# Post ts_108674503868114391

- Post ID: `ts_108674503868114391`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-19T14:35:31.002Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Wow! Prosecutors have just dropped all charges against ratings challenged Colbert Show staffers, who entered the Capitol illegally, disregarded police warnings, wouldn’t leave the premises, and were very loud and disruptive late into the evening, with no security present as is mandated by law. These Radical Left lunatics, from a failing show, were treated so differently than the Unselects are treating so many of our great American Patriots. NOT FAIR!

## Engagement

- Likes: 30,474
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:39:42.217Z (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 during the week of the January 6 committee's seventh hearing — which exposed Trump's 187-minute inaction and his allies' coordination with extremist groups — this post is a displacement maneuver: emotional energy from that direct narcissistic injury is redirected at the low-stakes Colbert staffer incident to articulate a fairness grievance that implicitly rehabilitates January 6 participants without naming the underlying wound. The core operation is DARVO at societal scale: Deny (J6 participants become "great American Patriots," not rioters), Attack (Colbert, "Radical Left lunatics," "Unselects"), Reverse Victim and Offender (the comedy staffers become the real Capitol violators). Defenses operating simultaneously include pathological distortion (false moral equivalence between a comedy overstay and a violent assault), splitting, projection, devaluation, and rationalization. Reality distortions include mischaracterizing security presence (Capitol Police made the arrest), falsely labeling Colbert's top-rated show as "failing," and framing routine charge dismissal as evidence of partisan conspiracy. Authorship reads as authentically Trump: "Wow!" opener, "Unselects" neologism, cascading devaluation nicknames, and the "NOT FAIR!" climactic caps burst are all characteristic unmediated markers. No cognitive red flags versus established baseline. Danger level is elevated: while the post contains no explicit threats, it continues a longitudinal pattern of J6 grievance-rehabilitation rhetoric — framing the persecuted-Patriots narrative that provided ideological fuel for the original attack.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, July 19, 2022

## Situational Context

This post lands on the same day as the January 6 committee's seventh hearing — which focused specifically on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack and his allies' coordination with the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. The committee also revealed Trump had attempted to contact a witness. This constitutes a direct, high-magnitude narcissistic injury: public exposure of culpability at scale. The Colbert staffer incident provides a ready displacement target — a low-stakes controversy that allows the articulation of a fairness grievance implicitly rehabilitating January 6 participants without naming them as rioters.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (High, ~0.80):** Assertive, emotionally expressive, excitement-seeking in conflict
- **Agreeableness (Very Low, ~0.10):** Contemptuous, adversarial, zero trust displayed
- **Conscientiousness (Low, ~0.20):** Reactive, impulsive, no deliberation evident
- **Neuroticism (High, ~0.78):** Angry hostility dominates; impulsive ALL CAPS terminal burst
- **Openness (Low, ~0.18):** Rigid binary thinking, no complexity tolerance

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate entirely.** The post is a power-restoration exercise following the threat of exposure. No communion motives present. The schema revealed: world divided into persecutors (Unselects, Radical Left, prosecutors) and persecuted (his Patriots, himself by extension). The self-schema is as champion of the wrongly accused — projecting the J6 accountability narrative onto a harmless comedy incident.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Defender-exposer — the one who sees the injustice others miss.
**Narrative sequence:** Contamination — proper order (equal justice) has been corrupted by partisan prosecutors. The post does not complete a redemption arc; it is a grievance articulation.
**Identity claims:** Moral witness to systemic unfairness; voice for the silenced Patriots.
**Contrasting other:** "Radical Left lunatics" (Colbert staffers) and "Unselects" (J6 committee) — both are contemptible and operating from bad faith.

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism

- **Narcissistic features (0.78):** Grandiosity via proxy (his followers are "great"), entitlement to define who deserves prosecution, contempt displayed through status attacks on Colbert's ratings
- **Antisocial features (0.60):** Deceitful false equivalence presented as factual; disregard for the documented violence of January 6; no remorse for victims
- **Paranoid features (0.62):** "Treated so differently" implies coordinated persecution; "Unselects" as ongoing conspirators
- **Sadism (0.42):** Evident pleasure in the multi-clause pileup attacking the Colbert staffers; delight in naming them "lunatics"

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury from J6 committee exposure hearings. The Colbert incident is a displacement target — the post's emotional energy is borrowed from the larger wound and redirected.

**Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.62). Disproportionate to the Colbert trigger (proportionality ~0.25) — the rage exceeds what the subject matter warrants, consistent with displaced emotion from the actual injury.

**State:** Mixed — grandiose contempt toward opponents, vulnerable victimhood in "NOT FAIR!" The oscillation within a single short post suggests active narcissistic injury processing.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Distortion (pathological):** The moral equivalence between a comedy-sketch overstay and a violent assault on the Capitol chamber requires grossly reshaping documented reality.
2. **Splitting (pathological):** Perfect black-and-white: lunatics vs. Patriots, corrupt prosecutors vs. righteous victims.
3. **Projection (immature):** Accuses the system of selective unfairness while deploying selective moral outrage.
4. **Devaluation (immature):** Status attacks on Colbert are dominance displays, not relevant arguments.
5. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Legal-fairness scaffolding ("as is mandated by law") provides quasi-legitimate cover for emotional grievance.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present.** The post constitutes DARVO at societal scale:
- **Deny:** Does not acknowledge J6 as an attack; reframes participants as "great American Patriots"
- **Attack:** Colbert, "Radical Left," "Unselects"
- **Reverse Victim and Offender:** J6 participants become the persecuted; Colbert staffers become the real Capitol violators

Reality distortions catalogued:
1. Colbert staffers = J6 rioters in moral and legal gravity
2. "Failing show" — The Late Show with Colbert was the top-rated late-night program at the time
3. Implies no security was present when Capitol Police were present (that is how the staffers were apprehended)
4. Frames charge dismissal as evidence of partisan conspiracy rather than routine prosecutorial discretion

## Cognitive Status

No significant markers of cognitive impairment. "Unselects" is a deliberate coinage (ongoing neologism in his lexicon), not a word-finding error. Sentence complexity is low-to-moderate but internally coherent. Syntactic structure is simple clause-chaining, consistent with established Trump baseline. No temporal confusion or name errors present.

**Complexity score:** 0.32 (below educated-adult baseline, consistent with Trump's long-established speech patterns — not a deviation)

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post's architecture is a classic whataboutism engine:
1. Maximize the offense of the proxy target (four sequential negative characterizations of Colbert staffers)
2. Invoke legal authority as a prop ("as is mandated by law")
3. Assert asymmetric treatment as established fact ("treated so differently")
4. Close with emotional shorthand that forecloses analysis ("NOT FAIR!")

**Firehose technique:** High-confidence false factual claims delivered in rapid succession overwhelm analytical processing.

**Tribal reinforcement:** "our great American Patriots" — possessive pronoun binds reader into collective identity.

## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.82 (high confidence — authentic Trump)**

UTC 14:35 = approximately 10:35 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ). Mid-morning timing is ambiguous on its own, but stylistic fingerprints are overwhelming: "Wow!" hook, cascading devaluation nicknames, "Unselects" neologism, "NOT FAIR!" crescendo. No aide produces this particular constellation of impulsive style markers.

## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

The post does not contain explicit threats or violent imagery. However, the rehabilitation of January 6 participants as "great American Patriots" being unfairly persecuted — delivered during the week of the J6 committee's hearings — reinforces the grievance narrative that motivated the original attack. The pattern: identify a group as righteous victims of systemic injustice, name their persecutors, and invoke unfairness. While any single post is insufficient for stochastic terrorism classification, this post is a consistent data point in a longitudinal pattern of J6 rehabilitation rhetoric.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Prosecutors dropped all charges against Colbert Show staffers" | **True** | Charges were in fact dropped against the Colbert staffers arrested in the Capitol complex in June 2022. |
| "Staffers entered the Capitol illegally" | **Half True** | They were in the Longworth House Office Building (Capitol complex), conducting congressional interviews that ran past permitted hours. 'Illegally' overstates the nature of the entry — they had facilitated congressional access, not an unauthorized breach. |
| "No security was present as mandated by law" | **False** | Capitol Police were present — they are specifically the ones who apprehended and arrested the staffers. Security presence is what enabled the arrest. |
| "The Colbert Show is 'failing' and 'ratings challenged'" | **Mostly False** | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was the top-rated late-night program at the time of this post, consistently leading in both total viewers and the key 18-49 demographic. |
| "Colbert staffers were treated differently than January 6 participants" | **Half True** | Prosecutorial discretion differs case by case. However, the implied equivalence — that the two situations are comparable in severity — is false. January 6 involved documented violence against 140+ officers, deaths, and breaching of the Capitol chamber itself. The Colbert incident was a comedy-sketch overstay in an office building. |

Overall Veracity: 44%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- 'Wow!' opener — signature Trump exclamatory hook
- Stream-of-consciousness single paragraph, no structural editing
- Trademark devaluation nicknames: 'ratings challenged,' 'failing show,' 'Radical Left lunatics,' 'Unselects'
- Emotional crescendo to 'NOT FAIR!' in ALL CAPS — classic authentic pattern
- Ideologically reactive subject matter matching his known grievance cycle

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 committee hearings and ongoing prosecution of January 6 participants)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Colbert staffers as proxy target; actual target is Jan. 6 Select Committee and DOJ
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 'Wow!' opener signals elevated arousal state
- Rapid topic-to-topic emotional cascade within single paragraph
- Heightened energy in the devaluation pileup (four consecutive negative characterizations)
- Terminal ALL CAPS escalation ('NOT FAIR!') consistent with disinhibited emotional expression

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 62%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective identity appeal ('our great American Patriots') pulls followers into shared victimhood
- Shared enemy activation ('Radical Left lunatics,' 'Unselects') creates in-group solidarity through outrage
- Injustice framing ('NOT FAIR!') positions followers as righteous aggrieved party

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued rehabilitation of January 6 participants as righteous martyrs ('great American Patriots') during J6 accountability hearings reinforces grievance narrative that motivated original attack
- Fairness-framing ('treated so differently,' 'NOT FAIR!') positions J6 accountability as persecution, lowering moral barriers to future action
- Enemy specification: 'Unselects,' 'Radical Left lunatics' — names and delegitimizes opponents while elevating supporters as morally superior victims

### Gaslighting

- DARVO structure: Deny (J6 as legitimate protest), Attack (Colbert/Unselects), Reverse Victim and Offender (Colbert staffers as real Capitol offenders)
- Misrepresentation of security presence — Capitol Police made the arrest yet post claims 'no security present'
- False framing of charge dismissal as partisan conspiracy rather than routine prosecutorial discretion
- Rehabilitation of J6 participants as 'great American Patriots' — rewrites documented violent assault as legitimate civic action
- Attacks on epistemic authority of legal system ('Unselects') to preemptively delegitimize accountability

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Prosecutors dropped all charges against Colbert Show staffers

**TRUE**

Charges were in fact dropped against the Colbert staffers arrested in the Capitol complex in June 2022.

Sources: Pre-researched event context; widely reported

> Staffers entered the Capitol illegally

**HALF TRUE**

They were in the Longworth House Office Building (Capitol complex), conducting congressional interviews that ran past permitted hours. 'Illegally' overstates the nature of the entry — they had facilitated congressional access, not an unauthorized breach.

Sources: General knowledge from training data

> No security was present as mandated by law

**FALSE**

Capitol Police were present — they are specifically the ones who apprehended and arrested the staffers. Security presence is what enabled the arrest.

Sources: General knowledge from training data

> The Colbert Show is 'failing' and 'ratings challenged'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was the top-rated late-night program at the time of this post, consistently leading in both total viewers and the key 18-49 demographic.

Sources: General knowledge from training data

> Colbert staffers were treated differently than January 6 participants

**HALF TRUE**

Prosecutorial discretion differs case by case. However, the implied equivalence — that the two situations are comparable in severity — is false. January 6 involved documented violence against 140+ officers, deaths, and breaching of the Capitol chamber itself. The Colbert incident was a comedy-sketch overstay in an office building.

Sources: General knowledge; pre-researched event context

Overall Veracity: 44%

## Tags

- whataboutism (95%)
- j6_rehabilitation (90%)
- false_equivalence (92%)
- DARVO (85%)
- splitting (88%)
- displacement (82%)
- devaluation (80%)
- reality_distortion (78%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (85%)
- j6_committee_reactive (90%)
- dehumanizing_language (60%)
- grievance_crystallization (75%)
- tribal_boundary_enforcement (80%)

## That day

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

**The Kingmaker Works the Primary Levers While Deflecting January 6 Pressure**

Trump spent the day operating as a Republican kingmaker, bookending it with endorsement pushes for his Maryland gubernatorial candidate on primary day while promoting media segments touting his 2024 inevitability. The only real flash of anger came mid-morning when he seized on dropped charges against Colbert show staffers to draw a false equivalence with January 6 defendants — a transparent attempt to reframe the Capitol attack during an active week of congressional hearings. The day closed with a carefully worded threat aimed at Wisconsin's Speaker of the Assembly, pressuring him to act on a court ruling Trump mischaracterized as proof of election fraud.

Full digest for 2022-07-19: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 19). Wow! Prosecutors have just dropped all charges... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108674503868114391
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow! Prosecutors have just dropped all charges against..." Truth Social, 19 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108674503868114391. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow! Prosecutors have just dropped all charges against...," Truth Social, July 19, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108674503868114391.

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