# Post ts_110566743051084768

- Post ID: `ts_110566743051084768`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-18T18:56:49.546Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110566743051084768/analysis
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## Post text

> THEY DON’T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE ELECTION, THEY ONLY GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT ON, OR QUESTION, THE CHEATING.

## Engagement

- Likes: 42,883
- Reposts: 12,044
- Replies: 2,285
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:56:05.137Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted five days after his historic federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, this post exemplifies DARVO at its most structurally pure. Trump makes no reference to the actual charges — mishandling classified documents — and instead deploys the 2020 election fraud narrative as a complete identity substitution: he is not a defendant but a truth-teller being silenced. The post asserts election fraud as axiomatic fact ('THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE ELECTION') despite 60+ court dismissals and his own AG's contrary findings, then frames his prosecution as retaliation for questioning that fraud. This is factually false on both counts, constituting deliberate gaslighting of his audience. The all-caps delivery, emotional register, and contextual embedding in a cluster of reactive same-day posts (including a standalone 'ELECTION INTERFERENCE!' post) suggest authentic authorship despite midday timing. Psychologically, the post reveals a grandiose-vulnerable mixed narcissistic state: victimhood claims ('THEY ONLY GO AFTER') coexist with heroic truth-speaker identity. The paranoid ideation is high (0.85), consistent with the narcissistic injury of a federal arraignment being metabolized through projection and distortion. Danger is elevated but not critical: no violent imagery or direct target identification, but persistent judicial delegitimization and grievance reinforcement contribute to an environment where followers are primed to view federal prosecution as coup-like persecution.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-06-18T18:56:49Z

## Context
This post appears five days after Trump's federal arraignment in Miami (June 13, 2023), at which he pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to mishandling classified documents. It is posted on Father's Day amid a cluster of same-day Truth Social activity including `ELECTION INTERFERENCE!`, a Tucker Carlson tribute repost, and a MAGA amplification.

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## Authorship Attribution
**Score: 0.78 (likely authentic) | Confidence: Medium**

UTC 18:56 → 14:56 EDT at Bedminster, NJ (Trump's likely location, consistent with the Bedminster post-arraignment speech event). This falls within business hours, the range more commonly associated with aide-drafted posts. However, multiple authenticating factors override this:
- Sustained all-caps throughout — a primary authentic Trump marker
- Short, emotionally raw, non-operational content (no events, no scheduling)
- Embedded in a fast-moving reactive posting stream consistent with personal device use
- Absence of polished grammar or structured prose typical of aide-drafted content

Assessment: Likely personally authored, posted in an elevated emotional state on a holiday that also coincided with the post-arraignment media cycle.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
| Trait | Facet | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroticism | Angry hostility | **Extremely elevated** — the dominant register of the post |
| Agreeableness | Trust, modesty | **Minimal** — zero acknowledgment of opposing perspective |
| Conscientiousness | Deliberation | **Absent** — no factual qualification or precision |
| Extraversion | Assertiveness | **High** — declarative, dominating tone |
| Openness | Values flexibility | **Very low** — rigid binary framing |

The **dominant facet is N2 (Angry Hostility)** from the Neuroticism domain, combined with very low A3 (Trust) and low A5 (Modesty).

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives & Schemas

**Agency motive dominates at 0.92.** The post is entirely about power — who has it, who wields it punitively, and who is its target. Communion motives are negligible (a brief parasocial gesture in "THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT ON, OR QUESTION" positions followers as co-victims, but instrumentally).

**Schemas:**
- *Self:* Persecuted truth-teller; member of an unfairly targeted class
- *Others (allies):* Fellow questioners of electoral fraud, also victimized
- *Others (adversaries):* "THEY" — monolithic, malevolent, selective enforcers of politically weaponized law
- *World:* A rigged system where wrongdoers are protected and truth-tellers are prosecuted

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** *The silenced prophet* — someone possessing unwelcome truth who is punished for speaking it.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination. The underlying arc is: legitimate election concern → weaponized prosecution as retaliation. The good (truth-telling, patriotic questioning) has been corrupted by a bad actor ("THEY").

**Identity claims:**
- "I am among those who exposed electoral fraud"
- "My prosecution is not about law — it is about silencing"
- "The real criminals are protected; the real truth-tellers are targeted"

**Contrasting Other:** "THEY" — deliberately unnamed, maximally threatening, encompassing DOJ, Democrats, and the prosecutorial establishment.

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## Level 4: Clinical Analysis

### DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)
This post is a nearly clinical specimen of DARVO. The operative logic:
1. **Deny:** Zero acknowledgment of the actual charges (classified document mishandling, obstruction)
2. **Attack:** Unnamed "THEY" are characterized as corrupt selective enforcers
3. **Reverse Victim/Offender:** Trump, the defendant, is cast as the victim; unnamed "cheaters" are the real criminals who go unprosecuted

The identity substitution is complete: the prosecution is not about documents — it is about punishing election truthers. This framing requires followers to accept a total factual inversion.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — federal arraignment and 37-count indictment five days prior. This is among the most severe narcissistic injuries possible: criminal prosecution, public humiliation, fingerprinting, and a historic first.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed grandiose-vulnerable. The victimhood register ("ONLY GO AFTER") signals the vulnerable pole; the heroic truth-teller framing ("THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT ON") signals grandiosity. This oscillation is characteristic of Kernberg's malignant narcissism under stress.

**Narcissistic rage:** Present at intensity 0.82. The all-caps delivery is the prosodic signature of rage suppressed into declarative format rather than erupting into direct attack. Proportionality is very low (0.12) — the response vastly exceeds any reasonable relationship to the trigger's actual content.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Denial (pathological):** The charges literally do not exist in this post's reality
2. **Distortion (pathological):** The prosecution's basis is grossly reshaped to mean the opposite of what it is
3. **Projection (immature):** Criminal behavior is attributed to the unnamed "cheaters" while the subject faces prosecution
4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The persecution framing provides logical scaffolding for dismissing legally valid proceedings

### Malignant Narcissism Profile
- **Narcissistic features:** 0.87 (grandiosity in truth-teller role, entitlement to be above prosecution)
- **Paranoid features:** 0.85 (coordinated persecution, "THEY" as conspirators)
- **Antisocial features:** 0.52 (contempt for legal authority)
- **Ego-syntonic sadism:** 0.15 (minimal in this specific post)

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Core structure:** Binary inversion antithesis — `THEY DON'T [pursue real wrongdoers] / THEY ONLY [pursue truth-tellers]`

This construction is rhetorically efficient because it:
- Requires no evidence (the assertion carries the argument)
- Positions any rebuttal as proof of the persecution thesis
- Creates a closed epistemic loop (questioning it = being one of "THEM")

**Propaganda techniques employed:**
- **DARVO** (dominant technique)
- **Whataboutism:** Election fraud deflects from classified documents charges
- **Presupposition:** "CHEATED IN THE ELECTION" treats fraud as settled fact embedded in syntax, bypassing argumentative burden
- **Firehose contribution:** Repeats election fraud as axiomatic baseline in ongoing reality-erosion campaign
- **Epistemic closure framing:** Truth-tellers are silenced — implying any contrary information is weaponized suppression

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## Gaslighting Assessment
**Present: Yes**

The post demands followers substitute a false account of Trump's prosecution for the documented one. Followers who accept this framing must:
1. Disbelieve the federal indictment's stated basis (classified documents)
2. Accept that the indictment is actually about election questioning
3. Treat 60+ dismissed fraud cases as covered-up truth rather than adjudicated claims

This is a loyalty test encoded as a factual claim.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "They don't go after the people who cheated in the election" | **Mostly False** | Multiple federal and state investigations, including by Trump's own DOJ under AG Barr, found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 election outcome. Over 60 court cases challenging results were dismissed. The premise that identifiable 'cheaters' exist but are protected is unsubstantiated. |
| "They only go after people who report on or question the cheating" | **False** | Trump's federal indictment (37 counts) relates entirely to mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, obstruction of justice, and false statements to federal investigators — not to election questioning. The post's causal framing is demonstrably false as applied to his own prosecution. |

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Cognitive Status
No markers of concern. The binary rhetorical structure is simple but correctly executed. No word-finding difficulty, no tangentiality, no name confusion. Complexity score of 0.28 reflects deliberate simplicity as a rhetorical choice, not cognitive limitation. **No deviation from established baseline.**

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## Danger Assessment: **Elevated**

Not critical — no direct violent imagery or named targets. Elevated because:
- Persistent delegitimization of federal judicial authority
- Persecution framing that positions prosecution as existential attack on free speech
- Part of a same-day pattern (`ELECTION INTERFERENCE!`) building a coordinated grievance narrative
- Historical pattern: sustained delegitimization of legal institutions precedes and enables calls to action in mobilized audiences

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## Archetypal / Order-Chaos Dynamics

**Primary archetype:** The Persecuted Prophet — a variant of Warrior/Victim fusion where the subject is simultaneously heroic (truth-teller) and martyred (targeted for it).

**Order-chaos positioning:** Order Attacker. "THEY" represent a corrupt order (rigged enforcement); Trump positions himself as the chaos agent exposing its rot.

**Shadow projection:** The criminal behavior Trump is accused of (obstruction, mishandling sensitive materials) is projected wholesale onto the unnamed electoral "cheaters" who face no accountability.

**Grievance intensity:** Very high. The arraignment constitutes the most concrete institutional challenge to Trump's self-image as untouchable, generating maximum grievance fuel.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- All-caps throughout — signature Trump stylistic marker
- Emotionally reactive content consistent with post-arraignment psychological state
- Short declarative structure with no event/schedule content
- Punctuation-only commas mid-sentence ('REPORT ON, OR QUESTION') match authentic cadence
- Posted amid a cluster of emotionally charged same-day posts (ELECTION INTERFERENCE!, Father's Day, Tucker tribute)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, June 13, 2023)

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting DOJ / 'They' (unnamed prosecutorial/political establishment)
- Proportionality: 12%

Sentiment: -0.86

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid-fire posting cadence on Father's Day across multiple emotional registers (celebratory, aggrieved, nostalgic)
- All-caps sustained throughout — elevated arousal state
- Post cluster shows low inhibition and high reactivity within compressed timeframe

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 87%
- Antisocial: 52%
- Paranoid: 85%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Addresses followers as implicit victims of same system ('THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT ON')
- Creates in-group identity around shared persecution narrative
- Positions himself as proxy truth-teller for MAGA constituency

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Continued delegitimization of DOJ and federal judiciary contributes to institutional erosion
- Persecution narrative ('ONLY GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO QUESTION') positions prosecution as existential attack on free inquiry — framing that historically precedes calls to action
- Unverified electoral fraud claims recycled as axiomatic fact, reinforcing radicalized base grievances
- Post is one of at least two same-day posts framing legal jeopardy as political persecution ('ELECTION INTERFERENCE!' earlier that day)

### Gaslighting

- Charges for mishandling classified documents are recast as charges for 'questioning the election' — a complete substitution of reality
- Followers who accept this framing must deny the actual documented basis for prosecution
- The post implicitly demands epistemic loyalty: to believe Trump is to disbelieve federal indictment
- DARVO structure requires the audience to invert perpetrator and victim roles

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> They don't go after the people who cheated in the election

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Multiple federal and state investigations, including by Trump's own DOJ under AG Barr, found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to alter the 2020 election outcome. Over 60 court cases challenging results were dismissed. The premise that identifiable 'cheaters' exist but are protected is unsubstantiated.

Sources: DOJ/AG Barr public statements December 2020; Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council joint statement; Court records across 60+ dismissed cases

> They only go after people who report on or question the cheating

**FALSE**

Trump's federal indictment (37 counts) relates entirely to mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, obstruction of justice, and false statements to federal investigators — not to election questioning. The post's causal framing is demonstrably false as applied to his own prosecution.

Sources: U.S. v. Trump, Case 9:23-cr-80101, Southern District of Florida indictment, June 2023

Overall Veracity: 10%

## Tags

- DARVO (95%)
- election_fraud_narrative (92%)
- post_arraignment_reaction (90%)
- judicial_delegitimization (88%)
- persecution_narrative (87%)
- narcissistic_injury_response (85%)
- all_caps_intensity (80%)
- gaslighting (82%)
- epistemic_closure (78%)
- whataboutism (75%)

## That day

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

**Five Days After Arraignment, Trump Rewrites the Story in All Caps**

Trump spent a quiet Sunday — just seven posts — alternating between defiant outbursts about his federal indictment and routine political cheerleading. The day opened with a raw, two-word scream of "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!" and later returned to claims that prosecutors target people who question election fraud rather than those who committed it. Between the bursts of anger, he shared allied media content, wished everyone a happy Father's Day, and closed the day boasting about his poll numbers while mocking Ron DeSantis. The most striking feature of the day was what went unmentioned: the actual classified-documents charges were never acknowledged, with the entire legal narrative reframed as political persecution.

Full digest for 2023-06-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 18). THEY DON’T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110566743051084768
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THEY DON’T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE ELECTION,..." Truth Social, 18 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110566743051084768. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "THEY DON’T GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO CHEATED IN THE ELECTION,...," Truth Social, June 18, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110566743051084768.

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