# Post ts_109904898979716836 - Post ID: `ts_109904898979716836` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-21T21:41:10.466Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109904898979716836 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109904898979716836/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109904898979716836.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen, and the evidence is all over the place! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/huge-exclusive-a-potential-crime-identified-related-to-president-trumps-call-with-georgia-secretary-of-state-raffensperger/ ## Engagement - Likes: 14,810 - Reposts: 4,174 - Replies: 566 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:16:16.276Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A compact DARVO operation triggered by mounting Georgia criminal exposure. The post reasserts the "Rigged and Stolen" narrative — false against 60+ court dismissals and Republican certifications — while linking to a Gateway Pundit piece that reframes Trump's legally scrutinized Raffensperger call as Raffensperger's own crime. Defense mechanisms are pathological-tier: denial of documented electoral outcome combined with distortion of the evidentiary record ("evidence is all over the place" when courts found the inverse). Projection is the operative immature defense — criminality associated with Trump's conduct is projected onto the investigating party. Authorship is likely authentic (stylistic fingerprints: capitalization, informal register, exclamation mark) despite 4:41 PM local posting time. The 2020 election loss, 26 months elapsed without cognitive integration, remains the central unresolved narcissistic wound. The post serves dual functions: follower supply maintenance and preemptive narrative inoculation against incoming Georgia coverage. No acute danger; chronic danger level elevated, as sustained election-denial rhetoric of this intensity has documented links to political violence mobilization. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — February 21, 2023 ## Overview A compact, two-sentence post reasserting the "Rigged and Stolen" election narrative linked to a Gateway Pundit article attempting to recast the legally scrutinized Raffensperger call as *Raffensperger's* criminal act. Clinically significant for its DARVO architecture, persistent pathological denial, and function as both supply-seeking and legal preemption. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely authentic (0.65/1.0, medium confidence)** UTC 21:41 converts to **4:41 PM EST at Mar-a-Lago** — business hours, a mild aide indicator. However, stylistic fingerprints strongly favor authentic Trump: - Capitalized "Rigged and Stolen" — characteristic typographic emphasis - "all over the place" — casual, informal register consistent with unfiltered Trump - Single exclamation point with no hedging - Gateway Pundit is a frequent authentic Trump source selection The post's emotional directness and punchy brevity are more compatible with authentic Trump than the polished, event-announcement style of aide-written posts. --- ## Contextual Trigger Trump faced active **Fulton County criminal scrutiny** for the January 2, 2021 Raffensperger call, in which he pressured the Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes." The Gateway Pundit article linked here — headlined as a "potential crime" related to the same call — appears to attempt a **narrative inversion**: the person investigating or exposing Trump is now recast as the criminal. This is the legal and psychological context driving the post, not a generalized election-denial impulse. Biden's February 20 surprise Kyiv visit and Putin's suspension of New START (announced February 21) provided rich alternative grievance material Trump chose not to foreground in this specific post, suggesting the Raffensperger legal thread was the proximate trigger. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits Dominant facets: **angry hostility** (neuroticism) and **assertiveness** (extraversion). Agreeableness near floor. Openness rigid. Conscientiousness low. Consistent with established baseline. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.90).** The post is about restoring claimed status usurped by institutional actors. Communion motives absent. Schema: self as uniquely legitimate authority, election system as corrupt conspirator, followers as co-victims. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Wrongly dispossessed victor and solitary truth-teller - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — legitimate victory corrupted by institutional actors - **Identity claims:** "I won; the system stole it; I alone name this truth" - **Contrasting other:** Raffensperger; election officials; unnamed "riggers" ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Malignant narcissism pattern sustained.** Narcissistic features (0.82), paranoid features (0.70), antisocial features (0.55). The 26-month persistence of this specific grievance without attenuation — despite total absence of court-admissible evidence — suggests the 2020 loss functions as the central unresolved narcissistic wound in Trump's current psychological architecture. Ego cannot integrate the defeat as real; reality distortion persists at pathological intensity. --- ## Defense Mechanisms | Mechanism | Level | Evidence | |-----------|-------|----------| | Denial | Pathological | States election was "Rigged and Stolen" as settled fact against 60+ court dismissals and Republican certifications | | Distortion | Pathological | "Evidence is all over the place" inverts documented evidentiary absence | | Projection | Immature | Raffensperger recast as criminal while Trump faces criminal scrutiny for the same call | | Rationalization | Neurotic | Gateway Pundit link performs pseudo-evidentiary function without substantiating the claim | --- ## DARVO Analysis A textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) operation in compressed form: - **Deny:** "The election was rigged" — denies the legitimate outcome - **Attack:** Implicit attack on Raffensperger's conduct via the linked article - **Reverse V&O:** Trump (investigated) → victim of rigged election; Raffensperger (investigator) → alleged criminal --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Declarative assertion as established fact** — no hedging, no conditional framing - **Hyperbole:** "all over the place" performs evidence abundance without citing any - **Typographic emphasis:** Capitalization of "Rigged and Stolen" signals affective loading to base - **Firehose model:** This is one instance in a multi-year, high-volume false claim repetition campaign - **Epistemic authority via partisan media:** Gateway Pundit functions as credibility signal within MAGA information ecosystem regardless of its accuracy record - **Pseudo-evidentiary link:** Clickable artifact performs the social function of substantiation without supplying it --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Gaslighting present.** Claims evidence is "all over the place" — the inverse of the documented record. Demands audience accept a reality-distorted premise as in-group membership signal. Attacks institutional actors' legitimacy to preempt follower engagement with contrary evidence. Classic epistemic closure mechanism. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen" | **False** | 60+ court cases dismissed for lack of evidence. Republican election officials in AZ, GA, MI, WI, PA certified results. AG Bill Barr stated no evidence of fraud at outcome-changing scale. Multiple forensic audits including Republican-commissioned AZ audit confirmed Biden victory. | | "the evidence is all over the place" | **False** | The evidentiary record is precisely the inverse — conspicuous absence of actionable, court-admissible fraud evidence characterized every legal challenge. No court, audit, or official investigation substantiated widespread fraud. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Cognitive Status No markers of linguistic deterioration in this brief sample. Vocabulary, register, and syntax are within established Trump baseline. Post is too brief for meaningful complexity assessment. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or confabulation observable. --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated (chronic, not acute).** No eliminationist language, no specific target identification, no violent imagery in this post. However, sustained election-denial rhetoric at this intensity — documented over 26+ months — functions as chronic grievance maintenance that has empirically been linked to political violence mobilization (cf. January 6 pathway). The post contributes to a long-running stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern without constituting an acute incitement event in isolation. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Victim archetype dominant, Hero/Savior in background.** Trump casts himself as the legitimate king deposed by corrupt institutional actors (contamination sequence), with the implicit narrative that restoration/redemption remains possible. The Warrior archetype is subdued here compared to more confrontational posts — this is a maintenance-grievance post, not an attack-mobilization post. **Shadow projection:** Criminality (the actual subject of the Georgia investigation) is projected onto Raffensperger via the linked article. --- ## Longitudinal Context The election-denial narrative shows **zero attenuation** at 26 months post-election. The day's posting pattern (5+ posts spanning DeSantis rivalry, Ukraine/WWIII, East Palestine, rallies, and election fraud) suggests elevated activation state — possibly mild hypomania — though volume is within observed range for high-activation days. The DeSantis posts earlier the same day ("DeSanctimonious") indicate heightened competitive anxiety following Nikki Haley's February 15 announcement, which may be elevating baseline arousal across all posts. --- *Trajectory: Stable. No marked deviation from established baseline patterns.* ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - Capitalization of 'Rigged and Stolen' consistent with authentic Trump typographic emphasis - Informal superlative 'all over the place' matches Trump's casual register - Single exclamation point — characteristic Trump punctuation economy - Gateway Pundit is a frequent authentic Trump source choice - UTC 21:41 = 4:41 PM EST at Mar-a-Lago — business hours slightly tempers authenticity reading ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Fulton County DA investigation into Raffensperger call; ongoing 2020 loss exposure) Sentiment: -0.45 **Mildly Hypomanic** - High posting volume this date (5+ posts across multiple grievance domains) - Rapid topic switching within single day — DeSantis rivalry, Ukraine/WWIII, rally announcements, election fraud, East Palestine ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 70% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Shared victimhood framing — followers are also victims of the 'rigged' system - Epistemic solidarity — accepting the claim signals group membership - Pseudo-evidentiary link creates illusion of substantiation without requiring followers to evaluate evidence independently ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Sustained election denial rhetoric 26+ months post-election — chronic precursor pattern to political violence documented in January 6 context - Narrative inversion recasting accountable party as victim maintains follower grievance at operational temperature - No acute incitement present; danger is systemic and chronic rather than immediate ### Gaslighting - Denial of documented electoral outcome confirmed by Republican officials and 60+ courts - Inversion of evidentiary record ('evidence is all over the place' when courts found the opposite) - Demands epistemic acceptance of false claim as baseline for in-group membership - Pseudo-evidentiary link performs 'proof' function without substantiating the claim ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen **FALSE** 60+ court cases dismissed for lack of evidence. Republican election officials in AZ, GA, MI, WI, PA certified results. AG Bill Barr stated no evidence of fraud at outcome-changing scale. Multiple forensic audits including Republican-commissioned AZ audit confirmed Biden victory. Sources: U.S. federal and state court records 2020-2021; Georgia Secretary of State certification; Attorney General Barr December 2020 statement > the evidence is all over the place **FALSE** The evidentiary record is precisely the inverse — conspicuous absence of actionable, court-admissible fraud evidence characterized every legal challenge. No court, audit, or official investigation substantiated widespread fraud. Sources: Consolidated court case record; Bipartisan election review documentation Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - election-denial (100%) - DARVO (90%) - Georgia-investigation (85%) - Gateway-Pundit (70%) - narcissistic-injury (80%) - gaslighting (85%) - supply-seeking (65%) - preemptive-attack (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Biden's Kyiv Visit Triggers Multi-Front Defensive Campaign as Georgia Legal Exposure Provokes Day's Most Intense Fury** Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago managing multiple threats at once — Biden's dramatic visit to Kyiv, DeSantis's growing primary challenge, and the tightening Georgia criminal investigation. The morning featured grandiose self-promotion and rival attacks, including a pointed call for mandatory mental competency tests for presidential candidates. The mood darkened sharply in the late afternoon when posts turned to the Georgia probe, culminating in a racially charged attack on prosecutor Fani Willis that carried the day's highest intensity. Throughout it all, a recurring fear-frame cast Biden's Ukraine support as a march toward World War III. Full digest for 2023-02-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 21). The Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen, and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109904898979716836 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Election of 2020 was Rigged and Stolen, and the..." Truth Social, 21 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109904898979716836. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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