# Post ts_108694071615523649

- Post ID: `ts_108694071615523649`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-23T01:31:51.125Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694071615523649/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-big-wisconsin-state-senator-janel-brandtjen-signs-rep-ramthuns-resolution-reclaim-wisconsins-10-electors-joe-biden/

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:40:31.153Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A bare URL to a Gateway Pundit article promoting a legally baseless Wisconsin electoral decertification effort. No original text. Posted in the immediate aftermath of the Bannon conviction and the 8th January 6 Committee hearing focused on Trump's personal inaction — acute narcissistic injuries in concentrated form. The signal-boost functions defensively: against a backdrop of exposure and ally defeat, amplifying a "BREAKING BIG" election-reversal story sustains the grandiose possibility narrative that the 2020 outcome remains reversible. Authorship is indeterminate; the URL-only, double-Gateway-Pundit-link format suggests possible aide batching. The underlying claim — that Wisconsin can "reclaim" its certified electoral votes — is false; no constitutional or statutory mechanism exists for post-certification elector withdrawal. Danger is systemic: this continues normalizing legally baseless decertification frameworks in an ecosystem where such narratives preceded January 6.

# Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, 2022-07-23

## Overview

This post consists exclusively of a URL to a Gateway Pundit article reporting that Wisconsin State Senator Janel Brandtjen signed Rep. Tim Ramthun's resolution to "reclaim" Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes from Joe Biden — a legally baseless decertification effort with no constitutional mechanism for implementation. The post contains no original authorial text.

The minimal surface content limits direct psychological inference, but the *choice* to amplify this specific content, at this specific moment, is analytically meaningful.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

With no textual production to analyze, dispositional trait inference is constrained to behavioral indicators:

- **Low Agreeableness** (inferred): The content implicitly frames Biden's presidency as illegitimate, sustaining an adversarial, zero-sum orientation toward political opponents
- **Low Conscientiousness/Deliberation** (weakly inferred): Amplifying a resolution with no constitutional basis suggests either inattention to legal feasibility or deliberate disregard for it
- **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility** (contextually inferred): The July 22 session includes the Bannon conviction verdict and ongoing January 6 hearings, providing multiple acute stressors that historically activate Trump's reactive posting behavior

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals and Motives

**Dominant motive: Agency (power, status restoration)**

The Wisconsin decertification narrative serves a specific psychological function in mid-2022: it sustains the possibility — however legally fictional — that the 2020 election result remains reversible. This possibility narrative is not primarily about Wisconsin; it is about preserving a grandiose self-concept in which Trump was the rightful winner and the current order is illegitimate.

**Schema activation:**

The post activates a core schema: *"The 2020 election was stolen, and legitimate actors are fighting to correct it."* Each new signatory, legislative resolution, or procedural development — regardless of legal merit — is incorporated as confirmatory evidence.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Absent from direct text, but implied by content selection: *Rightful President* and *Aggrieved Victim of a Stolen Election*

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination → Redemption attempt
- The 2020 election represents the contamination event (good → bad: legitimate winner → stolen result)
- Each decertification story is a micro-redemption beat, suggesting the contamination can be reversed

**Contrasting Other:** Biden, as holder of electorally fraudulent office

**Identity claims (implicit):** "The fight to restore the true result continues; real patriots are acting."

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

The post in isolation yields limited direct evidence, but viewed in longitudinal context:

- **Narcissistic Features:** Ongoing refusal to accept legitimate electoral defeat (~18 months post-certification) is consistent with severe entitlement and an inability to integrate defeat into self-concept
- **Antisocial Features:** Amplifying a mechanism that, if successful, would nullify millions of legitimate votes shows disregard for democratic norms and others' rights
- **Paranoid Features:** The underlying premise — that Wisconsin's electors were fraudulently cast — has been investigated and rejected by Wisconsin's own Republican-led audit, yet the narrative persists, consistent with unfalsifiable persecution beliefs
- **Sadism:** Not present in this post

### Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (pathological):** The foundational defense here. Certified electoral results, judicial rejection across 60+ cases, and Republican-led state audits have all confirmed Biden's Wisconsin win. Continuing to amplify decertification content constitutes persistent denial of external reality.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The legislative resolution mechanism provides a pseudo-legitimate procedural wrapper for what is, in effect, a fantasy of election reversal. This rationalization allows the belief to persist without confronting its legal impossibility.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** The July 22 context is significant. The Bannon conviction (a close ally convicted for protecting Trump's interests via January 6 committee defiance) and the 8th January 6 Committee prime-time hearing (focused specifically on Trump's 187-minute inaction) represent acute narcissistic injuries: exposure of both personal culpability and ally vulnerability. Against this backdrop, amplifying a "BREAKING BIG" election reversal story serves a defensive regulatory function — redirecting the post's audience (and, arguably, Trump himself) toward a progress narrative that counteracts the exposure narrative.

**State:** Grandiose (defensive) — the post asserts, implicitly, that the election is still being contested and may yet be reversed, a grandiose framing of political reality

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Indeterminate, leaning aide-assisted (low confidence)**

- UTC 01:31 = approximately 9:31 PM Eastern / 7:31 PM Mountain. Trump was in Prescott Valley, AZ on July 22 for a rally. By 7:31 PM local time the rally would have concluded or been concluding — he may have been in transit or winding down.
- The immediately preceding post in this session is structurally identical: a bare Gateway Pundit URL with no appended text. Two consecutive URL-only Gateway Pundit shares within minutes suggests batched link-posting, a pattern consistent with aide activity.
- The absence of any emotional text, typos, ALL CAPS, or Trump's characteristic superlative language reduces authentic-Trump probability.
- Content alignment with Trump's core obsessions is high, but staff are fluent in those obsessions.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Wisconsin state legislators can pass a resolution to 'reclaim' Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes from Biden" | **False** | Wisconsin's electoral votes were certified by Governor Evers and confirmed by Congress on January 7, 2021. No constitutional or statutory mechanism exists for retroactive elector withdrawal post-Congressional certification. Rep. Ramthun's resolution had no legal force. Wisconsin's Republican-led Joint Legislative Audit Committee investigation found no evidence of fraud sufficient to alter the outcome. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis

The rhetorical structure here is efficient precisely because it is minimal. By sharing a headline without comment, Trump:

1. **Outsources assertion:** The Gateway Pundit's "BREAKING BIG" framing does the emotional work; Trump need not personally claim Wisconsin's electors can be reclaimed
2. **Maintains deniability:** No direct statement means no direct accountability for the factual claim
3. **Amplifies to millions:** The act of sharing is itself the message — "this matters; pay attention"
4. **Reinforces manufactured momentum:** Each new signatory presented as evidence of a growing, legitimate movement — sustained false impression that decertification is a live political process

This pattern — Gateway Pundit as an authoritative-seeming intermediary for legally baseless claims — is a recurring structural feature of Trump's media ecosystem.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated**

The post amplifies anti-democratic election nullification efforts with no legal basis. While it does not contain explicit violent imagery or eliminationist language, the normalization of retroactive electoral decertification — framed as legitimate governmental action — contributes to a broader ecosystem in which January 6-style mobilization was preceded by exactly this kind of "the election can still be reversed" narrative scaffolding. The danger is systemic rather than acute.

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## Cognitive Status

No original text to assess. Cognitive markers cannot be evaluated for this post. Baseline comparison not applicable.

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## Summary

*This post is clinically significant at the longitudinal level, though low in direct expression.*

A bare URL to a Gateway Pundit article promoting a legally baseless Wisconsin electoral decertification effort. No original text. Posted in the immediate aftermath of the Bannon conviction and an 8th January 6 Committee hearing focused on Trump's personal inaction — acute narcissistic injuries. The signal-boost functions defensively: against a backdrop of exposure and ally defeat, amplifying a "BREAKING BIG" election-reversal story sustains the grandiose possibility narrative that the 2020 outcome remains reversible. Authorship is indeterminate; the URL-only, double-Gateway-Pundit-link format suggests possible aide batching. The underlying claim — that Wisconsin can "reclaim" its certified electoral votes — is false. No constitutional or statutory mechanism exists for post-certification elector withdrawal. The post's danger is systemic: it continues to normalize legally baseless decertification frameworks in an ecosystem where such narratives preceded the January 6 Capitol attack.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- URL-only post with no original text — a format more consistent with aide-assisted posting
- UTC 01:31 = ~9:31 PM EDT (if New York) or ~7:31 PM MDT (if still in Arizona post-rally) — evening window is plausible for authentic Trump but not a late-night marker
- The immediately preceding post is also a raw Gateway Pundit URL with no commentary, suggesting a batch-posting pattern consistent with staff activity
- No typos, emotional language, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness markers to confirm authentic Trump voice
- Content alignment with Trump's core obsessions (2020 election denial) slightly increases authentic probability, but staff know his interests well

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Steve Bannon conviction (July 22), ongoing January 6 Committee hearings documenting Trump's inaction during the Capitol attack)

Sentiment: +0.38

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- signal-boosting to base to maintain engagement and reinforce shared grievance narrative
- implicit validation of follower beliefs without personal exposure through attributable text

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplification of anti-democratic election nullification with no legal basis
- Sustained 'election still reversible' narrative that historically preceded mobilization events
- Gateway Pundit as laundering mechanism for legally baseless claims reaching millions
- Pattern of consistent 2020 denial amplification despite 60+ court rejections and Republican-led state audits

### Gaslighting

- Implicit denial of certified election results via amplification of reversal narrative
- Framing a resolution with zero legal force as a meaningful governmental action ('BREAKING BIG')
- Sustaining an alternative reality in which the 2020 election outcome remains in dispute

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Wisconsin state legislators can pass a resolution to 'reclaim' Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes from Biden

**FALSE**

Wisconsin's electoral votes were certified by Governor Evers and confirmed by Congress on January 7, 2021. No constitutional or statutory mechanism exists for retroactive elector withdrawal post-Congressional certification. Rep. Ramthun's resolution had no legal force. Wisconsin's Republican-led Joint Legislative Audit Committee investigation found no evidence of fraud sufficient to alter the outcome.

Sources: U.S. Constitution Article II, 12th Amendment, Electoral Count Act; Wisconsin Joint Legislative Audit Committee 2022 Report; Federal certification records, January 7 2021

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (95%)
- 2020_election_reversal (95%)
- gateway_pundit (80%)
- wisconsin_decertification (90%)
- url_only_post (70%)
- aide_possible (60%)
- narcissistic_injury_context (70%)
- bannon_conviction_context (65%)
- j6_hearing_context (65%)
- reality_distortion (85%)

## That day

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

**J6 Counter-Programming Blitz: Witness Targeting, Decertification Myths, and Victory Laps Under Legal Pressure**

The day was a two-act performance shaped by the January 6 Committee hearings and Steve Bannon's contempt conviction. The evening kicked off with a rapid-fire burst of link-sharing — amplifying the censure of a Republican who had testified against Trump, pushing baseless election decertification claims, and reframing insurrection investigators as the real insurrectionists. By afternoon, the mood shifted to victory laps celebrating the defeats of political rivals and promoting Trump's endorsement track record ahead of 2024. A late-night Arizona rally thank-you and a Turning Point USA livestream link bookended a day defined more by what was being deflected than what was being said.

Full digest for 2022-07-23: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 23). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694071615523649
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-big-wiscon..." Truth Social, 23 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694071615523649. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-big-wiscon...," Truth Social, July 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694071615523649.

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