# Post ts_111024751941538428

- Post ID: `ts_111024751941538428`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-07T16:14:30.595Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111024751941538428
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111024751941538428/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/trump_can_prove_it.html

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,226
- Reposts: 2,192
- Replies: 142
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:27:04.374Z (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 bare URL post linking to an American Thinker op-ed arguing Trump's criminal indictments provide a forum to vindicate 2020 election fraud claims. Almost certainly aide-authored: posted at 12:14 PM EDT during business hours, one of five curated URL shares the same day — a signature of coordinated social media management rather than authentic Trump posting. The article's core claims are largely false: the purported 92% national voter turnout figure is fabricated (actual 2020 turnout ~66.8%); the Arizona Cyber Ninjas audit actually confirmed Biden's victory; Georgia results withstood multiple recounts; Michigan and Wisconsin claims are severely distorted. The post's psychological function is clear: following the August 24 Georgia arraignment — a significant narcissistic injury involving public fingerprinting and mugshot — this cluster of link-shares constitutes defensive supply maintenance, surrounding the subject with external authority figures validating his counter-narrative. The operative defense combination is denial and rationalization: the reality of criminal jeopardy is reframed as vindication opportunity. The article's narrative inversion — converting a threat object (criminal court) into a redemptive vehicle — reflects sophisticated (if unconscious) narcissistic defensive operation. This maintains epistemic closure for the base, demanding acceptance of demonstrably false claims as in-group loyalty signal. Danger assessment is elevated: the Big Lie mythology directly fueled January 6 violence, and its continued propagation — even via curated links rather than direct rhetoric — sustains the ideological infrastructure for future political violence.

## Post Overview

This post consists exclusively of a hyperlink to an *American Thinker* op-ed (published August 2023) arguing that Trump's criminal indictments paradoxically provide a legal forum to vindicate his 2020 election fraud claims. The article makes state-by-state assertions: Georgia's Raffensperger allegedly admitted insufficient ballots for Biden to win before reversing; Michigan saw 800,000 ballots allegedly sent to unqualified voters; Wisconsin drop boxes were deemed illegal; Arizona's Cyber Ninjas audit found illegal votes exceeding Biden's margin fivefold; and a 92% national turnout figure is presented as statistically implausible. No original text accompanies the link.

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## Authorship Attribution

UTC timestamp 16:14:30 converts to approximately **12:14 PM EDT**. In early September 2023, Trump was based primarily in the New York/New Jersey corridor ahead of the fall campaign intensification. This posts squarely during business hours. Critically, this is one of at least **five URL-only shares on the same day** (Victor Davis Hanson, NY Sun, Daily Caller ×2, Tipp Insights/American Thinker), all drawing from a curated set of sympathetic conservative outlets — a pattern architecturally consistent with coordinated aide management (historically associated with Dan Scavino). The absence of any original text, the regular-interval clustering of polished external links, and the business-hour timing collectively constitute a high-confidence aide-authorship signature. Authentic Trump posts in this period are characterized by original text, emotional reactivity, late-night/early-morning timing, and irregular capitalization. None of those markers are present.

**Confidence: High** — aide-authored.

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger Identification

The Georgia arraignment (August 24, 2023) was an acute narcissistic injury of unusual severity: public arrest processing, fingerprinting, and mug shot — arguably the most publicly humiliating legal event in the subject's history to that point. The cluster of URL shares on September 7 functions as **injury repair and supply maintenance**: each linked article provides external authority figures (legal scholars, conservative commentators) validating the counter-narrative that persecution = vindication. This is a recognizable post-injury pattern — a rush toward confirming voices after ego destabilization.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

The *American Thinker* article's central premise — that courts will now *finally* hear the election fraud evidence denied a fair hearing — is psychologically significant because it transforms a threat object (criminal court) into a redemptive vehicle. This represents **narcissistic narrative inversion**: the system that is prosecuting Trump is recast as the system that will ultimately exonerate him. The grandiose self cannot be threatened; threats must be converted into proof of eventual triumph.

**State**: Mixed grandiose/vulnerable. The underlying vulnerability is the injury; the grandiose overlay is the "this will prove me right" framing.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (pathological)**: The reality of criminal jeopardy — multiple indictments, arraignment, legal proceedings — is not engaged with on its own terms. Instead, it is wholesale reframed as opportunity. This is not rationalization applied *after* acknowledgment; the threat is never acknowledged.

**Rationalization (neurotic)**: The article provides the logical scaffolding that makes denial feel coherent — if courts are venues for truth, and Trump has truth, then courts become vindicators. The syllogism is false in its premises but internally consistent.

**Splitting (immature)**: Consistent with documented baseline — the legal system is framed as either corrupt persecutor *or* eventual vindicator, with no middle ground possible.

### Narrative Identity (Level 3)

The article selection reinforces the core McAdams-level narrative structure: Trump as **wrongly persecuted truth-teller whose vindication is imminent**. This is a classic redemption sequence — contamination (indictments, prosecution, persecution) → anticipated redemption (courts hear the evidence, truth prevails). The legal system, normally cast as a contamination agent in Trump's narrative, is here temporarily promoted to redemption vehicle. This narrative flexibility — the ability to absorb incoming threats into the vindication arc — is a psychologically sophisticated (if unconscious) defensive operation.

**Contrasting Other**: The corrupt legal establishment / "Deep State" / election-stealing apparatus.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

This post, being a URL-only share, operates via **implicit endorsement** — the subject adopts the article's claims as his own without personal accountability for their verifiability. This is a rhetorically efficient technique: if claims prove false, the source (not the sharer) bears responsibility; if claims resonate, the sharer accrues the benefit.

The article itself deploys:
- **False validation via selective quotation**: Raffensperger's earlier statements cited; his retractions, multiple recounts, and Georgia's subsequent audits omitted
- **Deferred vindication promise**: "Courts will finally hear the evidence" — a perpetually renewable promise requiring no present fulfillment
- **Statistical misrepresentation**: The 92% turnout claim is fabricated; no such figure exists in reputable sources
- **Appeal to audit authority**: Cyber Ninjas audit cited as finding fraud; the audit actually confirmed Biden's victory with a slightly *larger* margin

By sharing this within a same-day cluster of similar articles, the poster constructs an **information cocoon** — a curated media environment in which the base is exposed exclusively to confirming narratives, tightening epistemic closure.

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## Reality Distortion & Gaslighting

The ongoing propagation of election fraud claims — uniformly rejected by 60+ courts, Republican election officials across contested states, Trump's own Attorney General, and even partisan-commissioned audits — constitutes a gaslighting architecture at scale. The target audience is asked to maintain belief in claims that objective reality has repeatedly falsified. Demanding this belief functions as an in-group loyalty shibboleth: acceptance signals tribal belonging; rejection signals betrayal.

The specific article's claims are particularly aggressive in their departure from documented reality. The Arizona claim (fraud exceeding Biden's margin fivefold) directly inverts the Cyber Ninjas' own findings, which confirmed Biden's victory.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "92% national voter turnout in 2020 election" | **False** | Actual 2020 U.S. turnout was approximately 66.8% of voting-eligible population — highest since 1900 but nowhere near 92%. |
| "Arizona forensic audit found illegal votes exceeded Biden's margin fivefold" | **False** | The Cyber Ninjas audit (released September 2021) confirmed Biden won Arizona; Biden's certified margin held or slightly expanded. The article directly inverts the audit's own findings. |
| "Wisconsin Supreme Court deemed drop boxes illegal" | **Half True** | Wisconsin Supreme Court did restrict future drop box use in a 2022 ruling, but did not retroactively invalidate cast ballots; no fraud was established and Biden's victory was certified. |
| "Michigan: 800,000 ballots sent to non-qualified voters" | **Mostly False** | Refers to a Republican-commissioned report widely criticized by election experts; no evidence of fraudulent ballots cast; Michigan certified Biden's victory after audit and recount. |
| "Georgia's Raffensperger initially said there were not enough outstanding votes for Biden to win" | **Mostly False** | Raffensperger has consistently and repeatedly affirmed Georgia's election results across multiple recounts and audits. The cited quote is presented out of context and contradicted by the totality of Raffensperger's documented record. |

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Cognitive Assessment

No original text is present; direct cognitive markers (word-finding, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration) cannot be assessed. The article selection reflects consistent thematic focus aligned with documented baseline — no deviation detectable from this data point alone.

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## Danger Assessment

The Big Lie mythology is not merely a political position — it has been judicially and historically linked to the January 6 insurrection (as evidenced by the Enrique Tarrio 22-year sedition sentence handed down during this same period). Continued propagation of this narrative, particularly under the framing that legal vindication is imminent, maintains the ideological infrastructure that produced political violence. However, this specific post is a curated link share containing no direct incitement, no dehumanizing language, and no call to action. **Rated: Elevated** — structural danger via Big Lie perpetuation rather than acute incitement.

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## Longitudinal Note

This post is consistent with a documented same-day pattern of URL-curation clusters during legal stress periods. The choice of sources (Victor Davis Hanson, NY Sun, Daily Caller, American Thinker) reflects stable baseline media consumption preferences. No deviation from established content or behavioral baseline. The cluster density (5+ URL shares in one day) suggests an active post-injury supply maintenance campaign rather than routine audience engagement.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 12:14 PM EDT — business hours
- No original text, bare URL only
- One of five URL-only shares same day from curated conservative outlets
- Regular interval clustering consistent with coordinated aide management
- Absence of emotional reactivity, typos, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness markers

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Georgia arraignment (August 24, 2023) — public fingerprinting and mugshot)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- curated media diet construction
- implicit endorsement without personal accountability
- in-group supply maintenance via external authority validation
- epistemic closure reinforcement

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Ongoing Big Lie propagation sustains ideological infrastructure linked to January 6 insurrection
- Framing legal vindication as imminent may maintain mobilization potential among radicalized supporters
- Epistemic closure construction prevents reality correction that could de-escalate extremism
- Context: Enrique Tarrio sentencing (22 years for sedition) during same period underscores real-world consequences of this narrative ecosystem

### Gaslighting

- Sharing demonstrably false election claims as authoritative findings from credible sources
- Framing criminal prosecution as vindication opportunity without acknowledging the underlying legal reality
- Sustained propagation of claims rejected by 60+ courts, Republican election officials, and even partisan-commissioned audits
- Article directly inverts Cyber Ninjas audit findings, presenting the opposite of what the audit concluded

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> 92% national voter turnout in 2020 election

**FALSE**

Actual 2020 U.S. turnout was approximately 66.8% of voting-eligible population — highest since 1900 but nowhere near 92%.

Sources: U.S. Elections Project (Michael McDonald, University of Florida); Pew Research Center 2020 election analysis

> Arizona forensic audit found illegal votes exceeded Biden's margin fivefold

**FALSE**

The Cyber Ninjas audit (released September 2021) confirmed Biden won Arizona; Biden's certified margin held or slightly expanded. The article directly inverts the audit's own findings.

Sources: Arizona Senate Cyber Ninjas audit final report, September 2021; Arizona Secretary of State certification records

> Wisconsin Supreme Court deemed drop boxes illegal

**HALF TRUE**

Wisconsin Supreme Court did restrict future drop box use in a 2022 ruling, but did not retroactively invalidate cast ballots; no fraud was established and Biden's victory was certified.

Sources: Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2022

> Michigan: 800,000 ballots sent to non-qualified voters

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Refers to a Republican-commissioned report widely criticized by election experts; no evidence of fraudulent ballots cast; Michigan certified Biden's victory after audit and recount.

Sources: Michigan Senate Oversight Committee report, June 2021; Michigan Secretary of State audit findings

> Georgia's Raffensperger initially said there were not enough outstanding votes for Biden to win

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Raffensperger has consistently and repeatedly affirmed Georgia's election results across multiple recounts and audits. The cited quote is presented out of context and contradicted by the totality of Raffensperger's documented record.

Sources: Georgia Secretary of State official statements 2020-2023; Georgia hand recount results, November 2020

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Tags

- election-denial (95%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- url-only-post (100%)
- big-lie (90%)
- legal-defense-narrative (85%)
- epistemic-closure (85%)
- supply-maintenance (75%)
- narcissistic-injury-repair (80%)
- reality-distortion (85%)
- curated-media-cluster (90%)

## That day

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

**Aide-Managed Legal Firewall: A Defensive Day of Curated Counter-Narrative Following Georgia Arraignment**

A quiet day overall, dominated by a midday burst of nearly 20 shared articles -- almost all posted by staff within minutes of each other -- building a wall of favorable legal commentary and polling data. The few posts that were clearly Trump himself came late the night before and in the afternoon, covering sports, a sarcastic Biden earpiece claim, and an attack on CNN's economic polling. There was no anger spiral or emotional volatility; the mood stayed mostly self-congratulatory and defensive. The day's defining feature was the sheer volume of curated links aimed at reframing his legal situation as vindication rather than jeopardy.

Full digest for 2023-09-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 7). https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/t... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111024751941538428
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/trump_can_p..." Truth Social, 7 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111024751941538428. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/trump_can_p...," Truth Social, September 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111024751941538428.

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