# Post ts_108614222106120817

- Post ID: `ts_108614222106120817`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-08T23:05:04.312Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108614222106120817
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108614222106120817/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/new-findings-from-texass-2020-election-audit-to-be-released-in-september/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,153
- Reposts: 4,017
- Replies: 304
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:17:41.471Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: ts_108614222106120817

**Post Type:** Bare URL share — Texas 2020 election audit preview (RSB Network)

**Authorship Assessment (Low Confidence)**
Posted at ~19:05 EDT (Bedminster, NJ — Trump's customary July location). The absence of any personal text, emotional punctuation, or reactive commentary makes this more consistent with aide/Scavino curation than authentic Trump posting. However, the ideological content is squarely within his fixations, and confidence is low given zero stylometric material to analyze.

**Psychological State**
Assessed in isolation, the post is affectively flat. In longitudinal context, it is the fifth same-day post on the 2020 election fraud narrative, consistent with **maintenance-phase supply-seeking** — sustained grievance amplification rather than response to a specific fresh injury. No acute narcissistic rage is detectable.

**Defense Mechanisms**
The primary operative defense is **pathological denial** — the act of sharing content predicated on the illegitimacy of the 2020 result. Secondary **rationalization** is embedded in the framing: an anticipated audit is pre-positioned as forthcoming vindication, building logical scaffolding around a predetermined conclusion.

**Rhetorical Function**
Functions as a volume contribution within a RAND Firehose pattern — information saturation across the day. Source is RSB Network, a pro-Trump outlet, passed off implicitly as an authoritative audit source.

**Danger Assessment:** None. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals.

**Clinical Significance:** Low for this post individually. Moderately significant as part of the day's cumulative pattern of 2020 election reality distortion.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Texas 2020 election audit new findings to be released in September" | **Half True** | Texas did conduct a limited audit of the 2020 election in four large counties (Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, Collin). A report was released in September 2022. The framing of 'new findings' implies forthcoming evidence of fraud; the actual report identified minor administrative irregularities but no outcome-altering fraud, contrary to the implied narrative of the source. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- Post is a bare URL with zero accompanying text — no emotional commentary, no ALL CAPS, no superlatives
- Posted at 23:05 UTC = approximately 19:05 EDT (Bedminster, NJ is Trump's typical July residence) — evening business hours, not late-night
- Clean, unadorned link share is characteristic of aide curation rather than Trump's impulsive, reactive style
- However, the election-fraud theme is entirely consistent with his personal fixations, so ideological alignment doesn't rule out self-posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (2020 election narrative ecosystem)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Link-sharing as delegated persuasion — lets the content do the emotional work while maintaining plausible deniability

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Texas 2020 election audit new findings to be released in September

**HALF TRUE**

Texas did conduct a limited audit of the 2020 election in four large counties (Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, Collin). A report was released in September 2022. The framing of 'new findings' implies forthcoming evidence of fraud; the actual report identified minor administrative irregularities but no outcome-altering fraud, contrary to the implied narrative of the source.

Sources: Texas Secretary of State audit records, September 2022

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- 2020-election-denial (90%)
- maintenance-posting (70%)
- source-laundering (60%)
- aide-written-probable (60%)
- firehose-volume (50%)

## That day

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

**Abe Assassination Briefly Pierces the Narcissistic Orbit Before Gravity Reasserts Itself**

The day was shaped by the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, which drew two uncharacteristically solemn posts -- one late at night, one early morning. But the moment of statesmanship was short-lived: by midday, the familiar 2020 election grievance cycle returned with claims about Wisconsin and Arizona, and the evening brought a rapid-fire dump of links and attacks on Liz Cheney and cable news. The only flash of anger came in a cold, calculated swipe at Cheney framed around an old pardon favor she failed to repay. Overall, a moderate-volume day dominated by grandiosity and chronic grievance, with the Abe tragedy serving as a brief interruption rather than a reset.

Full digest for 2022-07-08: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 8). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/new-findings-from-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108614222106120817
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/new-findings-from-texass-202..." Truth Social, 8 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108614222106120817. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/new-findings-from-texass-202...," Truth Social, July 8, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108614222106120817.

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