# Post ts_108665309434440090

- Post ID: `ts_108665309434440090`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-17T23:37:15.076Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108645450025280547 The Unselect Committee and the Fake News Media refuse to go anywhere near these two topics, especially the Rigged Election, where the evidence of fraud is incontestable!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108645450025280547 (2022-07-14T11:26:44.608Z (UTC))

> When is the never ending Unselect Committee going to discuss the fact that Crazy Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000-20,000 soldiers (or National Guard) 3 days before January 6th? When are they going to discuss the MASSIVE ELECTION FRAUD that singularly led to the big turnout of people in D.C. The Kangaroo Court, and the Fake News Media, want to stay as far away from these two topics as possible. WITCH HUNT!

## Engagement

- Likes: 28,227
- Reposts: 7,773
- Replies: 1,151
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:38:10.321Z (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 72 hours after Ivana Trump's death and during the January 6 committee's seventh public hearing sequence, this self-retruth shows Trump in a vulnerable-to-grandiose narcissistic oscillation under compound stress. The post is authenticated by a malformed URL — "The" from the post body concatenated to the URL string — indicating manual, unreviewed composition. Paranoid features predominate: institutional conduct (the committee's extensive public investigation) is recast as motivated avoidance ("refuse to go anywhere near"), inverting reality. The central factual claim — "evidence of fraud is incontestable" — is false; 60+ courts including Trump-appointed judges rejected these claims. Rhetorically, the embedded presupposition is the key technique: placing a contested claim in a subordinate clause presents it as established background rather than arguable assertion. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial (blanket refusal to engage adjudicated findings), projection (accusing the committee of epistemic avoidance, which is Trump's own behavior toward adverse rulings), and splitting (binary truth-holders vs. truth-suppressors). The post contributes to ongoing epistemic closure dynamics, pre-disqualifying counter-evidence sources while reinforcing in-group identity around shared grievance. No cognitive deviation from baseline. No danger indicators in this specific post. The broader "Rigged Election" narrative ecosystem carries democratic-norm risks, but this instance reflects routine grievance maintenance rather than escalation.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2022-07-17T23:37:15Z

### Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (High Confidence)**

The UTC timestamp 23:37 converts to approximately **19:37 EDT** at his likely location — Bedminster, NJ (his customary summer residence). Evening hours are consistent with authentic Trump activity. More compellingly, the post URL is malformed: `https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108645450025280547The` — the word "The" from the beginning of the post body has been appended directly to the URL, a composition error characteristic of clumsy manual retruthing rather than polished staff work. This technical artifact is a high-confidence authentic marker. The emotional content, use of trademarked derogatory nicknames ("Unselect Committee," "Fake News Media"), and declarative absolutism ("incontestable!") all align with authentic Trump posting patterns.

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### Contextual Frame

This post arrives approximately **72 hours after Ivana Trump's death** (July 14) — a significant personal loss. Simultaneously, the January 6 Select Committee was conducting its seventh public hearing sequence, focusing on the 187-minute inaction period and Trump's alleged coordination with extremist groups. The post is a **retruth of Trump's own earlier post** (108645450025280547), amplifying content he had already published the same day. The structure suggests he found the earlier message worth reinforcing — a signal of elevated salience.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (High):** Assertive, declamatory tone; broadcasting perceived injustice publicly rather than processing privately.
- **Agreeableness (Very Low):** Combative labeling ("Unselect," "Fake News"), zero conciliation. Hostile stance toward institutional actors.
- **Conscientiousness (Low, functional):** The malformed URL indicates lack of deliberate quality control; the content itself is a repost rather than original composition.
- **Neuroticism (Elevated):** Angry hostility is the dominant affect. The exclamation mark on "incontestable!" signals emotional arousal. Grievance orientation.
- **Openness (Very Low):** Rigid cognitive closure — "incontestable" admits no epistemic uncertainty. Hostility to disconfirming information.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency Motives (Dominant):** Power and status restoration are the clear motivational drivers. The committee threatens not just legal exposure but the foundational narrative Trump requires to maintain political viability.

**Schemas:**
- *Self-schema:* Righteous victim of institutional conspiracy; holder of truth that others suppress.
- *Other-schema:* Committee and media are coordinated bad-faith actors ("refuse to go anywhere near") engaged in willful suppression.
- *World-schema:* The system is rigged against him specifically; truth is contraband in official discourse.

The phrase "refuse to go anywhere near these two topics" reveals a **conspiracy of silence schema** — perceived evidence is not being evaluated and rejected, but actively avoided, which explains rejection without requiring engagement with counter-evidence.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** The suppressed truth-teller; the sole custodian of contested historical facts that powerful institutions refuse to acknowledge.

**Narrative Sequence: Contamination → Stasis.** Victory (2020 election as Trump constructs it) was contaminated by fraud and then by institutional suppression. The narrative is frozen in grievance rather than progressing to redemption — the committee's ongoing hearings prevent narrative closure.

**Identity Claims:**
- "I possess incontestable evidence" (implied)
- "I am being silenced by coordinated institutional actors"

**Contrasting Other:** "The Unselect Committee" (delegitimized by the derogatory nickname) and "the Fake News Media" (delegitimized as epistemically unreliable).

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Malignant Narcissism Components

**A. Narcissistic Features:** Grandiosity in the certainty claim ("incontestable"); sense of special access to truth unavailable to institutions; implicit entitlement to vindication. Moderate-high expression.

**B. Antisocial Features:** Disregard for judicial determinations (60+ courts dismissed fraud claims); continued promotion of claims ruled meritless. Moderate expression in this post.

**C. Paranoid Features:** "Refuse to go anywhere near" frames institutional behavior as motivated concealment rather than legitimate investigation. Moderate-high. The committee's actual conduct (extensive evidence-gathering) is recast as avoidance.

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Not prominently expressed in this post. Primary affect is indignation rather than cruelty.

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### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury from ongoing January 6 committee hearings — public institutional examination of his conduct on one of the most damaging days to his legacy, combined with the fresh personal loss of Ivana Trump (72 hours prior). This convergence of private grief and public attack creates an unusually high-stress window.

**Narcissistic State:** **Vulnerable-to-Grandiose oscillation.** The framing as victim ("refuse to go anywhere near") reflects the vulnerable pole; the absolutist certainty ("incontestable!") reflects the grandiose pole. Both appear within the same sentence, consistent with rapid state-switching under stress.

**Rage:** Present but contained for this post — indignation rather than full narcissistic rage. Intensity: 0.45/1.0. Target: the Select Committee and media establishment as fused persecutory object.

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (Pathological):** Ongoing refusal to engage with the evidentiary record of 60+ court decisions rejecting fraud claims. "Incontestable" functions as denial of all contrary evidence.

2. **Projection (Immature):** Accusing the committee of refusing to examine evidence, when it is Trump who refuses to accept adjudicated findings. The committee is projected with Trump's own epistemic closure.

3. **Splitting (Immature):** Binary world — there is the truth (his narrative) and suppression (all institutional actors). No middle ground.

4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** "The evidence is incontestable" serves as a logical-sounding justification for continued maintenance of a narrative that has been legally and factually rebutted.

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### Cognitive Status Markers

**Coherence issue:** "These two topics" is referenced without specification in this post — presupposing reader knowledge from the retruthed original. This may be normal retruthing ellipsis rather than a cognitive marker, but it produces a slightly opaque standalone text.

**Complexity:** Vocabulary and syntax are consistent with Trump's established baseline — simple sentence structure, heavy nominalization of grievance themes. No deviation suggesting decline.

**Perseveration:** "Rigged Election" and "Fake News Media" are high-frequency perseverative elements across the day's posts (also appears in the Tim Michels post earlier in the day). Consistent with habitual framing rather than pathological perseveration per se.

**Baseline deviation:** None significant. This is well within established Trump posting patterns for this era.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Derogatory relabeling:** "Unselect Committee" (delegitimizes through name); "Fake News Media" (epistemically disqualifies)
- **Absolutism/Hyperbole:** "incontestable" — forecloses debate by asserting irrefutability
- **Conspiracy of silence framing:** "refuse to go anywhere near" — converts institutional conduct into active suppression
- **Firehose of falsehood (volume component):** This is the fifth post of the day, maintaining narrative saturation
- **Appeal to in-group grievance:** The framing assumes and reinforces a shared victimhood with followers
- **False presupposition:** "where the evidence of fraud is incontestable" embeds a disputed claim as established fact in a subordinate clause

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### Gaslighting Indicators

- **Attacks on collective epistemic authority:** "Fake News Media" functions to pre-disqualify any contrary reporting
- **Reality inversion:** Presenting the committee's extensive investigation as *avoidance* of evidence
- **Embedded presupposition:** Treating contested claims as settled to pressure audience into acceptance

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The evidence of fraud is incontestable" | **False** | More than 60 state and federal courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found insufficient evidence of fraud to affect election outcomes. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the result. The claim has been adjudicated repeatedly and rejected. |
| "The Unselect Committee and Fake News Media refuse to go anywhere near these two topics" | **False** | The January 6 Select Committee had just conducted its seventh public hearing directly examining Trump's conduct related to the 2020 election and January 6. The committee was extensively and publicly engaging with precisely the topics Trump claims they avoid. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Malformed URL with 'The' appended — composition error characteristic of manual retruthing
- 7:37 PM EDT local time at likely Bedminster location — consistent with authentic evening posting
- Trademarked derogatory nicknames ('Unselect Committee', 'Fake News Media') — authentic vocabulary
- Declarative absolutism ('incontestable!') with exclamation mark — authentic emotional register
- Self-retruth amplification pattern consistent with authentic emotional investment

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Select Committee public hearings (seventh hearing sequence) and convergent personal loss (Ivana Trump death 72 hours prior))

**Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting House Select Committee and mainstream media as fused persecutory object
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared victim identity ('they won't show you this')
- Epistemically closed in-group framing requiring followers to accept contested claims
- Amplification of grievance through self-retruth

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Pre-emptive disqualification of contrary media as 'Fake News' — attacks others' epistemic reliability
- Reality inversion: committee's extensive evidence-gathering reframed as avoidance of evidence
- Embedded presupposition treats legally contested claim as established fact, pressuring audience acceptance
- Delegitimizing institutional actors ('Unselect') to inoculate followers against their findings

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The evidence of fraud is incontestable

**FALSE**

More than 60 state and federal courts, including judges appointed by Trump, found insufficient evidence of fraud to affect election outcomes. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the result. The claim has been adjudicated repeatedly and rejected.

Sources: Multiple federal and state court rulings 2020-2021; Attorney General William Barr statements December 2020; Election officials in contested states including Republican secretaries of state

> The Unselect Committee and Fake News Media refuse to go anywhere near these two topics

**FALSE**

The January 6 Select Committee had just conducted its seventh public hearing directly examining Trump's conduct related to the 2020 election and January 6. The committee was extensively and publicly engaging with precisely the topics Trump claims they avoid.

Sources: House Select Committee seventh hearing, July 2022

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury (75%)
- paranoid-features (65%)
- election-fraud-narrative (95%)
- institutional-delegitimization (85%)
- epistemic-closure (90%)
- authentic-authorship (78%)
- embedded-presupposition (80%)
- grief-context (55%)
- self-retruth (70%)
- jan6-committee-reactive (85%)

## That day

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

**Bedminster Content Blitz: Curated Grievance Package Deploys Immigration Fear and Election Denial Against Jan. 6 Hearing Backdrop**

Trump spent a quiet Sunday afternoon at Bedminster posting a curated batch of political links -- mostly bare URLs shared in rapid succession by staff, covering endorsements, election fraud claims, and immigration crime. The most notable move was a two-post pairing that used the rape of a 10-year-old girl by an undocumented immigrant to retroactively vindicate his 2015 campaign rhetoric, with zero acknowledgment of the victim. The evening brought more personal engagement, with self-retruths attacking the January 6 committee and lamenting national decline, before closing on a gracious note congratulating the Open Championship winner.

Full digest for 2022-07-17: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 17). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108665309434440090
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 17 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108665309434440090. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, July 17, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108665309434440090.

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