# Post ts_111610417836006360 - Post ID: `ts_111610417836006360` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-20T02:37:03.013Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610417836006360 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610417836006360/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111610417836006360.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Gregg Jarrett: “This is ELECTION RIGGING…This is an effort, make no mistake, to deprive American voters of their right to make the decision as to who should be president. It is anti-democratic. It’s the equivalent of rigging the ballot box.” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:52), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Yeah, this is election rigging, Kayleigh. It was a narrow four to three decision. It will almost certainly, in my judgment, be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court because the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment, as you point out, don't apply to the facts here. It was intended to prevent Confederates who literally took up arms against the government during the Civil War from holding office. So you fast forward now 150 years, roughly. And Donald Trump is not even accused of insurrection under the federal statute. And if evidence supported that, surely Jack Smith, the special counsel, would have charged him with it. So to remove Trump from the ballot for an offense that he hasn't even been tried or convicted of, what is that? Well, that's violating his right to due process, which just happens to be guaranteed by the very amendment, the 14th, and elsewhere in the Constitution. But, you know, there's another factor here, Kayleigh. You know, this is a lawyer under past Supreme Court rulings. The language used in the insurrection clause doesn't apply to the office of president or anybody running for it. Colorado officials here have, I think, brazenly manipulated the clause for purely political reasons. Another example of election interference by Trump opponents. This is an effort, make no mistake, to deprive American voters of their right to make the decision as to who should be president. It is anti-democratic. It's the equivalent of rigging the ballot box, and it will surely be seen that way only in flaming voters and I think boosting support for the former president. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/610/417/730/844/222/original/8a0c2320e00ceabf.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 18,951 - Reposts: 5,571 - Replies: 814 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:49:16.506Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary The December 19, 2023 Gregg Jarrett quote-post represents a clinically significant DARVO response to a severe narcissistic injury: the Colorado Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling that Trump engaged in insurrection and is constitutionally disqualified from the primary ballot. The post's central psychological maneuver — reframing constitutional enforcement of anti-insurrection provisions as itself constituting election rigging — inverts the factual structure entirely. The entity found to have engaged in election interference casts the legal remedy as election interference, deploying a trusted surrogate voice to lend authority to the inversion. Embedded within a dense cluster of reactive evening posts, this reflects coordinated narcissistic rage management: raw emotion in some posts, institutional delegitimization through proxy here. Defense mechanisms operating simultaneously include pathological distortion, denial, and projection of Trump's documented election-interference conduct onto the courts. The 'rigging the ballot box' framing applies the Stop the Steal schema not to the 2020 election but to constitutional law itself — an escalation in institutional delegitimization with documented antecedents in January 6 mobilization dynamics. Danger level: elevated. # Post Analysis: ts_111610417836006360 — December 19, 2023 (9:37 PM ET) ## Contextual Frame This post arrives within hours of the Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling (December 19, 2023) disqualifying Trump from the state's primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — the first such ruling in U.S. history and one of the most significant legal threats to his candidacy. The post is a verbatim quote from Fox News commentator Gregg Jarrett, embedded within a dense cluster of reactive posts from the same evening. It functions as surrogate amplification: Trump deploys a trusted media ally to voice what he wants said, lending institutional credibility while maintaining rhetorical distance. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time**: UTC 02:37:03 → **9:37 PM Eastern** (Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago in December; EST applies). This is an evening post — not the deep-night (11 PM–4 AM) window most associated with raw authentic Trump posts, but not standard business hours either. The format — verbatim quoting a Fox News personality with a paired video clip — is a signature Trump behavior, frequently executed without aide mediation. However, the surrounding post cluster is illuminating: concurrent posts include raw ALL-CAPS emotional proclamations ("IT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY, AT ALL…") and links to right-wing media articles, suggesting a reactive posting session that mixes self-composed outbursts with amplification of friendly media. The Jarrett quote may represent a slightly more considered selection — possibly aide-curated — inserted between Trump's own raw posts. Confidence is medium given the mixed signals. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger: Narcissistic Injury (Defeat Variant) The Colorado ruling represents a convergence of multiple narcissistic injury vectors simultaneously: (1) legal defeat and exposure as constitutionally disqualified; (2) public humiliation — the first American to be removed from a presidential ballot for insurrection in U.S. history; (3) loss of control over his own electoral fate; (4) unfavorable comparison (other candidates face no such barrier). The injury magnitude is substantial — among the most severe possible short of criminal conviction — and the reactive posting volume this evening reflects proportional destabilization. ### Narcissistic State: Mixed (Vulnerable/Grandiose Oscillation) The Jarrett quote projects grandiosity through scale-inflation ("American voters," "the decision as to who should be president," "anti-democratic"), casting Trump not as an individual facing legal consequences but as the vessel through which all democratic legitimacy flows. Simultaneously, the framing is deeply victimized: he is being *deprived*, *rigged against*, *targeted*. This rapid oscillation between grandiose self-casting (savior of democracy) and vulnerable self-casting (persecuted martyr) is characteristic of narcissistic injury response. ### DARVO in Clinical Detail The most clinically significant feature of this post is its inversion structure. Trump was found, by a court applying constitutional law, to have **engaged in insurrection** — an act directed at overturning the 2020 election. The 14th Amendment Section 3 disqualification mechanism was specifically designed (post-Civil War) to prevent insurrectionists from holding office. The post — via Jarrett — reframes this constitutional enforcement as itself constituting *election rigging* and *deprivation of democratic rights*. This is DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) operating at a sophisticated rhetorical level: - **Deny**: No acknowledgment that any court finding has legitimacy - **Attack**: The court/process itself becomes the criminal ("rigging," "anti-democratic") - **Reverse Victim and Offender**: The insurrectionist becomes the victim of election interference; the constitutional remedy becomes the crime ### Defense Mechanisms **Distortion (pathological)**: The constitutional application of Section 3 is recast as "rigging the ballot box" — a gross reshaping of reality that inverts the legal/factual structure entirely. **Denial (pathological)**: The court ruling is treated as having zero legitimacy — not as a legal finding requiring rebuttal but as a conspiratorial act to be denounced. **Projection (immature)**: Trump's documented effort to overturn the 2020 election (the predicate for disqualification) is projected onto the court: *they* are doing what *he* did — rigging elections. **Displacement (neurotic)**: Jarrett as surrogate absorbs the raw expression; Trump displaces through the proxy voice rather than expressing directly in this particular post. ### Paranoid Features "Make no mistake" and the framing of the ruling as a coordinated "effort" to deny voters their rights reflects paranoid ideation: the court is not applying law but executing a targeted conspiracy. This aligns with established paranoid features in Trump's pattern — preoccupation with perceived attacks, rapid counterattack, bearing of institutional grudges. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Surrogate voice / authority lending**: Quoting a recognized Fox News legal commentator lends pseudo-authoritative framing to claims that would appear nakedly self-serving from Trump directly. **False dichotomy**: Voters vs. unelected actors; democracy vs. the courts — erasing the constitutional grounding of judicial review. **Loaded language**: "Rigging the ballot box" is maximally charged political language; it activates the pre-existing Stop the Steal schema in the audience. **Hyperbole and totalism**: "Make no mistake," "ultimate" (in surrounding posts), "equivalent of rigging the ballot box" — superlative framing that forecloses nuance. **RAND Firehose dynamics (within the evening cluster)**: This post is one of multiple simultaneous messages — right-wing media links, emotional proclamations, a surrogate quote — flooding the zone with coordinated reality-framing. No single post is refuted; the volume itself overwhelms. **Appeal to democratic legitimacy**: Rhetorically sophisticated inversion — invoking "democratic" values to resist the application of a democratically-enacted constitutional provision. --- ## Cognitive Status This post is a verbatim quote and therefore does not permit direct assessment of Trump's cognitive production. Surrounding posts from the evening ("IT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY, AT ALL…"; "Tonight, America is seeing the ultimate—in ELECTION INTERFERENCE") show emotionally reactive but syntactically simple expression consistent with Trump's established baseline under stress. No clear deviation from baseline is detected in available material. Baseline comparison requires the established 1980s-2000s interview archive. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The post's core move — reframing a constitutional disqualification as ballot-box rigging — constitutes deliberate reality distortion targeting the audience's epistemology. It attacks the legitimacy of the fact-producing institution (the court) rather than engaging its findings, and demands acceptance of an inverted reality as a condition of in-group membership. The parallel posts amplifying allied media (The Blaze, RSB Network) reinforce epistemic closure: only approved sources correctly perceive reality. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated.** The "ELECTION RIGGING" and "rigging the ballot box" framing — applied to a constitutional court ruling — intensifies the pre-existing narrative that opponents are *illegitimately* stealing democracy through institutional capture. This framing has documented historical antecedents in the January 6 mobilization dynamic: grievance (election stolen) + identified agents (courts/Democrats/establishment) + moral urgency ("make no mistake") = priming conditions for extralegal response. No direct incitement is present in this post, but within the context of Trump's aggregate messaging pattern and the January 6 precedent, this type of institutional delegitimization language carries elevated risk. Not stochastic terrorism by itself; part of a sustained delegitimization campaign. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "This is ELECTION RIGGING" | **False** | The Colorado Supreme Court applied 14th Amendment Section 3 through a judicial proceeding with full due process. No evidence of fraud, tampering, or illegal interference — the defining characteristics of election rigging. | | "effort to deprive American voters of their right to make the decision as to who should be president" | **Mostly False** | The 14th Amendment disqualification provision was ratified in 1868 and explicitly removes the popular vote as determinative for constitutionally disqualified individuals. Courts applying this provision enforce, not subvert, the constitutional democratic order. | | "It is anti-democratic" | **Mostly False** | Constitutional provisions enforced through judicial review are products of the democratic constitutional order. The characterization ignores that the 14th Amendment was itself democratically ratified. | | "equivalent of rigging the ballot box" | **False** | Ballot rigging involves fraud or illegal interference with vote counts. A judicial ruling applying constitutional disqualification criteria is categorically and legally distinct. | Overall Veracity: 10% ## Summary The December 19, 2023 Gregg Jarrett quote-post represents a clinically significant DARVO response to a severe narcissistic injury: the Colorado Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling that Trump engaged in insurrection and is constitutionally disqualified from the primary ballot. The post's central psychological maneuver — reframing constitutional enforcement of anti-insurrection provisions as itself constituting election rigging — inverts the factual structure entirely. The entity found to have engaged in election interference casts the legal remedy as election interference, deploying a trusted surrogate voice to lend authority to the inversion. Embedded within a dense cluster of reactive evening posts (ALL-CAPS emotional proclamations, allied media amplification, victim framing), this post reflects coordinated narcissistic rage management: raw emotion expressed directly in some posts, institutional delegitimization expressed through proxy in this one. Defense mechanisms operating simultaneously include pathological distortion, denial, and projection of Trump's documented election-interference conduct onto the courts. The RAND Firehose volume strategy — multiple simultaneous posts flooding the zone — prevents sustained audience engagement with any single factual claim. The "rigging the ballot box" framing is historically significant: it applies the Stop the Steal schema not to the 2020 election but to constitutional law itself, representing an escalation in institutional delegitimization that primes audiences for extralegal responses. Danger level: elevated. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 45%) ### Indicators - 9:37 PM Eastern — evening post, not deep-night authentic window but not business hours - Verbatim quote from Fox News personality with paired video clip — signature Trump amplification behavior - Surrounded by raw ALL-CAPS self-composed posts suggesting reactive posting session - Quote selection may be aide-curated within a broader Trump-driven reactive cluster - Format (media quote + video) frequently used by both Trump and Scavino ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 ruling removing Trump from primary ballot under 14th Amendment Section 3) **Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting Colorado Supreme Court / Democratic legal apparatus / institutional establishment - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.78 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated posting volume across single evening (multiple posts within short window) - Racing-quality thought across the concurrent post cluster - Urgency and totalism across posts ('ultimate,' 'make no mistake') - Reactive intensity disproportionate to deliberative engagement ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 87% - Antisocial: 52% - Paranoid: 78% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - denial (pathological) - projection (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 50% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Surrogate voice lending (Jarrett as trusted authority proxy) - Zone flooding across concurrent posts to prevent fact-engagement - Shared victimhood framing ('American voters' as collective injured party) - Epistemic closure reinforcement through allied media amplification ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - 'Rigging the ballot box' framing applies Stop the Steal schema to constitutional law, extending grievance narrative to all institutional opposition - Institutional delegitimization of the judiciary as criminal actor — removes constitutional constraint from the category of legitimate authority - Moral urgency framing ('make no mistake') forecloses deliberation and primes reactive response - Pattern within the evening cluster constitutes RAND Firehose zone-flooding that prevents fact-based rebuttal - Historical precedent: similar institutional delegitimization rhetoric preceded January 6 mobilization ### Gaslighting - Denial of court ruling legitimacy without engaging any of its factual findings - DARVO: insurrectionist recast as victim of election interference; constitutional remedy recast as crime - Attacks on fact-producing institution (court) rather than engaging its findings - Demands audience accept inverted reality (constitutional law = ballot rigging) as condition of in-group membership - Rapid revisionism: established constitutional provision treated as novel conspiratorial innovation ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > This is ELECTION RIGGING **FALSE** The Colorado Supreme Court applied 14th Amendment Section 3 through a judicial proceeding with full due process. No evidence of fraud, tampering, or illegal interference — the defining characteristics of election rigging. Sources: Colorado Supreme Court ruling, December 19, 2023 (4-3) > effort to deprive American voters of their right to make the decision as to who should be president **MOSTLY FALSE** The 14th Amendment disqualification provision was ratified in 1868 and explicitly removes the popular vote as determinative for constitutionally disqualified individuals. Courts applying this provision enforce, not subvert, the constitutional democratic order. Sources: U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment Section 3 (1868) > It is anti-democratic **MOSTLY FALSE** Constitutional provisions enforced through judicial review are products of the democratic constitutional order. The characterization ignores that the 14th Amendment was itself democratically ratified. > equivalent of rigging the ballot box **FALSE** Ballot rigging involves fraud or illegal interference with vote counts. A judicial ruling applying constitutional disqualification criteria is categorically and legally distinct. Overall Veracity: 10% ## Tags - Colorado Supreme Court (95%) - 14th Amendment Section 3 (90%) - ballot disqualification (90%) - DARVO (92%) - narcissistic injury (90%) - election rigging narrative (95%) - surrogate amplification (80%) - institutional delegitimization (88%) - Stop the Steal schema extension (85%) - RAND Firehose (75%) - Gregg Jarrett (70%) - zone flooding (72%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Colorado Ballot Ruling Triggers All-Day Narcissistic Crisis: Rage Cascades, Surrogate Validators, and a Lincoln Delusion** Trump spent the day consumed by the Colorado Supreme Court's historic ruling removing him from the state's primary ballot — the first such decision in American history. His evening and early morning posts swung between raw emotional outbursts and curated media clips attacking the court, culminating in a demand that Biden drop all criminal and civil cases. By afternoon, aides shifted the feed toward favorable polling numbers to stabilize the narrative. The day closed with Trump comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, falsely claiming Democrats similarly blocked Lincoln from the ballot in 1860 — a historically inaccurate parallel that captured the blend of grandiosity and grievance defining the entire day. Full digest for 2023-12-20: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 20). Gregg Jarrett: “This is ELECTION RIGGING…This is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610417836006360 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Gregg Jarrett: “This is ELECTION RIGGING…This is an effort,..." Truth Social, 20 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111610417836006360. 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