# Post ts_109950165841096125 - Post ID: `ts_109950165841096125` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-03-01T21:33:07.955Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109950165841096125 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109950165841096125/analysis ## Post text > https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-were-not-going-to-let-them-steal-the-election-in-2024/ ## Engagement - Likes: 16,012 - Reposts: 4,260 - Replies: 731 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.419Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:24:05.802Z (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 URL-share post is almost certainly aide-authored (16:33 EST, business hours; zero personal text; fifth in a coordinated day-long URL distribution sequence), functioning as strategic content distribution rather than authentic expression. The article amplified — Trump vowing 'We're Not Going to Let Them Steal the Election in 2024' — reveals the operative psychological narrative: preemptive electoral victimhood fused with warrior-protector positioning. By declaring in advance that 2024 faces theft risk, any future unfavorable result is pre-condemned and pre-excused — a textbook preemptive rationalization anchored to a foundational false claim. The post is clinically notable less for individual content than for its structural role: the fifth element in a deliberate narrative sequence (policy credibility → rival diminishment → polling supply → platform validation → election alarm) that is too coherent to be spontaneous. The core implied claim — that 2020 was stolen — remains false, adjudicated across 61+ courts and internally acknowledged as such by Fox News contemporaneously. By extending this false framework to 2024, the post perpetuates epistemic closure within the MAGA ecosystem. Danger is rated elevated: preemptive election delegitimization primes followers to interpret any Trump loss as criminal act requiring response, a cumulative rhetorical pattern that directly preconditioned the January 6, 2021 events and risks replication in the 2024 cycle. ## Authorship Analysis The post consists entirely of a bare URL to RSB Network — no personal text, no commentary, no emotional elaboration. Posted at 21:33 UTC = **16:33 EST (4:33 PM local time)** at Mar-a-Lago or en route to National Harbor for CPAC (which began February 28, with Trump's headlining appearance scheduled for March 4). This falls squarely within business hours, strongly indicating aide authorship consistent with the Scavino content distribution pattern. This is the fifth URL-share post in the March 1 cluster, suggesting coordinated staff-managed sequencing rather than reactive personal posting. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers While the post contains no direct Trump prose, the content amplified — a statement vowing to prevent the 2024 election from being "stolen" — encodes the operative psychological narrative: **preemptive victimhood wrapped in warrior-protector positioning**. The trigger appears to be multi-layered: (1) maintenance of the stolen-election brand amid the CPAC period where rivals (Haley, Pompeo) were making inroads; (2) supply-seeking from the base on its most emotionally activating topic; and (3) preemptive attack against anticipated 2024 electoral institutions. The earlier Murdoch post from the same day — raw, capitalized, emotionally flooded — contrasts sharply with this clinical URL drop, underscoring the aide/authentic distinction. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) The URL slug encodes a core identity claim: Trump as the singular figure who "won't let them" steal — the **Warrior-Savior** who stands between the base and electoral catastrophe. The contrasting other is characteristically vague ("them") — allowing followers to project their preferred enemy (Democrats, deep state, Soros, etc.) while Trump maintains rhetorical deniability. The macro-narrative is contamination → restoration: legitimate democratic process → corrupted by thieves → Trump as order-restorer. This day's posting sequence reveals a deliberate narrative architecture: 1. **Policy credibility** → Agenda 47 tariff plan 2. **Rival diminishment** → Fox can't find DeSantis supporters 3. **Narcissistic supply** → polling dominance 4. **Platform validation** → Truth Social "hottest thing going" 5. **Election integrity alarm** → this post The sequencing is too coherent to be spontaneous; it reflects communications strategy. --- ## Defense Mechanisms - **Projection (immature)**: Attributing fraudulent, criminal intent to electoral opponents. Unacceptable internal fear of defeat is externalized as enemy conspiracy. - **Preemptive rationalization (neurotic)**: By declaring in advance that the 2024 election may be stolen, any unfavorable future result is pre-condemned and pre-excused — the defense is installed before the threat materializes. - **Denial (pathological, embedded)**: The foundational implied claim — that 2020 was stolen — has been adjudicated false across 61+ court cases, DOJ, DHS, and bipartisan election officials. Continued amplification of this claim at this stage (February 2023, with Dominion v. Fox actively revealing internal Fox acknowledgments that the claims were false) constitutes reality denial rather than good-faith political dispute. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Preemptive narrative anchoring**: Framing 2024 as a potential steal before a single vote is cast installs the interpretive lens through which all future electoral news will be filtered. - **False dichotomy**: Either Trump wins or fraud occurred — no legitimate loss is conceivable within this frame. - **Vague agency ("them")**: The enemy is unnamed, maximally threatening, and projection-ready. - **Third-party amplification**: RSB Network functions as an echo chamber relay — Trump "merely shares" while the inflammatory content circulates with his implicit endorsement and no personal accountability for its specific claims. - **Appeal to fear**: The "steal" frame activates protective instincts in a base that has been primed over two+ years to regard electoral institutions as hostile. - **Epistemic closure maintenance**: Routing followers to RSB Network (not mainstream or fact-checking outlets) deepens the information ecosystem isolation. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion This post perpetuates a documented reality distortion campaign. At the time of posting, the stolen-2020-election claim had been: - Rejected by 61+ courts, including Trump-appointed judges - Repudiated by Trump's own AG (Barr), DHS, and DOJ - Internally acknowledged as false by Fox News executives (per discovery in the Dominion lawsuit, actively proceeding at this date) By extending this false framework to 2024 — "we're not going to let them steal" — the post constitutes **preemptive gaslighting**: training followers to experience future legitimate electoral outcomes as criminal acts against them. This is DARVO at a systemic level: the subject of defeat becomes the perpetrator of theft, and the base becomes co-victims. --- ## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED The phrase "we're not going to let them steal" implies resistance without specifying its form — a rhetorical structure that primes motivated followers to define their own preventive measures. While no explicit violence language or target designation appears here, this post is one data point in a cumulative preemptive delegitimization pattern that: 1. Directly precedes the 2024 election cycle 2. Mirrors the rhetorical architecture that preceded January 6, 2021 3. Functions to ensure that no electoral loss will be accepted as legitimate by a large, armed, and politically activated audience The danger is structural and longitudinal rather than post-specific. --- ## Cognitive Status No original language is produced in this post. Language-based cognitive markers (word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration) cannot be assessed. The day's prior Murdoch post, by contrast, shows characteristic stream-of-consciousness syntax and incomplete sentences consistent with established Trump baseline. No deviation from baseline is observed across the day's full output. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The 2020 presidential election was stolen (implied foundational premise)" | **False** | 61+ courts rejected election fraud claims sufficient to overturn results; Trump's own AG Barr, DOJ, and DHS found no evidence of widespread fraud; CISA (led by Trump appointee Krebs) called it 'the most secure election in American history'; Dominion lawsuit discovery (active at time of this post) revealed Fox News executives privately acknowledged the claims were false. | | "The 2024 election faces a theft risk requiring proactive prevention" | **Unverifiable** | Future-tense claim at time of posting. No electoral fraud of the scale implied was subsequently documented in the 2024 election. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted at 16:33 EST (business hours) - No personal text — URL-only post with zero added commentary - One of five URL-share posts in coordinated March 1 cluster - Professional, clean formatting with no typos or emotional markers - RSB Network share consistent with Scavino content distribution pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (anticipated 2024 electoral contest and rival CPAC activity) Sentiment: -0.42 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 60% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - preemptive victimhood framing activating base protective instincts - vague enemy construction ('them') allowing personalized projection - curated media ecosystem routing (RSB Network) maintaining epistemic dependency ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Preemptive election denial primes followers to reject legitimate 2024 electoral outcomes before voting begins - Vague resistance framing ('not going to let them') without specified form of resistance — allows audience to define their own preventive action - Cumulative pattern: this post is one data point in a multi-year preemptive delegitimization campaign that directly preconditioned January 6, 2021 and risks replication - No dehumanization or explicit violence language present, but structural danger lies in the systemic erosion of electoral legitimacy as a concept ### Gaslighting - Continuation and extension of adjudicated-false 2020 stolen-election narrative into 2024 framing - Preemptive delegitimization of future electoral outcomes — installing the interpretive lens before votes are cast - Epistemic closure via RSB Network routing, directing followers away from fact-checking outlets - DARVO structure: electoral loser recast as victim of criminal theft, institutions recast as perpetrators ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The 2020 presidential election was stolen (implied foundational premise) **FALSE** 61+ courts rejected election fraud claims sufficient to overturn results; Trump's own AG Barr, DOJ, and DHS found no evidence of widespread fraud; CISA (led by Trump appointee Krebs) called it 'the most secure election in American history'; Dominion lawsuit discovery (active at time of this post) revealed Fox News executives privately acknowledged the claims were false. Sources: U.S. federal and state courts (61+ cases); Attorney General William Barr (Dec 2020); CISA/Christopher Krebs statement; Dominion v. Fox News discovery documents > The 2024 election faces a theft risk requiring proactive prevention **UNVERIFIABLE** Future-tense claim at time of posting. No electoral fraud of the scale implied was subsequently documented in the 2024 election. Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - election denial (95%) - preemptive 2024 delegitimization (90%) - aide-authored (85%) - stolen election narrative (90%) - RSB Network amplification (60%) - epistemic closure (80%) - CPAC context (50%) - warrior-protector archetype (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Murdoch Joins the Enemy List as Dominion Revelations and DeSantis Rivalry Fuel a Day-Long Loyalty Purge** Trump spent most of the day processing two interconnected betrayals: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch's apparent openness to DeSantis, and the Dominion lawsuit revelations showing Fox privately doubted his election fraud claims. Late-night posts opened with an explicit "RETRIBUTION" threat against the Club for Growth for backing DeSantis, setting an aggressive tone. The middle of the day brought a direct attack on Murdoch, demanding he leave the news business, alongside a stream of aide-curated links reinforcing Trump's polling dominance and policy credentials. The day closed with a creative rewrite of the Fox-Dominion crisis — blaming Paul Ryan for Murdoch's legal trouble — followed by a triumphant all-caps celebration of poll numbers. Full digest for 2023-03-01: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 1). https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-were-not-goi... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109950165841096125 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-were-not-going-to-let-..." Truth Social, 1 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109950165841096125. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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