# Post ts_109846157479696065

- Post ID: `ts_109846157479696065`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-11T12:42:26.310Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109846157479696065/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109846157479696065.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109842404247765591 So, the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109842404247765591 (2023-02-10T20:47:56.581Z (UTC))

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- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/109/842/404/024/510/284/original/9df487b61efbfe7d.qt

## Engagement

- Likes: 44,987
- Reposts: 14,698
- Replies: 3,082
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T00:51:31.841Z (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 brief retruth — six words appended to a self-citation — functions as a rhetorical capstone to a same-day cluster of agitated posts. The syllogistic structure presents a companion post's grievance inventory as proven premises, then delivers a declarative verdict: 'So, the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!' The word 'So' does significant rhetorical work, implying logical necessity from disputed premises. The ALL CAPS closure performs certainty in lieu of evidence. Posted at 7:42 AM EST, timing and style point strongly to authentic Trump. The Jack Smith investigation constitutes the proximate narcissistic injury: rather than engaging its substance, Trump floods the zone with counter-narrative, framing the investigator as the criminal and himself as the vindicated victim. The election rigging claim — now 27 months old and rejected by 60+ courts, Trump's own AG, and Republican state officials — has metastasized from political argument to identity anchor, functioning as a loyalty test requiring followers to accept a demonstrably false claim as membership criterion. This is the operational mechanism of epistemic closure. The URL malformation (comma merged with hyperlink) suggests hasty, unedited posting. Danger assessment is elevated: this post is not directly violent, but it sustains the same foundational grievance narrative that motivated the January 6 attack, maintaining radicalization pressure on a population already primed to act on this claim.

# Analysis: ts_109846157479696065 | Truth Social | 2023-02-11 07:42 EST

## Overview

This post is a retruth (RT) of Trump's own earlier same-day post (109842404247765591 — the Jack Smith/election integrity post, truncated in the feed at "Get the RIGG..."), with the appended comment: *"So, the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!"* The URL malformation — the comma and opening word "So," appear merged with the hyperlink — is a minor formatting artifact consistent with hasty, unedited posting through the Truth Social native interface.

The post achieves significant rhetorical economy: six words constitute a verdict on a contested factual and legal question adjudicated across 60+ court proceedings.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Authentic Trump (0.87 confidence)**

- **Timing**: 07:42 AM EST (UTC-5, Mar-a-Lago). Falls squarely in Trump's documented early-morning posting window.
- **Style**: ALL CAPS declarative, impulsive brevity, URL parsing error from hasty execution — none of these are characteristic of aide-produced content.
- **Content**: The emotional conclusory register ("So, the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!") is tonally matched to his authenticated posting voice. Aides produce polished announcements; this is raw reactive amplification.

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post is too brief for full trait inference, but in combination with the same-day cluster it reveals:
- **Neuroticism (angry hostility)**: Dominant — reactive, agitated, emotionally amplified across multiple posts
- **Extraversion (assertiveness)**: High — declarative, commanding, occupying epistemic space
- **Agreeableness (low)**: Antagonistic, dismissive of institutional findings
- **Openness (low)**: Rigid attachment to a fixed narrative impervious to countervailing evidence

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

The dominant motivational system here is **agency** — specifically the restoration of power and status. The election denial narrative serves a psychological function beyond political messaging: it preserves the self-concept of the undefeated champion, converting an electoral loss into an act of theft that leaves Trump's intrinsic worth intact. The alternative — that he lost a fair election — is psychologically inadmissible.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Wronged champion; the rightful victor whose legitimate victory was criminally stolen
- **Narrative sequence**: Contamination — a good outcome (electoral victory, as construed) was corrupted by external malevolent actors
- **Contrasting other**: "The Rigged System" — an undifferentiated conspiratorial network encompassing election officials, prosecutors, and media
- **Identity claim**: "I won. Therefore I am still the winner. The loss exists only in fraudulent record."

The contamination narrative is noteworthy: it prevents psychological integration of the defeat by attributing it entirely to external agency, foreclosing any self-examination.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):**
- *Narcissistic features*: High — grandiosity (rightful president), sense of entitlement to the office, need for external validation of the claim
- *Paranoid features*: High — pervasive conspiracy belief sustained against extensive disconfirming evidence
- *Antisocial features*: Moderate — willingness to undermine democratic institutions, disregard for adjudicated legal findings
- *Sadism*: Low in this specific post (no pleasure in others' suffering explicitly displayed)

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post's rhetorical architecture is deceptively simple:

1. **Retruth as premise-block**: The companion post (Jack Smith, "2000 Mules," FBI/Twitter collusion, ballot-stuffing claims) is presented as a catalogue of established facts.
2. **'So'**: This conjunctive performs the logical pivot — treating the unproven claims as sufficient grounds for the conclusion.
3. **'WAS RIGGED'**: Past tense + ALL CAPS = certainty + closure. Not "may have been," not "appears to have been" — *was*. Definitively. Historically.
4. **Exclamation mark**: Emotional seal, preventing further interrogation.

**Propaganda technique**: This is a micro-instance of the RAND Firehose model — the sheer repetition of the claim across months and multiple daily posts erodes the audience's capacity to maintain critical distance.

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## Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Denial | Pathological | Flat refusal to accept adjudicated electoral outcome |
| Distortion | Pathological | Reshaping certified state-by-state results into coordinated theft narrative |
| Projection | Immature | Companion post accuses opponents of electoral manipulation Trump himself attempted (pressuring Pence, seeking to decertify results) |

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Present**: Yes. This post demands followers accept a claim:
- Rejected by 60+ courts (including Trump-appointed judges)
- Contradicted by Trump's own AG (William Barr, December 2020)
- Refuted by Republican election officials in all contested states
- Contradicted by the certified Electoral College record

The mechanism is DARVO in compressed form: the legitimate electoral outcome is repositioned as the fraud, and the fraud narrative is repositioned as the legitimate account. Those who accept the certified results are cast as the deluded or complicit.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The election was rigged" | **False** | More than 60 post-election lawsuits were dismissed or rejected by courts, including by Trump-appointed judges. Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. Republican election officials in contested states (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania) certified Biden's victory. The Electoral College certified Biden's win. Congress certified the results on January 7, 2021. No court found credible evidence of systemic rigging. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

This post does not contain direct violent imagery or explicit calls to action. However:

1. The election denial narrative it sustains was the **primary motivating grievance** for the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack — the most significant domestic political violence incident in modern American history.
2. Continued repetition 27 months post-election functions as **radicalization maintenance** — keeping a prepared audience in a state of grievance and perceived legitimacy to act.
3. The companion post's framing of Jack Smith as the criminal actor and Trump as the victim **inverts authority structures**, a pattern associated with accelerationist logic.
4. The epistemic closure demand (accept this refuted claim or be cast as part of the conspiracy) **narrows followers' reality testing capacity** over time.

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## Jungian/Archetypal Reading

This post embodies a compressed **Trickster-into-Warrior** transition. The Trickster disrupts established order (certification, courts, consensus reality); the Warrior then casts that disruption as righteous battle. The election denial narrative functions as the mythological wound — the hero who was betrayed — activating the archetypal **Wronged King** pattern. The appeal is powerful because it maps onto deep cultural anxieties about corrupt institutions and stolen status.

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## Longitudinal Note

The election rigging claim has been a stable fixture since November 2020 — now approaching three years of daily reinforcement. This is not an acute escalation but a **chronic baseline feature**. The same-day cluster of posts (CNN attack, Jack Smith whataboutism, cryptic "blue tie" post, this retruth) suggests an **elevated stress state** consistent with the Jack Smith investigation's procedural pressure, but the content itself represents pattern continuation rather than deviation. Trajectory: stable (deteriorating baseline has stabilized at a chronically distorted level).

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted at 07:42 AM EST (UTC-5, Mar-a-Lago/EST timezone) — early morning window consistent with authentic Trump
- Impulsive brevity: six-word declarative appended to a retruth
- ALL CAPS emotional emphasis ('ELECTION WAS RIGGED')
- URL malformation ('So,' appended to URL string) consistent with hasty, unedited posting
- Conclusory, stream-of-consciousness structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith investigation — perceived as threatening exposure and legal jeopardy, with the 2020 election defeat as the underlying unprocessed wound)

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting The electoral system, Jack Smith, political opponents
- Proportionality: 10%

Sentiment: -0.72

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple Truth Social posts within a compressed timeframe on February 11 (CNN attack, Jack Smith post, cryptic 'blue tie' post, this retruth)
- Elevated emotional register across all same-day posts
- Impulsive, reactive posting style suggesting compressed ideation-to-publication cycle

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 62%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 18%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 12%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as co-victims of the same injustice
- Shared enemy construction (rigged system, corrupt prosecutors)
- Loyalty test via acceptance of factually refuted claim

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued amplification of the election denial narrative that served as primary motivating grievance for January 6, 2021 Capitol attack
- Epistemic closure technique positions democratic institutions as illegitimate targets
- Same-day companion posts frame law enforcement (Jack Smith) as criminal actors — inverting authority and grievance structure
- Sustained repetition of false claim functions as ongoing radicalization maintenance for followers already primed to act on this grievance

### Gaslighting

- Denial of documented electoral outcomes certified by Republican and Democratic officials alike
- Framing adjudicated legal findings as the deception ('RIGGED') rather than the claims themselves
- Treating repeated assertion as proof, positioning doubt as the epistemic error
- Companion posts attack the investigator (Jack Smith) as a mechanism to discredit scrutiny of the claim itself

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> The election was rigged

**FALSE**

More than 60 post-election lawsuits were dismissed or rejected by courts, including by Trump-appointed judges. Attorney General William Barr stated the DOJ found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. Republican election officials in contested states (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania) certified Biden's victory. The Electoral College certified Biden's win. Congress certified the results on January 7, 2021. No court found credible evidence of systemic rigging.

Sources: U.S. federal and state court records (60+ dismissed cases); AG William Barr public statements, December 2020; State-level Republican election certification records

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (100%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (82%)
- false_syllogism (88%)
- reality_distortion (90%)
- epistemic_closure (92%)
- authentic_trump (87%)
- perseveration (85%)
- jack_smith_investigation (70%)
- radicalization_maintenance (65%)
- circular_self_citation (80%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Jack Smith Rage Escalates to Coded Eliminationist Language**

A quiet evening post teasing a Republican for being friendly with Biden gave way to a late-night eruption focused on the Jack Smith investigation, packed with debunked election conspiracy claims and a racially coded call to action. The morning brought a brief detour into mocking CNN and Bill Maher over ratings, but within minutes he was back to declaring the 2020 election "RIGGED." The dominant mood was grievance over legal exposure, with grandiose self-promotion unable to hold for more than a few minutes before the persecution narrative reasserted itself.

Full digest for 2023-02-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 11). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109846157479696065
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 11 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109846157479696065. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, February 11, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109846157479696065.

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