# Post ts_112067758047505289 - Post ID: `ts_112067758047505289` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-03-09T21:04:40.752Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112067758047505289 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112067758047505289/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112067758047505289.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > I hope everybody gets a chance to read this Very Important Story - TOTAL EXONERATION! The Unselect Committee should be ashamed of itself! Thank you to Great American Patriot and Assistant Director of the United States Secret Service Office, Tony Ornato! https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-liz-cheney-january-6-committee-suppressed-exonerating-evidence-of-trumps-push-for-national-guard/ ## Engagement - Likes: 12,780 - Reposts: 4,888 - Replies: 824 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.366Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T04:59:27.967Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at 4:04 PM EST on March 9, 2024 — three days after cementing the Republican nomination on Super Tuesday — this post reflects Trump in a grandiose narcissistic state, amplifying a Federalist article as evidence of "TOTAL EXONERATION" on January 6. The psychological mechanism is characteristic distortion: a contested partisan allegation (that Liz Cheney suppressed evidence of Trump's National Guard requests) is expanded into comprehensive vindication of all J6-related accountability claims. The post's clinical significance lies less in any single element than in the systematic pattern: splitting (Ornato as "Great American Patriot," the committee as shameful and illegitimate), distortion (partial allegation → total exoneration), and DARVO (the investigators become the wrongdoers). The "Unselect Committee" neologism — now a durable fixture — functions as a pre-loaded delegitimization tool requiring no fresh argumentation. Authorship bears unmistakable Trump markers despite business-hours timing, suggesting either direct composition or tight dictation. Cognitive markers are consistent with baseline — no deterioration evident. Contextualized within the same-day posting cluster (Black voter outreach, Gingrich endorsement statement, immunity argument, Mace endorsement), this post contributes to a high-output supply-seeking day: the nomination secured, Trump is consolidating the victimhood-to-vindication redemption narrative that will anchor the general election campaign. # Psychological Analysis: ts_112067758047505289 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2024-03-09 | **Local Time:** ~4:04 PM EST | **Age:** 77 --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump, possibly aide-assisted for link formatting. Confidence: Medium.** The 21:04 UTC timestamp converts to **4:04 PM EST** (DST had not yet begun; clocks spring forward March 10, 2024). This falls squarely in business hours — a pattern associated with aide-authored posts. However, the stylistic evidence strongly suggests Trump authorship or tight dictation: - **"Unselect Committee"** — Trump's signature, long-running neologism for the J6 Select Committee; aides do not independently deploy this - **"TOTAL EXONERATION"** in ALL CAPS — a recurring Trump escalation pattern - **Arbitrary title-case capitalization** ("Very Important Story," "Great American Patriot") — Trump's idiosyncratic written voice - **Tripartite structure**: celebrate favorable information → attack adversary → honor loyal supporter — a recurring Trump compositional template - Absence of typos and complete sentence construction suggest light aide formatting, but the emotional content and vocabulary are Trump's **Conclusion:** High Trump involvement, likely dictated or closely directed; an aide may have structured the link and cleaned presentation. --- ## Context and Trigger Posted three days after Super Tuesday secured the Republican nomination, this post is Trump amplifying a Federalist article alleging that Liz Cheney and the J6 Select Committee deliberately suppressed evidence of Trump's efforts to deploy the National Guard before January 6, 2021 — with Tony Ornato (a Trump-era Secret Service official and perceived loyalist) as the key witness. **Primary trigger:** Narcissistic supply — the article provides external validation of the long-standing "witch hunt" and "persecution" narrative, offering a vehicle to reclaim moral authority over J6 at a moment of political ascendancy. **Secondary trigger:** The underlying narcissistic injury of the January 6 investigation remains a persistent wound. Any favorable development becomes an opportunity for closure via "TOTAL EXONERATION" — the preferred resolution that reality has not delivered through legal channels. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post presents a consistent trait profile: - **High Extraversion (assertiveness):** Bold, declarative pronouncements; no hedging; confident public sharing of self-vindicating material - **Very Low Agreeableness:** The committee "should be ashamed" — adversarial framing, zero conciliation, interpersonal attack - **Low Conscientiousness:** Accepting a partisan outlet's contested allegation as definitive proof reflects minimal epistemic deliberation - **Elevated Neuroticism (angry hostility facet):** The J6 wound continues to generate reactive posting even in a moment of political triumph - **Low Openness (values rigidity):** The conclusion ("TOTAL EXONERATION") precedes any engagement with the evidence; the article confirms what was already believed --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate overwhelmingly.** The post is about restoring status, asserting control over the historical narrative, and demonstrating that Trump's version of events has always been correct. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self:* Righteous victim now vindicated; always right, always unfairly treated - *Others (in-group):* "Great American Patriots" who tell the truth at personal cost - *Others (out-group):* Corrupt, shameful political actors who suppress truth to persecute Trump - *World:* A two-faction battle between those protecting Trump and those destroying him --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Wrongly persecuted truth-teller, now vindicated by history. **Narrative sequence:** Redemption — the contamination sequence of "J6 accusation → investigation → findings" is being rewritten as "politically motivated persecution → suppressed truth → exoneration." **Identity claims implicit in the post:** - "I pushed for the National Guard; I was responsible" (pre-emptive exoneration) - "The committee was corrupt, not me" - "Patriots like Ornato know the real truth" **Contrasting other:** Liz Cheney and the "Unselect Committee" — cast not merely as political opponents but as active suppressors of truth, rendering them morally inferior rather than simply adversarial. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment **A. Narcissistic Features (Salient):** - Grandiosity: "TOTAL EXONERATION" on the basis of a single article - Need for admiration: Sharing self-vindicating material with urgency ("I hope everybody") - Entitlement and lack of accountability: The investigation was illegitimate by definition **B. Antisocial Features (Moderate):** - Contempt for the investigative process ("Unselect Committee") - Deceitful framing: presenting contested allegation as settled fact **C. Paranoid Features (Moderate):** - The committee is cast as having conspired to suppress evidence — organized, deliberate persecution - Preoccupation with perceived attacks remains active even post-nomination **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (Low in this post):** - The post is celebratory rather than punitive; the cruelty is mild (shaming the committee) rather than personally targeted ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (Pathological):** The core mechanism here. A specific, contested evidentiary allegation in a partisan publication becomes "TOTAL EXONERATION" — reality is grossly reshaped to satisfy an inner need for vindication. 2. **Splitting (Immature):** Ornato = idealized "Great American Patriot"; J6 Committee = devalued "Unselect Committee that should be ashamed." No intermediate position exists. 3. **Projection (Immature):** "Should be ashamed of itself" — shame is externalized onto the accusers, foreclosing any internal accountability. 4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** The Federalist article provides quasi-logical scaffolding for a pre-existing conclusion, creating the appearance of evidence-based reasoning. ### DARVO Pattern Classic Deny-Attack-Reverse Victim and Offender: - **Deny:** The committee's findings are implicitly rejected - **Attack:** The committee "should be ashamed" for suppressing evidence - **Reverse:** Trump is the victim of the committee's corrupt suppression; the committee is the true wrongdoer --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The "TOTAL EXONERATION" framing functions as a gaslighting mechanism at scale: followers are invited to accept that all J6 accountability questions have been resolved in Trump's favor by a single article. Those who question this framing are implicitly positioned as partisans or dupes of the committee. The "Unselect Committee" label is a standing reality-denial device — the name itself encodes the conclusion (the committee was illegitimate) without requiring fresh argumentation. Epistemic closure is complete: the partisan source is authoritative, the conclusion is foregone, and no disconfirming evidence is acknowledged. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "TOTAL EXONERATION" | **False** | The Federalist article alleges the J6 committee suppressed one category of evidence (Trump's National Guard requests). This constitutes a specific evidentiary allegation by a partisan outlet, not a comprehensive legal or factual exoneration. The Select Committee's core findings — that Trump failed to act to stop the Capitol breach for 187 minutes — are not addressed by the article. Tony Ornato himself was identified by other committee witnesses and investigators as a Trump loyalist whose testimony conflicted with other accounts. | | "Liz Cheney / J6 Committee suppressed exonerating evidence of Trump's push for National Guard" | **Half True** | There is documented tension around how completely the committee presented evidence of Trump's alleged National Guard requests. However, the committee's position was that Trump's claimed requests were not documented through proper channels and contradicted by other testimony. Ornato's credibility as a witness was contested by Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony and others. The suppression framing is contested; selective presentation is the more accurate characterization at most. | Overall Veracity: 25% ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Hyperbole:** "TOTAL EXONERATION," "Very Important Story" — superlatives that foreclose nuance - **Neologism as weapon:** "Unselect Committee" carries a full ideological payload in two words - **Idealization for loyalty signaling:** Praising Ornato as "Great American Patriot" signals to other potential witnesses what alignment with Trump is worth - **Epistemic authority laundering:** The Federalist link provides the form of evidence without its substance - **Urgency mobilization:** "I hope everybody gets a chance to read this" recruits followers as amplifiers - **RAND Firehose contribution:** This post is one of five on March 9, collectively building a multi-front exoneration-and-vindication narrative (immunity, civil fraud, Black voter outreach, Mace endorsement, J6) --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Vindicated Hero / Martyred Truth-Teller.** Trump casts himself as the figure whose truth was suppressed by corrupt institutional power, now emerging into the light. Ornato is the Loyal Witness whose courage confirms the hero's righteousness. The committee is the Corrupt Institution whose illegitimacy is finally exposed. **Shadow projection:** The accusation that the committee suppressed truth mirrors the dynamic that critics level at Trump himself — the very act of evidence suppression is projected outward onto the investigators. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive decline are present in this post. Language production is coherent, purposeful, and consistent with Trump's established social media baseline. "Unselect Committee" is a deliberate neologism deployed consistently since 2021-2022 — not a paraphasia. Syntactic complexity is low but stable. No temporal confusion, name confusion, or perseveration detected. --- ## Danger Assessment: **NONE** No eliminationist language, dehumanization, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators. The post's delegitimization of J6 accountability processes is a chronic low-grade concern at the systemic level but presents no acute danger signal in isolation. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post is consistent with a well-established pattern: any favorable development in the J6 space triggers maximum-amplitude exoneration claims. The pattern has been stable since 2021. The political context (just secured nomination, buoyant period) amplifies the grandiose rather than the vulnerable narcissistic pole. The narrative remains frozen: Trump was always right, the committee was always corrupt, vindication is always "total." ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - 'Unselect Committee' is Trump's signature neologism, deployed consistently since 2022 - Arbitrary title-case capitalization ('Very Important Story,' 'Great American Patriot') matches Trump's idiosyncratic style - ALL CAPS 'TOTAL EXONERATION' is a characteristic emotional emphasis pattern - Gratitude-attack-self-vindication tripartite structure is a recurring Trump rhetorical template - Post time 21:04 UTC = 4:04 PM EST — business hours, atypical for purely impulsive Trump posts, suggests possible aide-assisted formatting of a Trump-dictated message ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (Federalist article alleging J6 committee suppressed exonerating evidence) Sentiment: +0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 28% - Paranoid: 55% - Sadism: 18% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('I hope everybody gets a chance to read this') creates urgency and shared mission with followers - Validation of in-group loyalist (Ornato) reinforces follower identity as 'Great American Patriots' - Shared enemy framing ('Unselect Committee') deepens us-vs-them bonding ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'TOTAL EXONERATION' reframes a contested partisan allegation as settled fact, requiring followers to accept this framing as a condition of in-group membership - The 'Unselect Committee' label is a standing reality-denial mechanism — the name itself asserts the committee lacked legitimacy, preempting engagement with its documented findings - Framing the committee as having 'suppressed' evidence inverts the accountability structure: investigators become the wrongdoers, the investigated becomes the victim (DARVO pattern) ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > TOTAL EXONERATION **FALSE** The Federalist article alleges the J6 committee suppressed one category of evidence (Trump's National Guard requests). This constitutes a specific evidentiary allegation by a partisan outlet, not a comprehensive legal or factual exoneration. The Select Committee's core findings — that Trump failed to act to stop the Capitol breach for 187 minutes — are not addressed by the article. Tony Ornato himself was identified by other committee witnesses and investigators as a Trump loyalist whose testimony conflicted with other accounts. Sources: The Federalist, 2024-03-08 (source article); J6 Select Committee Final Report, December 2022 > Liz Cheney / J6 Committee suppressed exonerating evidence of Trump's push for National Guard **HALF TRUE** There is documented tension around how completely the committee presented evidence of Trump's alleged National Guard requests. However, the committee's position was that Trump's claimed requests were not documented through proper channels and contradicted by other testimony. Ornato's credibility as a witness was contested by Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony and others. The suppression framing is contested; selective presentation is the more accurate characterization at most. Sources: J6 Committee testimony records; Cassidy Hutchinson memoir and testimony Overall Veracity: 25% ## Tags - january-6 (95%) - narcissistic-supply (82%) - total-exoneration (90%) - unselect-committee (88%) - DARVO (72%) - grandiose-state (78%) - splitting (75%) - distortion (85%) - epistemic-closure (80%) - liz-cheney (70%) - tony-ornato (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Super Tuesday Victory Lap Meets Legal Siege Mentality in High-Output Consolidation Day** Trump spent the day consolidating his post-Super Tuesday position, mixing strongman diplomacy with campaign operations and a steady legal defense blitz. The morning opened with a boastful recap of hosting Hungarian PM Viktor Orban at Mar-a-Lago, followed by a dismissive swipe at Robert De Niro. The bulk of the afternoon was devoted to building a legal persecution narrative -- sharing sympathetic legal analysis, pushing for presidential immunity, and claiming "total exoneration" on January 6 via newly released testimony. The day ended on its sharpest note, with a high-intensity attack on Jack Smith and the Biden DOJ that reframed his own indictment as election interference by the prosecution. Overall mood was confident and combative, with vulnerability surfacing only when the legal threats came into focus. Full digest for 2024-03-09: https://trump.fm/date/2024-03-09/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, March 9). I hope everybody gets a chance to read this Very... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112067758047505289 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I hope everybody gets a chance to read this Very Important..." Truth Social, 9 Mar. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112067758047505289. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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