# Post ts_108636709682962081 - Post ID: `ts_108636709682962081` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-07-12T22:23:57.499Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108636709682962081 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108636709682962081/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108636709682962081.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The Democrats now lost Wisconsin! The Cheating and Irregularities were unbelievable. So much for the “Big Lie”—and to think other States were far worse, but they’re doing the deep dive also. Our 2020 Presidential Election was indeed the “Big Lie”, IN REVERSE!… ## Engagement - Likes: 28,836 - Reposts: 7,859 - Replies: 903 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:24:19.502Z (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 the same day as the January 6 Committee's seventh hearing—which examined Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack—this post is a textbook reactive defensive maneuver triggered by compound narcissistic injury (exposure + accountability). The Wisconsin Supreme Court's July 8 ruling on ballot drop boxes (finding their use violated state law for future elections) is dramatically misrepresented as proof that "Democrats lost Wisconsin" in 2020. No court has overturned Wisconsin's 2020 certified results or found fraud. The post's organizing principle is DARVO: appropriating the phrase "Big Lie"—coined to describe Trump's own false election fraud claims—inverting it, and redeploying it against Democrats. Projection is active: the deception Trump is accused of is attributed wholesale to the accusers. Distortion is pathological: a procedural future-election ruling becomes retrospective vindication of a stolen-election thesis. The escalation tease ("other States were far worse, but they're doing the deep dive also") primes followers for further revelations, sustaining anticipatory engagement. While no explicit violent language appears, the post contributes to the sustained election-denial infrastructure whose attitudinal consequences were demonstrated on January 6. Stylistic markers (ALL CAPS climax, trailing ellipsis, scare-quote manipulation, reactive timing) indicate authentic Trump authorship. Cognitive function is within established baseline; the rhetorical inversion requires intact working memory. Danger level: elevated, longitudinal context considered. ## Authorship Attribution **UTC 22:23:57 → ~6:23 PM EDT** (Trump most likely in NY/NJ tri-state area mid-July 2022; the Anchorage rally catalogued in the event list appears to be a separate day). Late afternoon/early evening — within Trump's personal posting window rather than strictly late-night, but the stylistic fingerprints are emphatically authentic: capitalization of abstract nouns ("Cheating and Irregularities"), weaponized scare-quoting of the opponent's own coinage ("Big Lie"), climactic ALL CAPS inversion ("IN REVERSE"), trailing ellipsis implying further revelation to come, and a reactive emotional register tightly coupled to same-day news. No aide polishes a post this theatrically. --- ## Trigger and Psychological State The **January 6 Committee's seventh hearing** (July 12, 2022) is the most probable immediate trigger. That hearing focused on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol assault and his organizational ties to extremist groups — a compound narcissistic injury combining *exposure*, *accountability*, and *public humiliation* delivered in live televised testimony. The post follows a well-established defensive playbook: rather than engage the substance of the hearing, Trump pivots to a counter-narrative of vindication, anchored to the Wisconsin Supreme Court's July 8 ruling on ballot drop boxes. **Narcissistic state**: Mixed — oscillating between grandiose (triumphalist tone, "we were right all along") and reactive-vulnerable (urgency of the "IN REVERSE" inversion signals underlying wound). --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **DARVO** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender): The organizing principle of the entire post. "Big Lie IN REVERSE" is pure DARVO — seizing the adversary's most damaging label, inverting it, and redeploying it as the primary accusation. The asymmetry is linguistically efficient: no new argument required, just reversal. 2. **Projection** (immature): "Big Lie" was coined to describe Trump's false election fraud claims. By mirroring it back at Democrats, Trump attributes his own deception pattern to the accusers. 3. **Distortion** (pathological): The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling held that widespread use of drop boxes violated state law — it did not decertify the 2020 election, did not find fraud, did not change the certified outcome. Trump distorts a procedural future-election ruling into retrospective proof of a stolen presidential race. 4. **Rationalization** (neurotic): "So much for the 'Big Lie'" treats a narrow procedural win as epistemic vindication of the entire stolen-election thesis. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Inversion/chiasmus**: The rhetorical centerpiece. Taking the enemy's framing and returning it weaponized. - **False equivalence**: A state court ruling on drop boxes ≠ proof of coordinated national election fraud. - **Escalation cascade**: "other States were far worse, but they're doing the deep dive also" — implies further damaging revelations are imminent, sustaining audience anticipation. - **Scare-quote delegitimization**: Puts "Big Lie" in quotes throughout to signal he always regarded the term as false; the inversion then reclaims the phrase. - **Collective possessive**: "Our 2020 Presidential Election" draws audience into shared grievance ownership. - **Trailing ellipsis**: Signals continuation and incompleteness — more is coming, stay tuned. --- ## Gaslighting Assessment Active and deliberate. The post enacts a classic gaslighting maneuver: appropriating the very term used to describe the subject's disinformation campaign ("Big Lie"), adding "IN REVERSE," and asserting the opposite party committed the original deception. Followers who accept this framing are inoculated against future corrections — any reminder that Trump's claims were debunked can now be dismissed as itself part of the "Big Lie." This is epistemic infrastructure maintenance, not mere rhetoric. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Democrats now lost Wisconsin" | **Mostly False** | The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled July 8, 2022 that widespread use of ballot drop boxes violated state law. This ruling addressed future election administration; it did not overturn the 2020 certified results, decertify Biden's Wisconsin win, or establish fraud. Biden's Wisconsin victory was certified and upheld through multiple recounts and legal challenges. | | "Cheating and Irregularities were unbelievable" | **False** | No Wisconsin court, audit, or recount found evidence of fraud sufficient to change the 2020 outcome. Over 60 post-election legal challenges nationally were dismissed or decided against Trump, including in Wisconsin. | | "Other States were far worse" | **Unverifiable** | Unsubstantiated forward implication. No state audit or court has found systemic fraud changing the 2020 presidential outcome. Claim appears to be preparatory framing for future election-denial content rather than reference to documented findings. | | "Our 2020 Presidential Election was indeed the 'Big Lie,' IN REVERSE" | **False** | The term 'Big Lie' was applied by critics to Trump's unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Biden won 306 electoral votes; results were certified in all 50 states and the District of Columbia; courts rejected legal challenges. No credible evidence of coordinated election fraud by Democrats has been produced. | Overall Veracity: 18% ## Danger Assessment **Elevated**. No explicit violent language in this post, but it contributes to the sustained infrastructure of election-denial belief that animated January 6. The timing — same day as J6 Committee hearing — and the forward-looking escalation ("other States were far worse, but they're doing the deep dive also") continue to prime followers to regard the democratic process as fundamentally corrupt, which is the attitudinal precondition for political violence. No single post triggers "high" here, but the longitudinal pattern remains concerning. --- ## Cognitive Status Within Trump's established baseline. The rhetorical inversion ("Big Lie IN REVERSE") requires functional working memory and linguistic dexterity. Sentence construction is coherent. No phonemic or semantic paraphasia, no temporal confusion, no perseveration beyond habitual topic repetition. Syntactic complexity is low but consistent with lifelong baseline. No clinically significant deviation detected in this post. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 87%) ### Indicators - Capitalization of abstract nouns ('Cheating and Irregularities') — habitual Trump stylistic marker - Weaponized scare-quoting of opponent's coinage ('Big Lie') with dramatic inversion - ALL CAPS climax ('IN REVERSE') for emotional emphasis - Trailing ellipsis implying more revelations to come - Reactive emotional register tightly synchronized with same-day J6 Committee hearing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee seventh hearing (July 12, 2022) — focused on Trump's 187-minute inaction and ties to extremist groups) **Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Democrats / election officials / J6 Committee narrative - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.58 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Multiple posts on same day across diverse topics (Paul Ryan, Dick Morris, Biden 2024, Fox News, Wisconsin) suggesting elevated output - Triumphalist energy disproportionate to evidentiary basis of Wisconsin ruling - ALL CAPS climax and exclamatory fragments consistent with elevated arousal state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - reaction formation (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective possessive ('Our 2020 Presidential Election') — enrolls audience as co-owners of grievance - Escalation tease ('other States were far worse, but they're doing the deep dive also') — sustains follower anticipation - Triumphalist framing to reward believers' prior commitment to election-denial narrative ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Contributes to sustained election-denial infrastructure whose downstream consequences include political violence (cf. January 6) - Forward-looking escalation ('other States were far worse') primes followers for continued adversarial mobilization against election officials - Timing simultaneous with J6 Committee hearing creates counter-narrative designed to undermine accountability process - Framing democratic institutions as fundamentally corrupt is attitudinal precondition for extralegal action ### Gaslighting - Appropriates opponent's most potent label ('Big Lie') and inverts it — neutralizes the term for future use against critics - Frames Wisconsin procedural ruling as confirmation of what was 'always known' — rewrites epistemic history - Scare-quoting 'Big Lie' throughout implies Trump always regarded the accusation as false — retroactive repositioning - Escalation tease ('other States were far worse') implies withheld evidence, sustaining belief without providing it - Demands followers accept that accusers are the real perpetrators — classic DARVO gaslighting structure ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > The Democrats now lost Wisconsin **MOSTLY FALSE** The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled July 8, 2022 that widespread use of ballot drop boxes violated state law. This ruling addressed future election administration; it did not overturn the 2020 certified results, decertify Biden's Wisconsin win, or establish fraud. Biden's Wisconsin victory was certified and upheld through multiple recounts and legal challenges. Sources: Wisconsin Supreme Court, Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (July 8, 2022) > Cheating and Irregularities were unbelievable **FALSE** No Wisconsin court, audit, or recount found evidence of fraud sufficient to change the 2020 outcome. Over 60 post-election legal challenges nationally were dismissed or decided against Trump, including in Wisconsin. Sources: Wisconsin Supreme Court recount certification 2020; Post-election audit results Wisconsin 2020 > Other States were far worse **UNVERIFIABLE** Unsubstantiated forward implication. No state audit or court has found systemic fraud changing the 2020 presidential outcome. Claim appears to be preparatory framing for future election-denial content rather than reference to documented findings. > Our 2020 Presidential Election was indeed the 'Big Lie,' IN REVERSE **FALSE** The term 'Big Lie' was applied by critics to Trump's unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Biden won 306 electoral votes; results were certified in all 50 states and the District of Columbia; courts rejected legal challenges. No credible evidence of coordinated election fraud by Democrats has been produced. Sources: CISA 'most secure election' statement Nov 2020; 60+ court case dismissals 2020-2021 Overall Veracity: 18% ## Tags - election-denial (95%) - DARVO (92%) - gaslighting (88%) - J6-committee-reactive (85%) - narcissistic-injury-response (82%) - label-inversion (80%) - projection (78%) - wisconsin-2020 (75%) - epistemic-inoculation (72%) - authentic-trump (87%) ## 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). The Democrats now lost Wisconsin! The Cheating... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108636709682962081 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Democrats now lost Wisconsin! The Cheating and..." Truth Social, 12 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108636709682962081. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Democrats now lost Wisconsin! 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