# Post ts_111044661560455533

- Post ID: `ts_111044661560455533`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-11T04:37:47.352Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111044661560455533.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!” A MUST WATCH…

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:53), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> David's shown a lot of, in my view, very unethical conduct going down there in the Georgia case. First of all, the indictment. In Georgia, you can indict, the prosecutor can indict, or the grand jury can indict. But if you pick the grand jury, you've got to follow certain rules. So they published the indictment against Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants in the morning before the grand jury even shows up. Then the grand jury works into the night, and they indict these 19 defendants on exactly what was in the official court clerk's computer that morning. So the question is, to me, whether that grand jury actually met as a grand jury or this was really a prosecutor using the grand jury's dressing. And since they don't have secrecy rules there, it would be very easy for any defense counsel to question some of these grand jurors as to what took place to address what took place right out of the box, no? I think there ought to be a full investigation of what happened. You know, we heard two or three different excuses on how on earth the indictment appeared and was publicly posted on the docket before the grand jury concluded their deliberations. I've never heard of that in my life. There has to be an investigation. Otherwise, the grand jury process is meaningless. It's a constitutional process, so I don't think it should be meaningless. No, it's outrageous. There's so many issues that have to be raised there. And what did we also learn? This report was released and they recommended indicting three United States senators. Yeah, well, they finally released the rest of the report. Now, remember, this report is from this investigative grand jury, an unusual phenomenon that they have in Georgia. This is the grand jury in which the four person afterwards reported how unprofessional, frankly, her conduct and the others were during the course of it. It was a circus. But in any event, the report that was released on Friday actually recommended indicting a number of other people who were indicted. And those include Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Perdue, Senator Loeffler, Boris Epstein, and others. And so a decision was made, perhaps on a political level, not to indict them. But it's outrageous. I think it speaks volumes about exactly what the agenda was. The agenda was if someone comes in and associated with the Republican party or Donald Trump, indict them. Doesn't matter what the evidence was necessarily, to suggest that Lindsey Graham, for example, you know, committed some criminal act in Georgia strikes me as outrageous. But the other United States senators too, this was a way to use, again, the ultimate weaponization of the criminal justice process for partisan political purposes. Isn't the issue here, David, shown that if you're going to criminalize politics, then you are going to be indicting senators and congressmen and governors and state legislators and anybody else you can get your hand on if you're the prosecutor of the opposite party. Because now if you're lobbying, if you're speaking, if you're claiming there's false elections, if you want a separate sect of electors sent just so you can preserve your rights when it comes to the Electoral College, which we've done throughout American history. If you're going to turn all the politics, the rough and tumble, into a crime that an elected Democrat DA in a city that is heavily Democrat can use the criminal justice system, then you're going to be indicting 20 people, maybe all the Republicans who vote. Maybe they're part of RICO too. You never know. This is a real scam, isn't it? Yeah. And it's a complete abuse of our system and it's very dangerous for the future. But I think the ultimate point that supports your thesis, and you've made this point as effectively as anybody, is the current move around several states, not coincidentally which states, use the 14th to try to use section three of the 14th amendment to bar President Trump from the ballot. That's the ultimate use of state by state, partisan by partisan abuse of our electoral system and what the court in Reynolds versus Sims says, the essence of democratic society. Well, it's pretty funny at a base level, section three of the 14th amendment, the 14th amendment was ratified in 1868. The Congresses after the civil war didn't even believe in states rights after that point. They still, the North still had military presence, the army and states, unless those states capitulated to the North. And the idea that they would have said, you know what, boys, we want to allow every single state the power to keep anyone off the ballot. If according to that one person in the state or that state legislature says they committed acts of insurrection or sedition, they would never have handed power like that to the states. That's number one. Number two. We know what they meant by insurrection and sedition. They meant anyone who helped the Confederacy, period. That part of the 14th amendment died when the last Confederate died.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/044/659/321/597/703/original/d529fbeeb717630d.mp4

## Engagement

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- Reposts: 5,956
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:29:37.393Z (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 brief but rhetorically loaded late-night post (12:37 AM local time, consistent with authentic authorship) amplifying video content under the frame "ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!" The post arrives on the densest day of same-day posting in the sample — six posts collectively constructing a persecution narrative across multiple vectors (railroad job, unconstitutional trials, approval rating grandiosity). The subject is operating in a vulnerable narcissistic state under sustained legal exposure: Georgia arraignment, Meadows' transfer denial, and Tarrio's 22-year sentence had collectively demonstrated the viability of accountability proceedings against January 6 principals. The post's primary psychological mechanism is DARVO: the subject charged with electoral conspiracy reframes prosecutorial action as the actual electoral abuse, projecting his own alleged conduct onto the system that charged him. This semantic inversion is sophisticated — it conscripts the audience's existing electoral integrity schema and redirects it at a new target (the justice system) without requiring new evidence or argument. Danger level is elevated: while no explicit violence appears, sustained framing of the legal system as an electoral abuser positions prosecutors and judges as legitimate targets of popular resistance, contributing to a rhetorical ecosystem documented to precede violence against legal actors. Cognitive baseline is stable; the post is too brief for meaningful language analysis but shows no deviation from established patterns.

# Analysis: ts_111044661560455533 — "ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!" (2023-09-11)

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower in September 2023 (post-Georgia arraignment period, active campaign). UTC 04:37 converts to **12:37 AM EDT** — solidly within the late-night authentic posting window. The post displays classic authentic markers: ALL CAPS emotional charge, the idiomatic "A MUST WATCH…" with trailing ellipsis (a Trump signature), and extreme brevity that functions as an alarm-bell share rather than a crafted message. Confidence: **medium-high authentic**.

## Psychological State & Triggers

This post arrives in a densely adversarial legal context: Georgia arraignment (August 24), Meadows' federal transfer denied, Tarrio's 22-year sentence (which normalized prosecutorial success against January 6 defendants), and multiple simultaneous criminal proceedings. The cluster of same-day posts — "THIS IS A RAILROAD JOB," unconstitutional trial dates, approval ratings — reveals a subject cycling through **vulnerable narcissistic state** (victimized, persecuted) punctuated by grandiose reassertion ("90% approval").

The primary trigger is sustained **narcissistic injury**: legal accountability constitutes both public exposure and status defeat, the most destabilizing combination for malignant narcissistic structure. The "ABUSE" framing is a rapid externalization of shame — the legal process is not revealing wrongdoing but *committing* it. This is textbook DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender).

## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Projection (immature):** The subject was arraigned on charges of electoral conspiracy; the defense reframes institutional accountability as itself being the electoral abuse, displacing his own alleged conduct onto the prosecuting system.
2. **Denial (pathological):** "ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM" implicitly denies the underlying charges' legitimacy without engaging their substance.
3. **Splitting (immature):** The video is presented as a binary revelation — there is no complexity, only "MUST WATCH" evidence of abuse. The system is entirely corrupt; he is entirely wronged.
4. **Acting out (immature):** Late-night emotional broadcast rather than deliberative response.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The post is structurally minimalist but rhetorically loaded. "ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM" repurposes the grammar of electoral integrity — a phrase Trump's base associates with Democratic voter fraud narratives — and redirects it at the prosecution itself. This is a **semantic inversion** that conscripts the audience's existing grievance schema.

"A MUST WATCH…" deploys **urgency without argument**: the subject asserts epistemic authority (this matters, you must see it) without having to justify the claim. The attached video does the substantive work; Trump functions as the curator of outrage.

**Propagandistic mechanics:**
- *Appeal to authority by proxy:* the video provides external validation without Trump having to construct an argument
- *Presupposition:* "ABUSE" is stated as established fact, not contested interpretation
- *Parasocial urgency:* "MUST WATCH" creates an obligation relationship, binding the follower to consume and presumably share
- *9/11 date resonance:* posting on September 11 about "abuse" and existential threat to the American system may be coincidental, but the date carries associative weight for the audience about catastrophic attacks on American institutions

## Narrative Identity

This post is a brief instantiation of the **Victim-Warrior** compound archetype that dominates this period. The subject positions himself as the legitimate defender of the electoral system being attacked by the very system he claims to defend. The **Jungian Shadow** dynamic is particularly stark: the subject is facing charges of electoral subversion, yet projects the "electoral abuser" role entirely outward.

The **contamination sequence** is implicit: *the system was supposed to protect elections → it is now being weaponized to steal them*. This resonates with the broader narrative across same-day posts — the railroad job, unconstitutional trials, rigging — all fragments of a unified persecution mythology.

## Cognitive Assessment

The post is too brief for reliable cognitive inference. The ALL CAPS, ellipsis, and minimal prose are stylistically consistent with the 2020–2023 baseline. No word-finding difficulties, neologisms, or temporal confusion are detectable. **No meaningful deviation from established baseline.** Complexity score is intentionally minimal (video-share format), not indicative of cognitive degradation.

## Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** The post does not contain explicit violence or dehumanization, but contributes to a well-documented pattern: framing the legal accountability system as the perpetrator of electoral crime. When prosecutorial action is semantically reconstructed as "abuse of the electoral system," it positions law enforcement and the judiciary as legitimate targets of popular resistance. Over time, this language architecture creates permissive conditions for violence against legal actors. No single post constitutes stochastic terrorism here, but the cumulative rhetorical ecosystem does.

## Gaslighting

The post exemplifies **systemic DARVO**: the individual charged with electoral interference claims the prosecution is the actual electoral interference. This inverts documented reality and demands the audience accept the inversion as the price of in-group membership. It functions as an **epistemic closure mechanism** — those who accept the "abuse" framing cannot simultaneously credit the prosecution's legitimacy.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The criminal prosecutions constitute 'abuse of the electoral system'" | **Mostly False** | The Georgia prosecution followed a grand jury indictment on 13 specific felony charges related to alleged conspiracy to overturn certified election results. Federal and state prosecutions similarly originated from grand jury processes independent of electoral machinery. The characterization as 'abuse' is the subject's contested interpretation, not a finding of any court or independent body. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Local time 12:37 AM EDT — authentic late-night posting window
- ALL CAPS emotional charge consistent with authentic Trump style
- Idiomatic 'A MUST WATCH…' with trailing ellipsis is a recurring Trump signature phrase
- Extreme brevity characteristic of impulsive late-night shares
- No polished prose, no event announcement structure, no aide-typical formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Sustained legal exposure: Georgia arraignment, Meadows transfer denial, Tarrio sentencing normalizing accountability)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting U.S. legal/electoral system
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Late-night posting (12:37 AM local)
- Part of high-frequency same-day posting cluster (6+ posts)
- Alarm urgency ('MUST WATCH') without proportionate deliberation
- Consistent with broader period of elevated posting frequency under legal stress

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 48%
- Paranoid: 68%
- Sadism: 18%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- acting out (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Urgency directive ('MUST WATCH') creates obligation relationship with followers
- Curator-of-truth positioning: subject selects evidence followers must consume
- ALL CAPS performance of alarm binds audience emotional state to subject's framing
- Presuppositional 'ABUSE' demands followers accept characterization as entry fee to the exchange

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Framing criminal prosecution as 'ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM' positions judiciary and prosecutors as enemies of democracy, a precursor structure to targeting
- Part of same-day cluster of 6+ posts constructing a unified persecution narrative — cumulative rhetorical ecosystem elevates risk beyond individual post
- No dehumanization or explicit threat, but legitimization-of-resistance framing is present
- Tarrio's 22-year sentence context: audience is aware that prosecution of movement figures is producing severe outcomes, increasing emotional stakes

### Gaslighting

- Systemic DARVO: individual charged with electoral conspiracy claims the prosecution is the actual electoral abuse
- Presuppositional framing demands audience accept 'ABUSE' characterization as given, not contested
- Inverts documented reality (grand jury indictments on specific charges) and requires inversion's acceptance as in-group membership condition
- Contributes to epistemic closure: followers accepting 'abuse' frame cannot simultaneously evaluate prosecution's legitimacy

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The criminal prosecutions constitute 'abuse of the electoral system'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Georgia prosecution followed a grand jury indictment on 13 specific felony charges related to alleged conspiracy to overturn certified election results. Federal and state prosecutions similarly originated from grand jury processes independent of electoral machinery. The characterization as 'abuse' is the subject's contested interpretation, not a finding of any court or independent body.

Sources: Known events: Trump arraigned in Georgia election case, Fulton County; Known events: Meadows denied federal court transfer — Judge found actions were political not official duties

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- electoral-abuse-narrative (95%)
- DARVO (90%)
- vulnerable-narcissism (85%)
- video-amplification (80%)
- late-night-authentic (78%)
- legal-persecution-frame (92%)
- epistemic-closure (85%)
- presupposition (88%)
- schema-hijacking (75%)

## That day

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

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Legal Grievance Eclipses National Mourning in 18-Post Barrage**

Trump spent the 22nd anniversary of September 11 almost entirely consumed by his legal troubles and political attacks, offering only a single four-word memorial before pivoting to hours of grievance. A late-night burst of posts processing his Georgia indictment gave way to an aggressive afternoon session attacking Biden, Fox News, Republican rivals, and the justice system itself. The most alarming moment came when he framed immigration as an "invasion" destroying American cities, deploying dehumanizing language on the nation's most emotionally charged date. The day revealed how completely personal legal crisis had displaced any capacity for communal mourning or national reflection.

Full digest for 2023-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 11). “ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!” A MUST WATCH… [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044661560455533
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!” A MUST WATCH…" Truth Social, 11 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044661560455533. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“ABUSE OF OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM!” A MUST WATCH…," Truth Social, September 11, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111044661560455533.

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