# Post ts_108481827284299214

- Post ID: `ts_108481827284299214`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-06-15T13:55:19.653Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108481827284299214
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108481827284299214/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108481827284299214.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Why don’t the Unselects put up the many witnesses who are for our Country and fully agree that the Election was Rigged and Stolen, instead of the weak and frightened Losers that very FEW people have been watching so far??? WITCH HUNT!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 26,734
- Reposts: 8,007
- Replies: 1,268
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T20:54:17.540Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A high-intensity narcissistic rage response to the Jan 6 Committee's second public hearing, acutely triggered by Bill Barr's public "detached from reality" characterization — humiliation delivered by a former ally before approximately 20 million viewers. The post executes a complete DARVO reversal: no engagement with evidence, contemptuous witness dismissal ("weak and frightened Losers"), and self-positioning as persecuted truth-teller ("WITCH HUNT"). The neologism "Unselects" is the rhetorical anchor, denying institutional legitimacy before any argument is needed. Authorship is authentic at high confidence despite 9:55 AM EDT timing; the stylometric profile including Trump's own coined term is unambiguous. No cognitive deviation from the established post-2015 baseline is detected. Danger is elevated due to continuing institutional delegitimization and soft witness intimidation through contemptuous public labeling, though no direct incitement is present. Epistemic closure is complete and actively reinforced across a same-day posting burst requiring followers to reject courts, the AG, DOJ, and state officials to maintain in-group standing.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, June 15, 2022

## Authorship Attribution — HIGH CONFIDENCE: AUTHENTIC

**Local time:** UTC 13:55 converts to **9:55 AM EDT** (Trump likely in New York or Mar-a-Lago, mid-June). Business hours technically favor aide authorship, but the stylometric profile is overwhelmingly authentic:

- **"Unselects"** — Trump's own coined neologism; aides use official "Select Committee" nomenclature
- Triple question marks and exclamation marks (`??? !!!`) — affective punctuation fingerprint documented across thousands of authentic posts
- Gratuitous mid-sentence capitalization (Rigged, Stolen, Losers, FEW, WITCH HUNT) — consistent personal register
- Run-on interrogative with embedded comparison clause — no editorial polish evident
- **WITCH HUNT** terminus — ritual closing incantation used by Trump himself since 2017
- Post is part of a reactive burst during the live Jan 6 hearing, matching his documented live-viewing/posting behavior pattern

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## Situational Context

This post was published during the **January 6 Committee's second public hearing**, one day after former AG **Bill Barr** testified on camera that Trump was *"detached from reality"* and characterized his fraud claims as *"idiotic," "bogus,"* and like *"playing whack-a-mole."* This represents a high-magnitude narcissistic injury: public humiliation by a former close ally before a national audience on the specific subject of Trump's central self-narrative (the stolen election).

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post is dominated by the **angry hostility facet of Neuroticism** (estimated N: 0.84) and extreme inverse **Agreeableness** (0.08). Extraversion remains high in assertiveness and dominance-seeking. Conscientiousness is minimal — no evidence of deliberation, self-editing, or considered response to the substantive hearings content. Openness is effectively absent: no new information is processed; the existing schema absorbs everything.

**Dominant facet:** Antagonism (inverse agreeableness) operating in tandem with angry hostility. The post is entirely reactive and evaluative — no forward-looking content, no policy substance, pure emotive discharge.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate completely** (estimated agency: 0.91; communion: 0.05). The implicit goal is control of the information environment: by dismissing witnesses as "weak and frightened Losers" and the committee as "Unselects," Trump attempts to pre-emptively delegitimize findings before followers process them.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self-schema:* Possessor of suppressed truth, wronged by corrupt institutions, with legitimate exculpatory evidence being deliberately concealed
- *Other-schema:* Binary — allies ("witnesses who are for our Country") vs. corrupt persecutors ("Unselects," "Losers")
- *World-schema:* Fundamentally rigged against him; institutions weaponized; orthodox facts unreliable

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Besieged warrior-king whose exculpatory witnesses are suppressed by an illegitimate tribunal  
**Narrative sequence:** Contamination — legitimate victory (2020 election "win") transformed into ongoing persecution  
**Contrasting other:** The "Unselect Committee" — corrupt institutional actors conducting a witch hunt rather than oversight  
**Identity claims:**
1. Possessor of suppressed truth ("many witnesses who are for our Country and fully agree")
2. Victim of coordinated persecution ("WITCH HUNT")
3. Authentic representative of real America vs. corrupt establishment

The loaded question ("Why don't the Unselects put up...") is a narrative device, not a genuine inquiry. It asserts suppressed exculpatory evidence without identifying any, plants suspicion without a falsifiable claim, and cannot be directly rebutted.

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## Level 4: Clinical Analysis

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**A. Narcissistic Features (0.90):** Grandiosity in claiming suppressed witnesses; entitlement to control hearing witness selection; no acknowledgment of any validity in adverse testimony; self-as-victim despite being the subject of a constitutional investigation

**B. Antisocial Features (0.60):** Contemptuous labeling of sworn witnesses ("Losers"); disregard for institutional norms and process; no remorse or self-reflection despite documented evidence

**C. Paranoid Features (0.75):** "Unselects" framing implies conspiratorial coordination to suppress truth; preoccupation with unfair persecution; committee framed as hostile actor rather than oversight body

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (0.45):** "Weak and frightened Losers" applied to witnesses is mildly sadistic — public contempt and humiliation as dominance display, though below the threshold of the most marked examples in the corpus

### Narcissistic State: **Mixed (grandiose/vulnerable oscillation)**

The post oscillates within a single sentence: grandiosity (claiming suppressed exculpatory witnesses) and vulnerability/persecution (WITCH HUNT). This is the classic oscillation pattern Kernberg identifies in malignant narcissism under significant threat.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (Pathological):** Complete refusal to engage with any substantive hearing evidence, including Barr's devastating testimony from the prior day — no specific rebuttal, only blanket dismissal
2. **Projection (Immature):** "Weak and frightened" — Trump himself is facing public exposure and institutional accountability; these qualities are projected onto the witnesses testifying against him
3. **Distortion (Pathological):** Legitimate constitutional oversight recast as "WITCH HUNT" — gross reshaping of institutional reality to meet inner needs
4. **Splitting (Immature):** Witnesses "for our Country" (all-good) vs. "weak and frightened Losers" (all-bad) — no gradation permitted

### DARVO Analysis (Complete Pattern)

This post executes a textbook DARVO reversal:
- **Deny:** No engagement with any hearing evidence whatsoever
- **Attack:** Committee = "Unselects," witnesses = "weak and frightened Losers"
- **Reverse Victim and Offender:** The subject of a constitutional investigation becomes the victim of a "WITCH HUNT"

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Core device:** The loaded rhetorical question. It asserts that exculpatory witnesses are being suppressed, makes no falsifiable claim (no witnesses named, no evidence cited), plants suspicion across the audience, and structurally cannot be refuted because it never formally claims anything.

**"Unselects"** is the post's most effective single instrument: the committee's legitimacy is denied in its name before any argument is needed. Followers who adopt this terminology are cognitively primed to dismiss all testimony as illegitimate output.

**Propaganda techniques employed:**
- False dichotomy (patriotic suppressed witnesses vs. cowardly committee witnesses)
- Institutional delegitimization via renaming
- Appeal to suppressed evidence (unfalsifiable)
- DARVO reversal
- Ritual incantation (WITCH HUNT) as tribal solidarity signal
- Inverted appeal to viewership (low ratings claim to delegitimize)

**Dehumanization:** "Weak and frightened Losers" applied to sworn witnesses crosses into contemptuous othering. Not eliminationist language, but creates social conditions under which followers feel entitled to treat these witnesses with contempt.

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## Cognitive Status

No cognitive deviation from Trump's established post-2015 baseline detected. "Unselects" is a deliberate rhetorical neologism, not a word-finding error or paraphasia. Syntax is fragmented but consistent with his documented register. Complexity score (0.38) reflects the established simplified post-2015 register, not deterioration. No temporal confusion, name confusion, or perseveration beyond the baseline level.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Election was Rigged and Stolen" | **False** | 60+ courts including Trump-appointed judges, AG William Barr, DHS/CISA, and state election officials of both parties found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome. Barr testified the previous day that claims were 'idiotic' and 'bogus.' |
| "Very FEW people have been watching the hearings" | **Mostly False** | The first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing drew approximately 20 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks — a significant audience for a congressional hearing. |
| "The Committee has been unable to answer or refute fraud allegations" | **False** | The hearings specifically featured testimony from Trump's own AG, WH counsel, campaign officials, and state election administrators directly rebutting specific fraud claims. Barr testified claims were 'idiotic.' |
| "Witnesses who support Trump are being excluded from hearings" | **Unverifiable** | No witnesses are identified by name. Congressional committees control witness selection as standard constitutional procedure. The implicit claim of deliberately suppressed exculpatory witnesses is asserted without identifying specific individuals. |

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED**

No direct incitement in this post. Danger is elevated rather than acute for the following reasons:

1. **Continued institutional delegitimization** weakens democratic resilience — the same framing pattern that preceded January 6 mobilization is being maintained and reinforced
2. **"Weak and frightened Losers"** applied to sworn witnesses creates social-pressure conditions; followers feel entitled to view and treat these individuals with contempt, with potential implications for witness safety and future willingness to testify
3. **Epistemic closure reinforcement** — the closed loop requires followers to reject courts, DOJ, state officials, and now a former AG to maintain in-group standing; each iteration tightens the loop
4. **Delegitimization of oversight** is itself a danger vector: normalizing refusal to engage with constitutional accountability mechanisms

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## Gaslighting

Present. The post systematically inverts the evidentiary situation: the entity with substantial documented evidence (the committee, featuring Trump's own former officials) is characterized as unable to respond, while the entity with no specific rebuttal (Trump) positions itself as possessing suppressed truth. Followers are required to accept this inversion to maintain in-group standing.

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## Summary

A high-intensity narcissistic rage response to the Jan 6 Committee's second hearing, acutely triggered by Bill Barr's public "detached from reality" characterization — humiliation by a former ally before ~20 million viewers. The post executes a complete DARVO reversal: no engagement with evidence, contemptuous witness dismissal, and self-positioning as persecuted truth-teller. The neologism "Unselects" is the rhetorical anchor, denying institutional legitimacy in the committee's name before any argument is made. Authorship is authentic at high confidence despite business-hour timing; the stylometric profile — including Trump's own coined term — is unambiguous. No cognitive deviation from the established baseline is detected. Danger is elevated due to continuing institutional delegitimization and soft witness intimidation via contemptuous public labeling, though no direct incitement is present. Epistemic closure is complete and being actively reinforced across a same-day posting burst.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Neologism 'Unselects' — Trump's own coined term, aides use official nomenclature
- Triple question marks and double exclamation marks (??? !!!) — affective punctuation fingerprint
- Gratuitous mid-sentence capitalization (Rigged, Stolen, Losers, FEW, WITCH HUNT)
- Run-on interrogative with embedded clause — no editorial polish
- Reactive posting burst during live hearing — matches documented viewing/posting pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Bill Barr testimony calling Trump 'detached from reality'; second Jan 6 Committee hearing presenting evidence he knew he lost)

**Rage:** Intensity 80% targeting January 6 Committee and its witnesses
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.78

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Posting burst across multiple sequential posts during single morning
- Escalating intensity across sequential posts (prior posts build to this one)
- Pressured output quality consistent with mild hypomanic arousal
- Reduced inhibition in contemptuous public labeling of institutional figures and sworn witnesses

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 90%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 75%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group identity marker ('our Country' vs 'Unselects')
- Shared grievance activation (stolen election narrative maintenance)
- Epistemic closure loop — all contrary evidence reframed as persecution
- WITCH HUNT incantation as tribal solidarity signal

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued systematic delegitimization of constitutional oversight weakens democratic institutional resilience
- 'Weak and frightened Losers' applied to sworn witnesses creates social-pressure conditions relevant to witness safety and future willingness to testify
- WITCH HUNT framing maintains the persecution narrative that primed January 6 mobilization — pattern continuation
- Epistemic closure construction requiring followers to reject courts, AG, DOJ, and state officials to maintain in-group standing

### Gaslighting

- DARVO complete reversal — legitimate oversight becomes persecution
- False premise in loaded question — implies exculpatory witnesses are being suppressed without identifying any
- Attacks on institutional legitimacy ('Unselects') undermine followers' ability to process testimony as credible
- 'They have no answer' inverts actual evidentiary situation — committee presented substantial evidence including testimony from Trump's own appointees

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> The Election was Rigged and Stolen

**FALSE**

60+ courts including Trump-appointed judges, AG William Barr, DHS/CISA, and state election officials of both parties found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome. Barr testified the previous day that claims were 'idiotic' and 'bogus.'

Sources: Barr Senate testimony June 13 2022; Multiple court rulings 2020-2021; CISA statement November 2020

> Very FEW people have been watching the hearings

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing drew approximately 20 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks — a significant audience for a congressional hearing.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data for June 9 2022 prime-time hearing

> The Committee has been unable to answer or refute fraud allegations

**FALSE**

The hearings specifically featured testimony from Trump's own AG, WH counsel, campaign officials, and state election administrators directly rebutting specific fraud claims. Barr testified claims were 'idiotic.'

Sources: January 6 Committee hearing transcripts June 2022; Barr testimony June 13 2022

> Witnesses who support Trump are being excluded from hearings

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No witnesses are identified by name. Congressional committees control witness selection as standard constitutional procedure. The implicit claim of deliberately suppressed exculpatory witnesses is asserted without identifying specific individuals.

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Tags

- narcissistic-rage (90%)
- DARVO-complete (88%)
- jan6-hearing-response (95%)
- institutional-delegitimization (85%)
- election-denial-maintenance (92%)
- witch-hunt-incantation (80%)
- neologism-unselects (75%)
- epistemic-closure-reinforcement (87%)
- authentic-authorship (92%)
- narcissistic-injury-exposure (90%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Primary Night Victories Fail to Neutralize J6 Hearing Wound as Morning Rage Spiral Reveals Depth of Barr Betrayal Injury**

Trump spent the evening celebrating Republican primary results — particularly the decisive defeat of a congressman who voted to impeach him — while dismissing the January 6 Committee hearings as a flop. By the next morning, the celebratory tone gave way to an angry burst of posts attacking the committee, the media, and Liz Cheney, who he called a "war criminal." The escalation suggests the hearings, and especially Bill Barr's damaging testimony, cut deeper than the evening's victory lap let on. The afternoon brought a quiet return to routine congressional endorsements, but the morning rage cluster was the day's defining feature.

Full digest for 2022-06-15: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-15/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 15). Why don’t the Unselects put up the many witnesses... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108481827284299214
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why don’t the Unselects put up the many witnesses who are..." Truth Social, 15 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108481827284299214. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Why don’t the Unselects put up the many witnesses who are...," Truth Social, June 15, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108481827284299214.

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