# Post x_372002575463096320

- Post ID: `x_372002575463096320`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-08-26T14:28:20.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Amazing! AG Schneiderman sues a school w/ a 98% approval rating but doesn’t go after billion $ fraudsters all over Wall St.

## Engagement

- Likes: 35
- Reposts: 82
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.283Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-25T21:05:56.364Z (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 is one of five published in a single day targeting AG Schneiderman, triggered by his $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University filed 48 hours prior. The "school" is never named — a strategic depersonalization preserving deniability and framing the subject as objective observer rather than defendant. The "98% approval rating," derived from in-session surveys before students could evaluate real outcomes, is weaponized to supplant the fraud narrative with a counter-narrative of excellence; it is contradicted by a 32% refund rate and a BBB D-minus rating contemporaneous with this post. The whataboutism Wall Street redirect simultaneously deflects from Trump's legal exposure and activates post-2008 populist grievance, repositioning a billionaire defendant as an ally of ordinary Americans — while Schneiderman was actively litigating against Bank of America and Wells Fargo for RMBS fraud as of May 2013. Psychologically, this is a prototypical narcissistic injury response: a public legal challenge to a Trump-branded entity activates immediate counterattack on the attacker's competence and motives with no engagement with the underlying merits. Defense mechanisms include projection (displacing "fraudster" label onto Wall Street while accused of fraud), rationalization (approval rating as lawsuit rebuttal), and displacement (redirecting aggression to AG's institutional failures). The five-tweet cluster on one target in one day indicates acute perseveration on the injury. The integrated media-amplification loop (Fox and Friends + Twitter cluster) documents a fully developed injury-response strategy that will recur across all subsequent legal challenges.

## Contextual Foundation

This post is the fourth identifiable in a cluster of at least five tweets published on August 26, 2013, all targeting New York AG Eric Schneiderman. The trigger is unambiguous: Schneiderman filed a **$40 million civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University on August 24, 2013** — just 48 hours before this post. A companion tweet that same day confirms Trump had just completed a "show circuit this AM discussing lightweight AG Eric Schneiderman," establishing a high-activation, media-amplified retaliatory state.

The "school" is Trump University (later renamed Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC). Trump never names it — a strategic depersonalization that serves dual functions: preserving plausible deniability and framing himself as an objective observer of injustice rather than the named defendant.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

Most salient in this post:

- **Low Agreeableness**: Combative attack on a public official; zero acknowledgment of the lawsuit's merits or the AG's legal standing
- **High Extraversion / Assertiveness**: Publicly broadcasting counterattack mid-media-blitz; assertive, expansive register
- **Elevated Neuroticism (Angry Hostility)**: Five same-day posts targeting a single individual signal acute dysregulated affect
- **Low Conscientiousness (Deliberation)**: Reactive cluster posting; no apparent strategic restraint or factual verification
- **Low Openness (Values Rigidity)**: Admits no complexity in Schneiderman's position; black-and-white framing throughout — the AG is simply *wrong*, the school is simply *excellent*

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power and Status Restoration.** The lawsuit directly attacks a Trump-branded entity. The response is not engagement with the legal merits but immediate repositioning of the aggressor as the true incompetent, restoring the subject's superiority schema.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self*: Creator of highly-approved, excellent institutions; unfairly persecuted by politically motivated actors
- *Schneiderman*: Incompetent/corrupt; using prosecutorial power for selective targeting rather than genuine justice
- *World*: Genuine criminals (Wall Street "fraudsters") operate with impunity while successful builders are prosecuted
- *Legal process*: An instrument of political power, not justice — legitimacy derived from who wields it, not the law itself

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Aggrieved defender of institutional excellence; observer of selective injustice
- **Contamination sequence**: An institution with overwhelming public approval → targeted by a corrupt, misdirected AG → grievance narrative for public consumption
- **Identity claims**: "I build things that work" (98% approval); "I see injustice others ignore" (Wall St.); "I am a fighter, not a fraud"
- **Contrasting other**: Schneiderman as politically motivated, negligent prosecutor who ignores powerful financial interests while targeting successful entrepreneurs
- **Redemption arc seeding**: The multi-tweet/multi-media campaign frames this legal battle as a story Trump intends to win in the court of public opinion, regardless of judicial outcome

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Injury Response

Schneiderman's lawsuit is a textbook narcissistic injury trigger: a formal, public challenge by an authority figure to the legitimacy and value of a Trump-branded creation. The response follows the characteristic pattern — no engagement with the substance, but immediate assault on the attacker's credibility, competence, and motives. The "Amazing!" opener is **performative indignation**: it signals absurdity to followers before a single fact is presented, pre-framing all that follows as self-evidently unjust.

### DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)

The post executes a compact DARVO structure:
- **Deny**: Implicitly denies wrongdoing by leading with the institution's alleged 98% approval rating
- **Attack**: Challenges Schneiderman's judgment, priorities, and institutional integrity
- **Reverse**: Trump (the named defendant) becomes an objective bystander noting injustice; Schneiderman (the AG) becomes the party enabling "billion $ fraudsters"

### Projection

The term "fraudsters" — precisely the label applied to Trump University in the AG's complaint — is displaced onto Wall Street actors. The subject does not engage with the fraud allegations against himself; he locates fraud elsewhere, on a target that is both legally safer and politically more resonant. This is a textbook immature defense: disowning an unacceptable designation by attributing it to another party.

### Paranoid Features

The framing of Schneiderman as selectively persecuting an excellent institution while ignoring genuine criminals is consistent with a paranoid schema: the conviction that one is being specifically singled out for persecution while real wrongdoers operate with impunity. The absence of any consideration of legitimate prosecutorial grounds underscores the persecutory framing.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Local time (EDT, UTC-4, August, New York): 10:28 AM** — business hours, which in isolation would favor aide authorship. Multiple factors, however, support **authentic Trump** at medium-high confidence (~72%):

1. Trump explicitly states in a companion tweet that he "enjoyed doing the show circuit this AM" about Schneiderman — emotionally activated and publicly engaged on this exact topic
2. A same-day companion tweet contains a clear Trump typo: "Schneidean" for "Schneiderman" — confirming personal Twitter access that morning
3. The exclamatory "Amazing!" opener is a characteristic authentic Trump stylistic marker appearing across verified personal tweets
4. "w/" abbreviation and dollar sign mid-sentence match his authentic tweet register
5. The Wall Street populism, while calculated, reflects a persistent Trump rhetorical reflex appearing across hundreds of authenticated posts

The relatively controlled grammatical structure (vs. stream-of-consciousness) introduces marginal uncertainty — this may be authentic Trump with light aide polish. Assessment: **medium confidence, authentic** (score 0.72 on 0=aide → 1=Trump axis).

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys three primary moves:

1. **Performative indignation** ("Amazing!"): Frame-setter that recruits followers into shared outrage before a single fact is presented; signals absurdity rather than substantiating it
2. **Statistical appeal** ("98% approval rating"): Weaponizes a survey-derived, methodologically contested metric to supplant the fraud narrative with a counter-narrative of excellence
3. **Whataboutism** (Wall Street redirect): Shifts the burden entirely from Trump's conduct to the AG's prosecution priorities while activating genuine post-2008 populist grievance

The **Wall Street invocation is a rhetorical sleight of hand**: it repositions a billionaire defendant as ally of Main Street Americans against financial elites — a parasocial technique that trades on genuine public grievance while serving the subject's personal legal defense. The institutional depersonalization ("a school") obscures that the subject is a directly interested party, not a concerned citizen.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "AG Schneiderman sues a school with a 98% approval rating" | **Half True** | Schneiderman did file a $40M civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University on August 24, 2013 — the 'school' component is factually accurate. However, the '98% approval rating' derives from in-session surveys administered while students still anticipated future program benefits, before any outcome evaluation was possible. Approximately 32% of three-day program attendees demanded refunds — arithmetically irreconcilable with 98% satisfaction. The BBB had rated Trump University D-minus based on complaint volume contemporaneous with this post. The statistic technically existed but its derivation makes it a profoundly misleading quality indicator. |
| "Schneiderman doesn't go after billion dollar fraudsters all over Wall Street" | **Mostly False** | Schneiderman co-chaired the federal-state Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group and in May 2013 — three months before this post — announced lawsuits against Bank of America and Wells Fargo for RMBS fraud. He had previously subpoenaed 11 major financial institutions. The claim that he was ignoring Wall Street financial fraud is directly contradicted by his documented contemporaneous actions, though critics noted the task force's overall effectiveness was limited. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Sources Consulted

- [AG Schneiderman Sues Trump University — Official Press Release (Aug 24, 2013)](https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding)
- [Trump University's 98% Approval: Shaky Math — TIME](https://time.com/4246394/donald-trump-university-98-percent-approval-lawsuit/)
- [Fact-checking Trump's Trump University claims — PolitiFact](https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claims-about-trump-uni/)
- [BBB D-minus Rating — The Fiscal Times](https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/08/Better-Business-Bureau-Trump-University-Had-D-Rating)
- [Schneiderman's Six Biggest Financial Industry Cases — Wealth Management](https://www.wealthmanagement.com/investment-news/eric-schneiderman-s-six-biggest-cases-against-the-financial-services-industry)

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Exclamatory 'Amazing!' opener consistent with authenticated personal Trump tweets
- Abbreviation style ('w/') and inline dollar sign match authentic tweet register
- Companion same-day tweet contains Trump typo 'Schneidean' confirming personal Twitter access that morning
- Subject explicitly states in companion tweet that he 'enjoyed doing the show circuit this AM' about Schneiderman — emotionally activated and engaged
- Business hours timing (10:28 AM EDT) introduces mild uncertainty suggesting possible aide polish

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (AG Schneiderman's $40M civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, filed August 24, 2013 — 48 hours before this post)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting AG Eric Schneiderman
- Proportionality: 28%

Sentiment: -0.58

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Five tweets targeting same individual published within a single day
- Exclamatory opener ('Amazing!') and sustained assertive-expansive register across the tweet cluster
- High-energy integrated media circuit (Fox and Friends appearance + multi-platform Twitter campaign) on same morning
- Combative tone maintained despite significant legal jeopardy — minimal inhibition from pending litigation

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- displacement (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Populist Wall Street invocation aligns billionaire defendant with post-2008 populist grievance, building shared enemy with audience
- Performative indignation ('Amazing!') recruits followers into shared outrage before any evidence is presented
- DARVO structure positions followers as witnesses to selective institutional injustice

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Reframes an active $40M fraud lawsuit as persecution of an excellent institution, without engaging a single substantive allegation in the complaint
- Cites disputed 98% approval statistic as definitive institutional quality indicator while suppressing contrary evidence (32% refund rate, BBB D-minus rating)
- Characterizes AG's targeting as misdirected without acknowledging the specific legal basis for the lawsuit
- Inverts victim-offender framing: defendant becomes concerned observer; AG becomes enabler of real wrongdoing

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-25._

> AG Schneiderman sues a school with a 98% approval rating

**HALF TRUE**

Schneiderman did file a $40M civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University on August 24, 2013 — the 'school' component is factually accurate. However, the '98% approval rating' derives from in-session surveys administered while students still anticipated future program benefits, before any outcome evaluation was possible. Approximately 32% of three-day program attendees demanded refunds — arithmetically irreconcilable with 98% satisfaction. The BBB had rated Trump University D-minus based on complaint volume contemporaneous with this post. The statistic technically existed but its derivation makes it a profoundly misleading quality indicator.

Sources: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding; https://time.com/4246394/donald-trump-university-98-percent-approval-lawsuit/; https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claims-about-trump-uni/; https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/08/Better-Business-Bureau-Trump-University-Had-D-Rating

> Schneiderman doesn't go after billion dollar fraudsters all over Wall Street

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Schneiderman co-chaired the federal-state Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group and in May 2013 — three months before this post — announced lawsuits against Bank of America and Wells Fargo for RMBS fraud. He had previously subpoenaed 11 major financial institutions. The claim that he was ignoring Wall Street financial fraud is directly contradicted by his documented contemporaneous actions, though critics noted the task force's overall effectiveness was limited.

Sources: https://www.wealthmanagement.com/investment-news/eric-schneiderman-s-six-biggest-cases-against-the-financial-services-industry; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mortgage-fraud-task-force-eric-schneiderman_n_1302919

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic_injury (93%)
- DARVO (91%)
- Trump_University (96%)
- projection (86%)
- whataboutism (89%)
- Schneiderman (93%)
- litigation_response (91%)
- Wall_Street_populism (73%)
- statistical_manipulation (81%)
- paranoid_framing (68%)

## 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). Amazing! AG Schneiderman sues a school w/ a 98%... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_372002575463096320
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Amazing! AG Schneiderman sues a school w/ a 98% approval..." X (Twitter), 26 Aug. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_372002575463096320. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Amazing! AG Schneiderman sues a school w/ a 98% approval...," X (Twitter), August 26, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_372002575463096320.

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