Analysis: They’ve been trying to get rid of Lisa Murkowski forever in ...

6h ago Oct 25, 2026 at 3:34 AM

They’ve been trying to get rid of Lisa Murkowski forever in Alaska, then she came up with the Ranked Choice Voting SCAM, and pulled a nice hot iron out of the fire. Everyone thought she came in second or third, but then she “won.” Miracles happen! President DONALD J. TRUMP

0:00 0:00

AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-10-25. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Self-Written

Intensity

45%

Late on Saturday night, minutes after an earlier Murkowski post, Trump went back to her with sarcasm in place of argument. He says she "came up with the Ranked Choice Voting SCAM." He claims "Everyone thought she came in second or third." He puts "won" in scare quotes and closes with "Miracles happen!" The certified 2022 count contradicts the core claim: Murkowski led the first round, about 43.4% to Tshibaka's 42.6%, and won after redistribution with roughly 54%. Turning that first place into "second or third" is distortion, with "Everyone" standing in for evidence. The sarcasm points to fraud without stating it. The trigger is on the record: his earlier post says she "is upset because I revealed" the RCV "scam," so this answers her pushback, with his endorsed challenger's 2022 loss behind it. The mixed idiom and loose syntax fit his own writing. The post adds to a pattern of casting doubt on certified results days before the midterms. It uses no violent or mobilizing language.

Authorship Analysis

Self-Written

Indicators:

Posted 11:34 p.m. Eastern on a Saturday
Mangled idiom: 'pulled a nice hot iron out of the fire'
Comma-spliced narrative run-on
Sarcastic interjection 'Miracles happen!' and scare-quoted 'won'
Quick follow-up to his own earlier Murkowski post, grievance still running

Psychological Profile

▶ Traits

Big Five:

Extraversion

70%

Agreeableness

10%

Conscientiousness

35%

Neuroticism

60%

Openness

25%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism, low trust)

Agency

80%

Communion

15%

Primary drive: revenge

▶ Narrative

Role: Truth-teller exposing a rigged win · Arc: contamination · Contrasting: Lisa Murkowski as a schemer who rigged the rules

The one who 'revealed what everyone knows' (prior post)Spokesman for common-sense consensus ('Everyone thought')

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Murkowski's public pushback against his Ranked Choice Voting attack, with the 2022 defeat of his endorsed challenger as background)

Rage: Intensity 35% targeting Lisa Murkowski

Proportionality

35%

Sentiment

-0.60

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

55%

Antisocial

30%

Paranoid

50%

Sadism

25%

Defense Mechanisms:

distortionsplittingdevaluationprojection

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

40%

Cognitive Markers:

semantic paraphasia

Parasocial Techniques:

Appeal to shared common knowledge ('Everyone thought')Insider sarcasm inviting followers in on the joke ('Miracles happen!')

Danger Assessment

None

Indicators:

Delegitimization of a certified election result ten days before the midterms, without violent or mobilizing language

Gaslighting Detected:

'Everyone thought she came in second or third' replaces the certified tally with a false collective memory
Scare-quoted 'won' invites followers to reject a documented result

Reality Distortions:

Recasts Murkowski's first-place first-round finish as 'second or third'
Attributes authorship of Alaska's RCV system to Murkowski
Implies a certified election result was fraudulent ('Miracles happen!')

Fact Checks (4)

"They've been trying to get rid of Lisa Murkowski forever in Alaska"

Mostly True

Murkowski lost the 2010 Republican primary to Joe Miller and kept her seat with a write-in campaign. Trump and the state party backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in 2022, and the Alaska GOP censured Murkowski in 2021. 'Forever' is exaggeration, but repeated attempts to unseat her are documented.

"She came up with the Ranked Choice Voting system"

Mostly False

Alaska's top-four primary and ranked-choice general election came from Ballot Measure 2 (2020), a citizen initiative run by Alaskans for Better Elections. Its lead backers included attorney Scott Kendall, who had worked on Murkowski's 2010 write-in campaign, and Murkowski has said she voted for the measure. People in her circle were involved, but she did not author or sponsor it.

"Everyone thought she came in second or third, but then she won"

False

In the 2022 general election Murkowski led the first-round count with about 43.4% to Tshibaka's 42.6%. She won after ranked-choice redistribution with about 53.7%. She was never in third place, and she was ahead before redistribution.

"Ranked Choice Voting is a SCAM (implied fraudulent result)"

False

No court, audit or election official has found fraud in Alaska's 2022 ranked-choice tabulation. The results were certified. RCV is a contested policy choice, and calling it a fraud mechanism has no evidentiary basis.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

A second strike at Murkowski, this time as sarcasm

This is the second Murkowski post of the same late evening. The earlier one called her "The Republicans' Worst Senator, by far" and said she "is upset because I revealed what everyone knows" about Ranked Choice Voting. So the trigger is on the record: Murkowski answered his attack on RCV, and this post replies to her reply. The first post argued and listed his Alaska accomplishments. This one is short and sneering. It retells her 2022 re-election as a con: she "came up with the Ranked Choice Voting SCAM," "pulled a nice hot iron out of the fire," and then "won," followed by "Miracles happen!"

The scare quotes around "won" and the mock-pious "Miracles happen!" do the work. He never says the count was rigged. He implies it and lets readers fill in the rest. A rejected result becomes a punchline, and sarcasm gives him room to deny he made an accusation.

What the timing and the slips show

At 03:34 UTC it was 11:34 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, October 24 (daylight time held until November 1). His exact location isn't established, but he was campaigning in the eastern half of the country that week, and any continental US location puts this late at night. The text fits him writing it himself. It has a mangled idiom: "pulled a nice hot iron out of the fire" blends "pulling chestnuts out of the fire" with the "iron(s) in the fire" family. It uses comma-spliced narrative ("forever in Alaska, then she came up with"). It has a stray capitalized "SCAM." It is a follow-up to his own post minutes earlier, so the grievance was still running. The appended "President DONALD J. TRUMP" signature is routine in his 2025–26 posts and doesn't point either way.

The idiom blend is the only language anomaly. Blended idioms appear in his speech going back decades, and one instance doesn't count as a semantic paraphasia. The repeat on Murkowski is a deliberate second round in an exchange he started, so it doesn't meet the bar for perseveration. The prose holds its line from start to finish.

Grievance structure and defenses

The narrative is a contamination sequence told about someone else. The rightful outcome, "trying to get rid of Lisa Murkowski forever," was stolen by a trick she supposedly built herself. That puts Trump and "everyone" on the side of a common-sense reality, "Everyone thought she came in second or third," against an official result labeled a miracle. The certified count shows otherwise. Murkowski led the 2022 first round narrowly (about 43.4% to 42.6% over Kelly Tshibaka, whom Trump endorsed) and won after redistribution with roughly 54%. Recasting a first-place finish as "second or third" reshapes the facts to fit the loss he wants remembered. That is distortion, and it rests on the word "Everyone" doing the work of evidence.

Splitting shows up in how he files a sitting Republican senator. Her break with him puts her in the enemy column with "Dumocrats," and the post grants her nothing. Narcissistic injury from the 2022 loss looks likely. His endorsed candidate lost, and the first post's "upset because I revealed" casts her as the wounded party. That reverses the dynamic, since this is his second unprompted swing in one evening. The state is grandiose-contemptuous ("a nice hot iron," "Miracles happen!"), not persecuted.

The contempt fits Kernberg's paranoid strand: a grudge kept up since at least 2021, and suspicion of a certified count with nothing behind it. A thin streak of enjoyment in mocking her shows in the tone. It's teasing, not cruelty.

Rhetorical function ten days before the midterms

The devices are ridicule (the scare quotes), insinuation of fraud with no stated charge, the bandwagon appeal "Everyone thought," and the loaded label "SCAM." The post adds to a running campaign to discredit RCV and certified results while Alaska's system stays in place after the narrow failure of the 2024 repeal measure. It names a single, prominent official as a cheat. But it uses no dehumanizing terms and no violent imagery, and it asks for no action beyond disbelief. The risk sits in the general erosion of trust in vote counts, not in any mobilizing cue aimed at her.

As archetypes, Trump plays the Trickster exposing a rival Trickster: she gamed the rules, he's the one who sees through it. Party hierarchy is being enforced. A senator who defies him is cast out of the order he defends.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"They've been trying to get rid of Lisa Murkowski forever in Alaska"	Mostly True	Murkowski lost the 2010 Republican primary to Joe Miller and kept her seat with a write-in campaign. Trump and the state party backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in 2022, and the Alaska GOP censured Murkowski in 2021. 'Forever' is exaggeration, but repeated attempts to unseat her are documented.
"She came up with the Ranked Choice Voting system"	Mostly False	Alaska's top-four primary and ranked-choice general election came from Ballot Measure 2 (2020), a citizen initiative run by Alaskans for Better Elections. Its lead backers included attorney Scott Kendall, who had worked on Murkowski's 2010 write-in campaign, and Murkowski has said she voted for the measure. People in her circle were involved, but she did not author or sponsor it.
"Everyone thought she came in second or third, but then she won"	False	In the 2022 general election Murkowski led the first-round count with about 43.4% to Tshibaka's 42.6%. She won after ranked-choice redistribution with about 53.7%. She was never in third place, and she was ahead before redistribution.
"Ranked Choice Voting is a SCAM (implied fraudulent result)"	False	No court, audit or election official has found fraud in Alaska's 2022 ranked-choice tabulation. The results were certified. RCV is a contested policy choice, and calling it a fraud mechanism has no evidentiary basis.

Overall Veracity: 25%