# Post ts_110866516165961980 - Post ID: `ts_110866516165961980` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-10T17:33:04.272Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110866516165961980 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110866516165961980/analysis ## Post text > https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/5-election-illegalities-2020-presidential-election-contradicting-trump ## Engagement - Likes: 6,362 - Reposts: 1,889 - Replies: 104 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:07:34.320Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary A pure URL share with no original text, this post is the 'cold' channel of Trump's two-track post-indictment response visible across August 10's posting cluster. While emotionally raw authentic posts attack Biden's cognition in all-caps rage, this aide-curated share (1:33 PM EDT, Bedminster — strong Scavino indicators) amplifies a Just the News article presenting five 2020 election irregularities as undermining Jack Smith's indictment. The five claims are factually mixed (half-true to mostly-false) but systematically misrepresent magnitude and causal relevance: procedural irregularities are presented as outcome-changing fraud, and the article fails to engage the indictment's actual theory (knowing falsity post-briefing). Defense mechanisms include rationalization (providing 'reasonable grounds' cover), projection (displacing illegality onto election administrators), and distortion (causal chain rejected by 60+ courts). The post participates in a macro-level DARVO structure and contributes to epistemic closure within Trump's follower base. Danger is rated elevated — not from direct violence indicators, but from systematic pre-loading of misinformation before trial proceedings with implications for 2024 electoral legitimacy. No cognitive status assessment is possible from URL-only content. # Analysis: Pure URL Amplification — Election Fraud Counter-Narrative (2023-08-10) ## Overview This post contains no original text — it is exclusively a URL share to a *Just the News* article (authored by Natalia Mittelstadt, published by John Solomon's outlet) headlined **"Five 2020 election irregularities, illegalities that collide with Jack Smith's Trump indictment."** The post's entire communicative act is one of **amplification and endorsement**: sharing curated conservative-media content designed to bolster Trump's legal defense against his federal election obstruction indictment. Analyzed in isolation it is sparse; analyzed in cluster context (five posts on this date), it is a coherent, coordinated counter-narrative campaign. --- ## Authorship Attribution **UTC 17:33:04 → EDT 13:33 (1:33 PM local)** Trump was almost certainly at **Bedminster, NJ** (his summer residence) in early August 2023; he relocated there following his arraignment. 1:33 PM is firmly within business hours. The post contains: - Zero original text - A clean, unformatted URL with no typos, capitalization, or emotional punctuation - No ALL CAPS, no ellipsis, no exclamation marks This profile is **strongly aide-written (Scavino)**. Contrast with same-day posts at earlier timestamps that contain unambiguous authentic-Trump markers: stream-of-consciousness syntax, ALL CAPS outbursts, personal insults with phonemic exaggeration ("Crooked," "stark raving Lunatic"), hyperbolic superlatives. The URL-only posts in this cluster (this one, the Breitbart Capitol Police post, the RedState/Turley post) represent a distinct authorial voice — polished, curatorial, legal-defense-oriented — consistent with communications staff executing a coordinated media strategy. --- ## Psychological State and Trigger **Primary trigger: Narcissistic injury (federal indictment)** The indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith constitutes one of the most significant narcissistic injuries of Trump's life — an official governmental determination that his 2020 election claims were not only false but criminally pursued. The cluster of posts on this date reveals a **multi-modal defensive response**: 1. **Rage discharge** (authentic posts): vitriolic attacks on Biden's intelligence and sanity 2. **Narrative reconstruction** (aide-curated posts): seeding the information ecosystem with legal-defense talking points This post belongs to category 2. The article's five claims (Wisconsin drop boxes, Iranian hacking, Hunter Biden laptop suppression, Wisconsin voter ID exemptions, Fulton County mismanagement) are framed explicitly as evidence that Trump's concerns about 2020 were reasonable — directly undercutting the "knowingly false" element of Smith's indictment theory. **Narcissistic state: Vulnerable** — the legal-defense framing signals a persecuted, victimized register rather than the expansive grandiose mode seen in rally rhetoric. The post performs the role of evidence-gatherer rather than conqueror. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Rationalization (neurotic):** The article and its amplification provide post-hoc "logical" justification for Trump's 2020 conduct. By cataloguing procedural irregularities, it argues Trump had *reasonable grounds* for his claims — converting criminally charged behavior into epistemically justified concern. **2. Projection (immature):** The rhetorical core of the article is projection at scale — re-centering the illegality discourse on Democratic-adjacent actors (election administrators, intelligence officials, Fulton County workers) rather than on Trump's conduct. *They* broke the law; *he* responded to lawbreaking. **3. Distortion (pathological, collective):** Several of the article's claims conflate procedural irregularities with outcome-changing fraud — a systematic distortion that requires readers to accept a causal chain courts rejected 60+ times. Sharing this content perpetuates that distortion within Trump's follower base. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Source laundering**: *Just the News* (founded by John Solomon, a key figure in Ukrainian disinformation narratives) presents as a neutral news outlet; sharing it confers false credibility - **Legal-adjacent framing**: The article's headline language ("illegalities," "indictment") mimics prosecutorial discourse to create false symmetry — as if there are two equivalent bodies of legal wrongdoing - **Selective emphasis / cherry-picking**: The five examples are real (in the narrow sense that courts/investigations documented them) but systematically misrepresent their significance; none individually or collectively constituted evidence of outcome-changing fraud - **Epistemic inoculation**: By circulating these claims, the post pre-loads followers with counter-narratives before trial proceedings --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled drop boxes were unlawfully approved" | **Half True** | The Wisconsin Supreme Court did issue a 4-3 ruling in July 2022 that drop boxes were improperly authorized by the Elections Commission. However, the court did not invalidate ballots or find fraud, and courts declined to use this procedural finding to challenge the 2020 result. | | "Iranian nationals successfully hacked a state election computer system and stole voter data" | **Mostly True** | True that Iranian hackers (later charged by DOJ) stole voter registration data and sent threatening emails to Republican officials and Trump supporters. This constitutes foreign interference but affected intimidation, not vote tallies. CISA and DNI found no evidence vote counts were altered. | | "51 intelligence officials falsely labeled Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation" | **Mostly True** | The October 2020 letter was misleading — several signatories later acknowledged they had no evidence of Russian origin. The laptop was authentic. However, this is a media/intelligence community credibility issue, not evidence of vote count manipulation; conflating story suppression with election fraud is a category error. | | "Approximately 200,000 Wisconsin voters illegally avoided voter ID via COVID indefinite confinement exemption" | **Mostly False** | The Wisconsin Supreme Court did rule the indefinite confinement exemption was improperly expanded for COVID purposes. However, the '200,000' figure vastly overstates verified misuse. No court found illegal voting at outcome-relevant scale, and Wisconsin's results were confirmed through multiple recounts and audits. | | "Fulton County election workers engaged in ballot double-scanning and other irregularities" | **Half True** | Georgia's investigation documented some procedural concerns during the recount process. However, a hand audit of all ballots confirmed Biden's margin of victory. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the results after multiple counts. Documented irregularities did not affect the outcome. | | "These five illegalities undercut Jack Smith's indictment theory" | **Mostly False** | The Smith indictment does not allege Trump was wrong to note irregularities. It alleges Trump continued asserting the election was stolen after being repeatedly told by his own advisors, AG Barr, state officials, and courts that his specific claims were false. The article does not engage with this core legal theory, rendering its counter-narrative largely non-responsive. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The post participates in a broader **DARVO structure** at the macro level: - **Deny**: The election was not stolen from Trump - **Attack**: The real wrongdoers were election administrators and intelligence officials - **Reverse Victim and Offender**: Trump is the victim of an illegitimate prosecution; the prosecution itself is the crime The URL slug in the post reads "contradicting-trump" — though the actual article argues *for* Trump's narrative. This minor discrepancy (a URL artifact from an earlier headline draft) is irrelevant to intent but illustrates the complexity of parsing these rapid amplification posts. --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated** — not from direct violent imagery (none present), but from systemic contribution to: - Ongoing delegitimization of 2023–24 electoral processes - Pre-loading followers with misinformation to be activated in future electoral contexts - Epistemic closure reinforcement: followers receive a steady diet of curated "proof" that insulates them from disconfirming information The post is one node in a coordinated information campaign. Its danger is cumulative and institutional rather than immediate and individual. --- ## Cognitive Assessment **Not assessable from this post.** A URL-only share contains no linguistic production markers. No cognitive status observations are warranted. The surrounding same-day posts (authentic voice) show no marked deviation from Trump's established rhetorical baseline — the compound sentences, hyperbolic modifiers, and ALL CAPS outbursts are consistent with long-established patterns. --- ## Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Wrongly-accused truth-teller / persecuted investigator **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a legitimate election concern (good) was criminalized by a corrupt apparatus (bad → prosecution) **Contrasting other:** Jack Smith / DOJ / "Crooked" system **Identity claim implicit in amplification:** *I told the truth about 2020; here is the evidence* --- ## Archetypal Dimensions The legal-defense cluster of posts on this date invokes the **Warrior-Martyr** archetype: a fighter beset by enemies, gathering his weapons (evidence) before battle. The URL shares function as **armament** — ammunition for legal, rhetorical, and epistemic combat. The article's framing of Trump as the subject of an unjust prosecution while real illegalities went unpunished maps onto a deeply resonant **persecution narrative** with martyrdom overtones increasingly prominent post-indictment. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted at 1:33 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ) — business hours, strongly Scavino window - Zero original text — pure URL share with no Trump-voice markers - No ALL CAPS, typos, emotional punctuation, or stream-of-consciousness syntax - Clean URL formatting consistent with staff-curated media amplification - Adjacent same-day authentic posts show sharp stylistic contrast (all-caps rage, personal insults) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Jack Smith federal indictment for election obstruction) Sentiment: -0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Epistemic inoculation — pre-loading followers with counter-narratives before trial proceedings - Source laundering through partisan outlet framed as neutral news - Implicit invitation to followers to 'do their own research' using provided 'evidence' ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Systematic pre-loading of followers with misinformation before criminal trial proceedings - Delegitimization of electoral processes with implications for 2024 election cycle - Epistemic closure reinforcement — curated 'evidence' stream insulates followers from disconfirming information - Contribution to ongoing environment in which electoral outcomes are presumptively contested, creating conditions for future mobilization ### Gaslighting - DARVO structure: reframes Trump as victim of illegality while projecting lawbreaking onto election administrators - Attacks on prosecutorial legitimacy without engaging the actual indictment theory - False equivalence between procedural irregularities and outcome-changing fraud — requires audience to accept a distorted causal chain - Rapid revisionism: amplifying 'evidence' that reframes the January 6 narrative as principled legal response rather than criminal conduct ## Fact Checks (6) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled drop boxes were unlawfully approved **HALF TRUE** The Wisconsin Supreme Court did issue a 4-3 ruling in July 2022 that drop boxes were improperly authorized by the Elections Commission. However, the court did not invalidate ballots or find fraud, and courts declined to use this procedural finding to challenge the 2020 result. Sources: Wisconsin Supreme Court, Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (2022) > Iranian nationals successfully hacked a state election computer system and stole voter data **MOSTLY TRUE** True that Iranian hackers (later charged by DOJ) stole voter registration data and sent threatening emails to Republican officials and Trump supporters. This constitutes foreign interference but affected intimidation, not vote tallies. CISA and DNI found no evidence vote counts were altered. Sources: DOJ indictment of Iranian nationals, 2021; CISA/DNI joint reports on 2020 election security > 51 intelligence officials falsely labeled Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation **MOSTLY TRUE** The October 2020 letter was misleading — several signatories later acknowledged they had no evidence of Russian origin. The laptop was authentic. However, this is a media/intelligence community credibility issue, not evidence of vote count manipulation; conflating story suppression with election fraud is a category error. Sources: Senate Judiciary Committee investigation, 2022; Subsequent reporting by Washington Post, New York Times confirming laptop authenticity > Approximately 200,000 Wisconsin voters illegally avoided voter ID via COVID indefinite confinement exemption **MOSTLY FALSE** The Wisconsin Supreme Court did rule the indefinite confinement exemption was improperly expanded for COVID purposes. However, the '200,000' figure vastly overstates verified misuse. No court found illegal voting at outcome-relevant scale, and Wisconsin's results were confirmed through multiple recounts and audits. Sources: Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on indefinite confinement exemption; Wisconsin Elections Commission recount results > Fulton County election workers engaged in ballot double-scanning and other irregularities **HALF TRUE** Georgia's investigation documented some procedural concerns during the recount process. However, a hand audit of all ballots confirmed Biden's margin of victory. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the results after multiple counts. Documented irregularities did not affect the outcome. Sources: Georgia Secretary of State audit report, November 2020; Georgia hand recount results, November 2020 > These five illegalities undercut Jack Smith's indictment theory **MOSTLY FALSE** The Smith indictment does not allege Trump was wrong to note irregularities. It alleges Trump continued asserting the election was stolen after being repeatedly told by his own advisors, AG Barr, state officials, and courts that his specific claims were false. The article does not engage with this core legal theory, rendering its counter-narrative largely non-responsive. Sources: United States v. Trump, Superseding Indictment, August 2023 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - election-denial (95%) - legal-defense-strategy (90%) - aide-authored (85%) - epistemic-inoculation (80%) - DARVO (75%) - 2020-election-narrative (90%) - jack-smith-indictment-response (85%) - conservative-media-amplification (70%) - vulnerable-narcissism (65%) - reality-distortion (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: Dual-Track Defense Pairs Raw Rage with Coordinated Media Blitz** Trump spent the day consumed by his federal indictment, opening with furious morning attacks on Biden's intelligence and sanity before his team flooded the feed with a rapid-fire dump of 15 supportive news articles in under five minutes. He returned in the late afternoon with personal, high-intensity posts targeting Jack Smith over a proposed January trial date and attacking Mike Pence with documented falsehoods about their January 6 interactions. The sharpest contrast of the day was between his own raw, emotional outbursts and the carefully managed media operation running alongside them. Notably absent from the 27-post day: any mention of the Maui wildfires that killed over 100 people. Full digest for 2023-08-10: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 10). https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110866516165961980 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/5-election..." Truth Social, 10 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110866516165961980. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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