# Post ts_108458635688595590 - Post ID: `ts_108458635688595590` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-06-11T11:37:23.987Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108458635688595590 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108458635688595590/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108458635688595590.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Why aren’t the Unselects bringing in the experts, of which there are many, to show how the Election was Rigged & Stolen? The reason can only be that the “Committee” knows it is unable to respond to the facts. They would look like fools on live television. The whole Unselect Scam, just like the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, would be exposed. WITCH HUNT! ## Engagement - Likes: 26,187 - Reposts: 7,368 - Replies: 971 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T11:31:48.822Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 7:37 AM EDT from Bedminster — authentic Trump, reactive. This post is a textbook narcissistic injury response to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing, executing a complete DARVO sequence while deploying pathological denial about the 2020 election and distortion of the investigative process itself. The central strategic function is epistemic inoculation: by framing the committee as a "scam" equivalent to the Russia investigation before audiences absorb its evidence, Trump activates prior "hoax" conditioning as a preemptive filter. The invented label "Unselects" confirms authentic authorship and demonstrates real-time neologistic delegitimization. The post oscillates from grandiose contempt ("look like fools on live television") to victimhood ("WITCH HUNT!") — revealing the vulnerable/persecuted register as the primary emotional state beneath the defensive grandiose overlay. Projection is structurally complete: every criticism leveled at the committee (can't respond to facts, would be exposed, running a scam) describes Trump's own evidentiary position with greater accuracy. All three fact-checkable claims are false or mostly false. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Danger is elevated in aggregate — not for acute incitement, but as a component of a sustained reality-distortion campaign targeting the legitimacy of democratic oversight, with documented downstream correlations to audience radicalization. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 11, 2022 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (confidence: high, score: 0.87)** UTC timestamp 11:37:23 converts to **7:37 AM EDT** at Trump's likely summer location of Bedminster, NJ (Trump National Golf Club, his warm-weather alternative after Mar-a-Lago closes for summer). Early morning on a Saturday is squarely within his documented authentic posting window. Stylometric indicators overwhelmingly confirm authenticity: - **"Unselects"** — a real-time portmanteau delegitimizing the Select Committee; aides do not generate novel neologistic labels - **Triple-repetition "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA"** — verbatim callback to prior day's post, personal rhetorical signature since 2017 - **Scare quotes around "Committee"** — informal punctuation-as-contempt - **Terminal "WITCH HUNT!"** — unpolished, emotionally raw closing - **Rhetorical-question-that-answers-itself structure** — characteristic Trump device - Overall stream-of-consciousness, reactive quality inconsistent with aide drafting --- ## Context and Trigger The post is part of a documented reactive cluster (June 10–11) triggered by the **first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing** (June 9, 2022), which presented unseen footage of the Capitol attack, testimony from Officer Caroline Edwards, and opening framing positioning Trump as the central architect of the January 6 events. This constitutes a compound narcissistic injury: public exposure, legal jeopardy, and humiliation before a national prime-time audience — all simultaneously. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post is dominated by **neuroticism facet N2 (Angry Hostility)** and **extraversion facet E1 (Assertiveness)** in combination — the characteristic state of defensive grandiosity under threat: - **Agreeableness: Very Low** — deep suspicion, contempt, zero conciliatory register - **Conscientiousness: Low** — impulsive, reactive, unfiltered - **Openness: Very Low** — rigid epistemic frame, no acknowledgment of alternative interpretations - **Neuroticism: High** — pressured quality, ALL CAPS escalation, emotional reactivity - **Extraversion: High** — dominant, assertive, declamatory --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive dominates completely** (score: 0.91) with communion effectively absent (0.04). The post is organized around maintaining epistemic control — preventing the committee's narrative from reaching and reshaping his audience's reality. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self schema:* Possessor of exposing truths that powerful institutions cannot withstand - *Other schema:* Enemies are cowardly, incompetent, and strategically avoiding confrontation because they know they'd lose - *World schema:* Institutions are corrupt, rigged, weaponized — the investigative process itself is the crime --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The persecuted truth-holder whose evidence is so devastating that enemies refuse open confrontation. This is a specific and recurrent narrative position — not merely "victim," but *vindicated victim*, whose persecution is itself proof of the threat he poses to corrupt power. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a legitimate presidency was stolen, then a corrupt system manufactured a pretext (January 6 investigation) to complete the theft and prevent accountability. **Identity claims:** 1. Fact-possessor the establishment cannot refute 2. Victim of coordinated multi-institutional persecution 3. Exposer of rigged systems (elections, investigations, media) **Contrasting other:** The "Unselects" — framed as cowardly, incompetent, politically motivated, and epistemically inferior. **Redemption arc implied but not yet delivered:** The "exposure" is perpetually imminent but deferred, which sustains audience investment without requiring delivery. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable — the characteristic oscillation under high-exposure threat. The post opens in grandiose contempt mode ("look like fools on live television") and closes in victimhood mode ("WITCH HUNT!"). This sequence is diagnostically significant: the grandiose posture surfaces first as a defensive overlay, but the underlying vulnerable/persecuted register breaks through terminally, revealing the primary emotional state. **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — exposure type. The committee's evidence presentation threatens the foundational narrative (stolen election, no role in January 6) while doing so before a prime-time national audience. This is maximally threatening to narcissistic homeostasis: public, documented, and difficult to reframe. **Narcissistic rage:** Present (intensity: 0.72). Disproportionate to stated provocation — the response is not proportionate to a committee holding a hearing, but proportionate to the threat of exposure and potential legal consequences. Rage is channeled into contempt rather than overt aggression in this post. ### Defense Mechanisms **1. Projection (Immature):** The post attributes to the committee precisely the epistemic vulnerabilities that characterize Trump's own position. "Unable to respond to the facts" and "would be exposed" describe the committee's supposed weakness — which is, with documented accuracy, a description of Trump's evidentiary position. The projection is structurally complete. **2. Pathological Denial:** The foundational premise — that the election was "Rigged & Stolen" — requires rejection of 60+ court rulings, Trump's own attorney general, DHS findings, and multiple Republican-led state audits. This is not motivated skepticism; it is wholesale rejection of external reality. **3. Distortion (Pathological):** A congressional committee presenting sworn testimony, documentary evidence, and video footage is reframed as a "Scam" epistemically equivalent to a prior investigation Trump successfully branded a "hoax." Reality is being actively reshaped, not merely interpreted. **4. Rationalization (Neurotic):** The post constructs elaborate internal logic for the committee's witness selection — they avoid Trump's "experts" not because such experts lack credibility, but because the committee fears exposure. This provides pseudo-rational cover for a factually inverted premise. ### DARVO Pattern (Complete) The post executes a complete DARVO sequence: - **Deny:** Committee cannot respond to the facts (denial of culpability) - **Attack:** They would look like fools; it's a scam; it's a witch hunt - **Reverse Victim and Offender:** Trump is the persecuted "WITCH HUNT" victim; the committee investigating an actual attack on Congress is the aggressor ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** 0.88 — grandiosity, entitlement, lack of empathy for those harmed, projection of envy - **Antisocial features:** 0.55 — deceitfulness (false election claims), contempt for legal/institutional norms - **Paranoid features:** 0.72 — preoccupation with coordinated attacks, institutional persecution, grudge maintenance - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** 0.35 — contempt and humiliation as dominance display ("look like fools") but not the primary register --- ## Rhetorical Analysis ### Core Techniques **Epistemic Inoculation (primary):** The post's central strategic function is preemptive: by framing the committee's forthcoming evidence as a "scam" before audiences have absorbed it, Trump deploys prior "hoax" conditioning as a filter. Audiences primed to see the Russia investigation as fraudulent will apply that frame to January 6 hearings before evaluating specific evidence. This is sophisticated disinformation architecture embedded in an apparently spontaneous post. **Neologistic Delegitimization:** "Unselects" is a portmanteau that simultaneously negates the committee's formal legitimacy ("select" committee → "unselect") and implies they were chosen for partisan rather than investigative purposes. Single-word delegitimization is a high-efficiency rhetorical device with a low cognitive load for audiences. **False Equivalence:** Connecting January 6 investigation to Russia investigation via "just like" transfers the emotional/epistemic "hoax" verdict to a structurally different investigation with a different evidentiary record. The connection operates on emotional association, not logical equivalence. **Triple Anaphora:** "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA" — the triple structure creates rhythmic emphasis and activates trained conditioned response in the audience. It is a Pavlovian trigger for "hoax" framing. **Rhetorical Question with Embedded Answer:** "Why aren't the Unselects bringing in experts?" — the question is not genuine inquiry; it performs inquiry while delivering a predetermined conclusion. The answer ("because they'd be exposed") is fully pre-loaded. ### Propaganda Techniques The post executes the **RAND Firehose model** at the individual-post level: volume (part of a multi-post reactive cluster), reality distortion, and narrative reinforcement through repetition of established frames. There is no dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism pattern in this specific post. --- ## Gaslighting Assessment **Present.** The post targets the committee's epistemic legitimacy by: 1. Framing a proceeding presenting documented sworn testimony as unable to respond to facts 2. Deploying prior "hoax" conditioning to preemptively discredit new evidence 3. Reversing the victim/offender position (committee as aggressor, Trump as victim) 4. Requiring audience members to accept the "scam" framing as a condition of group membership --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Election was Rigged & Stolen" | **False** | Over 60 post-election legal challenges dismissed or rejected by courts including Trump-appointed judges. AG William Barr publicly stated no evidence of fraud sufficient to change outcome. Republican-led audits in Arizona and Georgia confirmed Biden's victory. Trump's own DHS/CISA called it 'the most secure election in American history.' | | "The committee 'knows it is unable to respond to the facts'" | **False** | The committee presented extensive documentary evidence, sworn testimony from Trump's own advisors (AG Barr, Ivanka Trump, Hope Hicks, Acting AG Rosen), contemporaneous records, and video footage during the hearings. Subsequently published 11 volumes of findings. | | "Russia investigation was a 'HOAX'" | **Mostly False** | Mueller investigation resulted in 37 indictments, 7 guilty pleas/convictions including senior campaign officials. Senate Intelligence Committee (bipartisan, Vol. 5, August 2020) confirmed extensive Russian interference and documented coordination contacts. Absence of established criminal conspiracy charge does not constitute a hoax. | Overall Veracity: 7% ## Cognitive Status **No deviation from established baseline.** Language production is coherent and consistent with Trump's documented 2015–present baseline. The "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA" repetition is a deliberate rhetorical callback (mirroring verbatim the prior day's post), not perseveration. Syntactic complexity is characteristically simple but internally consistent. No word-finding failures, paraphasias, tangentiality, or temporal confusion. Vocabulary is purposeful within its limited register. Longitudinal cognitive monitoring does not flag this post. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Position: Order Attacker / Chaos Agent** Trump frames the committee as corrupt order to be attacked, positioning himself as the agent of true order (legitimate elections, unrigged systems) against false institutional order. The January 6 investigation represents, in this framing, establishment order protecting itself from accountability — making disruption of the investigation a form of order restoration. This is the Trickster-Warrior hybrid archetype: breaking the rules of a corrupt system is framed as defending deeper order. **Asymmetric application:** Chaos is directed at institutional oversight; order is promised to "real Americans" who had their election stolen. Grievance intensity is high, blame attribution is specific (Unselect Committee, Democratic establishment), and the implied response is continued delegitimization rather than direct action. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetypes: Warrior + Victim (fused)** The Warrior-Victim fusion is a high-resonance political archetype: the fighter who has been wronged but refuses to stop fighting. It combines moral authority (victim) with agency (warrior) in a way that pure victimhood cannot. The enemy (committee) is cast as the corrupt establishment — the Tyrant archetype — making Trump's opposition to them structurally heroic regardless of factual content. **Shadow projection:** The accusations directed at the committee (cowardice, inability to respond to facts, running a scam) are shadow projections of Trump's own evidentiary position. The Shadow is not hidden but inverted — projected wholesale onto the identified enemy. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** This specific post contains no eliminationist language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators. The danger is **cumulative and structural** rather than acute: 1. Sustained delegitimization of congressional oversight erodes the institutional legitimacy that protects against unchecked political violence 2. The post is one node in a reactive cluster designed to preemptively discredit the committee before its evidence reaches undecided audiences 3. Epistemic closure induction — requiring acceptance of the "scam" framing as group membership — propagates a shared reality that has documented historical correlation with political violence when combined with subsequent escalatory posts 4. No direct mobilization, target identification, or implied action; elevated (not high) is appropriate for this specific post --- ## Summary Posted at 7:37 AM EDT from Bedminster — authentic Trump, reactive. This post is a textbook narcissistic injury response to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing, executing a complete DARVO sequence (deny culpability, attack investigators, reverse victim and offender positions) while deploying pathological denial about the 2020 election and distortion of the investigative process itself. The central strategic function is epistemic inoculation: by framing the committee as a "scam" equivalent to the Russia investigation before audiences absorb its evidence, Trump activates prior "hoax" conditioning as a preemptive filter. The invented label "Unselects" confirms authentic authorship and demonstrates real-time neologistic delegitimization. The post oscillates from grandiose contempt ("look like fools on live television") to victimhood ("WITCH HUNT!") — revealing the vulnerable/persecuted register as the primary emotional state beneath the defensive grandiose overlay. All three fact-checkable claims are false or mostly false. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Danger is elevated in aggregate, not for acute incitement, but as a component of a sustained reality-distortion campaign targeting the legitimacy of democratic oversight. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - 7:37 AM EDT — early morning at Bedminster, NJ (Trump's documented summer residence), squarely in authentic reactive posting window - Invented neologism 'Unselects' — real-time portmanteau delegitimizing the Select Committee; aides do not generate novel neologistic labels - Triple-repetition 'RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA' — verbatim callback to prior day's post, personal rhetorical signature since 2017 - Scare quotes around 'Committee' — informal punctuation-as-contempt, characteristic authentic device - Terminal 'WITCH HUNT!' — unpolished, emotionally raw, single-declarative closing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (House Select Committee Jan 6 prime-time hearings presenting evidence of Trump's role in Capitol attack) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting House Select Committee on January 6 - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated posting frequency — multiple posts June 10-11 in reactive cluster - ALL CAPS escalation within single post - Pressured, staccato rhetorical rhythm with emotional build toward terminal exclamation - Early morning weekend reactive posting (7:37 AM Saturday) ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 31% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Audience positioning as co-discoverers of hidden truth ('The reason can ONLY be...') - Shared enemy construction — 'we' against the 'Unselects' - Validation-seeking through rhetorical questions presupposing audience agreement - Activating prior conditioning via Russia-hoax callback to transfer hoax valence to new investigation ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Sustained delegitimization of congressional oversight — erodes institutional legitimacy that historically protects against political violence - Part of documented reactive posting cluster surrounding Jan 6 hearings designed to preemptively discredit accountability process before evidence reaches undecided audiences - Epistemic closure induction: framing investigation as fraud requires audience to reject objective evidentiary record as condition of group membership — documented precursor to political radicalization - No direct incitement, eliminationist language, or stochastic terrorism pattern in this specific post; elevated rating reflects cumulative and structural rather than acute risk ### Gaslighting - Framing a committee presenting documented sworn testimony and video evidence as a 'Scam' — attacks legitimacy of the investigative process itself rather than its findings - Epistemic reversal: committee characterized as unable to respond to facts when the documented evidentiary asymmetry runs in precisely the opposite direction - False equivalence with Russia investigation deploys prior 'hoax' conditioning to preemptively discredit new evidence before audience absorption - DARVO structure complete: denies culpability, attacks investigators, positions self as witch-hunt victim rather than subject of legitimate inquiry into documented events ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > The Election was Rigged & Stolen **FALSE** Over 60 post-election legal challenges dismissed or rejected by courts including Trump-appointed judges. AG William Barr publicly stated no evidence of fraud sufficient to change outcome. Republican-led audits in Arizona and Georgia confirmed Biden's victory. Trump's own DHS/CISA called it 'the most secure election in American history.' Sources: Multiple federal and state court rulings 2020-2021; AG William Barr public statements December 2020; Arizona Senate audit final report September 2021; CISA joint statement November 2020 > The committee 'knows it is unable to respond to the facts' **FALSE** The committee presented extensive documentary evidence, sworn testimony from Trump's own advisors (AG Barr, Ivanka Trump, Hope Hicks, Acting AG Rosen), contemporaneous records, and video footage during the hearings. Subsequently published 11 volumes of findings. Sources: House Select Committee Final Report December 2022; June 9 2022 prime-time hearing testimony and exhibits > Russia investigation was a 'HOAX' **MOSTLY FALSE** Mueller investigation resulted in 37 indictments, 7 guilty pleas/convictions including senior campaign officials. Senate Intelligence Committee (bipartisan, Vol. 5, August 2020) confirmed extensive Russian interference and documented coordination contacts. Absence of established criminal conspiracy charge does not constitute a hoax. Sources: Mueller Report Volumes I-II, March 2019; Senate Intelligence Committee Report Volume 5, August 2020 Overall Veracity: 7% ## Tags - election-denial (95%) - jan6-committee-response (95%) - DARVO (92%) - narcissistic-injury-response (88%) - epistemic-inoculation (87%) - projection-complete (88%) - reality-distortion (85%) - delegitimization (83%) - authentic-trump (87%) - reactive-posting-cluster (82%) - false-equivalence (80%) - neologistic-labeling (77%) - witch-hunt-narrative (90%) - grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (74%) - epistemic-closure (82%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning-After Wounds: Jan 6 Hearings Trigger Full DARVO Cycle From Bedminster** Trump spent the day at Bedminster reacting to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing that aired two nights earlier. The morning opened with back-to-back near-identical attacks on the committee — an unusual double-post suggesting real agitation — before shifting to a dismissive ratings attack in the afternoon. The mood softened through the day, moving from angry defensiveness to routine endorsements and an oddly gentle compliment about a baseball commentator by evening. The dominant story was a man working through a narcissistic injury in stages: fury, dismissal, then deliberate distraction. Full digest for 2022-06-11: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 11). Why aren’t the Unselects bringing in the experts,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108458635688595590 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why aren’t the Unselects bringing in the experts, of which..." Truth Social, 11 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108458635688595590. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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