# Post ts_109942436145196040

- Post ID: `ts_109942436145196040`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-28T12:47:22.160Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table, which also happens to be killing his case and infuriating his viewers, who will again be leaving in droves - they already are. There is MASSIVE evidence of voter fraud & irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election. Just look at the documentary “2000 MULES” and you will see large scale ballot stuffing caught on government cameras, or votes cast without Legislatures approval, or just recently, the FBI/Twitter Files Scandal. RIGGED!!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T01:54:23.090Z (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 early-morning authentic post (7:47 AM, Mar-a-Lago) constitutes a reactive narcissistic injury response to Dominion/Fox lawsuit discovery revelations exposing Trump's key media allies privately repudiating his election fraud narrative. Response follows the characteristic malignant narcissistic sequence: rapid devaluation of the formerly idealized supply source (Murdoch), defensive reassertion of the threatened foundational narrative with amplified certainty ("MASSIVE"), and recruitment of closed-ecosystem evidence (2000 Mules, Twitter Files) to substitute for collapsing external validation. All four verifiable fact claims rate false or mostly false. A notable cognitive marker warrants longitudinal documentation: "throwing his anchors under the table" is a probable idiom contamination paraphasia blending "under the bus" and "under the table." While Trump's documented history of mangled idioms moderates clinical weight, frequency of such errors should be tracked against his 2010s baseline. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological and immature (denial, splitting, projection). Danger level is elevated due to continued maintenance of an election disinformation ecosystem with a documented radicalization linkage. The oscillation from prosecutorial grandiosity to victimhood assertion within a single post indicates the Murdoch betrayal punctured the grandiose defensive facade, transiently exposing the underlying vulnerable narcissistic layer.

# Analysis: ts_109942436145196040 — February 28, 2023

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence)**

UTC 12:47 converts to **7:47 AM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (Florida, UTC−5), where Trump resided during this period. This falls in the early-morning window strongly associated with authentic, unmediated posts. Additional stylistic markers reinforce authenticity: stream-of-consciousness sentence architecture, the idiosyncratic nickname "Pete 'BUTTedgeedge'" appearing in the same-day posts, emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS emphasis, and a conspicuous mixed-metaphor error ("throwing his anchors **under the table**") that is inconsistent with polished aide-drafted copy. An aide would have written "under the bus."

## Situational Context

In late February 2023, pretrial discovery in *Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News* was generating major headlines revealing that Fox hosts — Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and others — had privately dismissed Trump's election fraud claims as false while amplifying them on air. Murdoch himself had testified. This was a direct and documented exposure of the foundational narrative Trump had spent two years defending. The post is an immediate reactive strike against that exposure.

## Cognitive Status: Notable Anomaly

**"throwing his anchors under the table"**

This phrase warrants documentation. The standard idiom is "throwing [someone] under the **bus**." The substitution of "table" is likely a blend of two idioms — "throw under the bus" (betray someone) and "under the table" (secret/corrupt dealing) — producing a semantically incoherent hybrid. This constitutes a probable **semantic paraphasia** or idiom contamination error. It does not interrupt the broader message but is anomalous and should be tracked longitudinally. Trump has a documented history of mangled idioms (e.g., "covfefe," "unpresidented"), which moderates clinical significance; however, the frequency and character of such errors warrant monitoring for trajectory.

Sentence complexity is otherwise within Trump's established range: compound clauses, rhetorical questions, declarative certainty. No vocabulary degradation noted relative to same-day posts.

## Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger: Narcissistic injury — exposure/betrayal by ally**

The Dominion discovery revelations constitute a compound narcissistic injury. Murdoch's network — Trump's primary media organ and validation source — was caught privately repudiating the election fraud narrative. This is not merely political inconvenience; it represents a profound supply-withdrawal and public exposure of the foundational claim on which Trump's post-2020 identity rests.

**Response pattern:**
- Immediate **devaluation** of Murdoch (formerly idealized): attacking him for "killing his case" and alienating viewers
- **Projective** reframe: Murdoch is the problem, not the election fraud claims
- **Return to the foundational narrative** ("2000 Mules," "MASSIVE evidence") as a counter-supply reassertion
- Grandiose certainty ("MASSIVE") functioning as a bulwark against the threatening evidence

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose-to-vulnerable oscillation.** The post opens in a quasi-grandiose prosecutorial mode (attacking Murdoch) but quickly pivots to defensive re-assertion of victimhood ("RIGGED!!!"), suggesting the injury punctured the grandiose facade and exposed the underlying vulnerable layer.

## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (pathological):** Refusal to acknowledge that 60+ courts, multiple Republican officials, and now his own allies' private communications have repudiated the election fraud claims. The word "MASSIVE" performs denial through sheer assertion.

2. **Projection (immature):** Attributes the problem to Murdoch "killing his case" rather than the weakness of the case itself. The damage to Fox's legal position is caused by its hosts having privately said what courts have publicly confirmed.

3. **Splitting (immature):** Presentational binary — either there is MASSIVE fraud (good, validated self) or the election was legitimate (intolerable). No middle ground is structurally available.

4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "2000 Mules" and the Twitter Files are recruited as rationalizing evidence to maintain the coherence of the fraud narrative despite its documented collapse.

## Personality Profile (McAdams Multi-Level)

**Level 1 — Traits:**
- **Low Agreeableness** dominates: Murdoch attacked the moment he becomes a liability; zero solidarity with former ally.
- **High Neuroticism (angry hostility):** reactive, unfiltered, triggered by morning news cycle.
- **High Extraversion (assertiveness):** declarative certainty, command to the reader ("Just look at...").
- **Low Conscientiousness (deliberation):** mixed metaphor and impulsive structure suggest minimal editing.
- **Low Openness (values rigidity):** no update of beliefs despite new evidence; closed epistemic loop.

**Level 2 — Motives:**
- **Dominant motive: Power/control** — specifically the need to control the election fraud narrative, which is existential to Trump's post-2020 identity and legal/political positioning.
- **Agency over communion:** Murdoch is instrumentalized, then discarded when he becomes a threat to the narrative.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** Persecuted truth-teller surrounded by betrayers and conspirators.
- **Contamination sequence:** "We had massive evidence → Murdoch/establishment is covering it up → RIGGED!" The legitimate election fraud claim is being "contaminated" by betrayal from within.
- **Contrasting other:** Murdoch as corrupted gatekeeper; the "deep state" (FBI/Twitter) as active saboteur.
- **Identity claims:** Implicitly, "I am the one who sees the truth that powerful forces suppress."

## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Rhetorical question as attack vector:** Opening "Why is Rupert Murdoch..." positions the reader as already agreeing something suspicious is happening.
- **Authority appeal:** "government cameras" lends pseudo-empirical weight to the "2000 Mules" claim.
- **Capitalization for intensity:** "MASSIVE," "RIGGED!!!" function as emotional amplifiers substituting for evidentiary weight.
- **Enumeration of grievances:** Three-part list (ballot stuffing, legislative approval, Twitter Files) creates an impression of convergent evidence where each item is individually weak.
- **Epistemic closure:** All cited sources ("2000 Mules," Twitter Files) are drawn from within the closed information ecosystem; no external verification pathway is offered.
- **Gaslighting by omission:** No acknowledgment that the Dominion lawsuit documents exist; the legal peril to Fox is re-narrated as Murdoch's personal betrayal.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Denial of documented reality:** Presents "MASSIVE evidence" framing despite comprehensive judicial rejection.
- **DARVO pattern:** Dominion is suing Fox for broadcasting fraud claims Fox hosts privately knew were false → Trump inverts this: Murdoch is betraying *Trump* by acknowledging the litigation.
- **Rapid revisionism:** The Fox News/Dominion context is about Fox's own culpability, not voter fraud; Trump collapses this distinction to re-center his own victimhood narrative.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "2000 Mules documentary shows large scale ballot stuffing caught on government cameras" | **False** | D'Souza's cell-phone geolocation methodology was rejected by independent election security experts, statisticians, and True the Vote's own affiliated researchers. No prosecutions resulted. The methodology cannot establish the intent or identity of individuals alleged to be 'mules.' |
| "There is MASSIVE evidence of voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election" | **False** | 60+ post-election lawsuits were dismissed or ruled against Trump by Republican and Democratic-appointed judges alike. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, DHS Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs, and senior campaign officials publicly stated they found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. |
| "Votes cast without Legislatures approval" | **Mostly False** | Courts rejected the Independent State Legislature theory underlying this claim. The Supreme Court's subsequent Moore v. Harper ruling (2023) confirmed that state courts retain authority to review election laws, further undermining this argument. |
| "FBI/Twitter Files Scandal constitutes evidence of 2020 election fraud" | **Mostly False** | The Twitter Files documented internal content moderation decisions and FBI communications. No released documents established a connection to 2020 election fraud. The FBI-Twitter communications concerned content moderation requests, not vote tabulation or ballot integrity. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated.** The post contributes to ongoing maintenance of the election integrity disinformation ecosystem. It does not contain direct eliminationist language, specific human targets, or mobilization calls. However, the persistent "RIGGED" narrative has a documented relationship with radicalization pathways leading to January 6-type mobilization. The attack on Murdoch as betrayer also functions to consolidate in-group identity against perceived institutional defectors — a pattern consistent with escalating epistemic closure in the follower base.

## Summary

This early-morning post (7:47 AM local time) constitutes an authentic reactive strike triggered by the Dominion/Fox News lawsuit revelations exposing his key media allies' private repudiation of the election fraud narrative. The post exhibits a characteristic malignant narcissistic injury response: rapid devaluation of a former supply source (Murdoch), defensive reassertion of the threatened foundational narrative with amplified certainty ("MASSIVE"), and recruitment of closed-ecosystem evidence (2000 Mules, Twitter Files) to substitute for the collapsing external validation. All four fact claims are rated false or mostly false. A notable cognitive marker warrants longitudinal documentation: "throwing his anchors under the table" is a probable idiom contamination paraphasia blending "under the bus" and "under the table." While Trump's documented history of mangled idioms moderates clinical weight, the frequency of such errors should be tracked against his 2010s baseline. Defense mechanisms are predominantly pathological and immature (denial, splitting, projection). Danger level is elevated due to continued maintenance of an election disinformation ecosystem with established radicalization linkage.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 7:47 AM local time at Mar-a-Lago — early morning window strongly associated with unmediated Trump posts
- Mixed metaphor 'throwing his anchors under the table' inconsistent with aide-drafted copy
- Stream-of-consciousness sentence architecture
- ALL CAPS emotional amplifiers (MASSIVE, RIGGED!!!)
- Triple exclamation points

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Rupert Murdoch / Fox News Dominion lawsuit discovery revelations)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Rupert Murdoch / Fox News
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.72

Baseline Deviation: slight

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 75%
- Sadism: 30%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

Cognitive Markers:
- semantic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct command to audience ('Just look at the documentary')
- Shared persecution framing ('viewers, who will again be leaving in droves')
- Epistemic closure reinforcement — only in-ecosystem sources cited
- Exclamatory validation-seeking ('RIGGED!!!')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued maintenance of the 'RIGGED' election disinformation ecosystem with documented radicalization pathway to January 6-type mobilization
- Devaluation of Murdoch as institutional betrayer functions to consolidate in-group identity against defectors, deepening epistemic closure in the follower base
- Repeated assertion of false fraud claims as certainties forecloses peaceful democratic legitimacy acceptance

### Gaslighting

- Presents 'MASSIVE evidence' framing despite comprehensive judicial rejection — denies documented reality
- DARVO inversion: Dominion lawsuit (about Fox amplifying false claims) is renarrated as Murdoch personally betraying Trump
- Characterizes the Twitter Files as a 'scandal' proving election fraud when the documents contain no such evidence
- No acknowledgment that Murdoch's legal exposure stems from his network broadcasting claims privately known to be false

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> 2000 Mules documentary shows large scale ballot stuffing caught on government cameras

**FALSE**

D'Souza's cell-phone geolocation methodology was rejected by independent election security experts, statisticians, and True the Vote's own affiliated researchers. No prosecutions resulted. The methodology cannot establish the intent or identity of individuals alleged to be 'mules.'

Sources: election security expert consensus; Georgia Bureau of Investigation review; Associated Press fact-check of 2000 Mules

> There is MASSIVE evidence of voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 Presidential Election

**FALSE**

60+ post-election lawsuits were dismissed or ruled against Trump by Republican and Democratic-appointed judges alike. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, DHS Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs, and senior campaign officials publicly stated they found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the election outcome.

Sources: Barr DOJ statement December 2020; CISA Krebs statement November 2020; Federal and state court rulings 2020-2021

> Votes cast without Legislatures approval

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Courts rejected the Independent State Legislature theory underlying this claim. The Supreme Court's subsequent Moore v. Harper ruling (2023) confirmed that state courts retain authority to review election laws, further undermining this argument.

Sources: Pennsylvania Supreme Court rulings 2020; Moore v. Harper SCOTUS 2023

> FBI/Twitter Files Scandal constitutes evidence of 2020 election fraud

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Twitter Files documented internal content moderation decisions and FBI communications. No released documents established a connection to 2020 election fraud. The FBI-Twitter communications concerned content moderation requests, not vote tabulation or ballot integrity.

Sources: Twitter Files releases by Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss December 2022 - February 2023

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- election_fraud_narrative (95%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (88%)
- murdoch_devaluation (82%)
- authentic_trump (87%)
- semantic_paraphasia_candidate (55%)
- epistemic_closure (90%)
- fact_claims_all_false (95%)
- DARVO (78%)
- 2020_election_perseveration (92%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Primary War: DeSantis, Fox, and the Fraud Narrative Under Siege**

Trump spent the day fighting a multi-front war against Ron DeSantis, Fox News, and the looming threat of indictment. The morning was dominated by aggressive attacks on DeSantis's Social Security record and furious demands that Fox stop undermining him, punctuated by late-night fear-mongering about World War III. A midday burst of aide-curated poll links and policy content tried to project dominance, but the day's authentic posts revealed someone rattled by institutional allies pulling away. The mood swung between triumphant chest-thumping and barely-contained anxiety, with election fraud claims resurfacing whenever the pressure mounted.

Full digest for 2023-02-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 28). Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109942436145196040
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table,..." Truth Social, 28 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109942436145196040. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table,...," Truth Social, February 28, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109942436145196040.

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