# Posts from Sunday, October 16, 2016

21 posts on 2016-10-16.

## Day analysis

Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2016-10-16/analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T00:03:00.012Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

**Campaign Under Siege: A Day of Displacement, Dehumanization, and the Seeds of "Rigged"**

Trump spent October 16, 2016 in full defensive mode, firing off 21 posts amid a convergence of sexual assault allegations, a double-digit polling deficit, and mass Republican defections. Rather than engaging the crisis directly, he buried it under an avalanche of attacks on Hillary Clinton's emails, WikiLeaks revelations, and Paul Ryan's disloyalty. The day's most alarming moment came when he labeled the perpetrators of a firebombing at a North Carolina GOP office as "Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems" — before any investigation had identified suspects — then pivoted immediately to "because we are winning." The phrase "rigged election" appeared in at least four separate posts, marking one of the earliest sustained deployments of a narrative that would prove consequential for years to come.

- Posts analyzed: 21
- Dominant state: mixed
- Narrative arc: chaos
- Aggregate rage level: 0.55
- Max danger level: elevated
- Escalation detected
- Theme obsession: Election rigging and Clinton corruption as displacement from sexual assault allegations
- Claims: 41 (17 false)
- Era: 2016 Campaign

# Daily Psychological Digest: October 16, 2016

## Context and Setting

October 16, 2016 represents perhaps the single most acute crisis day of Trump's first presidential campaign. The convergence of simultaneous, compounding threats is historically exceptional: the Access Hollywood tape (released October 7), multiple named sexual assault allegations (emerging October 12–14), Michelle Obama's nationally resonant New Hampshire condemnation speech, Paul Ryan's formal announcement that he would no longer defend the nominee, over 160 GOP leaders withdrawing support, RNC fund redirection to down-ballot races, and an NBC/WSJ poll showing an 11-point Clinton lead. Trump was campaigning on the East Coast (New Hampshire and Maine), placing him in the EDT timezone (UTC-4).

## Posting Pattern and Sleep Analysis

The day's 21 posts span from 8:03 PM EDT on October 15 through 6:34 PM EDT on October 16. The final post of October 15 was at 11:11 PM EDT (x_787430717387055100), and the first post of October 16 was at 7:14 AM EDT (x_787612552654155776), yielding an approximately 8-hour gap consistent with adequate sleep. No sleep deprivation is indicated. However, the volume — 17 posts between 7:14 AM and 6:34 PM EDT on October 16 alone — is elevated, placing the day at approximately the 82nd percentile of posting frequency. While high, this does not meet the threshold for a hypomanic episode; the elevated output is better explained by acute crisis-driven reactivity than by endogenous mood elevation.

## Phase 1: Managed Maintenance (8:03–11:11 PM EDT, October 15)

The evening posts (x_787443714239164416, x_787443829146353664, x_787444478512603136, x_787430717387055100) present a deliberately curated counter-reality. Campaign-trail recaps emphasize "fantastic crowds and energy" with zero acknowledgment of the surrounding crisis. Authorship analysis strongly suggests aide composition for the earlier posts (low authorship scores of 0.25–0.45), while the 11:11 PM Bangor, Maine post (authorship 0.88) is authentically Trump — a near-verbatim duplicate of prior rally thank-yous, notable for an encoding error ("&amp,") suggesting hasty or fatigued production. The only hint of psychological strain in this phase is the retweet of Israeli support (x_787444478512603136, state: vulnerable), coded as a narcissistic injury response — an unusually selective signal-boost suggesting active scanning for international validation during domestic abandonment.

## Phase 2: Morning Eruption (7:14–9:15 AM EDT, October 16)

The day's authentic psychological arc begins at 7:14 AM with the SNL post (x_787612552654155776), the first unambiguously authentic Trump communication of the day. Five posts in two hours constitute a burst of reactive output:

**SNL Injury Response (x_787612552654155776):** The demand that a 42-year-old institution "retire" because it mocked him is clinically significant for the disproportion between stimulus and response, revealing grandiose fragility. The single-sentence telescoping from SNL criticism to "Media rigging election!" demonstrates the paranoid cognitive style in which all negative stimuli are parsed as evidence of a unified conspiracy.

**Women Voters / Denial (x_787618207444131840):** The ALL-CAPS "THAT NEVER HAPPENED" constitutes pathological denial at public scale — not denial of specific claims but blanket annihilation of documented events. The DARVO structure (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) is fully operational: he denies the allegations, attacks the media, and positions himself as the victim of rigging.

**Rigged Election Consolidation (x_787632098794467328):** The "rigged" claim escalates from media criticism to coordinated conspiracy theory. This post is historically significant as one of the earliest sustained articulations of the framework that would harden into "Stop the Steal."

**Clinton Displacement Cluster (x_787642321072513024, x_787643017234636800):** By 9:12 AM, the defensive posture transitions to offensive displacement. "Crooked & the Gang" — a possible Kool & the Gang pun revealing self-amused grandiosity atop acute vulnerability — and the Qatar/$1M/"Wild Bill" attack demonstrate the classic narcissistic injury management strategy: when direct defense is untenable, redirect the entire conversation to the opponent's alleged corruption. The defense mechanism triad is consistent: displacement, projection, and rationalization.

## Phase 3: Midday Strategic Operations (12:07–1:12 PM EDT)

Four posts in this window show a shift toward more calculated, partially aide-assisted communications. The email scandal post (x_787686322001612800, authorship 0.15) is almost certainly aide-written — clean grammar, rhetorical question format, no emotional markers. The WikiLeaks/Obama post (x_787686533209939968) is more ambiguous but notably disciplined in its conspiratorial construction: "We've all wondered" (false consensus), "Wikileaks may have found the answer" (hedged attribution), "Obama!" (theatrical single-word accusation). The materially false claim — that Obama intervened to protect Clinton from FBI prosecution — is constructed with sufficient hedging to evade direct refutation while delivering the full conspiratorial payload.

The most clinically significant post in this cluster is x_787699930718695425 (1:01 PM EDT), which escalates the "rigged" narrative from media rigging to rigging "at many polling places" — a grievance expansion consistent with narcissistic personality under siege, where each iteration of the persecution narrative must be broader than the last to maintain its explanatory power. This is the first explicit allegation of physical electoral fraud, a claim with no supporting evidence that constitutes a meaningful escalation in democratic-institutional targeting.

## Phase 4: Ryan Fixation (4:47–6:15 PM EDT)

The afternoon marks a shift in target from Clinton to Paul Ryan, with four posts in 90 minutes attacking the Speaker of the House. This represents perseverative fixation on abandonment injury, clinically distinct from the Clinton displacement cluster:

**Betrayal Frame (x_787756849453989889):** The parallel construction — "Democrats have a corrupt political machine… we have Paul Ryan, always fighting the Republican nominee" — positions Trump as besieged by both parties, erasing his own behavioral role in triggering Republican defections. "Always fighting" fabricates a chronic pattern from a recent, specific withdrawal.

**Devaluation (x_787758668565581824):** The parenthetical reference to Ryan's 2012 VP loss is a precision humiliation instrument, surfacing an old wound in a subordinate clause. The command register ("must start focusing") is a grandiosity restoration maneuver repositioning Trump as superior to the Speaker at his moment of maximum political vulnerability.

**Motivated Numeracy (x_787760670590791680):** The opener "Finally" is psychologically diagnostic — an unguarded word betraying obsessive poll-monitoring and urgent scanning for any counter-data. The claim that Clinton is "down 11 points with WOMEN VOTERS" almost certainly misrepresents a relative polling subsample shift as evidence of opponent weakness, inverting the actual dynamic of Trump's historic erosion with women.

**WikiLeaks/Ryan Compound (x_787779039079624704):** The "Wikileakes" misspelling (confirmed authentic Trump) and dual-target structure reveal the immature defense triad at full expression: projection (Clinton as "dishonest"), displacement (Ryan as betrayer), and denial-by-omission (complete silence on assault allegations across all 21 posts).

## Phase 5: Firebombing Response (6:29–6:34 PM EDT)

The day's final two posts constitute the most clinically significant sequence and warrant detailed analysis as a unit.

**Post 1 — Dehumanization and False Attribution (x_787782613633208320):** Responding to a real arson attack on the Orange County, NC Republican headquarters — with perpetrators unidentified — Trump immediately: (1) labels the perpetrators "Animals," extending the dehumanization to the entire opposition ("representing Hillary Clinton and Dems"); (2) attributes organizational responsibility without evidence; (3) pivots to narcissistic supply ("because we are winning") within the same sentence reporting political violence. The boast embedded in a violence report is psychologically diagnostic: narcissistic supply-seeking cannot be suppressed even during crisis framing.

**Post 2 — Protector-Leader Performance (x_787783828358258688):** "ALL SAFE" shifts to paternalistic reassurance. "Will never forget" is grievance-binding language — an implicit promise of future consequences without specifying action, maintaining plausible deniability while maximally stoking resentment. "Now we have to win" channels outrage into electoral mobilization.

**Stochastic Terrorism Assessment:** The two-post sequence collectively meets structural criteria: identify a threatening enemy (dehumanize as "Animals"), present followers as innocent victims of that enemy, bind the grievance into collective memory ("will never forget"), and direct the resulting anger toward action. No explicit call to violence appears, but the combination creates conditions where retaliatory impulses are legitimized. This day's peak rage intensity (0.82) and peak overall intensity (0.88) both occur in the first firebombing post.

## Contradiction Analysis

Three internal contradictions are documented:

1. **Losing vs. Winning (Moderate):** x_787618207444131840 acknowledges losing "large numbers of women voters," while x_787782613633208320 claims "because we are winning." These claims are mutually inconsistent and reflect the narcissistic need to maintain simultaneous grievance (victimhood supplies persecution narrative) and dominance (winning supplies grandiose narrative).

2. **Rigged vs. Legitimate Polls (Moderate):** x_787699930718695425 claims the election is "absolutely being rigged… at many polling places," while x_787760670590791680 celebrates an ABC/WaPo poll showing a close race (47-43) as legitimate evidence. If the election is rigged, celebrating poll numbers as meaningful is logically inconsistent — but the contradiction is invisible to the subject because each claim serves a different psychological function (persecution vs. grandiose restoration).

3. **Events Never Happened vs. Electoral Consequences (Minor):** x_787618207444131840 claims sexual assault allegations "NEVER HAPPENED" while simultaneously attributing voter loss to them — implicitly acknowledging their real-world electoral impact.

## Veracity Assessment

Of approximately 18 verifiable factual claims across the day's posts, 11 are assessed as false or materially misleading. The average veracity score is 0.31. The most consequential false claims involve: blanket denial of corroborated sexual assault allegations, unsupported claims of coordinated media-Clinton election rigging, the false assertion that Obama intervened in the FBI investigation, the unsupported claim of rigging at polling places, and the attribution of the NC firebombing to Clinton supporters without evidence. Component claims within some posts (e.g., Qatar donation amounts, Ryan's 2012 loss) are factually accurate but deployed in misleading rhetorical frames.

## Day-Level Psychological Profile

**Dominant State:** Mixed — the day oscillates between grandiose (rally maintenance, Ryan devaluation, protector-leader performance) and vulnerable (rigged election claims, persecution narrative, "Finally" anxiety leak) states with neither achieving sustained dominance. The mixed state is characteristic of narcissistic personality under compound acute stress, where the defensive apparatus cannot stabilize in either grandiose or vulnerable mode.

**Defense Mechanisms:** The day is organized almost entirely around displacement and projection. Not a single post across 21 communications directly engages the dominant news story — the sexual assault allegations. Instead, the entire output architecture is designed to construct a counter-reality in which Clinton's email scandal, media corruption, Ryan's betrayal, and physical attacks on GOP infrastructure constitute the relevant narrative. This is not strategic discipline but pathological avoidance operating at industrial scale.

**Narrative Arc:** Chaos. The day lacks coherent narrative structure, moving reactively across five distinct target domains (SNL, media, Clinton, Ryan, firebombing) without resolution or synthesis. No redemption arc emerges; the day ends on its most alarming note.

**Cognitive Markers:** Linguistic complexity remains low but stable relative to 2016 baseline. The "Wikileakes" misspelling, perseverative "Media rigging election!" tagline repetition, and telescoping logic (specific grievance → systemic conspiracy in a single sentence) are noted but do not represent deterioration from established patterns. Motivated numeracy — the selective citation of one favorable poll amid a sea of unfavorable data — is the most sophisticated cognitive distortion deployed.

## Historical Significance

This day's output is historically consequential beyond its immediate psychological content. The "rigged election" narrative — articulated in at least four posts with escalating specificity (from "media rigging" to "polling places") — constitutes a documented early instance of the epistemic infrastructure that would be continuously reinforced through 2020's "Stop the Steal" campaign. The framework installed on this date — media as enemy, allegations as fabrications, elections as riggable, opponents as criminal — represents a self-sealing reality system designed to ensure no electoral outcome can constitute genuine defeat. That this framework was deployed under conditions of acute personal crisis, driven by narcissistic injury rather than strategic calculation, makes its subsequent institutionalization all the more clinically notable.

### Narrative

The day unfolds as reactive multi-front crisis management without coherent narrative structure. An attempted positive-maintenance frame (campaign rally recaps) is immediately overwhelmed by cascading grievance responses to SNL, sexual assault allegations, polling data, Paul Ryan's defection, and a firebombing — each triggering displacement toward Clinton attacks or persecution narratives. No redemption arc emerges; the day ends on the most alarming note with dehumanizing language applied to political opponents.

### Dominant themes

- Rigged election narrative (1 post)
- Clinton corruption / WikiLeaks displacement (1 post)
- Paul Ryan betrayal (1 post)
- Campaign rally maintenance (1 post)
- NC firebombing / dehumanization (1 post)

### Contradictions that day

- [x_787618207444131840](https://trump.fm/post/x_787618207444131840): I lost large numbers of women voters based on made up events
  vs. [x_787782613633208320](https://trump.fm/post/x_787782613633208320): because we are winning
- [x_787699930718695425](https://trump.fm/post/x_787699930718695425): The election is absolutely being rigged... at many polling places
  vs. [x_787760670590791680](https://trump.fm/post/x_787760670590791680): the election is close at 47-43! (celebrating poll numbers as legitimate)
- [x_787618207444131840](https://trump.fm/post/x_787618207444131840): made up events THAT NEVER HAPPENED
  vs. [x_787760670590791680](https://trump.fm/post/x_787760670590791680): I lost large numbers of women voters (implicitly acknowledging electoral consequences of the events)

### Cognitive concerns

- Perseverative repetition of 'Media rigging election!' tagline across multiple posts verbatim
- Wikileakes misspelling suggesting impulsive posting without review
- Telescoping logic — single-sentence leaps from specific grievance to systemic conspiracy (SNL → media rigging election)
- Low linguistic complexity sustained throughout all authentic posts
- Motivated numeracy — selective poll citation to construct false narrative of electoral strength

## Posts

### [x_787783828358258688](https://trump.fm/post/x_787783828358258688)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T22:34:35.000Z (UTC)

> ALL SAFE IN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. With you all the way, will never forget. Now we have to win. Proud of you all!  @NCGOP

39,166 likes · 14,794 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787783828358258688.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787783828358258688/analysis

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### [x_787782613633208320](https://trump.fm/post/x_787782613633208320)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T22:29:46.000Z (UTC)

> Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP

45,949 likes · 23,088 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787782613633208320.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787782613633208320/analysis

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### [x_787779039079624704](https://trump.fm/post/x_787779039079624704)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T22:15:33.000Z (UTC)

> Wow, interview released by Wikileakes shows "quid pro quo" in Crooked Hillary e-mail probe.Such a dishonest person - &amp; Paul Ryan does zilch!

33,161 likes · 14,601 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787779039079624704.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787779039079624704/analysis

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### [x_787760670590791680](https://trump.fm/post/x_787760670590791680)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T21:02:34.000Z (UTC)

> Finally, in the new ABC News/Washington Post Poll, Hillary Clinton is down 11 points with WOMEN VOTERS and the election is close at 47-43!

38,626 likes · 14,700 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787760670590791680.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787760670590791680/analysis

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### [x_787758668565581824](https://trump.fm/post/x_787758668565581824)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T20:54:37.000Z (UTC)

> Paul Ryan, a man who doesn't know how to win (including failed run four years ago), must start focusing on the budget, military, vets etc.

30,738 likes · 11,062 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787758668565581824.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787758668565581824/analysis

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### [x_787756849453989889](https://trump.fm/post/x_787756849453989889)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T20:47:23.000Z (UTC)

> The Democrats have a corrupt political machine pushing crooked Hillary Clinton. We have Paul Ryan, always fighting the Republican nominee!

33,137 likes · 12,544 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787756849453989889.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787756849453989889/analysis

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### [x_787748349898264576](https://trump.fm/post/x_787748349898264576)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T20:13:36.000Z (UTC)

> Join me in Wisconsin tomorrow or Colorado on Tuesday!
> Green Bay- 6pm
> https://t.co/9L917nvCBX
> Colorado Springs- 1pm… https://t.co/972GWZDGEp

16,850 likes · 6,904 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787748349898264576.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787748349898264576/analysis

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### [x_787736416671367168](https://trump.fm/post/x_787736416671367168)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T19:26:11.000Z (UTC)

> “The vast majority felt she should be prosecuted..." -- even senior FBI officials thought Crooked was guilty.
> https://t.co/AFtDs7HVlt

27,323 likes · 14,177 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787736416671367168.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787736416671367168/analysis

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### [x_787642321072513000](https://trump.fm/post/x_787642321072513000)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T17:12:17.000Z (UTC)

> They let Crooked &amp, the Gang off the hook for the crime, but it looks like the cover-up is just as bad. Unbelievable! https://t.co/eWjHoq20Dw

0 likes · 10,563 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787642321072513000.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787642321072513000/analysis

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### [x_787699930718695425](https://trump.fm/post/x_787699930718695425)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T17:01:12.000Z (UTC)

> The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD

57,212 likes · 21,712 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787699930718695425.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787699930718695425/analysis

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### [x_787686533209939968](https://trump.fm/post/x_787686533209939968)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T16:07:58.000Z (UTC)

> We've all wondered how Hillary avoided prosecution for her email scheme. Wikileaks may have found the answer. Obama! https://t.co/xF0wv8Oa8q

35,273 likes · 21,961 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787686533209939968.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787686533209939968/analysis

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### [x_787686322001612800](https://trump.fm/post/x_787686322001612800)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T16:07:08.000Z (UTC)

> Hillary's staff thought her email scandal might just blow over. Who would trust these people with national security? https://t.co/EvBCQoZRG2

24,636 likes · 13,252 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787686322001612800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787686322001612800/analysis

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### [x_787643017234636800](https://trump.fm/post/x_787643017234636800)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T13:15:03.000Z (UTC)

> A country that Crooked Hillary says has funded ISIS also gave Wild Bill $1 million for his birthday? SO CORRUPT! https://t.co/00s5tgsXrM

29,648 likes · 16,328 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787643017234636800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787643017234636800/analysis

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### [x_787642321072513024](https://trump.fm/post/x_787642321072513024)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T13:12:17.000Z (UTC)

> They let Crooked &amp; the Gang off the hook for the crime, but it looks like the cover-up is just as bad. Unbelievable! https://t.co/eWjHoq20Dw

25,107 likes · 12,967 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787642321072513024.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787642321072513024/analysis

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### [x_787632098794467328](https://trump.fm/post/x_787632098794467328)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T12:31:40.000Z (UTC)

> Election is being rigged by the media, in a coordinated effort with the Clinton campaign, by putting stories that never happened into news!

46,697 likes · 19,162 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787632098794467328.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787632098794467328/analysis

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### [x_787618207444131840](https://trump.fm/post/x_787618207444131840)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T11:36:28.000Z (UTC)

> Polls close, but can you believe I lost large numbers of women voters based on made up events THAT NEVER HAPPENED. Media rigging election!

48,978 likes · 17,918 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787618207444131840.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787618207444131840/analysis

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### [x_787612552654155776](https://trump.fm/post/x_787612552654155776)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T11:14:00.000Z (UTC)

> Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me.Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!

52,859 likes · 18,434 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787612552654155776.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787612552654155776/analysis

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### [x_787430717387055100](https://trump.fm/post/x_787430717387055100)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T03:11:27.000Z (UTC)

> Thank you Bangor, Maine! Get out &amp, #VoteTrumpPence16 on 11/8/16- and together we will MAKE AMERICA SAFE AND GREAT A... https://t.co/sUSh8v07MW

0 likes · 9,277 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787430717387055100.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787430717387055100/analysis

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### [x_787444478512603136](https://trump.fm/post/x_787444478512603136)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T00:06:08.000Z (UTC) · quotes a tweet by @davidshiloach (the quoted words are theirs, not his)

> "@davidshiloach: @realDonaldTrump Go Mr. Trump! Israel is behind you!"

26,264 likes · 9,866 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787444478512603136.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787444478512603136/analysis

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### [x_787443829146353664](https://trump.fm/post/x_787443829146353664)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T00:03:33.000Z (UTC)

> Thank you for sharing Amy. https://t.co/StfzCeaQgH

21,857 likes · 9,508 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787443829146353664.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787443829146353664/analysis

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### [x_787443714239164416](https://trump.fm/post/x_787443714239164416)

X (Twitter) · 2016-10-16T00:03:06.000Z (UTC)

> A great day in New Hampshire and Maine. Fantastic crowds and energy! #MAGA

22,979 likes · 8,320 reposts · 0 replies · unknown views

Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_787443714239164416.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_787443714239164416/analysis

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- Day analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/date/2016-10-16
- The posts alone, without the day analysis: https://trump.fm/date/2016-10-16.md?analysis=false

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