# Post ts_108694220734937233

- Post ID: `ts_108694220734937233`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-23T02:09:46.507Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694220734937233
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694220734937233/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108694220734937233.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Unselect Committee should read this story about Election Fraud. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/election_heroes_are_stopping_fraudulent_votingright_now.html

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,321
- Reposts: 4,119
- Replies: 473
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.439Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T21:40:16.993Z (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 occurs during a high-pressure 48-hour window: the Jan 6 Committee's 8th hearing documented Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack (Jul 21), and Steve Bannon's contempt conviction (Jul 22) signaled escalating legal risk. The response is a textbook narcissistic injury management sequence: delegitimize the investigating institution ('Unselect Committee'), displace attention onto 2020 election fraud claims, and amplify a partisan counter-narrative via URL laundering. The 'Unselect Committee' neologism is an authentically Trump verbal marker — aides do not generate these — and the ~10 PM EDT timing supports authentic authorship. The post is brief and low-intensity in isolation but structurally significant as part of a same-day flood of link-shares that collectively: censure Republican witnesses who testified to the committee, advance elector decertification narratives, delegitimize Mueller findings, and frame Jan 6 investigators as the real insurrectionists. The defense stack (pathological denial of fraud findings, displacement from Jan 6 to election claims, projection of illegitimacy onto the committee) is fully consistent with the stable adaptation pattern across this account. No cognitive markers are extractable from a single-sentence post. No direct danger indicators, though the cumulative same-day posting architecture sustains an epistemic closure system among followers.

## Psychological Analysis — Trump Truth Social Post (2022-07-23, ~10:09 PM EDT)

### Situational Context

This post occurs in a 48-hour window of significant institutional pressure: the Jan 6 Committee's 8th prime-time hearing (July 21) had focused specifically on Trump's 187-minute inaction during the Capitol attack, and Steve Bannon's contempt conviction (July 22) signaled escalating legal risk for the broader post-election network. Trump had also held a Save America rally in Prescott Valley, AZ the same day, suggesting a high-activity period.

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post activates a familiar dispositional constellation: **low agreeableness** (contemptuous relabeling of the committee), **high assertiveness** (imperious 'should read'), and **elevated neuroticism** in its reactive-defensive expression. Openness scores remain rigidly low — the post reflects no capacity to engage the committee's findings; the response is purely counterprogramming.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The dominant motive is **agency/control**: specifically, the need to reassert narrative dominance over an institutional process that is defining him as its subject. The post attempts to flip the script — from Trump-as-subject-of-investigation to Trump-as-instructor-of-investigators. This schema (I know the real truth; my accusers are the corrupt ones) is deeply stable across years of posts and represents a core adaptation to institutional challenge.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Truth-teller and surrogate investigator — the one pointing to what the 'real' investigators refuse to examine.

**Redemption arc:** Implicit — the contamination sequence (stolen election → persecution by committee) is being repositioned as ongoing truth-revelation: the heroes are still fighting, the fraud is being stopped, the real story will emerge.

**Contrasting other:** "The Unselect Committee" — defined as illegitimate (unselected = not properly constituted), corrupt, and willfully blind to the 'real' crimes.

**Identity claim:** *I am the one who knows what is actually happening; my accusers are the frauds.*

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic injury response** is the primary clinical feature. The committee hearing directly documented Trump's inaction and refusal to call off the Capitol attack — an exposure of both failed agency (he could not control the situation) and failed responsibility (he chose not to). Both are narcissistic wound vectors. The response pattern is textbook: *deny the validity of the exposing institution; redirect to a counter-grievance; elevate allies as heroes.*

**Defense mechanism stack:**
1. **Denial (pathological):** Continued assertion of election fraud as active and ongoing despite comprehensive judicial rejection (60+ cases).
2. **Displacement (neurotic):** Redirects from Jan 6 conduct to 2020 election — a move that has occurred hundreds of times across this account.
3. **Projection (immature):** The committee investigating illegal conduct is 'unselect'; actors advancing contested election claims are 'heroes.'

**Paranoid features are moderate** in this post: the committee is implicitly cast as willfully ignoring evidence (i.e., persecuting rather than investigating), consistent with the persecutory framing that runs throughout this account.

### Cognitive Assessment

The post is too brief (one sentence + URL) to yield meaningful cognitive complexity assessment. Syntactic structure is simple but not aberrant — this is link-sharing behavior, not extended prose. No cognitive markers are detectible.

### Authorship

**Likely authentic** (medium confidence). The 'Unselect Committee' neologism is a signature Trump verbal production — aides do not generate these; they are consistent across platforms and over time. Timing at ~10:09 PM EDT falls in the authentic late-evening posting window. Brevity and the confrontational direct address are consistent with authentic reactive posting.

### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

The post contributes to a sustained gaslighting architecture: the Jan 6 Committee is investigating documented events (including testimony from Trump's own aides); relabeling it 'Unselect' and redirecting to election fraud simultaneously denies the legitimacy of the investigation and demands followers accept that the real threat is elsewhere. This is a low-intensity but consistent form of epistemic manipulation.

### Danger Assessment

**None (elevated by context only).** The post itself contains no direct danger indicators — no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no explicit calls to action. However, it is one link in a chain of posts on this day that collectively: censure Republican officials who testified to the committee (Rusty Bowers link), advance elector decertification efforts (Wisconsin link), delegitimize Russian collusion findings (Federalist link), and frame Jan 6 investigators as the real 'insurrectionists' (American Greatness link). The cumulative pattern of same-day posting creates a more elevated systemic danger context than any single post conveys.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Election fraud is ongoing, active, and significant enough to require 'heroes' to stop it" | **Mostly False** | 60+ post-2020 election lawsuits rejected fraud claims, including by Trump-appointed judges. Republican election officials in AZ, GA, PA certified results. CISA (under Trump) called the 2020 election 'the most secure in American history.' While isolated instances of voter fraud occur in every election, the scale implied here has no evidentiary basis. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- 'Unselect Committee' derogatory nickname is a signature authentic Trump coinage
- UTC 02:09:46 = 10:09 PM EDT (Jul 22) — late evening in Eastern timezone, consistent with authentic posting window
- However, Trump had held a Save America rally in Prescott Valley, AZ the same day; if still on Mountain/Pacific time (~7 PM local), falls in ambiguous window
- Terse link-sharing style without elaboration matches Trump's authentic retruth pattern
- No typos or misspellings, but sentence is grammatically simple — insufficient signal either way

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee 8th Hearing (187-minute inaction hearing, Jul 21) and Steve Bannon contempt conviction (Jul 22))

Sentiment: -0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to institutional enemy ('should read this story') creates parasocial sense that Trump is personally confronting his persecutors on behalf of followers
- Validation of followers as part of an embattled truth-seeking community vs. a corrupt investigative body

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'Unselect Committee' relabeling attacks the legitimacy of a constitutionally authorized congressional investigation
- Redirecting to election fraud narrative while Jan 6 Committee documents Trump's own conduct constitutes DARVO (Reverse Victim and Offender) at institutional scale
- Framing discredited fraud claims as things the committee 'should' examine implicitly demands acceptance of a false epistemic premise

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Election fraud is ongoing, active, and significant enough to require 'heroes' to stop it

**MOSTLY FALSE**

60+ post-2020 election lawsuits rejected fraud claims, including by Trump-appointed judges. Republican election officials in AZ, GA, PA certified results. CISA (under Trump) called the 2020 election 'the most secure in American history.' While isolated instances of voter fraud occur in every election, the scale implied here has no evidentiary basis.

Sources: CISA 'Rumor Control' statement Nov 2020; Barr DOJ statement Dec 2020 finding no widespread fraud; Multiple federal and state court rulings 2020-2021

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- election-fraud-narrative (90%)
- jan6-deflection (85%)
- institutional-delegitimization (80%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (75%)
- url-laundering (70%)
- authentic-trump (72%)
- displacement-defense (70%)
- epistemic-closure (75%)

## 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). The Unselect Committee should read this story... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694220734937233
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Unselect Committee should read this story about..." Truth Social, 23 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694220734937233. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Unselect Committee should read this story about...," Truth Social, July 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108694220734937233.

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