# Post ts_108688814858155588

- Post ID: `ts_108688814858155588`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-22T03:14:59.373Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Why haven’t the Unselects asked for Secret Service corroboration of the so-called “choke hold?” Because they know the answer, and don’t like it. A Kangaroo Court!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:41:42.191Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Post arrives ~11:14 PM EDT on July 21, 2022, hours after the 8th January 6 Committee hearing. Classic reactive narcissistic counter-punch: targets Cassidy Hutchinson's choke-hold testimony via scare quotes ("so-called"), constructs a presupposition-laden rhetorical question implying the committee is suppressing exculpatory Secret Service testimony, and delivers a categorical verdict ("Kangaroo Court"). High confidence authentic Trump authorship (late-night timing, "Unselects" neologism, characteristic cadence). Defense architecture: denial via punctuation, projection of procedural unfairness, rationalization through evidentiary syllogism, DARVO fully executed. Narcissistic state is mixed - grandiose surface (he is above this tribunal) with vulnerable substrate (midnight reactivity to a specific physical allegation). The specific targeting of the choke-hold claim rather than the broader 187-minute inaction exposure suggests this particular allegation - implying loss of physical control and dominance - registers as an acute identity threat. Fact-check: the claim that the committee has not sought Secret Service corroboration is mostly false; outreach had occurred. The post functions as epistemic closure for the base. No danger indicators. Cognitively consistent with baseline.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, 2022-07-22T03:14:59Z

## Situational Context

This post arrives at approximately 11:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time on July 21, 2022 — within hours of the January 6 Committee's 8th prime-time hearing, which focused on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack. The specific reference to the "choke hold" reaches back to Cassidy Hutchinson's June 28 testimony, in which she described Trump allegedly grabbing toward Secret Service agent Bobby Engel's clavicle area when told he could not go to the Capitol. The hearing's renewed attention to January 6 conduct appears to have retriggered this response. The late-night timing and reactive character are strongly consistent with authentic, emotionally immediate authorship.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (High — Assertiveness facet):** The post takes a dominant, prosecutorial stance — issuing challenge, supplying verdict, dismissing the proceedings. No hesitancy or qualifying language.

**Agreeableness (Very Low):** Zero concession to the committee's role, the seriousness of the testimony, or any opposing perspective. Contempt is the governing register.

**Neuroticism (Moderate, masked):** The late-night timing and compressed rhetorical urgency suggest emotional activation that the surface bravado partially conceals. The specific targeting of the "choke hold" allegation — rather than the broader 187-minute hearing content — reveals a particular sensitivity to this incident.

**Conscientiousness (Low — Deliberation facet):** Impulsive, reactive posting at near-midnight. No evidence of strategic editorial calculation.

**Openness (Low — Values facet):** Rigid binary framing: legitimate proceeding vs. "Kangaroo Court." No epistemic openness to the committee's function or findings.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate.** The post is organized around control — specifically, regaining narrative control over damaging testimony. The rhetorical question format is not a genuine inquiry; it is an assertion of superior knowledge ("Because they know the answer"). This is a power move disguised as procedural curiosity.

**Schema: persecutory.** The committee is cast not merely as wrong but as deliberately suppressing truth it possesses but dares not expose. This paranoid schema — "they know but hide it" — is a recurrent Trump cognitive pattern that amplifies routine adversarial politics into conspiratorial suppression.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role: wrongly accused fighter.** Trump casts himself as the rational truth-seeker whose exculpatory evidence is being withheld by a tribunal that has already decided the verdict.

**Contamination sequence:** Implicitly — legitimate testimony (Hutchinson's account, initially damaging) → exposed as unverifiable by a committee too corrupt to surface the truth.

**Identity claims:** "I know the truth they are hiding." Positions himself as epistemically superior to and morally cleaner than the investigating body.

**Contrasting other:** "The Unselects" — a derogating portmanteau that simultaneously labels them as (a) not a legitimate "select" body, (b) unelected/illegitimate, and (c) collectively contemptible.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — public re-exposure via the 8th hearing to allegations about his physical conduct during January 6. The specific sensitivity to the choke hold detail suggests this allegation — implying loss of physical control and dominance — registers as an acute identity threat.

**Narcissistic state: Mixed.** Grandiose surface presentation ("Kangaroo Court" signals he is above this proceeding) with vulnerable substrate (the midnight timing and specific targeting of the physical allegation reveal wound beneath).

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (pathological):** "So-called 'choke hold'" — scare quotes perform categorical dismissal of sworn testimony without engaging its substance.

2. **Projection (immature):** "Kangaroo Court" — the accusation of procedural unfairness is itself a projection.

3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The evidentiary argument about Secret Service testimony constructs a logical-seeming syllogism to reframe exposure as conspiracy.

4. **DARVO:** The incident is denied by framing; the committee is attacked as corrupt; Trump positions himself as the wronged party.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Unselect Committee has not asked for Secret Service corroboration of the choke hold incident" | **Mostly False** | Reports from late June-July 2022 indicated the January 6 Committee had communicated with Secret Service agents including Bobby Engel. The dispute was about the nature of forthcoming testimony, not absence of committee outreach. |
| "The committee knows the Secret Service answer and don't like it" | **Unverifiable** | This is a presupposition-laden assertion without documentary basis. Functions as conspiracy inference embedded in rhetorical question, not a verifiable factual claim. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Longitudinal Pattern Notes

This post is consistent with Trump's established post-hearing response pattern: rapid counter-punch within hours, rhetorical question format, derogating nickname, verdict label. The focus on the physical choke hold allegation rather than the 187-minute inaction is notable — suggesting the physical dominance allegation registers as a more acute threat to identity than the passivity allegation.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- ~11:14 PM EDT timing - firmly in late-night authentic window
- Signature 'Unselects' neologism repeated habitually across posts
- Rhetorical question answered by its own premise - characteristic Trump cadence
- Short punchy reactive burst consistent with post-hearing emotional reactivity
- Scare quotes around 'choke hold' as dismissive device

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee 8th Hearing (July 21, 2022))

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting January 6 Select Committee
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Frames audience as co-discoverers of committee corruption
- Uses 'we already know' rhetorical structure to bond audience through shared contempt
- Invitation to righteous indignation without providing evidentiary burden

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Scare quotes around 'choke hold' cast doubt on sworn testimony without substantive rebuttal
- Claims committee possesses exculpatory evidence it is deliberately withholding
- DARVO reversal positions the investigator as the wrongdoer and the investigated as the victim

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The Unselect Committee has not asked for Secret Service corroboration of the choke hold incident

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Reports from late June-July 2022 indicated the January 6 Committee had communicated with Secret Service agents including Bobby Engel. The dispute was about the nature of forthcoming testimony, not absence of committee outreach.

Sources: January 6 Committee proceedings summer 2022; Contemporary reporting on Secret Service agent communications with committee

> The committee knows the Secret Service answer and don't like it

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a presupposition-laden assertion without documentary basis. Functions as conspiracy inference embedded in rhetorical question, not a verifiable factual claim.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- january_6_committee (95%)
- narcissistic_injury (80%)
- DARVO (85%)
- authentic_trump (85%)
- late_night_post (80%)
- denial_defense (75%)
- epistemic_closure (70%)
- kangaroo_court_framing (75%)
- hutchinson_testimony_response (85%)

## 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). Why haven’t the Unselects asked for Secret... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688814858155588
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why haven’t the Unselects asked for Secret Service..." Truth Social, 22 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688814858155588. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Why haven’t the Unselects asked for Secret Service...," Truth Social, July 22, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108688814858155588.

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