# Post ts_108633681378578710 - Post ID: `ts_108633681378578710` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-12T09:33:49.245Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108633681378578710 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108633681378578710/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108633681378578710.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Isn’t it INCREDIBLE that the people who Cheated, Rigged, and Stole the 2020 Presidential Election, for which there is massive and incontestable evidence and proof (and now even the Wisconsin Supreme Court just ruled that Ballot Boxes, which are impossible to control & easy to cheat with, are ILLEGAL!), are totally protected from harm (the FIX is in!), and the people that caught them cheating are being investigated. Someday soon this will change, or we won’t have a Country anymore! ## Engagement - Likes: 31,393 - Reposts: 9,026 - Replies: 1,409 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:39:19.995Z (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 5:33 AM EDT and almost certainly authentic, this post represents a paranoid-grandiose oscillation triggered by the Wisconsin Supreme Court's procedural drop-box ruling, which Trump recruits as retroactive validation of his 2020 fraud narrative. A narrow 4-3 state court ruling governing future drop-box authorization is inflated into "massive and incontestable evidence and proof" of coordinated federal election theft — a pathological reality distortion serving narcissistic injury repair. The post employs textbook DARVO architecture: legitimate January 6 investigators are recast as persecutors; investigated Trump allies are recast as martyred truth-tellers. Pathological defense mechanisms (distortion, denial) are employed at high intensity, sustained now 20 months post-election. The paranoid features are most elevated, with institutional corruption asserted as established fact and all accountability mechanisms preemptively delegitimized. The closing sentence — "Someday soon this will change, or we won't have a Country anymore" — follows the stochastic terrorism pattern: identified targets, fully articulated existential grievance, implicit necessity of action. In the post-January 6 context, the ambiguity of "this will change" is not benign. The framework for violent rationalization is already established in the audience; this post reinforces it. Danger level: elevated. No new cognitive markers; perseveration on 2020 fraud is consistent with baseline for this period. ## Authorship & Temporal Context **Posted 09:33 UTC, July 12, 2022.** Trump held his Anchorage, Alaska rally on approximately July 9; by July 12 he had very likely returned to his summer residence at Bedminster, New Jersey. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) places this post at **5:33 AM EDT** — squarely within his documented early-morning Truth Social posting window and strongly indicative of authentic authorship. Corroborating stylometric markers: three ALL-CAPS passages ("INCREDIBLE," "ILLEGAL," "FIX"), rhetorical question opener, a single run-on sentence spanning the entire post with multiple nested parentheticals, and a stray Unicode artifact (the object-replacement character  after "incontestable") consistent with imperfect copy-paste from an external source. Aide-written posts rarely exhibit this combination of structural impulsivity and typographic irregularity. --- ## Trigger & Narcissistic Dynamics The same-day posting sequence establishes the trigger architecture. Trump posted the Wisconsin Supreme Court drop-box ruling link with "Big, big news!" and then, minutes later, composed this post inflating that ruling into "massive and incontestable evidence and proof" of 2020 fraud. The psychodynamic function is transparent: a narrow 4-3 procedural ruling about *future* drop-box legality is recruited to repair the sustained narcissistic injury of electoral defeat. This is **supply-seeking combined with injury-repair** — the ruling temporarily resolves the wound by retroactively validating the persecution narrative. The post is not primarily about Wisconsin; it is about the self. --- ## Narcissistic State: Paranoid-Grandiose Oscillation The post oscillates rapidly between grandiose positioning ("the people that caught them cheating") and vulnerable/persecuted positioning ("totally protected from harm… the FIX is in!"). This rapid oscillation — self as righteous truth-teller *and* persecuted martyr simultaneously — is consistent with malignant narcissism, where the grandiose and paranoid poles reinforce rather than contradict each other. The injured party is also the heroic exposer. The persecution framing ("the FIX is in!") parenthetically inserted as casual assertion is a particularly notable construction: it normalizes a serious conspiracy allegation through rhetorical downshift. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Distortion (pathological):** A prospective, procedural state court ruling on drop-box authorization is transformed into retroactive "incontestable proof" of a coordinated federal election theft. This is gross reality-reshaping at the pathological tier. - **Denial (pathological):** Sustained refusal — now approaching 20 months post-election — to accept a result confirmed by 60+ courts, Trump's own AG, and dozens of state officials from both parties. - **Projection (immature):** The very conduct Trump's allies engaged in (pressuring election officials, attempting to reverse certified results) is attributed wholesale to opponents ("Cheated, Rigged, and Stole"). - **Splitting (immature):** Pure victims ("people that caught them") vs. pure criminals ("Cheated, Rigged, and Stole"). No intermediate categories exist. --- ## DARVO Structure The post is a textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) construction: - **Deny:** The legitimate electoral process is denied validity ("Stole the 2020 Presidential Election"). - **Attack:** Agents of the state are cast as co-conspirators ("totally protected from harm… the FIX is in!"). - **Reverse:** The actual subjects of lawful investigation (Trump allies, January 6 participants) are recast as heroic whistleblowers being persecuted for truth-telling. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Rhetorical question:** "Isn't it INCREDIBLE…" — constructs shared incredulity before delivering the argument, preempting skepticism. - **Hyperbole:** "massive and incontestable evidence and proof" — the redundant piling of three near-synonyms signals emotional rather than evidentiary confidence. - **False dichotomy:** "Someday soon this will change, OR we won't have a Country anymore" — presents an ultimatum between two extreme outcomes, eliminating the wide middle ground. - **Appeal to fear:** National destruction as terminus if grievance is unaddressed. - **Firehose of falsehood (RAND model):** Volume of assertion substitutes for evidentiary support; speed and confidence of claim overwhelms capacity for rebuttal. - **Stochastic terrorism structure (see Danger Assessment):** Target identification + grievance articulation + implied necessity of action. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - Asserts "massive and incontestable evidence" for a claim adjudicated false by all relevant institutions. - "The FIX is in!" presents active institutional corruption as established fact requiring no support. - Reframes DOJ/congressional investigations of January 6 as persecution of legitimate whistleblowers. - Demands audience acceptance of these inversions as a condition of in-group membership. --- ## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED The closing sentence — "Someday soon this will change, or we won't have a Country anymore" — warrants careful attention. It follows the stochastic terrorism pattern: (1) named agents of evil (election officials, "protected" fraudsters, corrupt investigators); (2) fully articulated existential grievance (stolen country, persecuted truth-tellers); (3) implicit necessity of action ("this will change"). The mechanism does not require explicit incitement — radicalized followers have already internalized the framework. The phrase "Someday soon this will change" is particularly ambiguous: it could be read as electoral optimism or as implicit threat. In the context of January 6, seven months prior, the ambiguity is not benign. --- ## Cognitive Assessment No new markers beyond Trump's established baseline. The nested parenthetical structure is characteristic of his documented speech pattern. The perseveration on 2020 election fraud is consistent with his 2021-2022 posting behavior. Complexity is within normal range for this period. The copy-paste artifact (stray character) is an impulsivity/carelessness marker rather than a cognitive one. No word-finding difficulties, temporal confusion, or semantic paraphasia detected. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) - **Protagonist role:** The whistleblower-martyr hybrid — he and his allies "caught them" but are now persecuted for it. - **Contamination sequence:** Legitimate America → stolen by corrupt elites who remain protected by a rigged system. - **Contrasting other:** The nameless, protected "cheaters" — powerful, shielded, criminal, and above accountability. - **Identity claim:** Defender of electoral truth; voice of the dispossessed against a corrupt order. - **Archetypal register:** Warrior-Victim with Trickster undertones — fighting a corrupt institutional order (Warrior), suffering for truth (Victim), disrupting consensus reality (Trickster). --- ## Summary *This post is clinically significant and warrants summary.* Composed at 5:33 AM EDT, almost certainly by Trump himself, this post represents a characteristic paranoid-grandiose oscillation triggered by the Wisconsin Supreme Court's procedural ruling on ballot drop boxes, which Trump recruits as retroactive validation of his 2020 fraud narrative. The psychodynamic architecture is transparent: a narrow state-court ruling on future election administration is inflated into "massive and incontestable evidence and proof" of a coordinated federal election theft — a gross reality distortion serving narcissistic injury repair. The post employs a textbook DARVO structure (legitimate investigators recast as persecutors; investigated allies recast as heroic whistleblowers) and pathological defense mechanisms including distortion and denial now sustaining for nearly two years post-election. The closing sentence — "Someday soon this will change, or we won't have a Country anymore" — follows a stochastic terrorism framework: target identification, fully articulated grievance, implicit necessity of action. In the post-January 6 context, the ambiguity of "this will change" is not benign. Danger level is assessed at *elevated*. No new cognitive markers; perseveration on 2020 fraud is consistent with established baseline for this period. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that ballot drop boxes are ILLEGAL" | **Mostly True** | The Wisconsin Supreme Court did rule 4-3 in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (decided July 8, 2022) that unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes are not authorized under Wisconsin state election law. However, the ruling is prospective and procedural — it governs future elections, not a finding of fraud in the 2020 election. | | "There is massive and incontestable evidence and proof that the 2020 Presidential Election was cheated, rigged, and stolen" | **False** | More than 60 courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 outcome. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of fraud that would change the election result. Dozens of Republican state election officials certified the results. The Wisconsin SC ruling is a narrow procedural determination about drop-box authorization, not a finding of fraud. | | "People who caught cheaters are being investigated" | **Half True** | It is accurate that allies of Trump who participated in post-election activities were subjects of DOJ and congressional investigation by July 2022. However, the framing — that these individuals 'caught cheaters' — is false. They were investigated for their own conduct related to the January 6 Capitol breach and efforts to overturn the election, not for exposing fraud. | Overall Veracity: 43% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 91%) ### Indicators - 5:33 AM EDT posting time — within Trump's documented early-morning window - Three ALL-CAPS passages (INCREDIBLE, ILLEGAL, FIX) - Rhetorical question opener characteristic of authentic posts - Single sprawling run-on sentence with multiple nested parentheticals - Stray Unicode object-replacement character after 'incontestable' — copy-paste artifact indicating unpolished, unedited composition ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (2020 election defeat (sustained injury); Wisconsin SC ruling as proximate supply trigger) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Election officials, DOJ/investigators, 'protected' Democratic operatives - Proportionality: 12% Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 64% - Paranoid: 87% - Sadism: 28% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 44% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared incredulity construction ('Isn't it INCREDIBLE') pulls audience into conspiratorial in-group - Epistemic closure: Wisconsin ruling positioned as proof accessible only to those willing to see it - Existential stakes framing ('or we won't have a Country anymore') binds audience to urgency - DARVO inversion recruits audience sympathy by casting Trump allies as martyred truth-tellers ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - 'Someday soon this will change, or we won't have a Country anymore' — implicit mobilization framing that eliminates democratic middle ground and positions extraordinary action as necessary - Stochastic terrorism structure: named targets (election officials, 'protected cheaters', investigators), fully articulated existential grievance, implicit necessity of action ('this will change') - Complete delegitimization of institutional accountability mechanisms ('the FIX is in!') — preemptively disqualifies all lawful recourse, leaving extralegal action as implied alternative - Contamination narrative framing positions national destruction as the only alternative to undefined action — radicalization-compatible framework - Post-January 6 context makes 'this will change' ambiguity non-benign; framework for violence rationalization already established in audience ### Gaslighting - Asserts 'massive and incontestable evidence and proof' of election fraud — a claim adjudicated false by all relevant judicial and electoral institutions - 'The FIX is in!' presents active institutional corruption as established fact requiring no evidentiary support - DARVO inversion: legitimate investigators of January 6 are recast as persecutors; investigated Trump allies are recast as heroic whistleblowers being punished for truth-telling - Wisconsin procedural ruling (future drop-box authorization) is instrumentalized as retroactive proof of 2020 fraud — deliberate conflation of two distinct legal questions - Epistemic closure demand: audience acceptance of these reality inversions is framed as a condition of understanding the 'incredible' situation ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that ballot drop boxes are ILLEGAL **MOSTLY TRUE** The Wisconsin Supreme Court did rule 4-3 in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (decided July 8, 2022) that unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes are not authorized under Wisconsin state election law. However, the ruling is prospective and procedural — it governs future elections, not a finding of fraud in the 2020 election. Sources: Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2022 WI 64 (July 8, 2022) > There is massive and incontestable evidence and proof that the 2020 Presidential Election was cheated, rigged, and stolen **FALSE** More than 60 courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 outcome. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of fraud that would change the election result. Dozens of Republican state election officials certified the results. The Wisconsin SC ruling is a narrow procedural determination about drop-box authorization, not a finding of fraud. Sources: AG William Barr press statements, December 2020; Bipartisan state election certification records; Federal and state court rulings, November 2020 – January 2021 > People who caught cheaters are being investigated **HALF TRUE** It is accurate that allies of Trump who participated in post-election activities were subjects of DOJ and congressional investigation by July 2022. However, the framing — that these individuals 'caught cheaters' — is false. They were investigated for their own conduct related to the January 6 Capitol breach and efforts to overturn the election, not for exposing fraud. Sources: January 6 Select Committee proceedings, 2021-2022; DOJ investigation records Overall Veracity: 43% ## Tags - election_denial (98%) - paranoid_grandiose_oscillation (87%) - DARVO (91%) - stochastic_terrorism (74%) - pathological_denial (89%) - epistemic_closure (83%) - Wisconsin_SC_ruling (76%) - narcissistic_injury_repair (82%) - reality_distortion (88%) - mobilization_framing (71%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Besieged by J6 Testimony and Musk's Defection, Trump Launches Multi-Front Devaluation Campaign** Trump spent the day in reactive mode, pushing back against the January 6 Committee's seventh hearing and Cassidy Hutchinson's damaging testimony with personal attacks and blanket denials. He repeatedly seized on a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling about ballot drop boxes, casting it as proof his stolen-election claims were right all along. The evening brought a sharp turn toward Elon Musk, who received a blistering four-post takedown after pulling out of the Twitter deal — including claims that Musk once begged on his knees for subsidies. The overall mood swung between vindication and victimhood, with anger flaring in the morning over January 6 and again in the evening over Musk. Full digest for 2022-07-12: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 12). Isn’t it INCREDIBLE that the people who Cheated,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108633681378578710 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Isn’t it INCREDIBLE that the people who Cheated, Rigged,..." Truth Social, 12 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108633681378578710. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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