# Post ts_108688782282561503

- Post ID: `ts_108688782282561503`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-22T03:06:42.316Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108686769356131726 The Unselect Committee refuses to do this because it ends their fake case. Will there be any mention or study by the Unselects of how the Election was Rigged and Stolen? There is sooo much evidence, but the Unselects don’t want it seen in any way, shape, or form - and for good reason - it would ruin their latest Scam!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108686769356131726 (2022-07-21T18:34:47.496Z (UTC))

> Why aren’t the Unselects asking Nancy Pelosi and the Mayor of D.C. to testify as to why they turned down my recommendation on January 3rd of 10,000 to 20,000 troops to stand guard at the Capitol Building on January 6th. Had they followed this recommendation, there would have been no problem on January 6th!!! They must testify!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:37:28.062Z (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 11:06 PM EDT following the Jan. 6 Committee's most damaging prime-time hearing (the 187-minute inaction evidence), this post exhibits a textbook DARVO response to acute narcissistic injury via public exposure. The defensive architecture is multilayered: pathological denial ("fake case"), immature projection (committee accused of running a "Scam"), and reality distortion ("sooo much evidence" of fraud contradicted by 60+ courts). The paranoid construction — that powerful actors actively suppress exculpatory evidence "for good reason" — constitutes a persecutory framing requiring no evidence because absence of evidence becomes evidence of the cover-up. This epistemic inoculation structure is shared psychosis architecture. The post is highly likely authentic (late-night EDT, affective elongation, URL copy-paste error, invented pejorative). Cognitively within established baseline. The sustained "Unselects" epithet across a five-post July 22nd cluster represents perseverative rebranding rather than cognitive error. Danger level is elevated: no direct violent imagery, but continued delegitimization of congressional oversight and election integrity narrative maintenance provide ongoing ideological substrate for extralegal political action. The Bannon conviction earlier that day (same committee, contempt charges) adds a second injury vector not directly named but contextually significant to the defensive intensity.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 22, 2022 (03:06 UTC)

## Contextual Frame

This post arrives in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 Committee's 8th prime-time hearing, which focused specifically on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack — arguably the most damaging personal exposure of the committee's run. The post is a retruth of an earlier Trump post from the same day, part of a five-post cluster on July 22nd constituting a defensive information campaign. The Steve Bannon contempt conviction (delivered this same day) adds a second threat vector: a close ally publicly convicted for defying the very committee Trump is attacking.

## Authorship Attribution (High Confidence: Authentic)

UTC 03:06 converts to approximately 11:06 PM EDT. Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his documented summer residence, and Ivana's funeral had been in Manhattan July 20). Late-night posting, affective elongation ("sooo much"), invented pejorative ("Unselects"), URL copy-paste error, and self-retruth structure all strongly indicate unmediated authentic composition.

## Psychological State & Trigger

The primary trigger is narcissistic injury via public exposure. The 8th committee hearing presented documentary evidence (texts, testimony from Pottinger and Matthews) of Trump's refusal to act for 187 minutes. The response pattern is textbook DARVO:

- **Deny**: "fake case"
- **Attack**: "Unselects," "Scam"
- **Reverse Victim/Offender**: Trump is the real victim of suppressed truth; the committee are the actual wrongdoers concealing "Rigged and Stolen" evidence

The mixed narcissistic state is clinically notable. Grandiose inflation ("sooo much evidence") and paranoid-vulnerable persecution ("they don't want it seen in any way, shape, or form — and for good reason") coexist, suggesting oscillation between states under acute injury pressure. The paranoid construction — that powerful actors are *actively suppressing* exculpatory evidence — is a persecutory framing with zero evidentiary basis.

## Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (pathological):** The committee investigation is flatly declared a "fake case" without engagement with its evidence — refusal to accept external reality.

**Projection (immature):** The committee is accused of running a "Scam" and concealing evidence. This is structurally identical to what Trump's own election fraud narrative does — asserting hidden truths against documented reality.

**Distortion (pathological):** "Sooo much evidence" of election fraud misrepresents an evidentiary record in which 60+ courts, Trump's own Attorney General, and Republican state officials found no credible basis for outcome-altering fraud.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The committee's statutory focus on January 6 is recast as deliberate evasion — a seemingly logical explanation for why they "refuse" to investigate election fraud, when the actual explanation is jurisdictional scope.

## Rhetorical Architecture

The post deploys a delegitimization cascade: **rename** (Unselects) → **reframe** (fake case) → **invert** (real crime is suppressed) → **conclude** (Scam). The whataboutism pivot to election fraud is strategically functional: the 187-minute hearing's evidence is difficult to counter directly, so redirecting audience attention to contested electoral terrain serves both defensive and offensive purposes.

The epistemic closure mechanism is particularly significant: by asserting the committee suppresses evidence "for good reason," the post inoculates followers against any counter-evidence — it becomes further proof of the cover-up. This is shared psychosis architecture: evidence against the narrative becomes evidence *for* it.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Election was Rigged and Stolen" | **False** | 60+ post-election court cases dismissed Trump campaign claims for lack of evidence. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated DOJ found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. Republican-led audits in Arizona and Georgia confirmed Biden's victory. |
| "There is sooo much evidence [of election fraud]" | **False** | No credible, admissible evidence of outcome-determinative fraud was established in any of 60+ legal proceedings. Courts, including those with Trump-appointed judges, dismissed claims on merits and for lack of standing. |
| "The Unselect Committee refuses to [examine election fraud evidence]" | **Mostly False** | The Select Committee's statutory mandate was investigation of January 6 specifically. The committee did examine Trump's election fraud claims as the motivating narrative for the attack — it was not avoided but contextualized as the predicate for January 6. The claim that the committee 'refuses' because it would 'ruin their case' inverts the actual evidentiary situation. |

Overall Veracity: 7%

## Archetypal & Order/Chaos Dynamics

Trump positions himself as the Warrior/Victim hybrid — the persecuted truth-teller battling a corrupt institutional order. The committee represents illegitimate institutional order (the "Unselects" — not even worthy of their proper title). The chaos Trump introduces is epistemological: by inverting who is running a "Scam," he dissolves the shared factual ground on which institutional accountability depends. This is Order Attacker rhetoric framing itself as Order Restoration.

## Longitudinal Pattern

The previous day's post (asking why Pelosi wasn't called to testify) and this post form a coherent two-day deflection sequence: shift accountability to Pelosi (July 21), then to the fraudulence of the committee itself (July 22). The "Unselects" epithet has appeared in at least three posts in this cluster, representing perseverative rebranding — a characteristic Trump rhetorical pattern where a coined epithet is deployed until it normalizes.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** No direct violent imagery or eliminationist language, but the sustained delegitimization of the congressional oversight process, combined with the "stolen election" narrative maintenance, continues to provide the ideological substrate for political violence. The audience is being reinforced in the belief that legitimate institutions are corrupt cover-up operations — a framing that justified January 6 and continues to justify future extralegal action.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 03:06 UTC = ~11:06 PM EDT (Bedminster/NY area, late July 2022 summer residence)
- Informal affective elongation: 'sooo much'
- Invented pejorative neologism 'Unselects' used as running epithet
- Malformed URL ('...108686769356131726The') suggesting hasty copy-paste
- Stream-of-consciousness cadence with emotional escalation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee 8th Hearing (187-minute inaction hearing, prime-time, July 21))

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting January 6 Select Committee
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Five posts in a single day constituting a defensive information campaign
- Affective intensification ('sooo much') suggesting elevated emotional arousal
- Self-retruth behavior — amplifying own content — indicates urge for repeated expression

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 18%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'we/they' framing that positions audience as fellow victims of the 'Scam'
- Conspiratorial disclosure ('they don't want it seen in any way, shape, or form') — inviting audience into secret knowledge
- Emotional contagion via affective intensifiers ('sooo much')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained delegitimization of congressional oversight body provides ongoing justification for extralegal action
- Stolen-election narrative maintenance continues to mobilize audience grievance premised on false factual claims
- Epistemic inoculation structure ('they don't want it seen') prevents audience from accepting counter-evidence, reinforcing radicalization dynamics

### Gaslighting

- Attacks audience's epistemic relationship with the committee's documented evidence ('fake case')
- Frames absence of election fraud investigation as deliberate suppression rather than jurisdictional mandate
- DARVO inversion: investigators become the criminals, documented inaction becomes heroic resistance
- 'For good reason' — implies insider knowledge of hidden corrupt motives, delegitimizing any institutional conclusion

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The Election was Rigged and Stolen

**FALSE**

60+ post-election court cases dismissed Trump campaign claims for lack of evidence. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr stated DOJ found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. Republican-led audits in Arizona and Georgia confirmed Biden's victory.

Sources: Federal and state court records 2020-2021; AG Barr public statements December 2020; Arizona Senate audit report September 2021

> There is sooo much evidence [of election fraud]

**FALSE**

No credible, admissible evidence of outcome-determinative fraud was established in any of 60+ legal proceedings. Courts, including those with Trump-appointed judges, dismissed claims on merits and for lack of standing.

Sources: Consolidated court record review

> The Unselect Committee refuses to [examine election fraud evidence]

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Select Committee's statutory mandate was investigation of January 6 specifically. The committee did examine Trump's election fraud claims as the motivating narrative for the attack — it was not avoided but contextualized as the predicate for January 6. The claim that the committee 'refuses' because it would 'ruin their case' inverts the actual evidentiary situation.

Sources: House Select Committee mandate and public hearings record

Overall Veracity: 7%

## Tags

- jan6-committee (95%)
- stolen-election-narrative (92%)
- DARVO (88%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (85%)
- epistemic-closure (82%)
- whataboutism (78%)
- projection (75%)
- late-night-authentic (88%)
- delegitimization-campaign (80%)
- paranoid-features (70%)

## That day

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

**J6 Hearing Detonates 13-Post Midnight Barrage as Trump Targets Witnesses, Allies, and Institutions**

Trump spent the evening glued to the January 6 Committee's prime-time hearing — the one that detailed his 187 minutes of inaction during the Capitol attack — and responded with a sustained late-night barrage targeting Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, a testifying former aide, and Jake Tapper. The mood was combative but visibly rattled, cracking open briefly with a raw "Am I supposed to be happy?" before snapping back to attack mode. The next morning brought a reset: favorable polls, legal arguments, and promotion of his Arizona rally. One notable slip stood out — he quoted a legal expert favorably, then hours later called the same man a "Rat" and a "coward."

Full digest for 2022-07-22: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 22). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688782282561503
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 22 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688782282561503. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, July 22, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688782282561503.

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