# Post ts_109665204958354885

- Post ID: `ts_109665204958354885`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-10T13:43:49.957Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Speedy13/statuses/109659193690058809 God bless Ashli!

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,414
- Reposts: 3,249
- Replies: 423
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:25:09.407Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Four days after the two-year anniversary of January 6 — and contemporaneous with Biden's medal ceremony honoring Capitol defenders — Trump retweets content about Ashli Babbitt with "God bless Ashli!" This brief post is psychologically significant as a DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) response to the Biden administration's framing of January 6. By invoking religious blessing on a woman killed while breaching the Capitol, Trump constructs a martyrdom narrative that inverts victim and aggressor roles. The post functions as counter-programming to Biden's ceremony, a narcissistic injury response, and an in-group solidarity signal. The danger level is elevated: sanctifying a participant in political violence normalizes that violence and sustains the grievance ecosystem. The post demonstrates epistemic closure — within the MAGA information environment, Babbitt's martyrdom is axiomatic, requiring no argument. The strategic brevity is itself rhetorically effective: "God bless Ashli" presupposes shared understanding that she was wronged, functioning as a loyalty test and reality-distortion marker.

## Analysis: "God bless Ashli!" Retweet (January 10, 2023)

This post is a retweet with the brief comment "God bless Ashli!" — referencing Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot while breaching a barricaded door during the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. Posted four days after the two-year anniversary of that event.

### Authorship
Posted at 8:43 AM ET (Trump at Mar-a-Lago). The brevity and emotional directness suggest authentic Trump, though the timing is business hours. The RT format with minimal commentary is consistent with Trump's scrolling-and-boosting behavior. Mixed signals — likely authentic given the emotional valence and political sensitivity an aide would avoid.

### Psychological Significance
This is a martyrdom-framing post. By blessing Babbitt, Trump:
1. Casts a participant in the Capitol breach as a sympathetic victim rather than an aggressor
2. Implicitly delegitimizes the use of force to defend the Capitol
3. Signals solidarity with the January 6 participant community
4. Inverts the victim-perpetrator narrative (DARVO pattern)

This comes days after Biden awarded medals to Capitol defenders — a direct narcissistic injury. The post functions as counter-narrative: if Biden honors defenders, Trump honors the "martyr."

### Danger Assessment
Elevating Babbitt to martyr status serves as a grievance amplifier. It validates the worldview that January 6 participants were righteous actors victimized by the state. This is consistent with stochastic terrorism dynamics: identifying a victim, naming an implicit perpetrator (the government/Capitol police), and sanctifying the cause.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Implicit claim that Ashli Babbitt deserves reverence as a martyr" | **Mostly False** | Babbitt was shot by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd while attempting to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby during the Jan 6 breach. The DOJ investigated and cleared Byrd, finding the use of force justified to protect members of Congress. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Brief emotional comment on RT
- Politically sensitive content aides typically avoid amplifying
- Business hours posting (8:43 AM ET)
- Simple, unpolished phrasing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Biden's Jan 6 anniversary medal ceremony honoring Capitol defenders)

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance cultivation
- Martyrdom narrative
- In-group solidarity signaling

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sanctification of violence participant as martyr
- Implicit delegitimization of state use of force to defend Capitol
- Grievance amplification for Jan 6 participant community
- Counter-narrative to official commemoration of Capitol defenders

### Gaslighting

- Reframing Capitol breach participant as innocent victim deserving blessing
- Implicit reversal of who was aggressor vs defender on Jan 6

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Implicit claim that Ashli Babbitt deserves reverence as a martyr

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Babbitt was shot by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd while attempting to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby during the Jan 6 breach. The DOJ investigated and cleared Byrd, finding the use of force justified to protect members of Congress.

Sources: DOJ investigation clearance of Lt. Byrd; Video evidence of the shooting

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- jan6 (100%)
- martyrdom (90%)
- DARVO (80%)
- grievance_amplification (70%)
- ashli_babbitt (100%)

## That day

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

**Biden Documents Scandal Fuels Vindication Narrative; Day Ends with Targeted Harassment of Election Workers**

Trump spent the day exploiting the newly discovered Biden classified documents story, framing it as proof that his own Mar-a-Lago investigation was politically motivated. The late-night and morning hours were dominated by increasingly aggressive posts connecting Biden's documents to Chinese espionage—claims without evidence. The middle of the day saw a firehose of shared links and a heated demand that Pulitzer Prizes be revoked from outlets that covered the Russia investigation. The day ended on a darker note: Trump congratulated Sarah Huckabee Sanders on her inauguration as Arkansas governor, then pivoted to attacking Biden's medal ceremony for election workers and, most troublingly, singled out Ruby Freeman by name while repeating debunked conspiracy theories about Georgia vote counting.

Full digest for 2023-01-10: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 10). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Speedy13/statuse... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109665204958354885
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Speedy13/statuses/10965919..." Truth Social, 10 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109665204958354885. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Speedy13/statuses/10965919...," Truth Social, January 10, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109665204958354885.

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