# Post ts_109427687892769753

- Post ID: `ts_109427687892769753`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-29T15:00:07.158Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109427687892769753/analysis
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/dbongino/statuses/109424102517109594 This is a MUST WATCH. Our Elections are Rigged. Mail-In Ballots are a total SCAM. How about all of those “BROKEN” Republican Voting Machine? GET SMART REPUBLICANS, OR YOU WON’T HAVE A PARTY (OR COUNTRY) LEFT!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.428Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:31:44.043Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post exemplifies Trump's post-defeat externalization pattern. Following significant 2022 midterm underperformance by Trump-endorsed candidates, he reasserts election fraud narratives rather than engaging with strategic or candidate-quality explanations. The rhetorical structure is coercive: Republicans must either accept the fraud framework or be deemed not "smart," with the stakes escalated from party survival to national survival. This represents continued epistemic closure—a loyalty test requiring acceptance of unsubstantiated claims as group membership criteria. The post is clinically significant as ongoing pathological denial and projection in response to narcissistic injury from electoral defeat, consistent with the same defensive pattern observed after 2020. The danger level is elevated given the established precedent (January 6) of this exact rhetorical pattern—delegitimizing elections, creating urgency, and implying that passive acceptance equals complicity in destruction—preceding real-world mobilization. The timing, one week before the Georgia runoff, adds strategic dimension to what is also clearly an emotionally driven response.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109427687892769753

### Context
Trump retweets Dan Bongino content about election integrity, adding his own commentary asserting elections are "Rigged," mail-in ballots are a "SCAM," and Republican voting machines are "BROKEN." This is posted ~3 weeks after the 2022 midterms, where Republican underperformance was widely attributed to Trump-backed candidates. The Georgia runoff (Walker vs. Warnock) is one week away.

### Authorship
Posted at 10:00 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours, but the style—ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional reactivity, exclamation marks, stream-of-consciousness quality—is strongly authentic Trump. The "RT:" prefix and direct URL paste is his typical retweet method. The scare quotes around "BROKEN" and the closing imperative are signature patterns.

### Psychological Analysis
This post is a textbook externalization of defeat. The 2022 midterm "red wave" failed to materialize, with Trump-endorsed candidates underperforming significantly. Rather than processing this as information about candidate quality or strategy, the entire apparatus of election infrastructure is blamed. The parenthetical "(OR COUNTRY)" escalation from party loss to national destruction reflects catastrophizing that serves narcissistic defense—if the system itself is corrupt, no personal accountability is required.

The imperative "GET SMART" directed at Republicans implies they are currently stupid for not seeing what Trump sees, positioning him as the uniquely perceptive figure surrounded by fools.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Appeal to fear (losing party and country)
- Conspiracy framing (systemic rigging)
- In-group shaming ("GET SMART")
- False dichotomy (accept fraud narrative or lose everything)

### Danger Assessment
Continued delegitimization of electoral systems. While not directly calling for action, the pattern of declaring elections rigged has established precedent for mobilization (Jan 6). The framing that democratic processes cannot be trusted is corrosive to democratic norms.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Elections are rigged" | **False** | No credible evidence of systematic election rigging in 2022 midterms. Multiple courts, election officials of both parties, and Trump's own AG Barr found no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. |
| "Mail-in ballots are a total scam" | **False** | Mail-in voting has been used safely for decades, including by military personnel. Multiple studies show fraud rates are negligible. Trump himself has voted by mail. |
| "Republican voting machines were broken" | **Mostly False** | Isolated machine issues occurred in some precincts (e.g., Maricopa County) but were resolved with provisional ballots and did not affect outcomes. No evidence of systematic targeting of Republican areas. |

Overall Veracity: 7%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis patterns
- Scare quotes usage
- Stream-of-consciousness style
- Imperative closing command
- Emotional reactivity

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (2022 midterm underperformance of Trump-backed candidates)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting election systems, Republican passivity
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.70

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured quality to writing
- Grandiose framing of stakes

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- commanding followers directly
- creating urgency and fear
- positioning as sole truth-teller

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued delegitimization of electoral systems post-Jan 6
- Framing democratic processes as fundamentally corrupt
- Creating epistemic conditions where election results can be rejected

### Gaslighting

- Asserting elections are 'Rigged' without evidence
- Implying those who accept results are not 'smart'
- Presenting unsubstantiated fraud claims as self-evident truth

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Elections are rigged

**FALSE**

No credible evidence of systematic election rigging in 2022 midterms. Multiple courts, election officials of both parties, and Trump's own AG Barr found no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020.

Sources: Court rulings in 60+ post-2020 election cases; State election audits

> Mail-in ballots are a total scam

**FALSE**

Mail-in voting has been used safely for decades, including by military personnel. Multiple studies show fraud rates are negligible. Trump himself has voted by mail.

Sources: Brennan Center for Justice studies; Heritage Foundation election fraud database

> Republican voting machines were broken

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Isolated machine issues occurred in some precincts (e.g., Maricopa County) but were resolved with provisional ballots and did not affect outcomes. No evidence of systematic targeting of Republican areas.

Sources: Maricopa County election reports

Overall Veracity: 7%

## Tags

- election-denial (100%)
- externalization (90%)
- conspiracy-promotion (90%)
- in-group-coercion (70%)
- midterm-aftermath (80%)

## That day

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

**Fuentes Dinner Fallout Drives Displacement Cascade: Election Fraud, Border Panic, and RINO Attacks Serve as Psychological Cover**

Trump spent the day conspicuously avoiding the biggest story about him — bipartisan Republican condemnation of his dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Instead, he launched an intense morning burst of grievance posts attacking the Manhattan DA case, immigration policy, Karl Rove, and the integrity of elections, before going quiet for five hours. He returned in the late afternoon with a calmer stream of link shares and book promotions, seeking validation from friendly media. The day's defining feature was obsessive return to election fraud claims, with the Georgia runoff one week away, and a notable spelling error ("DINIER" for "DENIER") repeated in his attack on Rove.

Full digest for 2022-11-29: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 29). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/dbongino/statuse... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109427687892769753
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/dbongino/statuses/10942410..." Truth Social, 29 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109427687892769753. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/dbongino/statuses/10942410...," Truth Social, November 29, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109427687892769753.

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