# Post ts_110857555815063677 - Post ID: `ts_110857555815063677` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-09T03:34:20.254Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110857555815063677 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110857555815063677/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110857555815063677.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The January 6th Unselect Committee got rid of EVERYTHING! Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out. A Flagrant Violation of the law. They had so much to hide, and now that I have Subpoena Power, they didn’t want to get caught. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT & BLATANT DISREGARD OF THE LAW! Can you imagine if I would have done such a thing??? ## Engagement - Likes: 28,147 - Reposts: 9,554 - Replies: 1,878 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:05:20.994Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Late-night authentic post (11:34 PM EDT, Bedminster) in acute narcissistic injury phase following August 3 arraignment on federal January 6 charges. The post's organizing architecture is DARVO: the indicted defendant inverts legal reality, recasting the prosecutorial apparatus as the actual criminals who destroyed evidence. Primary defenses are projection — accusing the committee of evidence obstruction while facing related charges himself — and distortion, with "EVERYTHING" grossly overstating a disputed records preservation controversy. The "Subpoena Power" claim oscillates between vulnerable (victimized by criminal committee) and grandiose (now armed to expose them) narcissistic states within four sentences. This is the third or fourth ruminative output on the same grievance cluster within 24 hours, indicating obsessive preoccupation under acute stress. Central factual claims are mostly false; the committee transferred substantial materials to the National Archives. Gaslighting elements are structurally present: false equivalence between his federal charges and the committee's contested records handling demands audience acceptance of an inverted moral frame. Danger level is elevated through cumulative pattern rather than acute trigger — this post extends the same period as the threatening "coming after you" post that prompted a federal protective order, and continues systematic delegitimization of the legal system while identifying committee members as criminals, supplying grievance architecture to an already-activated audience. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-09T03:34:20Z (ts_110857555815063677) ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence)** UTC 03:34 converts to **11:34 PM EDT** at Bedminster, NJ — Trump's summer residence in August 2023. This falls squarely within his documented late-night posting window. Supporting indicators: stream-of-consciousness structure, escalating ALL-CAPS passages, tricolon ("Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out"), triple question marks, and the signature "Can you imagine if I would have done such a thing???" construction — a whataboutism rhetorical tic recurrent across verified authentic posts. No polished formatting, no event-announcement structure, no complete sentence discipline. This is unmediated Trump. --- ## Psychological Context This post arrives in the immediate wake of Trump's August 3 arraignment on four federal felony counts related to January 6. The preceding same-morning post (context item) covers similar ground, indicating a ruminative agitated state across multiple hours. A prior event entry documents his threatening "If you go after me, I'm coming after you" post; prosecutors had already sought a protective order. This post represents the third or fourth consecutive ruminative output on the same cluster of grievances within a 24-hour window — consistent with obsessive preoccupation following narcissistic injury. --- ## Trigger & Narcissistic Dynamics **Primary trigger:** Narcissistic injury compound — criminal indictment (exposure + defeat) combined with the perceived humiliation of appearing in federal court. The Jan 6 committee records controversy (circulating in right-wing media that week) provides a displacement target. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable oscillation within a single post: - *Vulnerable pole:* Cast as victim of an "EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT" perpetrated by the committee; rhetorical appeal to audience outrage ("Can you imagine…") - *Grandiose pole:* "now that I have Subpoena Power" — transforms legal jeopardy into a claimed offensive weapon; projects authority and impending counter-strike This oscillation (wounded → empowered → wounded) within 4 sentences is characteristic of the unstable narcissistic state documented across this period. --- ## DARVO Architecture The post is almost entirely organized around **DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)**: 1. **Deny:** No acknowledgment of his own criminal exposure 2. **Attack:** Committee characterized as criminals ("AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT"), co-conspirators hiding evidence 3. **Reverse:** Trump = aggrieved victim with moral authority; Committee = the actual lawbreakers The "Can you imagine if *I* would have done such a thing???" closing is a textbook DARVO reversal — implying that he would have faced consequences for equivalent conduct while his accusers escape accountability. This technique simultaneously (a) plants the false equivalence, (b) invites audience identification with his grievance, and (c) distracts from the substance of his own charges. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection (primary, pathological/immature):** Trump is the defendant in an obstruction-adjacent case; he accuses the committee of evidence destruction and obstruction. The content of the accusation mirrors the legal jeopardy he faces. This is projection operating at high intensity. **Splitting:** Binary moral universe — Committee = pure evil/criminal, Trump = innocent victim of criminal persecution. No acknowledgment of complexity. **Distortion:** "got rid of EVERYTHING" — a gross reshaping of reality. The J6 committee did transfer materials to the National Archives; some Republican members contested completeness. The leap to total destruction is reality distortion, not a minor exaggeration. **Rationalization:** "Subpoena Power" reframes criminal defendant discovery rights as offensive political power — a rationalization that converts threat into agency. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Branded epithet:** "Unselect Committee" (consistent coinage, audiences decode immediately) - **Tricolon with escalation:** "Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out" — rhythmic anaphora performing emotional intensification - **Strategic capitalization:** Functions as verbal screaming; creates artificial emphasis peaks that scan emotionally without requiring logical engagement - **Whataboutism:** The closing rhetorical question deflects entirely from his charges onto a hypothetical reverse scenario - **Hyperbole:** "EVERYTHING," "FLAGRANT," "EGREGIOUS," "BLATANT" — piled superlatives crowd out specific factual engagement - **False equivalence:** Implying the committee's records handling is comparable to or worse than the conduct underlying his indictment - **Appeal to injustice/fear:** Structures audience response as indignation rather than factual evaluation No dehumanizing language in this post; no explicit violent imagery. The rhetoric operates through outrage amplification rather than eliminationist framing. --- ## Level 1: Big Five Trait Expression - **Neuroticism (angry hostility, impulsiveness):** Dominant; post is emotionally dysregulated, reactive, escalating - **Agreeableness (low):** Contemptuous, hostile, zero tender-mindedness or trust - **Extraversion (assertive facet):** High — claiming power, dominating the narrative frame - **Conscientiousness:** Low — impulsive, undeliberated, reactive - **Openness:** Low — rigid binary framing, no epistemic flexibility --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive:** Power (agency) — the "Subpoena Power" claim is the post's emotional center of gravity; control over the situation is the core need being asserted. Communion motives absent. **Schema activation:** Self = wronged sovereign; Others (committee) = corrupt criminals; World = rigged system where rules are applied asymmetrically against him. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Warrior/Avenger — wronged but now armed **Sequence:** Contamination → incipient redemption: justice was contaminated by the committee's alleged crimes, but Trump's new power promises to expose them **Identity claims:** Legitimate authority figure ("Subpoena Power"), moral superior ("Can you imagine if *I* had done such a thing") **Contrasting other:** The "Unselect Committee" as the true criminals; implicit contrast with Biden DOJ **Archetype:** Warrior primary, Victim secondary; Trickster element in the rhetorical reversal (turning defendant status into prosecution status) --- ## Cognitive Status No significant deviation from established baseline. Syntax is characteristically Trumpian — short declarative fragments, emotional escalation to ALL-CAPS peaks, tricolon, rhetorical questions. Vocabulary is consistent with prior documented output. No word-finding anomalies, no phonemic or semantic paraphasia, no temporal confusion detected. Perseveration on J6 committee grievance is notable but contextually driven (acute legal stress period) rather than indicative of cognitive anomaly. **Complexity score:** Low-moderate, consistent with baseline for reactive posts. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The January 6th Unselect Committee got rid of EVERYTHING — Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out" | **Mostly False** | The House Administration Committee (Republican-led, 118th Congress) issued a report in August 2023 alleging incomplete records preservation by the J6 Select Committee. However, the committee had transferred substantial materials to the National Archives. 'EVERYTHING' is demonstrably false; disputed incompleteness ≠ total destruction. | | "I have Subpoena Power" | **Half True** | As a criminal defendant, Trump gained discovery rights enabling document requests through counsel, sometimes characterized as subpoena power by his team. This is not legislative subpoena authority; the framing significantly overstates the nature of criminal discovery rights. | | "AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT — the committee illegally destroyed records" | **Mostly False** | Whether record-keeping requirements were technically violated is disputed. No criminal charges were brought against committee members for records handling. Characterizing contested record preservation disputes as confirmed criminal acts is unsupported by any legal finding at the time of posting. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Gaslighting elements are present: the post inverts the legal reality (Trump = defendant being accused of obstruction-adjacent conduct → committee = the real evidence destroyers). This functions to confuse the information environment and demand audience acceptance of an alternative causal frame. The framing "they had so much to hide" — projecting concealment motive — is a reality-distortion technique that preempts factual challenge by attributing bad faith to potential correctors. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** Not a direct threat post. However, it extends the documented pattern (same period as "I'm coming after you" post; prosecutors' protective order request) of delegitimizing the legal process and casting legal opponents as themselves criminals. By framing the committee as having committed "AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT," the post performs grievance amplification that reduces psychological friction for audience members already primed toward action. In the context of the prior threatening post and active protective order proceedings, this represents meaningful stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern continuation — not an acute trigger but contributing to ongoing threat elevation. No dehumanizing language, no explicit mobilization language. Danger is cumulative-pattern rather than acute-post in nature. --- ## Summary This late-night authentic post (11:34 PM EDT, Bedminster) documents Trump in an acutely activated narcissistic state following his August 3 arraignment on federal January 6 charges. The organizing psychological architecture is DARVO: the indicted defendant inverts legal reality, recasting the prosecutorial apparatus as the actual criminals. Primary defenses are projection (accusing the committee of evidence destruction while facing obstruction-adjacent charges himself) and distortion (the "EVERYTHING" claim). The post represents the third or fourth ruminative output on the same grievance cluster within 24 hours, consistent with obsessive preoccupation under narcissistic injury. Rhetorical analysis reveals branding ("Unselect Committee"), tricolon escalation, whataboutism, and piled superlatives functioning to crowd out factual engagement in favor of outrage. The "Subpoena Power" claim oscillates between vulnerable and grandiose narcissistic states within a single post — a pattern well-documented in this legal-jeopardy period. Two central factual claims are mostly_false. Danger level is elevated due to cumulative pattern context (same period as threatening "coming after you" post under active protective order proceedings), though no acute mobilization language appears here. No cognitive deviations from Trump's established baseline. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 95%) ### Indicators - Late night post (11:34 PM EDT at Bedminster NJ) - ALL-CAPS emotional escalation passages - Tricolon stream-of-consciousness ('Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out') - Triple question marks '???' - Signature 'Can you imagine if I would have done such a thing' construction ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 federal indictment and arraignment (August 3, 2023)) **Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting January 6 Select Committee / DOJ - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.75 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Multiple same-cluster posts within 24-hour window indicating reduced sleep/elevated activation - Escalating capitalization pattern across post - Compressed syntax and rapid topic pivots within short post - Triple punctuation ('???') suggesting emotional dysregulation above baseline ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 72% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Rhetorical question inviting audience identification ('Can you imagine if I would have done such a thing???') - Shared grievance framing positioning audience as fellow victims of same corrupt system - Outrage amplification through stacked superlatives and capitalization ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Continuous pattern extension: same period as 'If you go after me I'm coming after you' post under active protective order proceedings - Delegitimization of legal institutions as criminal enterprises reduces friction for audience members primed toward action - Framing committee members as having committed 'AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT' identifies target + grievance without explicit mobilization call — stochastic terrorism pattern element - Escalating ruminative output on same grievance cluster suggests sustained activation, not one-off venting ### Gaslighting - Inverts legal reality: indicted defendant frames prosecutors/committee as the actual evidence-destroyers and criminals - DARVO structure — Deny (his own charges), Attack (committee as criminals), Reverse Victim and Offender - 'They had so much to hide' — projects concealment motive preemptively onto potential factual correctors, disabling counter-narrative - Demands audience accept that committee's records dispute is equivalent to or worse than grounds for his own federal indictment ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The January 6th Unselect Committee got rid of EVERYTHING — Discarded, Deleted, Thrown Out **MOSTLY FALSE** The House Administration Committee (Republican-led, 118th Congress) issued a report in August 2023 alleging incomplete records preservation by the J6 Select Committee. However, the committee had transferred substantial materials to the National Archives. 'EVERYTHING' is demonstrably false; disputed incompleteness ≠ total destruction. Sources: House Administration Committee report, August 2023; National Archives J6 records transfer documentation > I have Subpoena Power **HALF TRUE** As a criminal defendant, Trump gained discovery rights enabling document requests through counsel, sometimes characterized as subpoena power by his team. This is not legislative subpoena authority; the framing significantly overstates the nature of criminal discovery rights. Sources: Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 17; Legal commentary on criminal defendant discovery rights > AN EGREGIOUS CRIMINAL ACT — the committee illegally destroyed records **MOSTLY FALSE** Whether record-keeping requirements were technically violated is disputed. No criminal charges were brought against committee members for records handling. Characterizing contested record preservation disputes as confirmed criminal acts is unsupported by any legal finding at the time of posting. Sources: DOJ/Congressional records laws; Absence of any criminal referral or finding against committee members Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - DARVO (95%) - projection (90%) - narcissistic_injury_response (92%) - late_night_authentic (95%) - legal_institution_delegitimization (88%) - reality_distortion (85%) - whataboutism (82%) - gaslighting (80%) - ruminative_cluster (75%) - epistemic_closure (78%) - january6_indictment_response (95%) - splitting (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Indictment Siege Drives Obsessive J6 Records Fixation, DARVO Cycling, and Sustained Target-Labeling Across 13-Post Day** Trump spent the day consumed by his recent federal indictment, returning again and again to the claim that the January 6th Committee destroyed its records. Late-night posts showed sustained anger and a striking pivot from legal grievance to mocking Chris Christie with barely-disguised cruelty. The morning brought a rapid-fire burst of posts rehitting indictments, border security, and the committee -- with the committee posts reaching the day's emotional peak. News that the DOJ had obtained a warrant for his Twitter account sparked another angry response in the afternoon. Notably absent from the day's 13 posts: any mention of the deadly Maui wildfires that were killing over 100 people. Full digest for 2023-08-09: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 9). The January 6th Unselect Committee got rid of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110857555815063677 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The January 6th Unselect Committee got rid of EVERYTHING!..." Truth Social, 9 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110857555815063677. 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