# Post ts_109623333632536836

- Post ID: `ts_109623333632536836`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-03T04:15:24.306Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109623333632536836
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109623333632536836/analysis
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109617003756333232 Does this look like “Insurrection” to you? The Unselect Committee never discussed Election Fraud (which was the reason for the protest), the soldiers who were recommended for D.C., but turned down by Crazy Nancy and the D.C. Mayor, the “Peacefully and Patriotically” Speech, or the “recaptured” perfect tweets that the highly partisan and very crooked “Committee” wanted nobody to see. Gee, I wonder why?

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109617003756333232 (2023-01-02T01:25:37.983Z (UTC))

> https://rumble.com/v23ht4a-eric-bolling-the-most-ridiculous-political-witch-hunt-in-u.s.-history.html

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T23:09:02.304Z (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 late-night self-retruth (11:15 PM EST, Mar-a-Lago) constitutes a clinically significant defensive reaction to the dual narcissistic injuries of the J6 Committee's final report and the concurrent release of Trump's tax returns in late December 2022. The post demonstrates a well-developed DARVO sequence: flat denial of the insurrection label, contemptuous attack on the committee's integrity, and systematic reversal that positions the subject as victim of a corrupt suppression operation. The self-retruth pattern — returning at midnight to amplify a post made hours earlier — suggests rumination and inability to disengage from the narcissistic wound, consistent with Kohutian injury dynamics. Defense mechanisms span pathological (denial, distortion of historical record) through immature (projection of dishonesty onto investigators) to neurotic (post-hoc rationalization via enumerated grievances). Fact verification finds the core claims range from false to highly contested. The post maintains the grievance infrastructure around January 6 by systematically delegitimizing its institutional adjudication — normalization and historical revisionism rather than direct incitement, but sustaining the conditions for future mobilization. Cognitive markers are consistent with established baseline; no acute deterioration signals. The rhetorical sophistication of the DARVO structure suggests practiced deployment of these defenses rather than disorganized reaction. Danger level: elevated, due to continued systematic delegitimization of the investigative body that documented the predicate events for political violence.

# Analysis: ts_109623333632536836 — January 3, 2023

## Structural Note: Self-Retruth
This post is a **retruth of Trump's own earlier post** (109617003756333232), likely published ~12 hours prior on January 2 local time. Self-retruthing is a deliberate amplification signal — it indicates the subject viewed the original message as important enough to resurface, functionally doubling its reach. The malformed URL in the post (`...232Does`) is a platform artifact of how Truth Social appends retruth content.

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Highly likely authentic Trump.** UTC 04:15 converts to **11:15 PM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (Trump's near-certain location in early January 2023 — he formally announced his 2024 campaign from Mar-a-Lago in November 2022 and typically resided there in winter). Late-night timing is a strong authentic indicator. Stylistically, the post carries multiple authentic fingerprints: the proprietary nickname "Unselect Committee," the "Crazy Nancy" pejorative, heavy scare-quoting of loaded terms, an ironic rhetorical closer ("Gee, I wonder why?"), and stream-of-consciousness enumeration of grievances without editorial polish. No aide would replicate this compressed, parenthetical, emotionally reactive structure.

## Psychological Trigger
The J6 Committee's final report and the release of Trump's tax returns in late December 2022 represent dual narcissistic injuries converging: **exposure** (tax returns) and **institutional condemnation** (J6 report). The self-retruth timing at nearly midnight suggests reactive rumination — the subject returned to a grievance he had posted about earlier in the day, unable to set it down. This is consistent with the Kohutian model of narcissistic injury producing an inability to disengage from the wound.

## Narcissistic Dynamics
The post operates in **mixed narcissistic state** — simultaneously grandiose and vulnerable. The grandiose thread: confident assertion of innocence, mockery of the committee's legitimacy ("Unselect"), rhetorical certainty that his framing is correct. The vulnerable thread: the entire post is structured as a defense against a threatening institutional verdict. This oscillation — projecting confidence while actually defending against an existential attack on self-concept — is characteristic of malignant narcissism under siege.

**Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury via institutional exposure and defeat. The committee's conclusion that the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection he incited directly challenges his self-narrative as a law-respecting, victimized patriot.

**Narcissistic rage:** Present but modulated — expressed through contempt and dismissal rather than hot rage. The sarcastic "Gee, I wonder why?" and the qualifier "highly partisan and very crooked" signal cold contempt rather than explosive anger. Intensity approximately 0.6/1.0. Target: the January 6 Committee, Nancy Pelosi, and the broader institutional apparatus rendering judgment.

## Defense Mechanisms
1. **Denial (pathological):** The opening rhetorical question — "Does this look like Insurrection to you?" — is a direct denial of the core institutional finding. Not "I didn't intend insurrection" but a flat categorical challenge to the label itself.

2. **Distortion (pathological):** Reshaping the historical record — framing January 6 as a simple "protest" motivated by "Election Fraud," omitting the violence, deaths, and Capitol breach. Reality is grossly reshaped to serve the defensive narrative.

3. **Projection (immature):** The committee is called "very crooked" — attributing dishonesty and partisanship to those documenting his conduct. This is the subject's own documented behaviors (disputed claims, selective evidence presentation) displaced onto adversaries.

4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The enumerated list of allegedly suppressed evidence (troop requests, the "Peacefully and Patriotically" speech, withheld tweets) functions as post-hoc logical scaffolding around what is fundamentally an emotional rejection of the committee's findings.

## DARVO Pattern (Gaslighting)
This post is a textbook **DARVO** sequence:
- **Deny:** "Does this look like Insurrection to you?"
- **Attack:** "highly partisan and very crooked Committee"
- **Reverse Victim and Offender:** He was the victim of a stolen election (the "reason for the protest"); the committee suppressed evidence that would exonerate him; Pelosi bears responsibility for troop deployment decisions.

The framing systematically inverts the institutional narrative: the subject presents himself as the party wronged, the committee as the bad actors concealing truth.

## Rhetorical Analysis
- **Proprietary nicknames:** "Unselect Committee," "Crazy Nancy" — delegitimizing labels that prime followers to reject the source before engaging content
- **Scare quotes:** "Insurrection," "Peacefully and Patriotically," "recaptured," "Committee" — each set signals to followers that these terms are contestable or fraudulent impositions
- **Rhetorical question opener:** Invites assent without requiring argument; assumes conclusion
- **Enumeration of alleged suppressions:** Creates impression of documentary evidence where none is cited; each item adds pseudologic weight
- **Ironic closer:** "Gee, I wonder why?" — performs confident irony, implying the answer is obvious (they're hiding the truth) while requiring zero evidence
- **Parenthetical aside:** "(which was the reason for the protest)" — inserts the contested election fraud premise as settled fact via subordinate clause, bypassing scrutiny

## Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Martyred truth-teller, railroaded by corrupt institutions. The narrative structure is classic **contamination sequence**: legitimate political leader with valid grievances → targeted by partisan machinery intent on suppression. He does not tell a redemption arc here; this is pure grievance documentation with implied future vindication.

**Contrasting other:** "Crazy Nancy" and the anonymous "highly partisan and very crooked Committee" serve as the contaminating agents in his life story.

**Identity claim:** Implicitly — *I am the one who sees through the corruption and has the evidence to prove it, if only it were allowed to surface.*

## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure Indicators
The post actively demands followers accept a counter-factual reconstruction of January 6. The rhetorical question ("Does this look like Insurrection?") functions as a **loyalty test** — the correct answer among the in-group is predetermined. This is a core mechanism of shared psychosis transmission: the leader's reality distortion is packaged as obvious common sense, and acceptance signals tribal membership. The "nobody wants you to see" framing ("that the highly partisan and very crooked 'Committee' wanted nobody to see") reinforces the persecution narrative and positions counter-evidence as suppressed proof.

## Cognitive Status
The post shows no acute cognitive deterioration markers. Sentence structure is fragmented but purposefully so — this is Trump's established rhetorical style, not evidence of disorganization. Vocabulary is simple and consistent with his documented baseline. The parenthetical structure, while convoluted, tracks internally. **Mild tangentiality** is present — the post moves rapidly across five distinct defensive arguments (insurrection label, election fraud omission, troop deployment, "peaceful" speech, suppressed tweets) without developing any of them, which is typical of this subject's reactive posting style. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or temporal confusions observed. Complexity score is consistent with baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Unselect Committee never discussed Election Fraud (which was the reason for the protest)" | **False** | The January 6 Select Committee devoted extensive hearing time to election fraud claims, presenting testimony from Trump's own Attorney General William Barr ('complete nonsense,' 'bullshit'), campaign manager Bill Stepien, and state election officials across multiple contested states. The committee's stated purpose included examining whether fraud claims were the false predicate for the pressure campaign against Pence and state officials. |
| "Soldiers were recommended for D.C. but turned down by Crazy Nancy and the D.C. Mayor" | **Mostly False** | The D.C. National Guard is under the President's command authority, not the Speaker's. Speaker Pelosi has no authority over troop deployment. D.C. Mayor Bowser requested a limited NG presence for crowd control on January 5 but explicitly requested they NOT be armed or given law enforcement powers, and did not request Capitol protection (Capitol Police jurisdiction). Committee testimony from Acting Defense Secretary Miller and others did not corroborate a formal Trump pre-authorization of 10,000-20,000 troops. The causal chain blaming Pelosi is contradicted by the constitutional chain of command. |
| "The 'Peacefully and Patriotically' speech exonerates him from insurrection charge" | **Half True** | Trump did use the phrase 'peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard' once in the January 6 speech. However, the same speech contained multiple 'fight like hell' iterations, 'you'll never take back our country with weakness,' and a directive to march to the Capitol. The J6 Committee analyzed the full speech context. Selective citation of one phrase while omitting surrounding incitement content is misleading. |
| "The committee wanted nobody to see the 'recaptured' tweets" | **Unverifiable** | The nature, content, and alleged suppression of 'recaptured' tweets is not substantiated in this post or in the public record of the J6 Committee's findings and exhibits. The claim cannot be evaluated without specifics. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Danger Assessment
**Level: Elevated.** The post does not contain explicit violent language or stochastic terrorism indicators in isolation. However, it continues the systematic delegitimization of the January 6 committee's findings — the institutional body that documented the predicate events for political violence. By framing January 6 as a legitimate protest suppressed by corrupt actors, the post maintains the grievance infrastructure that predicated the original violence. The rhetorical work here is not direct incitement but **normalization and historical revisionism** — keeping the ember lit for potential future mobilization. No immediate danger, but part of a documented pattern of sustained reality distortion around January 6.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- UTC 04:15 converts to 11:15 PM EST at Mar-a-Lago — late night posting consistent with authentic Trump pattern
- Proprietary nickname 'Unselect Committee' is documented Trump coinage
- 'Crazy Nancy' pejorative is established Trump lexicon
- Heavy scare-quoting of contested terms ('Insurrection', 'Peacefully and Patriotically', 'Committee')
- Ironic rhetorical closer 'Gee, I wonder why?' — conversational, unpolished

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Select Committee final report and institutional condemnation; concurrent release of Trump tax returns in late December 2022)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting January 6 Select Committee; Nancy Pelosi; institutional legal apparatus
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 72%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question inviting in-group assent ('Does this look like Insurrection to you?')
- Conspiratorial framing positioning followers as co-victims of suppressed truth ('wanted nobody to see')
- Ironic 'Gee, I wonder why?' performing shared knowing with audience
- DARVO sequence positioning him as victim of corrupt institutional actors

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Systematic delegitimization of the investigative body that documented the predicate events for political violence — maintains institutional distrust that enabled January 6
- Ongoing framing of January 6 as legitimate, justified protest — normalization and historical revisionism sustaining grievance infrastructure
- Conspiracy framing around evidence suppression ('wanted nobody to see') reinforces persecution narrative that motivates mobilization
- Self-retruth amplification indicates subject views this delegitimization as priority messaging, not incidental commentary
- Part of documented longitudinal pattern of sustained reality distortion around January 6 and 2020 election

### Gaslighting

- Denial of institutional finding ('Does this look like Insurrection to you?') — challenges documented conclusion as obvious falsehood
- Attacks on the legitimacy of the investigative body ('highly partisan and very crooked Committee') — undermines the epistemic authority rendering judgment
- Conspiracy framing ('wanted nobody to see') — frames counter-evidence as deliberately suppressed, foreclosing engagement with it
- Parenthetical premise insertion: '(which was the reason for the protest)' inserts contested election fraud claim as settled fact, bypassing scrutiny
- DARVO sequence systematically inverts victim and perpetrator roles across the entire post

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> The Unselect Committee never discussed Election Fraud (which was the reason for the protest)

**FALSE**

The January 6 Select Committee devoted extensive hearing time to election fraud claims, presenting testimony from Trump's own Attorney General William Barr ('complete nonsense,' 'bullshit'), campaign manager Bill Stepien, and state election officials across multiple contested states. The committee's stated purpose included examining whether fraud claims were the false predicate for the pressure campaign against Pence and state officials.

Sources: January 6 Select Committee hearings, June-December 2022; William Barr deposition testimony

> Soldiers were recommended for D.C. but turned down by Crazy Nancy and the D.C. Mayor

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The D.C. National Guard is under the President's command authority, not the Speaker's. Speaker Pelosi has no authority over troop deployment. D.C. Mayor Bowser requested a limited NG presence for crowd control on January 5 but explicitly requested they NOT be armed or given law enforcement powers, and did not request Capitol protection (Capitol Police jurisdiction). Committee testimony from Acting Defense Secretary Miller and others did not corroborate a formal Trump pre-authorization of 10,000-20,000 troops. The causal chain blaming Pelosi is contradicted by the constitutional chain of command.

Sources: J6 Committee testimony; Mayor Bowser's January 5, 2021 letter to DoD; Acting SecDef Miller testimony

> The 'Peacefully and Patriotically' speech exonerates him from insurrection charge

**HALF TRUE**

Trump did use the phrase 'peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard' once in the January 6 speech. However, the same speech contained multiple 'fight like hell' iterations, 'you'll never take back our country with weakness,' and a directive to march to the Capitol. The J6 Committee analyzed the full speech context. Selective citation of one phrase while omitting surrounding incitement content is misleading.

Sources: Full transcript of Trump's January 6, 2021 Ellipse speech; J6 Committee final report

> The committee wanted nobody to see the 'recaptured' tweets

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The nature, content, and alleged suppression of 'recaptured' tweets is not substantiated in this post or in the public record of the J6 Committee's findings and exhibits. The claim cannot be evaluated without specifics.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- january-6-revisionism (95%)
- DARVO (90%)
- insurrection-denial (90%)
- j6-committee-delegitimization (88%)
- election-fraud-narrative (82%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (80%)
- pelosi-targeting (70%)
- epistemic-closure (78%)
- self-retruth-amplification (65%)
- late-night-posting (72%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Ruby Freeman Targeting Spree Reveals Perseverative 2020 Wound**

Trump spent his late evening fixated on the 2020 election, posting a rapid-fire series of attacks against Ruby Freeman, a private Georgia election worker he has targeted before. The posts twisted her own denials of fraud accusations into supposed confessions, ending with the ominous line "TROUBLE FOR RUBY!!!" He also revisited January 6 grievances despite notably ignoring the Kevin McCarthy speaker battle happening that very day. By morning, the mood shifted to lighter fare -- Biden-bashing, praising his own China trade record, and a cheerful shout-out to Truth Social.

Full digest for 2023-01-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 3). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109623333632536836
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 3 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109623333632536836. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, January 3, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109623333632536836.

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