# Post ts_108620800513403712 - Post ID: `ts_108620800513403712` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-10T02:58:02.826Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108620800513403712 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108620800513403712/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108620800513403712.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > …The Wisconsin voters, and all lawful voters, are injured when the institution charged with administering Wisconsin elections does not follow the law, leaving the results in question.” I hope other States that have been likewise corrupted, are studying the Wisconsin decision. RINOs beware, America is watching! ## Engagement - Likes: 29,120 - Reposts: 7,690 - Replies: 863 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:22:27.675Z (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 disciplined iteration in Trump's 20-month electoral injury-response cycle. The Wisconsin Supreme Court's July 8 drop-box ruling functions as narcissistic supply — a real legal authority that temporarily energizes the grievance system. Trump's rhetorical technique is "legitimacy laundering": embedding the court's genuine procedural finding within a broader fraud narrative the ruling does not support, letting judicial authority validate conspiratorial conclusions. Defense structure is layered — denial (sustained rejection of certified outcomes), rationalization (using a true fact as a vessel for a false inference), and projection (the "corruption" descriptor applied wholesale to institutions while his own documented pressure campaigns are disowned). The "RINOs beware, America is watching!" close is the affect breakthrough: disproportionate in form to the legal content, directing compressed rage inward at Republican apostates whose acceptance of the 2020 result represents the more painful abandonment. Narcissistic state is mixed — grandiose in the authoritative teaching posture toward other states, vulnerable in the urgency of the ellipsis-threaded multi-post structure. No acute cognitive markers. Danger is elevated: not through explicit incitement but through the sustained "RINOs beware" pattern that recruits the audience as an accountability force directed at Republican election officials, consistent with documented harassment of election workers following prior similar rhetoric. # Psychological Analysis — Trump Truth Social Post, July 10, 2022 ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 02:58:02 July 10 converts to approximately **18:58 AKDT July 9** in Alaska, where Trump had just concluded the Anchorage rally. This is an evening post — not strongly in either authentic or aide-written territory by timing alone. However, the tonal shift within the post is diagnostic: the quoted Wisconsin Supreme Court language is almost certainly pulled from an article share or screencap, while the authorial bookends — particularly **"RINOs beware, America is watching!"** — carry unmistakable Trump stylistic signatures: terse, imperative, threat-adjacent, and directed at intraparty dissenters. **Confidence: medium-high authentic** for the commentary; mechanical formatting possibly aide-assisted. --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Salience | Evidence | |---|---|---| | **Extraversion** | High | Dominant, directive, public warning posture | | **Agreeableness** | Very low | Adversarial framing, RINO threat, no conciliatory register | | **Conscientiousness** | Low | Sustained disregard for certified electoral outcomes | | **Neuroticism** | Moderate-high | Underlying angry hostility, compressed but present | | **Openness** | Very low | 20-month rigid belief system impervious to contrary evidence | **Dominant facet:** Angry hostility (Neuroticism N3) expressed through interpersonal dominance. The "RINOs beware" construction is a control assertion — a brief affect discharge within an otherwise prosecutorial post. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Goals & Motives) **Dominant motive:** Power/status restoration. The electoral loss remains an unresolved narcissistic injury — a gap between the grandiose self-concept (legitimate winner) and external reality (certified defeat). This post is functionally a motive-maintenance behavior: keeping the decertification campaign alive sustains the possibility of narrative correction. **Schema revealed:** - *Self:* Righteous truth-teller in possession of documented proof, surrounded by cowardly or corrupt actors - *Others:* Bifurcated into loyal patriots vs. corrupt officials/RINO traitors - *World:* A rigged system that can only be corrected by continued pressure and exposure **Goal structure:** The call for other states to "study the Wisconsin decision" and the warning to RINOs are behavioral nudges — operationalizing the motive by instructing others on what action to take. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The persistent truth-teller / returning king. Trump casts himself not as a participant in a legal dispute but as the narrator of a larger revelation — someone who has known all along what the courts are only now confirming. **Narrative sequence:** Primarily **contamination** (legitimate election → stolen outcome) with an implied **redemption arc** held open: decertification = restoration. The sequence is 20 months old at this point and shows no signs of resolution, suggesting the contamination narrative has become load-bearing for identity structure. **Contrasting other:** "RINOs" — Republican officeholders who accept the 2020 results. These are not Democrats (outgroup) but apostates (ingroup defectors), which makes them more psychologically charged targets. Apostasy is more threatening to the tribal self than enemy opposition. **Identity claims:** *"I hope other States… are studying the Wisconsin decision"* — positions himself as the intellectual authority guiding a national legal movement. He is not asking; he is advising from a position of knowledge superiority. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment (Kernberg) **Narcissistic features (high — 0.75):** - Grandiosity: Claiming a "substantial" Republican victory in Wisconsin despite a ~20,000-vote certified Biden margin - Sense of special knowledge: Privy to truths the system is suppressing - Entitlement: The election result should reflect his self-concept as winner **Antisocial features (moderate — 0.55):** - Sustained disregard for certified legal outcomes over 20 months - Using legal language selectively to support a position already held on non-legal grounds - Pressure on state legislators to take extra-constitutional decertification action **Paranoid features (high — 0.70):** - Generalizing Wisconsin drop-box ruling to a nationwide "corruption" conspiracy - "Other States that have been likewise corrupted" — unfalsifiable, accusatory, expansive - Preoccupation with systemic persecution of "lawful voters" **Ego-syntonic sadism (low — 0.25):** - "RINOs beware" carries a satisfaction in the warning, but this post is more prosecutorial than sadistic ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (pathological):** Sustained refusal — now entering its 21st month — to accept certified election outcomes. The Wisconsin ruling becomes new fuel for an identity-preserving denial system. 2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that absentee drop boxes were illegal under state law — a genuine procedural ruling. Trump uses this to retroactively validate the claim that the 2020 election was stolen, a logical leap the ruling does not support. The court found a procedural violation; Trump treats it as proof of fraud. This is rationalization: adopting logical-seeming justification for a conclusion reached on emotional grounds. 3. **Projection (immature):** "Corrupt Elections" — the subject of extensive documented pressure on state election officials (Raffensperger call, Giuliani pressure campaigns, fake electors scheme) projects the corruption descriptor wholesale onto certified democratic processes. 4. **Splitting (immature):** RINOs vs. real Republicans as all-bad vs. all-good object relations. Republicans who accept 2020 results are redefined as enemies of America — the entire gray zone is eliminated. --- ## Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** The Wisconsin Supreme Court's July 8, 2022 drop-box ruling provided new supply — a real legal authority partially validating procedural concerns about 2020 administration. For a system perpetually seeking external confirmation of a non-negotiable belief, this ruling functioned as narcissistic supply, temporarily energizing the injury-response cycle. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed — predominantly grandiose (authoritative tone, teaching posture toward other states) with a vulnerable substrate visible in the ellipsis threading (building urgency like someone who needs to be believed) and the abrupt "RINOs beware" (threat-as-defense against anticipated abandonment). **Rage:** Present but compressed (intensity ~0.45). "RINOs beware" is the leakage point — disproportionate in form (a warning to an entire class of politicians) relative to the content (a state court procedural ruling). The rage is not at Democrats in this post; it's directed inward at the party, which represents the most painful betrayal. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **Complexity score:** 0.42 (relative to Trump baseline). The post is unusually legalistic in register — this reflects the borrowed judicial language rather than Trump's own verbal production. His own sentences are short and syntactically simple: "I hope other States… are studying the Wisconsin decision. RINOs beware, America is watching!" These are coherent, on-topic, and emotionally appropriate to his ongoing narrative. **Notable markers:** - No word-finding difficulty - No perseveration beyond the expected thematic perseveration of the election fraud campaign - No name confusion, temporal confusion, or tangentiality **Assessment:** No acute cognitive markers in this post. The election fraud perseveration is better understood as motivated reasoning and identity-protective cognition than as a cognitive symptom, though longitudinal comparison with 2015-2016 verbal production would sharpen this assessment. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Core technique:** **Legitimacy laundering** — embedding a real judicial finding within a broader conspiratorial frame so the court's authority rubs off on claims the court did not make. Justice Bradley's drop-box opinion becomes evidence that Wisconsin's 2020 result was fraudulent, a conclusion her ruling does not draw. **Firehose model:** This is post 3+ on the same theme in a single day (see thread context). The volume — not the quality — of legal citations is the message. Each additional post adds to an accumulation effect that simulates an overwhelming body of evidence. **"RINOs beware, America is watching!"** This is a threat-adjacent mobilization call. "America is watching" recruits the passive audience as a monitoring force, implying that Republicans who fail to act on this revelation are visible to a patriotic constituency that will hold them accountable. It is non-violent but operates as a social pressure mechanism with potential to motivate constituent harassment of Republican officials. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Low in this post in isolation. There is no dehumanizing language and no explicit call to action beyond political pressure. However, in longitudinal context, the accumulated pressure on Republican state officials to take action on election fraud claims has produced documented harassment and threats against election workers. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Present:** Yes, moderate. - The Wisconsin ruling found drop boxes procedurally impermissible under existing state law — a genuine legal finding. Trump frames this as evidence the election was "corrupted" and the results "left in question" — a reality distortion that uses a true fact as a vessel for a false conclusion. - "The victory for Republicans was, without doubt, substantial" — Biden won Wisconsin by approximately 20,682 votes (~0.63%). Characterizing this as a "substantial" undetected Trump victory is a direct reality claim contradicted by multiple audits, recounts, and court rulings. - **DARVO pattern:** Trump positions Wisconsin voters as the victims of corrupt election administration, reversing the documented pattern in which his own campaign sought to have legitimately cast ballots invalidated. --- ## Order and Chaos Dynamics **Positioning:** Order attacker (attacking the certified electoral order as corrupt/illegitimate) simultaneously posturing as Order restorer (decertification as the path back to legitimate democratic order). This is the core ideological structure of the January 6th–era rhetoric: chaos deployed in the name of order. **Asymmetric application:** - Order belongs to: "lawful voters," "real Republicans," the Gableman investigation - Chaos/corruption is attributed to: election administrators, RINO Republicans, unnamed corrupted states **Grievance intensity:** High and sustained. This is month 20 of the same unresolved grievance, showing no diminution. --- ## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian) **Primary archetype:** **King/Tyrant oscillation.** Trump positions himself as the legitimate sovereign whose throne was usurped — the King-in-exile. The "RINOs beware" moment tips toward the Tyrant: the rightful King threatening those who refuse to acknowledge him. **Secondary archetype:** **Witness/Prophet** — the one who sees the corruption others deny, tasked with revealing it until enough people believe. **Shadow projection:** Corruption is the shadow element. The documented pressure campaign on state officials (Georgia calls, fake electors) is disowned and projected wholesale onto the institutions that certified the results. What Trump's operation was doing (attempting to manipulate outcomes) is attributed to his opponents. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling finding drop boxes illegal" | **True** | 4-3 ruling issued July 8, 2022; conservative majority held absentee drop boxes impermissible under existing Wisconsin law | | "Justice Bradley compared Wisconsin elections to contests rigged by dictators in Syria and North Korea" | **Mostly True** | Multiple contemporaneous reports confirm extreme comparative rhetoric in the opinion; exact phrasing in post may be paraphrased from article | | "Gableman strongly suggested state legislatures seek to decertify election results" | **Mostly True** | Gableman's investigation report did include decertification recommendation; characterization as 'strongly suggested' is consistent with reported tone | | "The victory for Republicans was substantial in Wisconsin" | **False** | Biden won Wisconsin by approximately 20,682 votes (~0.63%); multiple audits, recounts, and 65+ court cases found no evidence of fraud sufficient to alter outcome | | "Election results were left in question by the ruling" | **Mostly False** | The ruling found future drop box use impermissible but explicitly did not invalidate 2020 results; Wisconsin courts previously rejected all post-election fraud challenges | Overall Veracity: 56% ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** This post does not contain dehumanizing language or explicit incitement. However, it contributes to a documented pressure campaign against Republican election officials and state legislators through: 1. The "RINOs beware" warning — functional threat to intraparty dissenters 2. "America is watching" — recruitment of passive audience as a surveillance/accountability force directed at Republican officials 3. Calls to "other States" to study and act on the Wisconsin decision — mobilization of decertification pressure with no viable legal pathway, which redirects toward extralegal forms of pressure In the context of documented harassment of election workers following similar rhetoric, the pattern is elevated even without explicit violence signaling. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Post starts with '…' indicating continuation in a multi-part thread — a common Trump posting pattern - Closing 'RINOs beware, America is watching!' is syntactically and tonally authentic Trump — short, punchy, imperative, moralizing - 'I hope other States that have been likewise corrupted' is characteristic Trump parallelism and grievance-stacking - UTC 02:58:02 on July 10 = approximately 18:58 on July 9 in Alaska (AKDT, UTC−8) — Trump had just finished the Anchorage rally; evening posting is within plausible range for him but not strongly late-night authentic - The block-quoted legal text likely comes from a shared article or screencap, not composed by Trump; his voice emerges only in the framing sentences ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (2020 Wisconsin election results / ongoing failure to reverse electoral outcome) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting RINO Republicans, Wisconsin election administrators, unnamed 'corrupt' states - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 42% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Crowd witness appeal ('America is watching') - Us-versus-them tribal sorting ('RINOs beware') - Epistemic authority transfer — quoting judicial text to lend legitimacy to non-legal decertification demand - Urgency escalation across multi-part thread to build narrative momentum ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'RINOs beware' — threat-adjacent warning to intraparty Republican officeholders who accept 2020 results - 'America is watching' — recruits passive audience as surveillance/accountability force directed at Republican officials - Call for 'other States' to study and act on Wisconsin decision — mobilization of decertification pressure with no viable legal pathway, redirecting toward extralegal forms of pressure - Sustained pressure-campaign rhetoric consistent with documented pattern producing harassment of election workers and officials ### Gaslighting - Framing a procedural ruling on drop-box legality as evidence the 2020 election was 'corrupted' — using a true fact as vessel for a false inference - Claiming 'the victory for Republicans was, without doubt, substantial' — direct contradiction of certified, audited, court-upheld results - DARVO: Positioning Wisconsin voters as victims of corrupt administration while his campaign's documented pressure campaigns to invalidate legitimately cast ballots are unacknowledged - 'Lawful voters are injured' framing — appropriating the language of democratic harm for a campaign seeking to disenfranchise voters via decertification ## Fact Checks (5) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling finding drop boxes illegal **TRUE** 4-3 ruling issued July 8, 2022; conservative majority held absentee drop boxes impermissible under existing Wisconsin law Sources: Known events: Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling > Justice Bradley compared Wisconsin elections to contests rigged by dictators in Syria and North Korea **MOSTLY TRUE** Multiple contemporaneous reports confirm extreme comparative rhetoric in the opinion; exact phrasing in post may be paraphrased from article Sources: Court opinion reporting, July 2022 > Gableman strongly suggested state legislatures seek to decertify election results **MOSTLY TRUE** Gableman's investigation report did include decertification recommendation; characterization as 'strongly suggested' is consistent with reported tone Sources: Wisconsin Gableman report, 2022 > The victory for Republicans was substantial in Wisconsin **FALSE** Biden won Wisconsin by approximately 20,682 votes (~0.63%); multiple audits, recounts, and 65+ court cases found no evidence of fraud sufficient to alter outcome Sources: Wisconsin Elections Commission certification; Multiple court rulings 2020-2021 > Election results were left in question by the ruling **MOSTLY FALSE** The ruling found future drop box use impermissible but explicitly did not invalidate 2020 results; Wisconsin courts previously rejected all post-election fraud challenges Sources: Wisconsin Supreme Court majority opinion, July 8, 2022 Overall Veracity: 56% ## Tags - election-denial (95%) - Wisconsin-2020 (90%) - decertification (85%) - RINO-threat (80%) - legitimacy-laundering (85%) - narcissistic-injury-response (80%) - Gableman (70%) - drop-boxes (75%) - sustained-grievance (90%) - intraparty-pressure (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Rally Grievance Cascade: Alaska Afterglow Consumed by January 6th Fury** Trump spent the day in Alaska following a rally in Anchorage, starting with warm words for the state before pivoting hard into political combat. The January 6th Committee dominated his attention across two separate multi-post bursts — the second a rapid-fire five-post volley that included the striking claim "there is no January 6th." In between, he endorsed Alaska candidates, took shots at Elon Musk and Morning Joe, and shared a string of favorable rally coverage. The mood swung between triumphant kingmaker and embattled defendant, with the committee hearings clearly weighing on him despite the rally high. A parting jab at Biden's age carried a whiff of projection about his own. Full digest for 2022-07-10: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 10). …The Wisconsin voters, and all lawful voters, are... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108620800513403712 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "…The Wisconsin voters, and all lawful voters, are injured..." Truth Social, 10 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108620800513403712. 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