# Post ts_108642547885841267

- Post ID: `ts_108642547885841267`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-13T23:08:41.408Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108642547885841267
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108642547885841267/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-shreds-jan-6-committee-for-trying-to-divert-incoming-gop-victories-are-you-listening-america/

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:24:39.298Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Published on the same day as the House Jan. 6 Committee's seventh hearing — focused on Trump's 187-minute inaction and witness contact attempts — this post is a single URL to a sympathetic media outlet with no original subject-generated text. Timing (3:08 PM AKDT, business hours, Alaska rally day) and format strongly indicate aide-mediated distribution rather than authentic impulsive posting. The amplified article headline performs the rhetorical work: reframing the committee as a partisan tactic to suppress GOP electoral gains, while the 'Are you listening America?' coda activates parasocial audience identity. Core psychological function is defensive: counter-programming against narcissistic injury (public exposure of inaction/impotence) without engaging the evidentiary substance. Defense mechanisms include projection (attributing diversionary motive to the committee), denial (implicit delegitimization), and displacement (redirecting to future midterm victories). The restrained format — no rage, no personal text, no direct rebuttal — is notably below-baseline for the severity of the trigger, suggesting staff suppression of a more volatile authentic response. The DARVO structure embedded in the amplified headline (committee accused of the political manipulation the post itself performs) constitutes mild gaslighting. No violent or eliminationist language present; danger level is none for this specific post.

# Analysis: ts_108642547885841267 — Truth Social, 2022-07-13

## Overview

This post consists entirely of a single URL to RSB Network (Right Side Broadcasting Network), a pro-Trump media outlet. There is **no original text from the subject**. The article headline — "Trump shreds Jan. 6 committee for trying to divert incoming GOP victories — Are you listening America?" — constitutes the entire communicative content of the post. This structural fact is itself analytically significant: the subject is outsourcing his voice to a sympathetic third-party outlet rather than speaking directly.

**Critical contextual overlay:** This post was published on the same day as the House January 6th Committee's seventh hearing, which focused specifically on Trump's **187 minutes of inaction** during the Capitol attack and his associates' ties to the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. The timing is not coincidental.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Location determination:** Known events confirm Trump held a rally at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on July 13, 2022. Alaska Daylight Time is UTC−8. Post timestamp 23:08 UTC converts to **15:08 AKDT** — squarely mid-afternoon, business hours.

**Assessment:** Aide-mediated (Scavino-class). Indicators: (1) business-hours post in local timezone; (2) zero original text — purely a URL share, a hallmark of scheduled/staff-managed content distribution; (3) RSB Network is a go-to amplification channel for Trump's communications team; (4) post was likely queued as counter-programming against the J6 hearing, consistent with strategic staff coordination rather than impulsive authentic posting. No typos, misspellings, or emotional eruptions are possible when no text is generated. **Confidence: medium** — bare URL shares are occasionally authentic quick-shares from Trump's phone, but the timing and operational context lean aide.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury. The seventh J6 hearing directly exposed the subject's inaction during the Capitol attack — a concrete, documented failure of duty that is particularly threatening because it is difficult to deny outright. The committee was presenting testimony, graphics, and phone records showing 187 minutes of paralysis. This constitutes a multi-vector injury: (1) exposure of impotence/incompetence rather than strength; (2) public questioning of loyalty to followers; (3) institutional legitimacy challenge.

**Response pattern:** Rather than direct rebuttal (as seen in his Elon Musk posts from the prior day, where he produces voluminous first-person text), the subject here deploys **counter-programming through proxy**. This is a more strategically controlled response than typical narcissistic rage — suggesting either staff mediation or a moment of disciplined self-regulation.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed, leaning defensive/grandiose. The implicit framing positions the J6 committee as politically-motivated spoilers, thereby: (a) reframing the subject as a winner being unfairly targeted (victimhood/grandiosity oscillation); (b) forecasting electoral dominance ("incoming GOP victories") as counter-narrative — restoring grandiose self-image against the injury of exposure.

**The "Are you listening America?" coda** (in the article headline being amplified) is a classic parasocial activation phrase — direct address to the mass audience, positioning the subject (via proxy) as the one truth-teller cutting through institutional noise.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature):** The article's framing accuses the committee of "diverting" attention — a textbook reversal. The post is itself a diversion from the committee's evidence, yet attributes the diversionary motive to the committee.

2. **Denial (pathological, implicit):** By sharing content that dismisses the committee's work as politically tactical, the subject implicitly denies the legitimacy of the underlying evidentiary record without engaging any specific claim.

3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The "diversion" frame provides a logical-sounding justification — the committee exists to suppress Republican electoral gains — that explains away the investigation without requiring engagement with its substance.

4. **Displacement:** Rather than addressing the 187-minute inaction directly (the hearing's focus), the post redirects focus to the upcoming midterms and GOP prospects.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The amplified article title deploys several notable techniques despite its brevity:

- **Reframing/whataboutism:** The committee hearings are recast as a partisan tactic ("divert incoming GOP victories") rather than a fact-finding process. This is a classic RAND Firehose maneuver — not engaging the substance but attacking the motive.
- **False dichotomy:** "The real story is GOP victories / the committee is a distraction" — presents two mutually exclusive framings when both can simultaneously be true or false.
- **Parasocial direct address:** "Are you listening America?" bypasses institutional media and speaks directly to the audience as a community of the informed against the uninformed.
- **Appeal to future:** Anchoring on midterm victories pulls audience attention forward in time, away from backward-facing accountability.
- **Legitimacy attack (ad institutionem):** "Jan. 6 Committee" becomes an implicit smear label — the organization itself is the target, not specific claims.

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or eliminationist rhetoric is present. Danger level is **none** for this specific post, though it contributes to the longitudinal pattern of committee delegitimization.

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## Cognitive Assessment

**Cannot be assessed.** The post contains no original subject-generated language. No linguistic markers — word-finding, syntax, coherence, vocabulary, or complexity — can be extracted from a bare URL. Baseline deviation is **none** (not from deviation, but from complete absence of data). This absence is itself a minor longitudinal signal: the subject's July 13 Truth Social presence is a single outsourced URL on a day when his personal brand was under the most direct institutional scrutiny of that period.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jan. 6 Committee is 'trying to divert incoming GOP victories'" | **Mostly False** | The committee was a bicameral (though Republican-limited) congressional oversight body operating under statutory authority. Its scheduling of hearings in summer 2022 was driven by investigative timeline and midterm proximity, not solely by partisan electoral strategy. While partisan motivations may exist among some members, framing the entire investigative enterprise as an electoral diversion ignores its constitutional function and documented evidentiary record. |
| "Implicit: 'incoming GOP victories' (major Republican gains in 2022 midterms)" | **Half True** | Republicans did win the House majority in November 2022, but the predicted 'red wave' did not materialize. Democrats retained the Senate, and Republicans underperformed in many competitive races. The claim was directionally partially correct but substantially oversold. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

The amplified framing casts the subject in the **persecuted-but-ascendant protagonist** role: unfairly targeted by a committee while his movement surges toward inevitable victory. This is a **contamination-then-redemption** narrative arc compressed into a single headline — the contaminating force (J6 committee) will be overwhelmed by the redemptive outcome (GOP victories). The "contrasting other" is the committee/establishment Democratic apparatus.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype activated:** The **Warrior under siege** — surrounded but undefeated. The Warrior archetype is invoked not through Trump's own words but through the framing he chooses to amplify. Secondary: **Trickster/Contrarian** — using the formal apparatus of a congressional committee as the villain, with Trump as disruptor of the institutional disruptors.

**Shadow projection:** The "diversion" accusation projects onto the committee the subject's own behavior pattern — using attention management and narrative flooding to divert from accountability.

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## Summary

This post warrants brief documentation primarily for its contextual significance. Structurally, it is a bare URL share — a minimum-footprint response on the day of the most damaging J6 committee hearing to date (the 187-minute inaction hearing). The subject generates no original text, instead amplifying a sympathetic media outlet's counter-framing. Timing (3:08 PM AKDT, business hours, rally day in Anchorage) and format strongly suggest aide-mediated distribution — notably restrained relative to his direct-voice posts from the preceding 24 hours (the Elon Musk attack sequence). Psychologically, this represents a more strategically disciplined response to narcissistic injury than the subject's typical pattern, either through staff intervention or unusual self-regulation. The core rhetorical move — reframing the committee as a partisan diversionary tactic — employs projection and whataboutism without introducing new factual claims or escalatory language. Clinically, the post is below threshold for independent significance but fits the longitudinal pattern of institutional delegitimization deployed in response to accountability moments.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 22%)

### Indicators

- Post published at 15:08 AKDT (business hours in subject's local timezone — Anchorage, Alaska rally day)
- Zero original text generated — entire post is a single URL, eliminating any linguistic fingerprint
- RSB Network is a standard Trump communications team amplification channel
- Post likely queued as counter-programming against simultaneous J6 seventh hearing
- No typos, emotional outbursts, or stream-of-consciousness patterns possible given absence of text

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (House Jan. 6 Committee seventh hearing (July 13, 2022) — focus on 187-minute inaction and witness contact attempts)

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- displacement (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- 'Are you listening America?' — direct audience address via amplified headline, bypassing institutional media to speak to mass base as community of the enlightened
- Proxy voice amplification — using third-party media to voice what direct posting would expose as self-serving, while maintaining plausible strategic distance

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Implicit denial of J6 committee evidentiary legitimacy without engaging specific findings
- Motive-attribution to committee ('divert') that reverses victim and offender — DARVO pattern: committee accused of the very political manipulation that the counter-narrative post performs
- Reality distortion: framing a bicameral investigative committee as a political diversion tool attacks audience's ability to evaluate the institution on its own terms

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Jan. 6 Committee is 'trying to divert incoming GOP victories'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The committee was a bicameral (though Republican-limited) congressional oversight body operating under statutory authority. Its scheduling of hearings in summer 2022 was driven by investigative timeline and midterm proximity, not solely by partisan electoral strategy. While partisan motivations may exist among some members, framing the entire investigative enterprise as an electoral diversion ignores its constitutional function and documented evidentiary record.

Sources: Known events: seventh hearing focused on 187-minute inaction, witness contact — substantive investigative content independent of electoral calendar

> Implicit: 'incoming GOP victories' (major Republican gains in 2022 midterms)

**HALF TRUE**

Republicans did win the House majority in November 2022, but the predicted 'red wave' did not materialize. Democrats retained the Senate, and Republicans underperformed in many competitive races. The claim was directionally partially correct but substantially oversold.

Sources: 2022 midterm election results — general knowledge

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- counter-programming (90%)
- aide-mediated (80%)
- J6-committee-delegitimization (90%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (80%)
- proxy-voice (85%)
- DARVO (65%)
- whataboutism (75%)
- minimal-footprint (70%)
- epistemicClosure (60%)

## That day

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

**A Conspicuously Quiet Day as the Jan. 6 Committee Closes In**

An unusually quiet day with just one post — a shared link to a friendly news outlet dismissing the Jan. 6 Committee — despite a blockbuster hearing focused on Trump's inaction during the Capitol breach and a 40-year-high inflation report that would normally be political red meat. The single mid-afternoon post from Alaska bore all the hallmarks of staff-managed communications rather than anything personally written. The near-silence on a day with two major news hooks suggests his team was keeping him on a tight leash during a legally sensitive moment.

Full digest for 2022-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 13). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-shreds-jan-6... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108642547885841267
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-shreds-jan-6-committee..." Truth Social, 13 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108642547885841267. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-shreds-jan-6-committee...," Truth Social, July 13, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108642547885841267.

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