# Post ts_111721523331096704

- Post ID: `ts_111721523331096704`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-01-08T17:32:38.250Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111721523331096704
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111721523331096704/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-now-theres-proof-brad-raffensperger-lied-president/

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,262
- Reposts: 3,892
- Replies: 402
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.379Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T16:03:12.027Z (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 share of Gateway Pundit content alleging "proof" Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger lied to Trump — published on the third anniversary of January 6 while Biden delivered his Valley Forge democracy speech. Authorship is almost certainly aide-managed: 12:32 PM local time, no personal text, part of a five-link coordinated same-day cluster. The post's psychological significance lies in context: counter-programming against the Jan 6 anniversary narrative, pre-trial witness discrediting in the active Georgia RICO case, and base activation ahead of Iowa caucuses. Defense mechanisms include DARVO (recasting the documented Trump pressure call so Raffensperger becomes the deceiver), projection, and rationalization via partisan affidavit from True the Vote — an organization whose methodology courts have repeatedly rejected. Danger level is elevated: Raffensperger has prior documented death threats from this same narrative ecosystem; framing him as a "proven liar who deceived the president" to a primed audience on January 6's anniversary constitutes a stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern. No explicit incitement is present.

## Post Analysis: ts_111721523331096704\
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### Overview\
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This post consists solely of a URL to a Gateway Pundit article (dated December 2023) headlined: *"BREAKING NOW: There's Proof Brad Raffensperger Lied to President."* The article alleges that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger knowingly misled Trump during their January 2, 2021 phone call by denying election irregularities — citing a Catherine Engelbrecht (True the Vote) affidavit claiming 67,284 votes were cast by ineligible registrants, and a purported December 2020 meeting where Raffensperger acknowledged voter roll concerns. There is no accompanying personal text from the poster.\
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### Authorship Attribution\
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**Determination:** Likely aide-posted (high confidence)\
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The UTC timestamp 17:32:38 converts to approximately **12:32 PM EST** — consistent with Mar-a-Lago, Florida (Trump's typical January location). This is squarely business hours, a strong indicator of staff-managed posting. The post is a bare URL with zero personal commentary, no capitalization eruptions, no typos, and no emotional affect markers — hallmarks of aide-curated content. It appears as part of a coordinated cluster of five links posted January 8, all themed around ballot challenges and Raffensperger, suggesting deliberate communications strategy rather than impulsive authentic posting.\
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The selection of content almost certainly reflects Trump's known preoccupations and directive intent. Staff executed; the grievance architecture is authentically his.\
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### Context and Trigger\
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This post lands on the **third anniversary of January 6, 2021** — the same day President Biden delivered his Valley Forge democracy speech labeling Trump a would-be \\"dictator on Day 1.\\" The cluster of Raffensperger-targeted posts functions as **counter-programming**: while Biden invoked January 6 as evidence of Trump's danger to democracy, Trump's communications apparatus flooded Truth Social with content alleging the real wrongdoers were officials like Raffensperger who \\"lied\\" about 2020.\
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The **ongoing Georgia RICO case** provides a second trigger. Raffensperger is both potential witness and the official who documented Trump's request to \\"find 11,780 votes.\\" Discrediting him as a liar serves direct legal-strategic interests. With the **Iowa caucuses one week away**, the stolen-election narrative was also being refreshed for a primary audience.\
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### Psychological Analysis\
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**Trigger:** Composite — narcissistic injury (Biden speech, Jan 6 anniversary, active prosecution) + preemptive legal defense + supply-seeking (base affirmation of stolen-election narrative)\
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**Narcissistic State:** Vulnerable-reactive. The cluster of posts radiates siege mentality rather than grandiosity — each link reinforces a persecution narrative in which Trump is victim of a corrupt system, with Raffensperger as proximate villain.\
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**Defense Mechanisms:**\
- **DARVO:** Most prominent. The phone call in which Trump pressured Raffensperger to manufacture votes is reframed so that Raffensperger becomes the deceiver and Trump the deceived victim.\
- **Projection:** Trump's documented request to falsify vote counts is displaced onto Raffensperger, cast as the one falsifying electoral reality.\
- **Denial:** The well-documented, court-validated, multi-recount Georgia results are implicitly denied by amplifying fringe claims of 67,284 ineligible votes.\
- **Rationalization:** A True the Vote affidavit — from an organization whose methodology courts have repeatedly rejected — is presented as \\"proof,\\" providing pseudo-logical cover for rejection of consensus reality.\
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**Antisocial features:** Using communications apparatus to discredit a witness in an active criminal case.\
**Paranoid features:** Sustained preoccupation with a named individual (Raffensperger) as conspiratorial actor, consistent with chronic grudge-bearing.\
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### Rhetorical Analysis\
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The post's rhetorical force is delivered entirely through the Gateway Pundit headline:\
- **False urgency:** \\"BREAKING NOW\\" applied to a weeks-old article, now recirculated on a psychologically charged date.\
- **Epistemic finality:** \\"There's Proof\\" forecloses inquiry — believers are given permission to treat contested partisan claims as settled fact.\
- **Laundering via intermediary:** Sharing rather than asserting directly; plausible deniability while ensuring base exposure.\
- **RAND Firehose model:** One of five links on the same day — volume and repetition over depth, flooding the epistemic environment.\
- **False dichotomy:** Either Raffensperger is an honest official or a liar who betrayed the president — no middle ground of judgment error or methodological dispute.\
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### Gaslighting and Reality Distortion\
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Amplifying \\"proof\\" that Raffensperger lied constitutes a reality distortion operation: the January 2, 2021 phone call is a released, documented recording in which Trump is heard asking Raffensperger to \\"find\\" votes. Recasting this encounter so Raffensperger becomes the deceiver inverts the documented record — textbook gaslighting requiring followers to reject observable evidence in favor of in-group truth.\
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### Danger Assessment\
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**Level: Elevated**\
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Brad Raffensperger and his family received documented death threats in 2020-2021 originating from the same stolen-election narrative ecosystem now being reactivated. Labeling him a \\"proven liar who deceived the president\\" — on January 6's anniversary, to an audience with demonstrated capacity for political violence — constitutes a stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern: named target + reactivated grievance through a platform primed for extremist engagement. The word \\"proof\\" is particularly activating: it suggests prior restraint was premature and that renewed anger is justified. The post does not rise to **high** because it lacks explicit incitement, violent imagery, or a direct call to action.\
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### Cognitive Status\
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A bare URL post offers no linguistic content to evaluate for cognitive markers. No assessment is possible from this data point.\
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### Longitudinal Pattern\
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Consistent with sustained multi-year obsession with Raffensperger as a betrayal figure. The repetition across a single day mirrors posting patterns seen throughout 2021–2023 whenever Georgia proceedings intensified. Pattern is **stable** — not an escalation, but maintenance of a chronic obsessive-grievance channel.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
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| "There is now proof that Brad Raffensperger lied to President Trump" | **Mostly False** | The alleged 'proof' consists of a Catherine Engelbrecht (True the Vote) affidavit from August 2023. True the Vote's election fraud methodologies have been repeatedly rejected by courts, including in multiple Georgia proceedings. The documented record of the January 2, 2021 phone call — a released transcript and recording — shows Trump pressuring Raffensperger to 'find 11,780 votes,' which Raffensperger declined as unlawful. Georgia conducted three separate audits and multiple recounts confirming Biden's win. No court has found credible evidence supporting the fraud narrative underlying this claim. |
| "67,284 votes were cast that should likely not have been counted due to ineligible registrations" | **Mostly False** | Figure originates from True the Vote's contested voter roll analysis, disputed by election officials and independent experts as methodologically flawed. Voter roll irregularities (outdated addresses, name mismatches) do not equate to fraudulent ballots cast. Georgia's multiple audits — including hand counts verifying individual ballots — found no fraud approaching this scale. Courts have declined to credit this methodology. |
| "Raffensperger met Engelbrecht in December 2020 and acknowledged voter roll problems were 'about right'" | **Unverifiable** | Claim sourced exclusively from Engelbrecht's own self-interested affidavit. No independent corroboration of meeting content or the alleged acknowledgment has been publicly established. Even if the meeting occurred as described, an informal statement about voter roll size does not constitute acknowledgment of fraud or that 67,284 fraudulent votes were cast. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- 12:32 PM EST local time — business hours at Mar-a-Lago, strongly inconsistent with authentic late-night Trump posting pattern
- Bare URL with zero personal commentary, no emotional text, no ALL CAPS, no typos
- Part of a coordinated five-link cluster on identical theme — suggests editorial curation by communications staff, not impulsive posting
- No stream-of-consciousness or reactive qualities; purely transactional link share

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Biden Valley Forge speech + Jan 6 anniversary + Georgia RICO prosecution)

Sentiment: -0.52

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Grievance reactivation — rekindles audience anger about stolen election narrative
- Epistemic closure enforcement — 'proof' framing demands followers accept claims as settled
- Shared persecution identity — 'they lied to our president, they lied to us'

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Named specific individual (Raffensperger) with documented prior death-threat history originating from this same narrative ecosystem
- Framing of 'proof he lied to the president' is emotionally activating to an audience primed by years of stolen-election grievance
- Posted on January 6 anniversary — a date with demonstrated capacity to mobilize this audience toward political violence
- Gateway Pundit has a documented history of publishing content that preceded or accompanied threats to named election officials
- Stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern: target identification + grievance articulation without explicit call to action

### Gaslighting

- DARVO inversion: the documented Trump pressure call (Trump as coercer) is reframed as Raffensperger deception (Raffensperger as deceiver)
- Denial of documented event: released transcript of January 2, 2021 call recording Trump asking Raffensperger to 'find' votes is implicitly contradicted by the 'lied to the president' frame
- Epistemic foreclosure: 'There's proof' demands followers accept contested partisan claims as settled fact, punishing independent inquiry as disloyalty

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> There is now proof that Brad Raffensperger lied to President Trump

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The alleged 'proof' consists of a Catherine Engelbrecht (True the Vote) affidavit from August 2023. True the Vote's election fraud methodologies have been repeatedly rejected by courts, including in multiple Georgia proceedings. The documented record of the January 2, 2021 phone call — a released transcript and recording — shows Trump pressuring Raffensperger to 'find 11,780 votes,' which Raffensperger declined as unlawful. Georgia conducted three separate audits and multiple recounts confirming Biden's win. No court has found credible evidence supporting the fraud narrative underlying this claim.

Sources: Georgia Secretary of State audit results (November 2020); Georgia hand recount results (November 2020); Released transcript/recording of January 2, 2021 Trump-Raffensperger call; Multiple court rulings rejecting True the Vote election fraud claims

> 67,284 votes were cast that should likely not have been counted due to ineligible registrations

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Figure originates from True the Vote's contested voter roll analysis, disputed by election officials and independent experts as methodologically flawed. Voter roll irregularities (outdated addresses, name mismatches) do not equate to fraudulent ballots cast. Georgia's multiple audits — including hand counts verifying individual ballots — found no fraud approaching this scale. Courts have declined to credit this methodology.

Sources: Georgia Secretary of State office responses to True the Vote claims; Court rulings on True the Vote evidence submissions

> Raffensperger met Engelbrecht in December 2020 and acknowledged voter roll problems were 'about right'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Claim sourced exclusively from Engelbrecht's own self-interested affidavit. No independent corroboration of meeting content or the alleged acknowledgment has been publicly established. Even if the meeting occurred as described, an informal statement about voter roll size does not constitute acknowledgment of fraud or that 67,284 fraudulent votes were cast.

Sources: True the Vote 'The Aftermath' report (August 2023); Catherine Engelbrecht affidavit (sole source)

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- stolen-election-narrative (95%)
- Raffensperger-targeting (90%)
- Georgia-RICO-context (85%)
- Jan6-anniversary-counter-programming (85%)
- aide-authored (85%)
- DARVO (80%)
- Gateway-Pundit-amplification (80%)
- True-the-Vote (75%)
- voter-fraud-claim (75%)
- stochastic-terrorism-adjacent (50%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege Mentality Drives Coordinated Counter-Narrative Blitz on J6 Anniversary**

Trump spent the day consumed by his legal battles, with nearly every post touching on ongoing cases or attacking prosecutors and judges. The morning opened with a late-night burst of personal posts about presidential immunity, then shifted to a rapid-fire volley of shared articles — clearly managed by staff — aimed at discrediting witnesses and institutions across the Georgia, New York, and federal cases. The most emotionally charged moment came in an attack on the New York fraud trial judge and Attorney General Letitia James, whom he called a "racist scoundrel." A shared article recycling the "poisoning the blood" immigration phrase stood out as the day's most alarming content, while the evening ended on a strategic note with the surfacing of misconduct allegations against Fulton County DA Fani Willis.

Full digest for 2024-01-08: https://trump.fm/date/2024-01-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, January 8). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111721523331096704
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-now-theres..." Truth Social, 8 Jan. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111721523331096704. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-now-theres...," Truth Social, January 8, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111721523331096704.

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