# Post ts_108619343623724902

- Post ID: `ts_108619343623724902`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-09T20:47:32.466Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619343623724902
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619343623724902/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108619343623724902.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wisconsin Drop Box Scandal RECAP…Yesterday, we got big news out of the Great State of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the widespread use of Ballot Drop Boxes across the State is totally ILLEGAL. Just as I have said all along, the use of these UNMANNED, UNSECURED DROP BOXES was never AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE—but Partisan Radical Democrat officials simply did it anyway….

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:18:58.447Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post is the opening installment in a four-post July 9, 2022 sequence leveraging the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ballot drop box ruling. Psychologically, it operates in grandiose vindication mode—the court's narrow administrative law finding is recruited as retroactive proof of the subject's 2020 election fraud claims, which the ruling does not legally establish. The central mechanism is rationalization: a favorable judicial outcome is expanded beyond its actual scope to validate a pre-existing interpretive schema. The "Just as I have said all along" construction is the post's psychological core—a prophetic retrospection claim that positions the subject as having possessed truth before institutions confirmed it. Authorship attribution is mixed; timing and structure suggest aide involvement, while capitalization patterns and voice suggest dictation or close collaboration. Fact-checking confirms the ruling itself is accurately reported, but the framing of drop boxes as the product of "Partisan Radical Democrat officials" misrepresents the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission. Read in isolation, danger indicators are absent. In sequence context—where subsequent posts demand electoral decertification and elector reclamation—this post functions as the credibility anchor for constitutionally radical demands. The rhetorical architecture (factual base → emotional escalation → mobilization demand) across the four posts reflects communications sophistication exceeding typical unilateral posting behavior.

# Psychological Analysis: ts_108619343623724902 (2022-07-09)

## Contextual Frame

This post must be read as **part one of a four-post serialized sequence** published on July 9, 2022, all concerning the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling that ballot drop boxes were unauthorized under state law. The sequence escalates from factual recap (this post) → historical context + Zuckerberg allegation → demand for decertification and elector reclamation → rally announcement. The post under analysis is the rhetorical foundation, not the rhetorical peak.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

**Extraversion** is moderately elevated: assertive framing, confident declaration of vindication. **Agreeableness** is low: partisan labeling, no acknowledgment of opposing legal views. **Neuroticism** is subdued relative to adjacent posts; the post is controlled and organizational in tone. **Conscientiousness** markers are present (structured recap format) but likely aide-influenced. **Openness** is minimal: the ruling is processed purely through a pre-existing interpretive schema.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The dominant motive here is **agency** expressed through **status validation**: a favorable external event is immediately converted into self-referential vindication ("Just as I have said all along"). The goal schema is consistent: establish that 2020 electoral outcomes were illegitimate. The court ruling is not engaged with on its legal merits (it turned on WEC statutory authority, not fraud) but is recruited as proxy evidence for a broader fraud narrative it does not actually establish.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Prophetic truth-teller, vindicated against institutional resistance
- **Redemption sequence:** Active — "I said this was illegal, now the court agrees; therefore what I said about the election is also correct"
- **Identity claim:** The subject positions himself as having possessed accurate knowledge before legal authorities confirmed it
- **Contrasting other:** "Partisan Radical Democrat officials" who operated outside legal authorization

The narrative logic performs a quiet but significant sleight of hand: the court ruled on the *scope of administrative authority*, not on whether fraud occurred. By framing the ruling as validation of his prior claims, the post retroactively expands what was "proven."

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism
- **Narcissistic features (moderate):** Grandiose vindication claim, need to establish prescience
- **Antisocial features (low):** No explicit disregard for rule of law in this post; ironic given adjacent posts demand extra-constitutional electoral reversal
- **Paranoid features (mild-moderate):** Democrat officials framed as deliberate lawbreakers, implying conspiratorial intent
- **Sadism (minimal):** No pleasure-in-humiliation content present

### Narcissistic Dynamics
- **Trigger:** Supply-seeking via favorable external event; no acute narcissistic injury driving this post
- **Rage:** Absent in this post; rhetorical tone is measured, even triumphalist rather than angry
- **State:** Grandiose — expansive vindication mode

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** Court ruling on narrow administrative law point used to justify sweeping claims about 2020 election integrity
- **Projection (immature):** All election irregularities attributed to Democrat bad faith; bipartisan administrative context of Wisconsin Elections Commission omitted
- **Splitting (immature):** Clean binary of authorized/unauthorized, legal/illegal, with no nuance about the ruling's limited scope

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

This post is structurally the most restrained of the four-post sequence, performing a **legitimization function**. By opening with judicial authority and factual recap, it establishes a credible evidentiary base before the sequence escalates to constitutionally radical demands (elector reclamation, election reversal). The technique mirrors classical propaganda structure: establish factual anchor → build emotional charge → demand action.

**Strategic capitalization** functions as a substitute for vocal stress in print, marking the ideologically loaded terms (ILLEGAL, UNMANNED, UNSECURED) for cognitive salience.

**Presupposition loading** is notable: "widespread use" is stated as fact, and "Partisan Radical Democrat officials" compounds partisan, ideological, and character-attack markers into a single label that preempts charitable interpretation.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the widespread use of Ballot Drop Boxes across the State is totally ILLEGAL" | **True** | Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on July 8, 2022 that the Wisconsin Elections Commission lacked statutory authority to authorize widespread drop box use under Wis. Stat. § 6.87(4)(b)1. |
| "the use of these DROP BOXES was never AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE" | **Mostly True** | Court's holding was that WEC exceeded its authority; the legislature had not explicitly authorized the specific drop box deployment protocols used. However, characterizing this as a clear legislative prohibition overstates the ruling. |
| "Partisan Radical Democrat officials simply did it anyway" | **Mostly False** | Drop boxes were authorized by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a bipartisan six-member body with equal Republican and Democratic representation. Attributing the decision solely to partisan Democrat officials misrepresents the administrative record. |

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Authorship Attribution

**Medium confidence: aide-assisted.** Post timing (12:47 PM AKDT / 4:47 PM EDT) on a travel-to-rally day, the structured "RECAP" label, and the role as the coordinated opening post in a four-part series all point toward communications staff involvement. The capitalization patterns and vindication phrase ("Just as I have said all along") reflect authentic Trumpian voice, suggesting dictation or close collaboration rather than pure staff drafting.

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## Danger Assessment

**This post alone: NONE.** However, in sequence context: **ELEVATED.** This post functions as rhetorical groundwork for the adjacent posts demanding electoral decertification and elector reclamation — constitutionally radical demands presented as logical extensions of a court ruling that does not legally support them. The sequence as a whole demonstrates a pattern of using legitimate judicial events as launching pads for extra-constitutional mobilization demands targeting Speaker Robin Vos and implicitly calling for grassroots pressure ("Brave American Patriots already have a Resolution on the Floor!").

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- Post made at ~12:47 PM AKDT / 4:47 PM EDT—daytime business hours on a travel day to Anchorage rally, consistent with aide involvement
- Structural 'RECAP' label and ellipsis threading suggest coordinated multi-post communications strategy, not stream-of-consciousness
- Sentence construction is relatively clean and complete compared to authentic late-night posts
- Strategic all-caps emphasis (ILLEGAL, UNMANNED, UNSECURED, AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE) is a consistent Trump stylistic signature, pulling authorship score toward authentic
- Vindication phrase 'Just as I have said all along' is characteristically Trumpian in its self-referential triumphalism

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Wisconsin Supreme Court ballot drop box ruling (July 8, 2022))

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 52%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective 'we' constructs shared victimhood ('we got big news')
- Presuppositional framing assumes audience already accepts drop box fraud as established fact
- Prophetic retrospection ('Just as I have said all along') positions Trump as uniquely prescient validator

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Post functions as evidentiary foundation for adjacent posts demanding extra-constitutional electoral reversal (elector reclamation, decertification)
- Sequence as a whole applies judicial legitimacy to mobilize grassroots pressure on Speaker Robin Vos
- Pattern of expanding narrow legal ruling into broad fraud narrative primes audience for action demands

### Gaslighting

- Court ruling on WEC administrative authority scope reframed as validation of 2020 election fraud claims—conflates what was legally decided with what was not
- Bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission characterized as 'Partisan Radical Democrat officials'—revises factual administrative record
- Presuppositional framing treats contested claims as established fact requiring no argument

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the widespread use of Ballot Drop Boxes across the State is totally ILLEGAL

**TRUE**

Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on July 8, 2022 that the Wisconsin Elections Commission lacked statutory authority to authorize widespread drop box use under Wis. Stat. § 6.87(4)(b)1.

Sources: Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2022 WI 64 (Wis. Jul. 8, 2022)

> the use of these DROP BOXES was never AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Court's holding was that WEC exceeded its authority; the legislature had not explicitly authorized the specific drop box deployment protocols used. However, characterizing this as a clear legislative prohibition overstates the ruling.

Sources: Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2022 WI 64

> Partisan Radical Democrat officials simply did it anyway

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Drop boxes were authorized by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a bipartisan six-member body with equal Republican and Democratic representation. Attributing the decision solely to partisan Democrat officials misrepresents the administrative record.

Sources: Wisconsin Elections Commission composition records

Overall Veracity: 67%

## Tags

- election-integrity-narrative (95%)
- judicial-legitimacy-appropriation (85%)
- 2020-election-revisionism (90%)
- vindication-supply-seeking (80%)
- multi-post-sequence (75%)
- wisconsin (85%)
- ballot-drop-boxes (95%)
- aide-assisted-authorship (60%)
- rationalization-defense (75%)
- splitting (65%)

## That day

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

**Power Broker at 30,000 Feet: Endorsement Denials, Election Demands, and Musk Retaliation on the Way to Alaska**

Trump spent the day in campaign mode, traveling from Las Vegas to Anchorage for a rally while firing off posts between stops. The Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling against ballot drop boxes consumed most of his attention, fueling a four-post escalation that demanded state legislators overturn the 2020 election results and branded the situation an "atrocity." He also took public shots at Elon Musk over the collapsed Twitter deal, denied endorsement to a Missouri Senate candidate in deliberately humiliating fashion, and shared a brief tribute to the assassinated Shinzo Abe. The overall mood was assertive and grandiose — a power broker dispensing favor and punishment from the campaign trail.

Full digest for 2022-07-09: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 9). Wisconsin Drop Box Scandal RECAP…Yesterday, we... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619343623724902
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wisconsin Drop Box Scandal RECAP…Yesterday, we got big news..." Truth Social, 9 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619343623724902. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wisconsin Drop Box Scandal RECAP…Yesterday, we got big news...," Truth Social, July 9, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108619343623724902.

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