# Post ts_111637698205111216

- Post ID: `ts_111637698205111216`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-24T22:14:48.409Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> WHY DID THE UNSELECT JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL HACKS & THUGS ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THEY USED TO WRITE THEIR FAKE REPORT. WHY DO THEY NOT SHOW THAT I USED THE WORDS “PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY” IN MY SPEECH? THEY ACTUALLY PRETENDED THAT THESE WORDS WERE NEVER UTTERED. CROOKED POLITICS!!!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:59:46.097Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Christmas Eve 2023, 5:14 PM at Mar-a-Lago: A fully authentic, high-intensity post constituting defensive narrative warfare in the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's 14th Amendment disqualification ruling. The ruling's direct reliance on January 6th as its factual predicate has reactivated Trump's perseverative "peacefully & patriotically" defensive schema — a fixed narrative present in his public statements since January 2021, now entering its third year without structural modification. The post's architecture is textbook DARVO: the committee (investigators) are recast as criminal actors who illegally destroyed evidence; Trump (the investigated) is recast as victim of evidentiary suppression. Both central factual claims are false or mostly false: the committee's 845-page report and voluminous public evidence contradict the "all evidence destroyed" claim, and the "peacefully & patriotically" phrase is documented in publicly available transcripts the committee explicitly engaged. Pathological defense mechanisms dominate: denial (rejecting the committee's institutional legitimacy wholesale), distortion (reshaping an investigation into a destruction conspiracy), and projection (attributing criminal conduct to investigators). The post carries elevated stochastic terrorism indicators: criminal accusations against identifiable political targets in a charged pre-election environment, using dehumanizing language ("THUGS") that reduces the cognitive barrier to hostility. No new cognitive deterioration markers beyond established baseline. Paranoid features are clinically notable — the assertion of active conspiratorial suppression of documented public record exceeds mere spin.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — December 24, 2023

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** Trump's canonical Christmas holiday location is Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL). EST = UTC−5. Post UTC timestamp 22:14 → **5:14 PM EST, Christmas Eve afternoon**. This falls within business hours, which would typically favor aide attribution, but the post's stylistic fingerprint overwhelmingly marks it as authentic Trump: persistent ALL CAPS, serial rhetorical questions, the neologism "UNSELECT," dehumanizing appellatives ("HACKS & THUGS"), terminal triple exclamation, stream-of-consciousness grievance architecture. The emotional tenor — raw, accusatory, unpolished — is inconsistent with Scavino-style formality. Verdict: **authentic, likely composed personally**, possibly while consuming holiday media coverage.

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## Psychological State & Triggers

The proximate trigger is the **Colorado Supreme Court's December 19 ruling** disqualifying Trump from the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause — a ruling that directly invokes January 6th as its factual predicate. This post is a defensive response to that existential legal-political threat: by attacking the credibility of the J6 Committee's evidentiary record, Trump pre-emptively destabilizes the factual foundation upon which 14th Amendment disqualification rests. The "peacefully & patriotically" grievance is well-worn, suggesting a rehearsed narrative rather than a novel emotional eruption, but the Colorado ruling has reinflamed it.

**Narcissistic state:** Mixed, leaning **vulnerable** — the grandiose register is present in the performative outrage, but the underlying theme is victimization, persecution, and evidentiary injustice. This is consistent with the post-Colorado ruling psychodynamic: Trump's sense of himself as rightful sovereign is under direct institutional challenge.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

- **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Dominant. Sustained ALL CAPS throughout the entire post is a text-analytic marker of emotional dysregulation. The intensity cannot be dismissed as stylistic convention given its totality.
- **Agreeableness (reverse):** Extremely low. "POLITICAL HACKS & THUGS" — categorical dehumanization of political adversaries, zero attribution of legitimacy.
- **Conscientiousness (deliberation):** Absent. No hedging, no acknowledgment of counterargument, no qualification. Impulsive structure.
- **Openness (rigidity):** Low. Closed epistemic frame: the committee is entirely corrupt, the evidence entirely fabricated, the conclusion entirely predetermined.
- **Extraversion (assertiveness):** High. Projecting dominance and certainty through typographic amplification.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives** dominate: the post is fundamentally about *control of the historical record* and *restoration of narrative sovereignty* over January 6th. Trump cannot accept that an institutional body defined the authoritative account of that day; this post is an attempt to nullify that account post hoc.

**Schema:** Self = wronged truth-teller whose exculpatory evidence was criminally suppressed. Other (Committee) = criminal conspirators masquerading as investigators. World = rigged system where institutional processes are weaponized against him.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Persecuted truth-teller / political martyr
- **Contamination sequence:** A legitimate presidency → criminally framed by a corrupt committee
- **Identity claims:** "I used the words 'peacefully & patriotically'" — the entire post is an identity-defense, asserting that his *actual words* were suppressed to construct a false identity as insurrectionist
- **Contrasting other:** The "UNSELECT" committee — note the neologism here. "UNSELECT" is a portmanteau of "unelected" + "Select" (committee name), asserting illegitimacy through linguistic deformation. This is creative at the lexical level but functions as a delegitimization device.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism Assessment:**

- *Narcissistic features:* Strong. The post presupposes that the committee's primary purpose was to harm Trump specifically; the grandiosity is implicit — the entire machinery of Congress, he implies, was oriented around falsifying *his* record.
- *Antisocial features:* Present in the accusation of criminal conduct without supporting evidence ("ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY").
- *Paranoid features:* Marked. The claim that the committee not only misrepresented his speech but "ACTUALLY PRETENDED THAT THESE WORDS WERE NEVER UTTERED" is a persecution narrative asserting active conspiratorial suppression.
- *Ego-syntonic sadism:* Minimal in this post — the focus is grievance, not pleasure in others' suffering.

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- *Denial (pathological):* Refusal to engage with the committee's substantive findings; wholesale rejection of the evidentiary process itself.
- *Distortion (pathological):* Reshaping reality — characterizing a congressional investigation as a criminal conspiracy to destroy evidence.
- *Projection (immature):* Attributing criminality ("ILLEGALLY DELETE") to the committee while his own conduct on January 6th is the subject of investigation.
- *Splitting (immature):* Zero nuance — committee = entirely corrupt, his speech = entirely peaceful, politics = entirely crooked.

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## Cognitive Status

**Neologism:** "UNSELECT" — creative portmanteau, but within Trump's established rhetorical pattern (cf. "Sleepy Joe," "Crooked Hillary"). This does not rise to the level of a pathological neologism; it is a deliberate coinages functioning as a delegitimization device.

**Perseveration:** The "peacefully & patriotically" grievance is a well-documented Trump perseveration — he has returned to this specific phrase repeatedly since 2021. Its recurrence here in late 2023 is consistent with perseverative retrieval of a fixed defensive narrative.

**Complexity:** Low. Two interrogative sentences followed by a short declarative and a two-word epithet. Syntactic simplicity is within Trump's baseline range for emotional posts. No word-finding difficulty, phonemic paraphasia, or temporal confusion observed.

**Baseline comparison note:** Trump's 1980s-era interviews (Donahue, Oprah, Playboy) demonstrate significantly greater syntactic complexity and vocabulary range. That longitudinal decline is well-documented and consistent with research on political speech degradation over time, though this post alone is insufficient to draw new conclusions.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **ALL CAPS amplification:** Typographic substitute for vocal intensity; creates impression of urgency and outrage
- **Serial rhetorical questions:** Classic Socratic inversion — used here not to invite reflection but to assert conclusions as self-evident
- **Ad hominem:** "POLITICAL HACKS & THUGS" — attacking persons, not arguments
- **Delegitimizing epithet:** "UNSELECT" — denies the committee's institutional standing through lexical deformation
- **Hyperbole:** "ALL OF THE EVIDENCE" — totalizing language that forecloses nuance
- **Reality distortion (RAND Firehose model):** Asserting a claim ("pretended these words were never uttered") that is straightforwardly contradicted by the public record
- **DARVO:** Deny (I was peaceful) + Attack (committee is criminal) + Reverse Victim and Offender (they are the lawbreakers, not me)

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The claim that the committee "pretended these words were never uttered" is demonstrably false: the phrase "peacefully and patriotically" appears in the publicly available transcript of Trump's January 6th speech, was discussed by witnesses, and appeared in committee materials. The committee's argument was about contextual framing, not suppression of the phrase's existence. Trump's formulation here inverts this: it transforms the committee's *interpretation* of the full speech into a conspiracy to *erase specific exculpatory words*. This is gaslighting at the institutional level — an attempt to convince followers that documented public record does not exist.

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## Danger Assessment

The post identifies specific political actors ("POLITICAL HACKS & THUGS" — functionally the named committee members) and accuses them of **criminal conduct** ("ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY"). This pattern — target identification + criminal grievance articulation — carries **stochastic terrorism indicators** in that it provides rhetorical permission structures for followers who may act on perceived injustice against Trump. The language does not cross into explicit eliminationism, but the pattern of repeated criminal accusations against named (or nameable) political opponents has a documented relationship to the threat environment faced by J6 Committee members, several of whom required security detail following prior Trump posts. Rating: **elevated**.

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## Summary

Christmas Eve 2023, 5:14 PM at Mar-a-Lago: Trump posts a fully authentic, emotionally dysregulated attack on the January 6th Committee in the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's 14th Amendment disqualification ruling. The post is psychodynamically legible as a narcissistic injury response — the Colorado ruling's reliance on January 6th as its factual predicate has reactivated Trump's established perseverative defense around the "peacefully & patriotically" phrase. The core rhetorical move is DARVO: the committee, not Trump, is the criminal actor; the evidence, not Trump's conduct, was destroyed. Key clinical observations: ego-syntonic paranoid projection (criminal accusations against investigators), pathological distortion (asserting the phrase was erased from the public record), and a fixed perseverative narrative that has remained structurally unchanged since January 2021. The neologism "UNSELECT" represents creative delegitimization rather than a cognitive production error. Danger level is elevated: repeated criminal accusations against identifiable political targets in a charged pre-election environment constitute a stochastic terrorism risk pattern, though no explicit incitement is present. No new cognitive deterioration markers beyond established baseline patterns observed.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The January 6th Committee illegally deleted and destroyed all of the evidence they used to write their report" | **Mostly False** | House Republicans alleged in early 2023 that committee staff deleted files from House servers before the Republican majority took over. These claims were investigated but disputed. Critically, the committee transferred records to the National Archives as required by the Presidential Records Act framework. The committee's final report, 845 pages, and voluminous supporting evidence remain publicly available. The claim that 'ALL' evidence was destroyed is factually impossible given the published report's existence. Republican allegations concerned specific server files, not the totality of the evidentiary record. |
| "Trump used the words 'peacefully and patriotically' in his January 6th speech" | **True** | Trump did state in his Ellipse speech on January 6, 2021: 'I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.' This is documented in the publicly available transcript of the speech. |
| "The January 6th Committee 'pretended that these words were never uttered'" | **Mostly False** | The phrase 'peacefully and patriotically' appears in publicly available transcripts discussed by witnesses and committee members. The committee's argument was about the totality and context of Trump's speech — including statements like 'fight like hell' — not that the phrase did not exist. Multiple committee presentations acknowledged the phrase while arguing it was insufficient to override the broader incitement context. The committee did not 'pretend' the words were never uttered; it disputed their exculpatory weight. |

Overall Veracity: 47%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 87%)

### Indicators

- Persistent ALL CAPS throughout entire post — characteristic authentic Trump typographic marker
- Neologism 'UNSELECT' consistent with Trump's documented pattern of delegitimizing epithets (Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary)
- Serial rhetorical questions without structured argumentation — stream-of-consciousness structure
- Terminal 'CROOKED POLITICS!!!' — emotional epithet ending with triple exclamation, consistent with authentic Trump signature
- 5:14 PM EST on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago — business hours but holiday schedule reduces aide availability; stylistic evidence overrides timing signal

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Colorado Supreme Court 14th Amendment disqualification ruling (December 19, 2023))

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting January 6th Select Committee members
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.88

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- ALL CAPS throughout entire post — sustained typographic intensity marker
- Triple exclamation points at close
- Elevated emotional pressure without apparent precipitating event beyond the ongoing (week-old) Colorado ruling — suggests ruminative activation rather than acute response

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 72%
- Sadism: 18%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance construction — inviting audience to experience committee as *their* enemy
- Rhetorical questions that presuppose the audience shares the indignation
- Reality distortion as loyalty test — accepting the 'PRETENDED' claim requires rejecting documented public record

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

**Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected**

### Indicators

- Specific political target identification: January 6th Committee members characterized as criminal 'THUGS' — functionally names and condemns a specific group of identifiable individuals
- Criminal accusation without basis ('ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY') provides rhetorical permission structure for followers inclined toward retributive action
- Pattern of repeated criminal accusations against J6 Committee members has documented relationship to the threat environment those members experienced post-January 6th
- Dehumanizing language ('THUGS') reduces cognitive barrier to hostility toward targets

### Gaslighting

- Asserting the 'peacefully & patriotically' phrase was erased from the record when it appears in publicly available transcripts — transforms interpretive disagreement into suppression conspiracy
- DARVO structure: committee (investigators) recast as criminals; Trump (investigated) recast as victim
- Criminal accusation framing ('ILLEGALLY DELETE') without evidentiary basis — demands followers accept unverifiable claim as fact
- Institutional delegitimization ('UNSELECT') as precondition for rejecting the committee's findings — epistemic closure device

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> The January 6th Committee illegally deleted and destroyed all of the evidence they used to write their report

**MOSTLY FALSE**

House Republicans alleged in early 2023 that committee staff deleted files from House servers before the Republican majority took over. These claims were investigated but disputed. Critically, the committee transferred records to the National Archives as required by the Presidential Records Act framework. The committee's final report, 845 pages, and voluminous supporting evidence remain publicly available. The claim that 'ALL' evidence was destroyed is factually impossible given the published report's existence. Republican allegations concerned specific server files, not the totality of the evidentiary record.

Sources: House Administration Oversight Subcommittee (2023); National Archives transfer documentation; J6 Committee Final Report (publicly available)

> Trump used the words 'peacefully and patriotically' in his January 6th speech

**TRUE**

Trump did state in his Ellipse speech on January 6, 2021: 'I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.' This is documented in the publicly available transcript of the speech.

Sources: White House archived transcript; Congressional Record; Multiple media transcriptions

> The January 6th Committee 'pretended that these words were never uttered'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The phrase 'peacefully and patriotically' appears in publicly available transcripts discussed by witnesses and committee members. The committee's argument was about the totality and context of Trump's speech — including statements like 'fight like hell' — not that the phrase did not exist. Multiple committee presentations acknowledged the phrase while arguing it was insufficient to override the broader incitement context. The committee did not 'pretend' the words were never uttered; it disputed their exculpatory weight.

Sources: J6 Committee Final Report; Committee hearing transcripts; Witness testimony records

Overall Veracity: 47%

## Tags

- january-6-defensiveness (95%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (88%)
- colorado-14th-amendment-reaction (82%)
- darvo (90%)
- institutional-delegitimization (85%)
- gaslighting (83%)
- perseveration (75%)
- stochastic-terrorism-indicator (65%)
- authentic-authorship (87%)
- all-caps-dysregulation (90%)

## That day

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

**Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago: Holiday Cheer Dissolves Into Escalating Legal Rage Spiral**

Trump spent Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago oscillating between holiday pleasantries and intense legal grievances. The morning started with a defensive post about presidential immunity, followed by a midday stretch of "Merry Christmas" and flattering article shares. But by late afternoon, the dam broke: three rapid-fire posts of escalating fury targeting Jack Smith, the January 6th Committee, and the Colorado Supreme Court's ballot disqualification ruling. The rage built noticeably across the trio, culminating in an all-caps grievance cascade before a final poll share cooled things down. The day's arc was unmistakably shaped by legal pressure — the Colorado ruling and the immunity appeal filed days earlier clearly weighed on him even as he tried to project holiday normalcy.

Full digest for 2023-12-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 24). WHY DID THE UNSELECT JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE OF... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637698205111216
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "WHY DID THE UNSELECT JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL..." Truth Social, 24 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637698205111216. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "WHY DID THE UNSELECT JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL...," Truth Social, December 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111637698205111216.

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