# Post ts_109563125240986241

- Post ID: `ts_109563125240986241`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-12-23T13:03:37.161Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> SO, WE CAUGHT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THROUGH THE USE OF THE FBI & OTHER AGENCIES, CONCLUSIVELY & IRREFUTABLY CHEATING ON THE 2020 Presidential Election, AND COMPLETELY & ILLEGALLY CHANGING ITS RESULT. THIS WAS ONLY ONE OF MANY FORMS OF CHEATING, BUT FRANKLY, IT WAS A BEAUT! THE FBI HAS NO EXCUSE, THEY WERE CAUGHT COLD, BUT THIS MUST NOT BECOME A COLD CASE. NOW WHAT? HONEST & BRAVE PROSECUTORS & JUDGES MUST STEP UP & CLEAN OUT THIS CANCER WHICH IS DESTROYING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY!

## Engagement

- Likes: 38,842
- Reposts: 14,320
- Replies: 2,872
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.425Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:15:01.223Z (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 textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) in response to the Jan. 6 committee's criminal referral days earlier. Facing unprecedented legal exposure, Trump pivots to grandiose counterattack, claiming he "caught" the government cheating—a projection of his own legal jeopardy onto his pursuers. The disease metaphor ("cancer destroying our country") applied to government institutions crosses into eliminationist rhetoric, framing political opponents as pathology requiring excision. The call for "honest & brave prosecutors & judges" to "clean out" this cancer functions as a mobilization signal to sympathetic officials. Psychologically, the post shows narcissistic rage channeled through pathological distortion: FBI content moderation communications are reframed as "conclusive and irrefutable" proof of election theft, a claim contradicted by every court and investigation including Trump's own DOJ. The four-post barrage on this single morning suggests pressured, perseverative ideation. The grandiose certainty ("CONCLUSIVELY & IRREFUTABLY") in the face of contradicting evidence is consistent with delusional-level conviction rather than strategic messaging, though the two are not mutually exclusive. This post is part of the sustained narrative infrastructure that would later fuel the indictments and continued election denial through 2024.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109563125240986241

### Context
Posted December 23, 2022 at 8:03 AM EST (Trump at Mar-a-Lago for holidays). This is part of a sustained barrage on this date—at least four posts about FBI/Twitter/election fraud, triggered by the Twitter Files revelations and the Jan. 6 committee criminal referral days earlier.

### Authorship
Early morning, ALL CAPS throughout, stream-of-consciousness rhetorical questions, emotional escalation, wordplay ("caught cold" → "cold case")—strongly authentic Trump. The "BEAUT!" interjection and overall impulsive quality are characteristic.

### Psychological State
This post is driven by **narcissistic injury** from the Jan. 6 committee criminal referral (Dec 19). Rather than addressing the referral directly, Trump pivots to offense: reframing the Twitter Files as definitive proof that *he* was the victim and the government was the criminal. Classic DARVO pattern—he is under criminal referral but positions himself as the one who "caught" the government committing crimes.

The ALL CAPS format, the grandiose certainty ("CONCLUSIVELY & IRREFUTABLY"), and the call for prosecution of others all indicate **narcissistic rage** channeled into counterattack. The intensity is high but controlled enough to be strategic.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Projection**: He faces criminal referral → calls for prosecutors to go after "the cancer"
- **Denial/Distortion**: Twitter Files showed FBI flagging content, not "changing the election result"—massive distortion of what was actually revealed
- **Splitting**: Pure good (Trump) vs. pure evil (FBI/government as "cancer")

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post uses a prosecutorial narrative frame: "caught," "no excuse," "caught cold," "prosecutors & judges must step up." This mirrors the legal threat he faces and reverses it. The disease metaphor ("cancer") is dehumanizing and eliminationist. "NOW WHAT?" functions as a call to action directed at sympathetic officials.

### Danger Assessment
The call for "prosecutors & judges" to act against the government as a "cancer" is stochastic in nature—it identifies targets (FBI, government officials) and implies they must be removed. The disease metaphor ("cancer... destroying our country") frames political opponents as existential threats requiring elimination.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "FBI was caught conclusively and irrefutably cheating on the 2020 election" | **False** | Twitter Files showed FBI flagged content and accounts to Twitter, standard practice. No evidence of vote manipulation or election result changes. FBI payments to Twitter were standard legal process reimbursements. |
| "The government completely and illegally changed the election result" | **False** | No court, audit, or investigation found evidence of changed election results. Over 60 lawsuits challenging 2020 results were dismissed. DOJ under Trump's own AG Barr found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS throughout
- 8:03 AM EST early morning posting
- stream-of-consciousness style
- rhetorical wordplay (caught cold/cold case)
- BEAUT! interjection

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jan 6 committee criminal referral; tax return release vote)

**Rage:** Intensity 75% targeting FBI, US government, justice system
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.70

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid-fire posting (4+ posts same morning on same theme)
- Grandiose certainty
- Pressured quality to writing
- ALL CAPS sustained intensity

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 30%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance framing
- call to action for sympathetic officials
- us-vs-them mobilization

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Cancer metaphor frames government officials as existential disease requiring removal
- Call for prosecutors and judges to act against FBI/government
- Eliminationist framing (clean out this cancer)
- Pattern of mobilizing sympathetic officials against institutional targets

### Gaslighting

- Reframes FBI content flagging as conclusive proof of election cheating
- Claims election result was completely and illegally changed despite no evidence
- Presents contested interpretation as irrefutable fact
- DARVO: subject of criminal referral positions self as crime victim

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> FBI was caught conclusively and irrefutably cheating on the 2020 election

**FALSE**

Twitter Files showed FBI flagged content and accounts to Twitter, standard practice. No evidence of vote manipulation or election result changes. FBI payments to Twitter were standard legal process reimbursements.

Sources: Twitter Files releases (Taibbi, Weiss et al.); FBI statement on social media company payments

> The government completely and illegally changed the election result

**FALSE**

No court, audit, or investigation found evidence of changed election results. Over 60 lawsuits challenging 2020 results were dismissed. DOJ under Trump's own AG Barr found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome.

Sources: DOJ statement December 2020; Multiple state and federal court rulings

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (100%)
- DARVO (90%)
- stochastic_mobilization (60%)
- twitter_files (80%)
- jan6_committee_referral (70%)
- dehumanizing_metaphor (70%)

## That day

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

**Besieged by Jan. 6 Referrals, Trump Mounts an All-Caps Counteroffensive Built on Election Fraud Obsession**

Two days before Christmas, Trump spent his morning in a sustained fury over the Jan. 6 Committee's criminal referral, firing off escalating posts insisting the 2020 election was stolen and the government itself was the real criminal. The intensity peaked with an all-caps declaration that the U.S. government had been "caught" cheating, complete with a fabricated statistic and calls for prosecutors to root out a national "cancer." By afternoon, the storm had passed and he pivoted to rapid-fire link sharing and a plug for his coffee-table book -- a familiar cool-down pattern after a rage-heavy morning.

Full digest for 2022-12-23: https://trump.fm/date/2022-12-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, December 23). SO, WE CAUGHT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109563125240986241
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "SO, WE CAUGHT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THROUGH..." Truth Social, 23 Dec. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109563125240986241. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "SO, WE CAUGHT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THROUGH...," Truth Social, December 23, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109563125240986241.

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