# Post ts_109981996761731158 - Post ID: `ts_109981996761731158` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-03-07T12:28:09.265Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109981996761731158 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109981996761731158/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109981996761731158.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO. THEY WERE CONVICTED, OR ARE AWAITING TRIAL, BASED ON A GIANT LIE, A RADICAL LEFT CON JOB. THANK YOU TO TUCKER CARLSON AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE KEVIN McCARTHY FOR WHAT YOU BOTH HAVE DONE. NEW VIDEO FOOTAGE IS IRREFUTABLE!!! ## Engagement - Likes: 48,708 - Reposts: 16,759 - Replies: 2,745 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.418Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:23:50.044Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary The emotional apex of a four-post perseverative series, triggered by Tucker Carlson's airing of selectively edited January 6 footage — a significant narcissistic supply injection validating Trump's preferred alternate narrative. Posted at 7:28 AM local time (Mar-a-Lago), it bears all hallmarks of authentic, unmediated expression: sustained ALL CAPS, imperative commands, condensed emotional loading, zero deliberation. Operating in a grandiose narcissistic state, pathological defenses dominate: denial of the evidentiary basis for hundreds of convictions, distortion via the "IRREFUTABLE" footage claim, and projection of a "giant lie" onto the prosecution apparatus. The post's central rhetorical strategy is epistemic authority inversion — Carlson and McCarthy are elevated as legitimate truth-gatekeepers while courts, the DOJ, and the January 6 Committee are reframed as criminal fabricators. Both major factual claims are false to mostly false. Danger is rated elevated: characterizing convicted rioters as "prisoners" held by a "con job" before millions, while identifying institutional actors as fabricators responsible for the injustice, constitutes the delegitimization-plus-martyr-framing pattern associated with radicalization acceleration. No explicit violent action is called for, but the implicit moral mandate for liberation, combined with a named accountability chain, satisfies the lower threshold for stochastic terrorism patterning. The perseverative posting suggests escalating emotional investment rather than dissipation. ## Analysis: Truth Social, 2023-03-07T12:28:09Z — "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO" ### Authorship Attribution UTC 12:28 converts to **7:28 AM EST** (Mar-a-Lago, Florida; DST begins March 12, 2023, so UTC−5 applies). Early morning is within the authentic Trump posting window. Reinforcing authentic attribution: sustained ALL CAPS throughout the entire post, imperative emotional commands, three-word punchy constructions ("GIANT LIE," "CON JOB," "IRREFUTABLE!!!"), triple exclamation marks, and zero grammatical polish. This is the **fourth consecutive post** on the same theme within a single day — a perseverative behavioral signature strongly associated with authentic, unmediated posting. Confidence: **high** for authentic Trump authorship. --- ### Trigger Analysis Tucker Carlson's airing of selectively edited January 6 footage (provided by Speaker McCarthy) functions here as a **narcissistic supply injection** — external, high-profile validation of Trump's preferred narrative about an event central to his legal and political exposure. The trigger is simultaneously supply-driven (celebrating allies Carlson and McCarthy) and opportunity-driven (weaponizing the footage to advance the "political prisoner" framing ahead of anticipated indictments). This is the fourth post in a series on the same topic, indicating significant emotional activation and perseverative engagement. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (very high):** Commanding, assertive imperative ("LET THEM GO"), performative all-caps register - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero acknowledgment of institutional legitimacy; adversarial framing throughout - **Conscientiousness (very low):** Impulsive, undeliberated stream; no hedging or nuance - **Neuroticism (very high):** Angry hostility saturates the post; emotional arousal maxed by sustained ALL CAPS - **Openness (very low):** Rigid, closed epistemology; "IRREFUTABLE" forecloses alternative evidence --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate:** Power (commanding release of prisoners), status restoration (positioning self as moral authority despite holding no office), and autonomy from institutional accountability. **Communion is absent** — no intimacy or care motifs; even the thanks to Carlson and McCarthy are transactional (reward-reinforce ally behavior). **Schemas:** The world is a site of conspiratorial persecution; institutions (courts, DOJ, the "Unselect Committee") are corrupt weapons of political enemies; allies who validate the preferred narrative earn public recognition as rewards. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Moral commander-in-chief — issuing directives from outside office as if authority inheres in his person, not his position - **Contamination sequence:** A legitimate ("peaceful") event was poisoned by radical left fabrication; the Carlson footage reveals the original, uncorrupted truth - **Redemption arc (asserted):** "IRREFUTABLE" footage will vindicate defendants and expose the prosecution as criminal - **Identity claim:** Champion of the wrongly imprisoned; truth-teller against institutional deceit - **Contrasting other:** "Radical Left" (vague, demonized mass antagonist); implicitly the DOJ, the courts, and the former January 6 Committee --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) | Component | Evidence | Score | |---|---|---| | Narcissistic features | Grandiosity (commanding language with no authority), entitlement (directs branches of government), zero empathy for Capitol Police or victims | 0.85 | | Antisocial features | Disregard for rule of law; advocacy for release of those convicted in adversarial proceedings; contempt for judicial legitimacy | 0.80 | | Paranoid features | "Giant lie," "con job," "CRIMINAL FABRICATORS" (prior post) — systematic persecution framing | 0.85 | | Ego-syntonic sadism | Humiliation of institutional opponents ("RADICAL LEFT CON JOB") framed as righteous exposure | 0.55 | #### Narcissistic State: **Grandiose** Expansive, commanding, self-righteous; no vulnerability markers present. The thanking of Carlson and McCarthy is celebratory, not defensive. #### Narcissistic Rage Present at **moderate-to-high intensity**. The ALL CAPS throughout (sustained, not selective) signals maximal affective arousal. The rage targets the abstract "radical left" and the prosecution apparatus rather than a specific individual, diffusing but not diminishing intensity. Proportionality: **markedly disproportionate** — Carlson's cherry-picked footage does not objectively overturn hundreds of convictions supported by extensive evidence. #### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (pathological):** Complete rejection of the legitimacy of Jan. 6 prosecutions despite an extensive evidentiary record including guilty pleas, video from multiple angles, digital communications, and eyewitness testimony 2. **Distortion (pathological):** Selectively edited footage is elevated to "IRREFUTABLE" status, overriding all contradicting evidence; reality is grossly reshaped to meet inner narrative needs 3. **Projection (immature):** The "giant lie" attribution is projected onto prosecutorial actors while Trump propagates the counter-narrative that a curated sample of footage invalidates the entire legal record 4. **Splitting (immature):** Carlson and McCarthy are idealized saviors; the prosecution apparatus is totally corrupt --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Sustained ALL CAPS:** Functions as written shouting across the entire post — maximum emotional amplification, bypasses rational processing - **Imperative command structure:** "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO" positions the speaker as an authority issuing orders to an implied audience that includes both followers (mobilization) and officials (delegitimization of existing order) - **Loaded labeling:** "PRISONERS" (not defendants or convicts) frames them as political captives; "CON JOB" collapses complex legal proceedings to conspiratorial trickery - **Hyperbole/superlatives:** "GIANT LIE," "IRREFUTABLE" - **Alliance signaling:** Public thanking of Carlson and McCarthy serves dual purposes: reward ally behavior and signal to followers who the trusted gatekeepers are - **Epistemic closure device:** "IRREFUTABLE!!!" is designed to foreclose debate before it begins - **False dichotomy (implicit):** The footage either exonerates everyone or the entire prosecution is a lie; no gradation admitted --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - **Denial of documented events:** Hundreds of January 6 convictions, many based on guilty pleas and defendants' own digital communications, are dismissed as products of a "giant lie" - **DARVO:** Prosecutors/Committee cast as "CRIMINAL FABRICATORS" (prior post); Trump and defendants are the true victims - **Attacks on collective perception:** Framing institutional legal processes as a "CON JOB" delegitimizes the epistemic authority of courts before the mass audience - **Epistemically closed claim:** "IRREFUTABLE" footage presented as definitively overriding all contradicting evidence from all other sources --- ### Epistemic Closure **Present.** "IRREFUTABLE" is the key marker — it is a truth-foreclosing term that demands followers accept the footage's narrative as beyond question. The prior post in the same series calls the Unselect Committee "CRIMINAL FABRICATORS," completing the closed loop: the only legitimate truth-tellers are Carlson and McCarthy; all institutional actors are fabricators. --- ### Shared Psychosis Dynamics The post actively cultivates epistemic closure among followers: the footage is irrefutable; the prosecution was a "con job"; believers of the institutional record are the deceived. This functions as a loyalty test — acceptance of the alternate reality as the price of in-group membership. --- ### Danger Assessment: **ELEVATED** Multiple indicators: 1. **Delegitimization of the judicial system** at mass scale, characterizing convictions as products of a "giant lie" 2. **Martyr-framing** of convicted/charged rioters as political "prisoners" requiring liberation 3. **Named institutional targets** framed as criminal fabricators (prior post: "Pelosi & McConnell," "Unselect Committee"), creating a target list of perceived enemies responsible for the "lie" 4. **Implicit call to action:** "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO" before a mass audience is an imperative that implies the current state is unjust and must be corrected 5. **Pattern**: This is the culminating post of a four-post perseverative series, suggesting escalating emotional investment The stochastic terrorism pattern is **present at the lower threshold**: a defined victim group (J6 defendants) + grievance attribution (radical left con job) + implied moral mandate for their liberation, broadcast to millions. No explicit violent action is articulated, but the delegitimization of the prosecution apparatus combined with martyr framing represents a recognized radicalization accelerant. --- ### Cognitive Status Perseveration is the primary marker — at least four consecutive posts on an identical theme within a single day. ALL CAPS format precludes confident assessment of vocabulary range or syntactic complexity; it serves as an emotional intensifier that obscures the underlying language production. The post is structurally simple (short declarative/imperative sentences) and affectively saturated. **No deviation from Trump's known baseline** is detectable; this is consistent with his documented style during periods of high emotional activation. Longitudinal cognitive comparison is not meaningfully possible from this sample given the ALL CAPS obscuration. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "They were convicted, or are awaiting trial, based on a giant lie" | **False** | January 6 prosecutions rested on extensive multi-source evidence: Capitol security footage from multiple angles, defendants' own social media posts and text messages, eyewitness law enforcement testimony, and hundreds of guilty pleas. Carlson's footage was a curated subset. Mitch McConnell called Carlson's coverage 'a mistake'; Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger condemned it as 'misleading.' Bipartisan criticism was immediate and substantive. | | "New video footage is irrefutable" | **Mostly False** | The footage exists and is authentic Capitol security video. However, Carlson selected footage showing individuals walking calmly in some areas while omitting extensive footage of violence, breaches, and confrontations that formed the evidentiary basis of prosecutions. Capitol Police and bipartisan senators explicitly condemned it as misleadingly edited. 'Irrefutable' is a rhetorical device, not an evidentiary assessment. | Overall Veracity: 10% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - 7:28 AM local time (Mar-a-Lago EST) — early morning authentic window - Sustained ALL CAPS throughout entire post - Imperative emotional commands ('LET THEM GO') - Triple exclamation points - Fourth consecutive post on identical topic (perseveration) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Tucker Carlson's airing of January 6 footage — external high-profile validation of Trump's preferred narrative about an event central to his legal and political exposure) **Rage:** Intensity 80% targeting Radical Left / DOJ / prosecution apparatus (diffuse institutional target) - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 80% - Paranoid: 85% - Sadism: 55% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Public thanking of Carlson and McCarthy signals to followers who the trusted gatekeepers are - Imperative command ('LET THEM GO') positions followers as a mobilized audience - Martyr-framing of J6 defendants as 'prisoners' held unjustly creates shared grievance identity - Epistemic closure device ('IRREFUTABLE') functions as loyalty test — acceptance of the claim marks in-group membership ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** **Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected** ### Indicators - Delegitimization of the judicial system at mass scale — characterizing convictions as products of 'A GIANT LIB CON JOB' normalizes rejection of legal accountability - Martyr-framing of convicted/charged rioters as political 'prisoners' requiring liberation — activates rescue/liberation instinct in followers - Implicit mandate: 'LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO' before millions implies current state is unjust and must be corrected - Named institutional targets in prior posts ('CRIMINAL FABRICATORS,' 'Pelosi & McConnell') create a responsible-party attribution for the 'injustice' - Stochastic terrorism pattern at lower threshold: defined victim group (J6 defendants) + grievance attribution (radical left con job) + implied moral mandate, broadcast at mass scale - Fourth post in escalating perseverative series suggests emotional activation is increasing, not dissipating ### Gaslighting - Denial of documented evidentiary basis for hundreds of convictions, many based on defendants' own communications and guilty pleas - DARVO: prosecutors cast as 'CRIMINAL FABRICATORS' (prior post); Trump and defendants repositioned as true victims of a 'con job' - Epistemic authority attack: courts, DOJ, and January 6 Committee framed as 'RADICAL LEFT CON JOB' — delegitimizing institutional truth-telling apparatus - Reality replacement: 'IRREFUTABLE' footage presented as overriding entire evidentiary record from all other sources ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > They were convicted, or are awaiting trial, based on a giant lie **FALSE** January 6 prosecutions rested on extensive multi-source evidence: Capitol security footage from multiple angles, defendants' own social media posts and text messages, eyewitness law enforcement testimony, and hundreds of guilty pleas. Carlson's footage was a curated subset. Mitch McConnell called Carlson's coverage 'a mistake'; Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger condemned it as 'misleading.' Bipartisan criticism was immediate and substantive. Sources: Known events: Tucker Carlson airs Jan. 6 Capitol footage (bipartisan outrage, McConnell criticism, Capitol Police condemnation); DOJ January 6 prosecution record — hundreds of guilty pleas on file > New video footage is irrefutable **MOSTLY FALSE** The footage exists and is authentic Capitol security video. However, Carlson selected footage showing individuals walking calmly in some areas while omitting extensive footage of violence, breaches, and confrontations that formed the evidentiary basis of prosecutions. Capitol Police and bipartisan senators explicitly condemned it as misleadingly edited. 'Irrefutable' is a rhetorical device, not an evidentiary assessment. Sources: Known events: Tucker Carlson airs Jan. 6 Capitol footage — 'sparking bipartisan outrage, including criticism from Mitch McConnell and Capitol Police' Overall Veracity: 10% ## Tags - January 6 (100%) - political prisoners (95%) - reality distortion (90%) - Tucker Carlson (85%) - Kevin McCarthy (75%) - epistemic closure (90%) - martyrdom framing (85%) - delegitimization of judiciary (85%) - perseveration (75%) - grandiose narcissistic state (85%) - supply injection (80%) - stochastic terrorism (70%) - ALL CAPS (80%) - authentic Trump (92%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **CPAC Afterglow Meets J6 Fury: Trump Weaponizes Carlson Footage in Peak Grievance-Triumph Cycle** Trump spent the day riding the high of his CPAC triumph while seizing on Tucker Carlson's selective January 6th footage as total vindication. The loudest posts demanded the release of January 6th defendants and accused congressional investigators of treason, with the morning bringing the most intense burst of anger. He also kept hammering Ron DeSantis, dismissing Florida's success as just "sunshine and ocean" while warning he'd gut Social Security. The afternoon cooled into routine territory -- sharing favorable polls, endorsing allies' books, and celebrating Joe Rogan's stated preference for him over Biden. Full digest for 2023-03-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 7). LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO. THEY WERE... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109981996761731158 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO. THEY WERE CONVICTED, OR ARE..." Truth Social, 7 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109981996761731158. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO. 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