# Post ts_110868841067002557 - Post ID: `ts_110868841067002557` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-11T03:24:19.447Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110868841067002557 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110868841067002557/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110868841067002557.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Nobody can believe that the Unselect J-6 Committee deleted and disposed of the evidence. They knew how bad it was. Highly Illegal! ## Engagement - Likes: 30,437 - Reposts: 9,527 - Replies: 3,507 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:08:45.023Z (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 brief late-night post (11:24 PM EDT, Bedminster, NJ) deploys Trump's signature DARVO inversion with textbook efficiency: the January 6th Select Committee — investigating Trump's conduct — is repositioned as the criminal actor destroying evidence. The "Unselect" portmanteau, staccato declarative structure, and ALL CAPS typographic certainty mark this as highly authentic late-night authorship. Psychologically, the post reflects a preemptive attack triggered by the convergence of active J6-adjacent federal indictments and House Republican reports about committee records handling. The dominant defense is projection: evidence destruction and illegal conduct — the shadow categories most threatening to Trump's own legal position — are attributed outward to his accusers. The false consensus appeal ("Nobody can believe") demands followers ratify the inversion as obvious truth, functioning as an epistemic closure mechanism. Factually, Republican investigators did document some J6 committee records-handling concerns during the majority transition, giving the post a thin factual scaffold; however, the framing dramatically overstates certainty of criminal intent and exculpatory significance. No cognitive deviation from baseline is detectable. Danger level is elevated: no individual targets are named, but the post is the fifth in a single posting day that systematically criminalizes perceived adversaries (Biden, Pence, Christie, now the J6 committee), contributing to a sustained diffuse threat environment for former committee members who are now cast in Trump's discourse as felons suppressing his vindication. # Analysis: ts_110868841067002557 — August 11, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **UTC 03:24 → ~11:24 PM EDT** (Trump's summer residence in August 2023 is Bedminster, NJ, Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). This is a late-night post squarely within authentic Trump's posting window. Corroborating stylistic markers are strong: the "Unselect" portmanteau is a recurring idiosyncratic Trump coinage applied specifically to the J6 committee — not an aide's language. The three-sentence staccato structure, absence of event-announcement content, and ALL CAPS emphasis on "Highly Illegal!" are consistent with emotionally reactive, unpolished authentic posts. Confidence: **high** for authentic authorship. --- ## Psychological Trigger and State This post is best understood as a **preemptive attack** layered over a **narcissistic injury** response. The injury is ongoing and acute: multiple indictments (including J6-adjacent federal charges) have placed Trump in the position of the accused. His characterological response is to invert the accusation structure entirely — the investigation body becomes the criminal actor, and the specific crime attributed to them (evidence destruction) mirrors the structural categories of obstruction most dangerous to Trump's own legal position. The trigger appears to be emerging House Republican reports about J6 committee records handling during the transition to Republican majority control. Trump converts a contested procedural dispute into a settled criminal conspiracy, extracting maximum narrative benefit from minimal evidentiary support. **Narcissistic state**: Mixed — predominantly grandiose (righteous exposer of hidden criminality) with a victim undercurrent (evidence destroyed to harm him). This oscillation between grandiosity and victimhood is a hallmark pattern in Trump's J6-related posting. --- ## Defense Mechanisms Three defense mechanisms operate in layered sequence: 1. **Projection (immature)**: Attributing evidence destruction and illegal conduct to the committee investigating Trump for conduct that includes obstruction-adjacent behavior. What Trump is accused of structurally (withholding/destroying records, impeding proceedings) is projected outward onto his accusers. 2. **Denial (pathological)**: The "Unselect" label functionally denies the committee's institutional legitimacy before any claim is made. By embedding the delegitimizing prefix into the committee's name, Trump performs ontological denial — the committee is illegitimate by definition, so its work cannot constitute legitimate investigation. 3. **Distortion (pathological)**: A factual dispute (whether the committee fully preserved records per archival requirements during transition) is grossly reshaped into a clear-cut, universally recognized criminal conspiracy. Complexity and ambiguity are erased; certainty is inserted. --- ## DARVO Analysis This post is a textbook **DARVO** (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) execution: - **Deny**: The J6 proceedings are illegitimate ("Unselect") - **Attack**: The committee committed crimes ("deleted and disposed of the evidence") - **Reverse**: Trump is not the subject of investigation; the committee is the criminal actor; he is the victim of their illegal conduct The efficiency is notable — DARVO fully deployed in three sentences. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **"Nobody can believe"**: False consensus/universalizing appeal. Presents Trump's subjective outrage as universal human reaction, demanding the reader confirm group membership by sharing the disbelief. - **"Unselect J-6 Committee"**: Derogatory neologism. Performs delegitimization through naming; "Unselect" implies the committee was itself improperly constituted, inverting the selection process narrative. - **"deleted and disposed of"**: Escalating doublet. "Deleted" alone might suggest technical error; "disposed of" adds physical finality and implied intentionality, upgrading the act to deliberate destruction. - **"They knew how bad it was"**: Mind-reading/attribution of guilty knowledge. Asserts interior criminal mental state without evidence — a rhetorical move that converts ambiguous conduct into proven intent. - **"Highly Illegal!"**: Emphatic capitalization and exclamation mark. Presents an unresolved legal characterization as settled, authoritative fact. The caps register functions as a typographic declaration of certainty. --- ## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3) **Protagonist role**: Righteous truth-teller exposing criminal conspiracy — not a defender of his own conduct but an exposer of others' crimes. This is a narrative judo move: in the J6 story, Trump would normally occupy the antagonist position; here he is recast as the protagonist whose vindication is being illegally suppressed. **Narrative sequence**: Contamination. What was presented as a legitimate institutional investigation (good) is retroactively revealed as a criminal enterprise that destroyed evidence (bad). The investigation's integrity is contaminated by the accusation of criminal records destruction. **Contrasting other**: "The Unselect J-6 Committee" — an institutional other rather than an individual, which allows diffuse villainization across all former committee members simultaneously. **Identity claims** (implicit): "I am the one whose exoneration they were afraid of. I am the one they had to silence illegally." --- ## Archetypal and Order/Chaos Dynamics **Primary archetypes**: Warrior (fighting a corrupt institutional opponent) and Victim-Martyr (illegally persecuted). The Trickster element is present in the inversion move — rules are broken, but it's *them* breaking the rules, not Trump. **Order/Chaos positioning**: This post attacks what it frames as a corrupt, illegitimate order (the J6 committee as criminal institution). Trump positions himself as a restorer of proper order by exposing the disorder they embedded in the investigative process. **Shadow projection**: Evidence destruction and illegal conduct — the shadow elements most threatening to Trump's own legal position — are projected outward and attributed to the investigating body. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion **Gaslighting: Present.** The post systematically disorients followers about the actual J6 accountability landscape. Rather than engaging with the charges Trump faces, it redirects attention to an alternative criminal narrative in which Trump's investigators are the offenders. This functions as epistemic disruption: followers who accept the framing cannot simultaneously hold a coherent understanding of Trump's actual legal situation. **Reality distortions**: - A contested archival/records-handling procedural dispute is reframed as proven, intentional criminal evidence destruction - "Nobody can believe" asserts universal consensus where none exists - "Highly Illegal" presents a contested legal conclusion as established fact - Guilty mental state ("They knew how bad it was") is asserted without evidentiary basis --- ## Cognitive Status The post is sufficiently brief that deep cognitive assessment is limited. Vocabulary is simple and consistent with Trump's well-established baseline. No word-finding difficulties, phonemic paraphasias, semantic substitution errors, temporal confusion, or tangentiality are evident. "Unselect" is a deliberate portmanteau — a creative rhetorical coinage, not a cognitive error. Syntactic complexity is low but appears volitional, consistent with the punchy authentic late-night posting pattern in Trump's longitudinal record. **No deviation from cognitive baseline.** --- ## Danger Assessment **Elevated.** No individual targets are named; no explicit calls to action are issued; stochastic terrorism threshold is not reached. However, the cumulative pattern across this posting day is concerning: Biden is a "CROOK," Pence is a "Loser" who "chose another path," Christie is a "Loser," and now the J6 committee has committed crimes that are "Highly Illegal." This systematic criminalization of perceived adversaries — maintained at high volume across multiple posts — contributes to a sustained threat environment for former J6 committee members, who are now framed in Trump's discourse as criminals who destroyed evidence of their own wrongdoing. The danger is diffuse and cumulative rather than acute and targeted. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The Unselect J-6 Committee deleted and disposed of the evidence" | **Half True** | House Republican investigators (House Administration Committee) did document in 2023 that some J6 committee records and electronic communications were not fully preserved during the majority transition — giving the claim a thin factual scaffold. However, 'deleted and disposed of the evidence' implies deliberate intentional destruction of exculpatory material, which (a) overstates what investigators actually found, (b) presupposes criminal intent that is unproven, and (c) assumes the deleted materials were exculpatory for Trump rather than internal committee communications. The inflammatory framing transforms a legitimate archival procedural dispute into a settled criminal conspiracy. | | "They knew how bad it was [implying evidence was exculpatory for Trump]" | **Unverifiable** | The claim asserts guilty knowledge and exculpatory significance of deleted records — neither of which can be established from available evidence. The nature and content of any deleted records is disputed, and the inference that they would exonerate Trump is entirely unsupported. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - UTC 03:24 converts to 11:24 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ summer residence) — late-night authentic window - "Unselect" portmanteau is a recurring idiosyncratic Trump coinage specific to the J6 committee - Three-sentence staccato declarative structure consistent with authentic reactive posts - ALL CAPS on "Highly Illegal!" — emotional emphasis pattern consistent with authentic Trump - No event announcement, schedule, or polished formatting — not aide-written content type ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Exposure (J6-related federal indictments and House Republican reports on J6 committee records handling) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting House Select J6 Committee - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - late-night emotional posting at 11:24 PM - pressured punchy declarative sentence structure - absolutist certainty framing with no hedging - high output day — fifth post in rapid succession covering multiple adversaries ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 42% - Paranoid: 62% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 18% **Parasocial Techniques:** - false consensus ('Nobody can believe') demands followers validate shared outrage as group membership - framing creates in-group truth accessible only to those who accept the reality distortion - converts passive followers into witnesses to a criminal conspiracy ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - systematic criminalization of J6 committee members — all implicitly cast as felons who destroyed evidence - pattern across five posts on August 10-11 criminalizes Biden, Pence, Christie, and now entire J6 committee — volume of adversary-criminalization elevates ambient threat environment - followers accepting this framing may view former committee members as legitimate targets of justice-seeking anger - no individual targets named and no explicit mobilization — stochastic terrorism threshold not reached but cumulative pattern is concerning ### Gaslighting - DARVO inversion repositions J6 accountability narrative — investigating body becomes criminal actor - converts Trump's structural legal jeopardy into evidence of the committee's guilt - 'Highly Illegal' declares unsettled legal question as established fact, attacking followers' ability to assess independently - reframes contested archival dispute as obvious universally-recognized criminal conspiracy ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The Unselect J-6 Committee deleted and disposed of the evidence **HALF TRUE** House Republican investigators (House Administration Committee) did document in 2023 that some J6 committee records and electronic communications were not fully preserved during the majority transition — giving the claim a thin factual scaffold. However, 'deleted and disposed of the evidence' implies deliberate intentional destruction of exculpatory material, which (a) overstates what investigators actually found, (b) presupposes criminal intent that is unproven, and (c) assumes the deleted materials were exculpatory for Trump rather than internal committee communications. The inflammatory framing transforms a legitimate archival procedural dispute into a settled criminal conspiracy. Sources: House Administration Committee Republican investigation findings 2023; National Archives record preservation requirements > They knew how bad it was [implying evidence was exculpatory for Trump] **UNVERIFIABLE** The claim asserts guilty knowledge and exculpatory significance of deleted records — neither of which can be established from available evidence. The nature and content of any deleted records is disputed, and the inference that they would exonerate Trump is entirely unsupported. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - J6-January6 (95%) - DARVO (90%) - projection (88%) - institutional-delegitimization (85%) - authentic-authorship (88%) - late-night-post (85%) - indictment-context (80%) - false-consensus (78%) - reality-distortion (82%) - preemptive-attack (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Chutkan's Protective Order Triggers a Coordinated Legal Defense Barrage from Bedminster** Trump's day at Bedminster split into two distinct phases: a pair of combative personal posts in the evening attacking Chris Christie's wall claims and the January 6th committee, followed by a late-morning barrage of shared articles building a coordinated legal defense narrative. The article dump — ten links in roughly three minutes — appeared staff-managed, mixing indictment victimhood pieces with attacks on Judge Chutkan and rival devaluation of DeSantis. The dominant mood was defensive, shaped by Judge Chutkan's protective order issued that same day. No signs of sleep disruption, but the sustained focus on legal persecution and judicial targeting stood out as the day's defining pattern. Full digest for 2023-08-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 11). Nobody can believe that the Unselect J-6... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110868841067002557 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Nobody can believe that the Unselect J-6 Committee deleted..." Truth Social, 11 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110868841067002557. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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