# Post ts_110673552404308306

- Post ID: `ts_110673552404308306`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-07-07T15:39:50.979Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> This is further proof that the Presidential Election of 2020 was Rigged!

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/673/552/319/264/188/original/96792e2191f4bcba.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,364
- Reposts: 4,575
- Replies: 603
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:12:47.703Z (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 exemplifies Trump's persistent election denial narrative — the central identity-preserving mechanism following the defining narcissistic injury of his 2020 defeat. The "further proof" framing reveals complete epistemic closure: the conclusion is presupposed, and any ambiguous evidence is assimilated as confirmatory, structurally insulating the belief from falsification. The capitalized "Rigged!" is a signature condensed grievance symbol serving simultaneously as tribal rally cry and loyalty-test demand.

Psychologically, the post operates on two tracks: narcissistic supply-seeking (mobilizing base validation) and narcissistic injury maintenance (sustaining the contamination narrative — triumph stolen by corrupt forces — as the organizing myth of Trump's post-2020 political identity). The grandiose claim (I won) and vulnerable claim (I was wronged) coexist in a mixed narcissistic state characteristic of malignant narcissism under sustained challenge.

Rhetorically, the presuppositional structure is the post's primary mechanism — "further proof" smuggles the conclusion into the premise, requiring audience acceptance of the stolen-election thesis as a condition of engagement. Combined with RAND Firehose repetition across hundreds of near-identical posts, this constitutes systematic institutional-scale gaslighting demanding reality substitution as a group membership test.

Danger remains elevated: while no direct violence indicators appear, this post-category sustains the grievance ecosystem documented as precondition for January 6th. Style markers (brevity, capitalization, formula, subject matter) strongly suggest authentic Trump authorship despite business-hours timing on a rally day.

## Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** Posted at 15:39 UTC on July 7, 2023. Same-day posts confirm Trump was in Council Bluffs, Iowa for a 2:00 PM EDT rally. Iowa observes CDT (UTC−5), placing this post at **10:39 AM local time** — standard business hours, a mild aide-attribution indicator.

**Style assessment:** Despite the timing, the content is intensely characteristic of authentic Trump: extreme brevity, a single declarative-exclamatory sentence, the signature capitalized "Rigged!" formulation, and election fraud as the subject. These markers are nearly impossible for aides to replicate authentically. The most probable interpretation is that Trump composed this himself in pre-rally preparation, or dictated it verbatim. An aide-composed election fraud post of this formula and emotional register is unlikely. The rally context (high-energy day, campaign engagement) is also consistent with Trump being personally active.

**Score: 0.65** — leans authentic; business-hours timing is the sole contrary indicator, outweighed by multiple style markers.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

This post activates a narrow but high-intensity trait profile. **Neuroticism** (angry hostility facet) is dominant — the exclamatory declaration of injustice is emotionally loaded even within its brevity. **Agreeableness** approaches zero — accusatory, mistrustful of institutions, no cooperative framing. **Openness** is absent — the claim is presented as definitively settled, with no epistemic humility or acknowledgment of contrary evidence. **Conscientiousness** (deliberation facet) is low — the post is impulsive, unqualified, and unsupported within the text itself. **Extraversion** (assertiveness facet) is notable: confident, public, declarative.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate absolutely.** The post is fundamentally about power and status reclamation — positioning any new ambiguous evidence as part of an ongoing prosecutorial case for vindication or reinstatement. Communion motives are functionally absent.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self-schema:* Legitimate winner, righteous truth-teller, persecuted figure who cannot have legitimately lost
- *World-schema:* Corrupt institutional apparatus capable of and willing to subvert democratic processes
- *Other-schema:* Followers as jury being recruited; opponents as conspirators whose guilt is established

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Wronged champion — the figure who won legitimately but was denied by systemic malfeasance. This is Trump's defining post-2020 identity construct.

**Narrative sequence:** Classic **contamination** — triumph (the 2020 election, which Trump frames as a victory) is contaminated and converted to defeat by external malevolent forces. This contamination arc is the organizing myth of Trump's post-2020 political identity, repeated across hundreds of posts.

**Identity claims:** "I won. It was stolen. I am the rightful president." This post is a maximally compressed version of that three-part claim.

**Contrasting other:** The anonymous "Riggers" — a deliberately vague but powerful conspiratorial force capable of subverting democracy at scale.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features (high):** The post presupposes Trump could not have legitimately lost — a grandiose self-assessment making defeat inconceivable except through external sabotage. This is consistent with narcissistic inability to metabolize failure without external attribution. The "further proof" framing also functions as supply-seeking: each repetition mobilizes base validation and reaffirms the victimhood-as-greatness narrative central to the post-2020 persona.

**Paranoid features (high):** "Rigged!" implies organized conspiracy targeting Trump specifically. "Further" signals an ongoing accumulation of grievances within a persecution-focused interpretive schema — each new ambiguous data point is assimilated as confirmatory evidence, never as disconfirmation.

**Narcissistic state: Mixed.** The grandiose claim (I won) and vulnerable claim (I was wronged) coexist in tension. This mixed grandiose-vulnerable oscillation is characteristic of the malignant narcissistic presentation under sustained challenge.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- *Denial (pathological):* Refusal to accept the documented, certified, and repeatedly adjudicated electoral outcome
- *Distortion (pathological):* Reshaping ambiguous evidence to confirm a pre-existing conclusion; any data point becomes "proof" when the conclusion is unfalsifiable
- *Rationalization (neurotic):* The "further proof" framing implies logical process, masking motivated reasoning and confirmation bias

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The post's rhetorical power lies in its **presuppositional structure**. "This is *further* proof" smuggles the conclusion — that prior proof exists and the election was rigged — into the premise itself, requiring readers to accept an unverified foundation before evaluating the new material. This is a sophisticated epistemological manipulation operating beneath an apparently simple exclamation.

**Propaganda techniques identified:**
- *Presupposition fallacy:* "Further proof" axiomatically assumes prior proof
- *RAND Firehose / volume:* This post is one of hundreds with near-identical claims; sheer repetition normalizes the narrative without requiring evidence
- *Symbolic condensation:* Capitalized "Rigged!" functions as a compressed tribal rally cry carrying enormous prior emotional loading
- *Appeal to shared grievance:* Recruits followers into a persecuted collective
- *Reality distortion:* Contradicts documented, certified electoral record

No dehumanizing language or violent imagery is present in the text.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

This post exemplifies **institutional-scale gaslighting** — systematic denial of documented reality with a mass audience. The 2020 election outcome was certified by all 50 states, upheld in 60+ court cases (many before Trump-appointed judges), and confirmed by Trump's own Attorney General, his CISA Director Christopher Krebs, and every state-level election official who conducted audits. Framing the outcome as "Rigged" requires followers to substitute a counter-reality for documented consensus — and the "further proof" formulation functions as a periodic loyalty test requiring that substitution.

**Epistemic closure is complete:** The framing admits no falsifying evidence. Any contrary institutional finding is itself evidence of the cover-up's depth, making the claim structurally unfalsifiable.

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## Cognitive Status

The post is a single sentence — too brief for meaningful cognitive complexity assessment. Vocabulary is simple and consistent with Trump's well-established baseline register. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, circumstantiality, or tangentiality are assessable. Consistent with baseline. Cognitive claims would require substantially longer speech samples.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated.** No direct calls to violence, eliminationist language, or specific target designation are present in this post. However, the ongoing repetition of "Rigged!" election denial — across hundreds of posts since November 2020 — constitutes a sustained grievance-maintenance operation that primes a large base for potential mobilization. The post's structural contribution to the stochastic terrorism dynamic is real at the pattern level even when absent at the individual post level. The pre-January 6 communications record demonstrates the actualized risk of this specific narrative category.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Presidential Election of 2020 was Rigged" | **False** | The 2020 election outcome was certified by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Over 60 court cases challenging the results were dismissed or rejected, including before Trump-appointed judges. Audits in contested states (Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania) found no outcome-changing irregularities. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr publicly stated there was no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. CISA Director Christopher Krebs (Trump appointee) called it 'the most secure election in American history' and was subsequently fired. No recount changed any state's result. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Signature 'Rigged!' capitalization — a personal verbal tic repeated hundreds of times
- Single-sentence exclamatory brevity consistent with authentic Trump posting style
- Election fraud subject matter is near-exclusively personally authored territory
- Emotional urgency and compressed grievance formulation difficult for aides to replicate
- Business hours (10:39 AM CDT) is the sole aide indicator, mitigated by rally-day context

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Attached image/article (unspecified new 'proof' of 2020 election fraud))

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Electoral system, anonymous 'riggers,' Democratic party apparatus
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Declarative absolutism with no hedging on a contested factual claim
- Exclamatory urgency (capitalization, exclamation point)
- Rally-day high-energy context consistent with elevated arousal state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 80%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 18%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance recruitment — inviting followers into the persecution narrative as co-victims
- Symbolic rally cry — 'Rigged!' as condensed tribal bonding symbol with heavy prior emotional loading
- Loyalty test — 'further proof' framing requires followers to accept counter-reality as group membership condition
- Validation loop — posting 'proof' solicits confirmatory responses that re-supply narcissistic fuel

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained election denial rhetoric — this post-category was documented precondition for January 6, 2021 mobilization
- Grievance maintenance at scale — 'Rigged!' accumulation primes large base for potential activation
- Epistemic closure induction — structurally insulates followers from corrective information, deepening radicalization risk
- Stochastic contribution: no individual post contains a call to action, but the aggregate pattern constitutes ongoing incitement infrastructure

### Gaslighting

- Denial of documented electoral reality certified by all 50 states and upheld in 60+ court cases
- 'Further proof' framing — implies prior proof established, rewriting absence of evidence as suppressed evidence
- Epistemic closure structure — any contrary institutional finding is assimilated as further proof of cover-up depth
- Mass loyalty test — followers must accept counter-reality as condition of group identity membership
- Attacks on shared institutional reality (election certification process, judicial rulings, DOJ findings)

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The Presidential Election of 2020 was Rigged

**FALSE**

The 2020 election outcome was certified by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Over 60 court cases challenging the results were dismissed or rejected, including before Trump-appointed judges. Audits in contested states (Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania) found no outcome-changing irregularities. Trump's own Attorney General William Barr publicly stated there was no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the election outcome. CISA Director Christopher Krebs (Trump appointee) called it 'the most secure election in American history' and was subsequently fired. No recount changed any state's result.

Sources: U.S. state certifications (all 50 states); 60+ court rulings 2020-2021; DOJ statement by AG William Barr, December 2020; CISA 'Rumor Control' statement, November 2020; Arizona Senate audit final report, September 2021

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (97%)
- narcissistic_injury_maintenance (85%)
- reality_distortion (88%)
- presupposition_fallacy (82%)
- gaslighting (80%)
- 2020_election (97%)
- epistemic_closure (85%)
- symbolic_condensation (75%)
- contamination_narrative (90%)
- grievance_maintenance (72%)

## That day

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

**Campaign Rally Day in Iowa Ends With Prosecutorial Grievance as Jack Smith Spending Disclosure Pierces Grandiose Bubble**

Trump spent the day in Iowa for a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, posting a mix of polling boasts, event promotions, and post-rally victory laps. The mood was mostly upbeat and self-congratulatory, with a burst of rapid-fire link shares from favorable coverage after the event. Two sharper posts broke the pattern: a morning claim of election fraud and a longer evening tirade against Special Counsel Jack Smith over prosecution costs, which closed the day on a bitter note. Nothing unusual for a rally day -- routine campaigning with predictable flashes of grievance.

Full digest for 2023-07-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 7). This is further proof that the Presidential... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673552404308306
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This is further proof that the Presidential Election of..." Truth Social, 7 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673552404308306. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "This is further proof that the Presidential Election of...," Truth Social, July 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673552404308306.

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