully authorized federal investigation. Inspector General Horowitz found no evidence of political bias in investigation initiation. Durham investigation ultimately produced minimal prosecutorial results.

Sources: Mueller Report Vol. I & II; DOJ IG Report December 2019; Durham Report 2023

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- prosecution_demand (90%)
- russia_investigation (85%)
- midnight_post (80%)
- dexamethasone_effect (65%)
- dehumanization (70%)
- narcissistic_injury (80%)
- splitting (75%)
- projection (75%)

## That day

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

**48 Posts From Convalescence: Treason Accusations, Midnight Reversals, and Escalating Paranoia**

Two days after leaving the hospital for COVID-19, Trump fired off 48 posts in a combative marathon that stretched well past 2 AM. The day was dominated by an obsessive return to the Russia investigation, with demands for arrests escalating into accusations that Biden, Obama, and Clinton led a "treasonous plot." He also reversed his own decision to halt stimulus talks, then blamed Pelosi for the very delay he had created hours earlier. The overall mood was aggressive and grandiose throughout, with occasional flashes of frustration when investigations moved too slowly for his liking.

Full digest for 2020-10-07: https://trump.fm/date/2020-10-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, October 7). Can’t believe these con men are not yet being... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1313642403044167700
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Can’t believe these con men are not yet being PROSECUTED...." X (Twitter), 7 Oct. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1313642403044167700. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Can’t believe these con men are not yet being PROSECUTED....," X (Twitter), October 7, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1313642403044167700.

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