# Post ts_110519711059107880 - Post ID: `ts_110519711059107880` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-10T11:35:58.299Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110519711059107880 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110519711059107880/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110519711059107880.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110515038539138418 Why aren’t they going after those that Rigged the Election? Barely a penny spent! ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110515038539138418 (2023-06-09T15:47:41.375Z (UTC)) > I have just learned that the “Thugs” from the Department of Injustice will be Indicting a wonderful man, Walt Nauta, a member of the U.S. Navy, who served proudly with me in the White House, retired as Senior Chief, and then transitioned into private life as a personal aide. He has done a fantastic job! They are trying to destroy his life, like the lives of so many others, hoping that he will say bad things about “Trump.” He is strong, brave, and a Great Patriot. The FBI and DOJ are CORRUPT! ## Engagement - Likes: 8,120 - Reposts: 2,247 - Replies: 263 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.409Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:33:34.362Z (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 post, published at 7:35 AM local time from Mar-a-Lago the morning after unsealing of Trump's 37-count federal indictment, is a textbook whataboutist response to maximum-magnitude narcissistic injury. Timing and style — rhetorical question, capitalized "Rigged the Election," impulsive brevity, reactive content — indicate high-confidence authentic authorship. The post deploys projection and DARVO simultaneously: rather than engaging the charges, Trump redirects to unsubstantiated election fraud claims, casting himself as victim of selective prosecution while "real criminals" escape uninvestigated. The phrase "Barely a penny spent!" introduces a false fairness frame functioning as grievance intensification. Contextually surrounded by combative retruths (attacking Barr as weak, amplifying "Fight hard"), the post reveals a vulnerable narcissistic state following catastrophic narcissistic injury, with psychological defenses activating Warrior/Victim archetype simultaneously. Both factual claims embedded in the post are demonstrably false. The post functions primarily to sustain epistemic closure — demanding followers interpret the indictment through the pre-installed election fraud frame — a mechanism structurally necessary for continued political loyalty under legal pressure. Danger level is elevated due to cumulative grievance amplification in an environment historically associated with mobilization. ## Post Analysis: ts_110519711059107880 — June 10, 2023 ### Contextual Frame This post was published one day after the unsealing of Trump's 37-count federal indictment on classified documents charges — the first federal criminal indictment of a former U.S. president in history. The post is a retruth of his own earlier Truth Social post (ts_110515038539138418), with the original text appended after the URL. Content: *"Why aren't they going after those that Rigged the Election? Barely a penny spent!"* --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time Calculation:** On June 10, 2023, Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). Converting the UTC timestamp (11:35:58Z) yields **7:35 AM EDT**. Early-morning posting (pre-8 AM) is strongly consistent with authentic Trump behavior — he is documented to begin posting between 6–9 AM. The style reinforces this: capitalized proper concept ("Rigged the Election"), rhetorical question format, abrupt brevity, absence of professional polish, impulsive reactive content responding to the day-old indictment news. Confidence: **high** that this is authentic Trump. --- ### Psychological State and Trigger The precipitating event is unambiguous: the June 9 unsealing of 37 federal charges. This constitutes a maximum-magnitude **narcissistic injury** — legal exposure, public humiliation, and threat to the grandiose self-image are combined in a single event. The post represents the classic Kohutian narcissistic rage response, but here sublimated into a whataboutist rhetorical move rather than direct counterattack. The narcissistic state is **vulnerable** (persecuted, victimized) layered over a grandiose scaffold. The rhetorical question — "Why aren't they going after those that Rigged the Election?" — does two simultaneous things: (1) it asserts victimhood (selective prosecution of the innocent), and (2) it implicitly re-elevates the speaker's status by foregrounding the larger injustice he claims to represent. The phrase "Barely a penny spent!" is particularly revealing. The minimization of prosecutorial resources directed at his enemies functions as a grievance intensifier and fairness frame — a hallmark of the persecution schema. It also reveals an underlying assumption that "real crimes" (election fraud) should be investigated proportionally to the resources being devoted to him. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Neuroticism (dominant):** Angry hostility is the primary driver. The post is reactive, emotionally urgent, and launched within hours of maximum legal threat. - **Extraversion:** Assertiveness and dominance through the rhetorical question — he does not retreat but attacks outward. - **Agreeableness (very low):** No modesty, trust, or accommodating posture. Oppositional framing throughout. - **Conscientiousness (low in this post):** The content is impulsive, not deliberate. No marshaling of evidence or structured argument. - **Openness (very low):** Rigid, closed ideological schema — the election fraud narrative is impervious to counter-evidence. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Power/agency motive:** Dominant. The grievance implicitly demands that prosecutorial power be redirected — a fantasy of controlling law enforcement. - **Paranoid schema:** "They" (undefined but unmistakably the opposition/deep state/DOJ) are engaged in selective persecution while real wrongdoers are protected. This schema has been persistent across hundreds of posts. - **Justice/fairness schema:** The "Barely a penny spent" construction reveals a fairness frame — injustice is not just that *he* is prosecuted, but that *others* are not. This is not empathy but moral arithmetic deployed in self-service. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Wronged innocent, simultaneously the most-persecuted-yet-still-standing figure in American political life. - **Contamination sequence:** The implicit narrative is victory (2016 win, presidency) → betrayal → ongoing persecution by those who stole the 2020 election and now weaponize the justice system. - **Contrasting other:** "Those that Rigged the Election" — diffuse, conspiratorial, never named, which keeps the enemy mythologically powerful and irreducible to specific refutable claims. - **Identity claim:** "I am the one fighting back while the real criminals go free." This is consistent with the Warrior and Victim archetypes simultaneously. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):** - *Narcissistic features*: Entitlement (he should not be prosecuted; real criminals should), grandiosity (the framing implies he alone sees the injustice clearly). - *Antisocial features*: Contempt for the legitimacy of the legal process, implicit suggestion that the rule of law is a partisan tool. - *Paranoid features*: The persecution narrative is vivid and active. "They" — the unseen, coordinated, powerful opponents — are explicitly present. This post cannot be read outside the paranoid framework. - *Sadism*: Not prominent in this specific post. **Defense Mechanisms:** - **Projection (immature):** Deflecting his own violation of federal law (the indictment charges) onto unnamed others who "Rigged the Election." The projection is structural — the actual crimes alleged against him are redefined as lesser than the crimes of his enemies. - **DARVO (immature/acting out):** Deny (implicit — the charges are illegitimate), Attack (the prosecutors / DOJ), Reverse Victim and Offender (he is the real victim; election riggers are the real criminals). - **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Barely a penny spent" implies a logical proportionality argument — if they were really fair, they'd investigate this too. This rationalization provides cover for what is essentially rage. - **Splitting (immature):** Us (patriots, election fraud victims) vs. them (deep state, rigged prosecutors). No middle ground, no ambiguity. --- ### Cognitive Status Post is brief and syntactically simple but coherent. No word-finding errors, no paraphasia, no temporal confusion. The capital-letter construction ("Rigged the Election") is signature stylistic, not a cognitive marker. Complexity score is low, but this is consistent with Trump's characteristic short-form reactive posting style rather than deviation from baseline. **No cognitive deterioration markers in this post.** --- ### Archetypal Analysis - **Warrior archetype** is primary: combat posture, identifying enemies, demanding battle on all fronts simultaneously. - **Victim/Martyr archetype** is co-present: the persecution framing casts him as the unjustly attacked innocent. - **Trickster** is latent: by making the "rigged election" claim in the immediate context of his own indictment, he attempts to flip the symbolic frame entirely — turning the courthouse into a stage on which he is the protagonist, not the defendant. The simultaneous retruthing of Bill Barr attacks ("BILL BARR WAS WEAK & INEFFECTIVE") reveals that the Warrior is also turning on former allies perceived as insufficiently loyal during the legal crisis. This is consistent with the post-indictment activation pattern. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Whataboutism:** The dominant move. His own legal jeopardy is deflected by invoking unsubstantiated allegations against others. - **Rhetorical question:** Creates apparent logical force without making falsifiable claims — "Why aren't they?" implies an obvious answer the listener is invited to supply. - **False equivalence (implied):** The election fraud claim is treated as equivalent in severity to (or greater than) 37 federal felony charges, without argument. - **Vague enemy construction:** "Those that Rigged the Election" — unspecified, unfalsifiable, maximally threatening in imagination. - **Minimization:** "Barely a penny spent!" — understates DOJ/state/court resources devoted to election fraud investigations to create a false impression of prosecutorial neglect. - **Conspiratorial frame:** Implies coordinated suppression of investigation into election fraud while targeting him. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion The post invokes the "rigged election" framework as established fact, which has been adjudicated as false in over 60 courts and by Trump's own Attorney General. By deploying this as assumed-shared-reality in the immediate aftermath of a legitimate federal indictment, the post functions as reality distortion — demanding that followers accept a counterfactual frame as the lens through which all subsequent legal events should be interpreted. This is consistent with **epistemic closure mechanics**: followers who accept "rigged election" as true will necessarily interpret the indictment as retaliation. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Those that Rigged the Election" | **False** | The claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen or rigged has been rejected by over 60 courts, Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, CISA Director Chris Krebs (appointed by Trump), and state election officials of both parties. No evidence of fraud at a scale to affect the outcome was found. | | "Barely a penny spent investigating election rigging" | **False** | The DOJ, FBI, multiple state attorneys general, local election officials, and congressional committees all conducted investigations into election fraud claims. States conducted multiple audits. The DOJ prosecuted over 1,000 January 6 defendants. The claim that investigative resources were negligible is factually false. | Overall Veracity: 0% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 90%) ### Indicators - 7:35 AM local time (EDT) at Mar-a-Lago - early morning consistent with authentic Trump posting window - Rhetorical question format characteristic of authentic Trump - Capitalized proper concept 'Rigged the Election' - signature Trump capitalization pattern - Impulsive brevity and absence of professional polish - Reactive content directly tied to prior day's indictment unsealing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (37-count federal indictment unsealed June 9) **Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting DOJ / perceived election fraudsters / deep state - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.78 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 85% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - splitting (immature) - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 22% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Rhetorical question inviting audience to supply obvious answer - Shared victimhood frame ('we' are all targets of this selective system) - Conspiratorial solidarity - only followers understand the real injustice ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Sustains and amplifies persecution/grievance narrative in context of unprecedented legal jeopardy - Delegitimizes federal legal process as weaponized selective prosecution - Simultaneous retruths of combative content ('Fight hard,' 'WE WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN') creates cumulative grievance mobilization environment - Election fraud framing historically associated with January 6 mobilization dynamic ### Gaslighting - Deploys unsubstantiated 'rigged election' claim as assumed shared fact in direct context of his own federal indictment - Demands followers interpret legitimate legal proceedings through pre-installed conspiratorial frame - Implicit denial of indictment's legitimacy without engaging its substance - DARVO structure: his legal exposure reframed as evidence of others' crimes ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Those that Rigged the Election **FALSE** The claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen or rigged has been rejected by over 60 courts, Trump's own Attorney General William Barr, CISA Director Chris Krebs (appointed by Trump), and state election officials of both parties. No evidence of fraud at a scale to affect the outcome was found. Sources: 60+ court rulings 2020-2021; AG Barr December 2020 statement; CISA 'most secure election' statement; Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin audits > Barely a penny spent investigating election rigging **FALSE** The DOJ, FBI, multiple state attorneys general, local election officials, and congressional committees all conducted investigations into election fraud claims. States conducted multiple audits. The DOJ prosecuted over 1,000 January 6 defendants. The claim that investigative resources were negligible is factually false. Sources: DOJ election fraud investigations 2020-2021; State audit reports (AZ, GA, WI); Congressional investigation records Overall Veracity: 0% ## Tags - narcissistic_injury_response (95%) - whataboutism (95%) - DARVO (90%) - election_fraud_claim (90%) - post_indictment (95%) - projection (88%) - persecution_schema (88%) - epistemic_closure (85%) - vulnerable_narcissistic_state (85%) - authentic_trump (90%) - grievance_amplification (82%) - reality_distortion (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Indictment, Trump Posts 25 Times Without Once Addressing the Charges** The day after his historic 37-count federal indictment, Trump mounted a relentless social media campaign that never once directly acknowledged the charges. A late-night burst — including a breezy midnight golf video — gave way to a rapid-fire morning blitz of ally endorsements and enemy attacks, building to a dramatic all-caps message casting America itself as weeping over his persecution. The afternoon pivoted to business-as-usual campaign mode with rallies in Georgia and North Carolina, projecting normalcy while the legal storm raged. The dominant pattern was deflection through every available channel: praising loyalists, scapegoating former Attorney General Bill Barr, invoking election fraud, and performing carefree nonchalance — everything except engaging the substance of the indictment itself. Full digest for 2023-06-10: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 10). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110519711059107880 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. 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