# Post x_371724750084915200 - Post ID: `x_371724750084915200` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-08-26T00:04:21.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_371724750084915200 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_371724750084915200/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_371724750084915200.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > What did our very stupid &, ineffective A.G. Eric Schneidean, during his trips to MY office, tell me about President Obama &, Governor Cuomo? ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 1,557 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.900Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T21:04:10.478Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Analyzed against the August 24, 2013 Trump University lawsuit filing, this post represents the escalatory apex of Trump's multi-day counter-offensive against NY AG Schneiderman. The rhetorical structure deploys implied threat as interrogative: asking publicly what Schneiderman confided about Obama and Cuomo during office visits signals possession of damaging information without falsifiable commitment, simultaneously intimidating the legal adversary, undermining his credibility as disloyal to Democratic allies, and attempting intra-party wedge creation. Psychological indicators are consistent with narcissistic injury via exposure — a lawsuit threatening his flagship business as fraudulent triggers oscillation between vulnerable victimization (surrounding posts) and grandiose counter-attack (this post). The paranoid conspiracy schema connecting Obama's Syracuse meeting to the lawsuit is debunked: the Saturday filing timing was requested by Trump's own lawyers due to a statute of limitations tolling agreement. Defense mechanisms include acting-out (broadcasting private conversations during active litigation), projection, splitting, and paranoid rationalization. Authorship is assessed as authentic Trump: 8:04 PM EDT timing in New York during active crisis, characteristic name misspelling, dual HTML encoding artifacts, and legally inflammatory content inconsistent with aide composition. Danger level is elevated: the implied-leverage pattern against an active law enforcement official constitutes attempted intimidation and establishes a documented retaliatory template against those pursuing legal action. ## Overview This post marks the escalatory apex of Trump's multi-day Twitter counter-offensive following the August 24, 2013 filing of New York AG Eric Schneiderman's $40 million civil fraud suit against Trump University. Posted at **8:04 PM EDT** on August 25 (00:04 UTC August 26), Trump was almost certainly in New York City during this active litigation crisis. The post deploys a rhetorically sophisticated implied-threat structure beneath the formal cover of an innocent question. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 00:04 → EDT (UTC−4) = 20:04 on August 25. Evening hours — not definitively late-night, but consistent with Trump's reactive evening posting window during active crises. Trump was almost certainly in New York given the ongoing Trump University litigation and the explicit reference to "MY office." **Authentication confidence: HIGH.** Multiple authentic-Trump indicators converge: - **"Schneidean"** for "Schneiderman" — drops the "-rman" suffix entirely, characteristic imprecision with proper names under emotional arousal - **"&,"** appears twice as a raw HTML entity — suggests mobile composition or rushed execution in an interface with HTML encoding behavior; a polished aide would not produce this artifact - **"MY office"** — possessive capitalization, territorial assertion consistent with authentic Trump's stylistic fingerprint - Emotionally inflammatory content during active litigation — structurally inconsistent with aide-authored communications, which trend toward event announcements and polished messaging - Reactive, legally risky rhetorical question broadcasted during an active lawsuit — no aide would sanction this without direct principal direction --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger **Narcissistic injury via exposure.** The Trump University lawsuit directly threatened to expose his flagship education business as fraudulent. The injury is compounded through paranoid aggregation: Trump's prior post in this sequence connects Schneiderman's Obama meeting to the Saturday lawsuit filing and closes with "Same as IRS etc." — aggregating multiple perceived attacks into a unified persecution schema, the functional signature of a crystallizing paranoid narrative. ### Narcissistic State: Mixed (Grandiose ↔ Vulnerable) The surrounding posts display wounded victimization ("This is a politically motivated lawsuit") but this specific post pivots sharply into the grandiose register — asserting territorial ownership ("MY office"), positioning Trump as an insider holding damaging knowledge of his adversary's disloyalties, deploying interrogative dominance. The oscillation between vulnerable and grandiose states within a single 24-hour window is consistent with narcissistic rage dynamics. ### Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Wronged Insider with Sovereign Knowledge. Trump frames himself as powerful enough that a sitting AG made repeated trips to his office, confided about his own political allies — and now faces potential weaponization of those confidences. This construct is simultaneously self-aggrandizing (powerful enough to receive official confessions) and contamination-sequencing (cordial relationship → political betrayal → counter-threat). **Identity claim:** "I am someone powerful people confide in, and they cannot safely betray me." **Contamination sequence:** Good professional relationship with AG → revealed as politically coordinated attack → Trump holds the receipts. **Contrasting other:** Schneiderman recast as a two-faced political operative who spoke out of both sides of his mouth — visiting Trump's office, confiding negative information about Obama and Cuomo, then serving as their legal instrument. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Acting out (primary/immature):** Broadcasting the existence of private conversations with a sitting law enforcement official to a public audience during active litigation is direct impulse expression. No calculation of legal risk, no restraint. **Projection:** "Very stupid & ineffective" is applied to the adversary pursuing legitimate legal action. During litigation that threatens to expose his own business practices, attributing stupidity and ineffectiveness to the opponent likely displaces anxiety about his own vulnerability. **Splitting:** Schneiderman transitions from someone who visited "MY office" (implicitly in sufficient standing to be received) to a corrupt political operative — all-bad object transformation within a single news cycle, with no capacity for intermediate complexity. **Paranoid rationalization:** The Obama-Syracuse-lawsuit causal chain is presented as self-evident political coordination. Research debunks this directly: Schneiderman confirmed the meeting but stated they had "much more important things to talk about than Donald Trump," and the Saturday filing timing was requested by **Trump's own lawyers** due to a statute of limitations tolling agreement — meaning Trump's conspiracy evidence was manufactured by his own legal team's scheduling. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post's central move is the **weaponized rhetorical question** — an implied-threat statement framed as innocent inquiry. By asking publicly what Schneiderman confided about Obama and Cuomo during office visits, Trump simultaneously: 1. **Signals possession of damaging information** without committing to a falsifiable claim 2. **Undermines Schneiderman's credibility** by framing him as disloyal to his own political network — the AG who sues Trump was apparently gossiping about Obama and Cuomo to Trump 3. **Creates deterrence** — Schneiderman knows Trump holds whatever he said; the broadcast functions as a warning shot 4. **Attempts intra-Democratic wedge creation** — both Obama *and* Cuomo are implicated, potentially exploiting any existing Schneiderman-Cuomo tensions 5. **Maintains plausible deniability** — a question cannot be defamatory The ad hominem opener ("very stupid & ineffective") functions as credibility preemption before the implied-threat payload: undermine the adversary's standing, then signal leverage. The possessive "MY office" reinforces the power-inversion framing: the AG is positioned as a visitor in Trump's domain, not an authority over it. This is the most rhetorically sophisticated post in this sequence — more calculated than the surrounding reactive name-calling — suggesting a brief moment of strategic deliberation before returning to impulsive posting. --- ## Cognitive Markers "Schneidean" (from "Schneiderman") — the "-rman" suffix is dropped entirely. This is assessed as a standard mobile-typing error in 2013 context rather than a phonemic paraphasia, given the absence of corroborating indicators. The "&," HTML entity artifact appearing twice suggests rushed composition on a device with HTML encoding behavior. Syntax is coherent; the rhetorical strategy, while impulsive, is internally consistent. No meaningful deviation from 2013 baseline detected. --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated.** This post constitutes attempted public intimidation of a sitting law enforcement official during active legal proceedings. The implied-information threat — "I know what you told me; do you want me to say it?" — serves as deterrence against continued legal action. The pattern (identify legal adversary + articulate grievance + signal leverage) is a concerning template even absent explicit incitement. This does not rise to stochastic terrorism (no third-party incitement), but the intimidation-of-officials-through-social-media pattern is documented and warrants longitudinal tracking given subsequent known behavior. --- ## Sources Consulted - [NY AG Press Release — Schneiderman Sues Trump University](https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding) - [HuffPost — Trump Claims Obama Bribed AG to Sue Trump University](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-trump-university_us_57b2340ae4b0a8e15024e470) - [Trump University — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University) - [ABC News — Trump and Schneiderman's Turbulent History](https://abcnews.go.com/US/calling-lawsuits-trump-schneidermans-turbulent-history/story?id=55012785) - [Village Voice — Trump Losing It on Twitter After AG Lawsuit](https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/08/26/heres-donald-trump-losing-it-on-twitter-after-the-new-york-attorney-general-sued-his-ridiculous-faux-university/) ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "AG Schneiderman met with President Obama in Syracuse on Thursday then filed suit on Saturday — implied as coordinated political attack" | **Mostly False** | Schneiderman confirmed the Syracuse meeting but stated they 'had much more important things to talk about than Donald Trump.' Critically, the Saturday filing timing was explicitly requested by Trump's own lawyers due to a tolling agreement on the statute of limitations — making Trump's own legal team directly responsible for the timing he deployed as conspiracy evidence. | | "The Trump University lawsuit is politically motivated (implicit)" | **Mostly False** | NY AG investigation began in 2011 following NY Department of Education complaints — three years before any documented Obama-Schneiderman interaction on this matter. The suit alleged $40M in consumer fraud. Trump ultimately settled for $25M in November 2016 after election. | | "Schneiderman made multiple trips to Trump's office and confided negative information about Obama and Cuomo" | **Unverifiable** | No public record confirms or denies Schneiderman's visits to Trump offices. The implied substance — negative statements about Obama and Cuomo — is an unfalsifiable insinuation with zero corroborating public sources. Functions as an implied threat rather than a verifiable factual claim. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - 'Schneidean' for 'Schneiderman' — drops '-rman' suffix entirely, characteristic name imprecision under emotional arousal - '&,' appears twice as raw HTML entity — mobile composition artifact; a polished aide-authored post would not contain this encoding error - 'MY office' in possessive caps — territorial assertion consistent with authentic Trump's documented stylistic fingerprint - Posted at 8:04 PM EDT — evening window during active litigation crisis, consistent with reactive authentic-Trump posting pattern - Emotionally inflammatory content broadcasting implied threat during active lawsuit — structurally inconsistent with aide-authored communications ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Trump University civil fraud lawsuit filed by NY AG Schneiderman, August 24, 2013) **Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Eric Schneiderman / New York AG - Proportionality: 18% Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 58% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 42% **Defense Mechanisms:** - acting out (immature) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inviting audience into implied-knowledge drama ('What did he tell me?') — creates suspense and in-group participation in the implied revelation - Framing lawsuit as coordinated political conspiracy — positions followers as co-victims of a corrupt system targeting their champion - Possessive 'MY office' reinforces identity as powerful insider to follower base ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Implied possession and threatened release of private AG conversations during active litigation against Trump - Public broadcasting of leverage signal against sitting law enforcement official pursuing legal action - Pattern of retaliatory escalation against legal adversaries — three consecutive days of escalating counter-attack establishing deterrence template - Attempted intra-Democratic destabilization by simultaneously implicating Obama and Cuomo in AG's implied disloyalties ### Gaslighting - Implies Schneiderman was secretly disloyal to Obama and Cuomo during prior friendly visits — reframes legitimate legal adversary as two-faced operator to undermine his institutional credibility - Framing of politically motivated lawsuit conspiracy obscures documented facts: the Saturday filing timing was requested by Trump's own lawyers per tolling agreement, directly contradicting the conspiracy narrative Trump was simultaneously broadcasting ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._ > AG Schneiderman met with President Obama in Syracuse on Thursday then filed suit on Saturday — implied as coordinated political attack **MOSTLY FALSE** Schneiderman confirmed the Syracuse meeting but stated they 'had much more important things to talk about than Donald Trump.' Critically, the Saturday filing timing was explicitly requested by Trump's own lawyers due to a tolling agreement on the statute of limitations — making Trump's own legal team directly responsible for the timing he deployed as conspiracy evidence. Sources: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-trump-university_us_57b2340ae4b0a8e15024e470; https://abcnews.go.com/US/calling-lawsuits-trump-schneidermans-turbulent-history/story?id=55012785 > The Trump University lawsuit is politically motivated (implicit) **MOSTLY FALSE** NY AG investigation began in 2011 following NY Department of Education complaints — three years before any documented Obama-Schneiderman interaction on this matter. The suit alleged $40M in consumer fraud. Trump ultimately settled for $25M in November 2016 after election. Sources: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University > Schneiderman made multiple trips to Trump's office and confided negative information about Obama and Cuomo **UNVERIFIABLE** No public record confirms or denies Schneiderman's visits to Trump offices. The implied substance — negative statements about Obama and Cuomo — is an unfalsifiable insinuation with zero corroborating public sources. Functions as an implied threat rather than a verifiable factual claim. Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - trump-university-lawsuit (92%) - narcissistic-counter-attack (88%) - implied-threat-as-question (86%) - schneiderman-ag (87%) - paranoid-conspiracy-schema (74%) - official-intimidation (79%) - intraparty-wedge-construction (65%) - authentic-trump (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trump Mounts 19-Post Siege Against AG Schneiderman, Deploying Full DARVO Arsenal Two Days After Fraud Lawsuit** Trump spent nearly the entire day attacking New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had filed a $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University two days earlier. He kicked off with a morning media blitz on Fox & Friends and the Today Show, then hammered the same message across a dozen-plus posts: the AG is a "lightweight hack," the lawsuit is "frivolous," and the whole thing was orchestrated by President Obama. Several factual claims were wrong -- he said no one was going after Jon Corzine (federal regulators already had), touted a misleading 98% approval rating for Trump University, and insisted Schneiderman ignored Wall Street fraud (the AG was actively suing major banks). The mood was aggressive but controlled, more sustained siege than explosive meltdown, with Trump oscillating between combative confidence and a persecution narrative throughout. Full digest for 2013-08-26: https://trump.fm/date/2013-08-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, August 26). What did our very stupid &, ineffective A.G.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_371724750084915200 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "What did our very stupid &, ineffective A.G. Eric..." X (Twitter), 26 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_371724750084915200. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "What did our very stupid &, ineffective A.G. 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