# Post ts_115928072762537955

- Post ID: `ts_115928072762537955`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-01-20T15:13:28.710Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115928072762537955
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/115928071784799253 These people must be in JAIL, for a long time. Totally RIGGED ELECTION!!!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115928071784799253 (2026-01-20T15:13:13.788Z (UTC))

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- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/928/071/354/515/384/original/2303007d0995b583.mp4

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/928/072/338/079/685/original/4a401f9c91d1229e.png

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,421
- Reposts: 4,975
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.285Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T06:56:18.993Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This brief but notable post captures Trump's perseverative fixation on election rigging claims on the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration. Rather than exclusively celebrating accomplishments (done in other same-day posts), he returns to grievance, demanding unnamed people be jailed "for a long time" over a "Totally RIGGED ELECTION." The psychological significance lies in the persistence of legitimacy-seeking behavior from a position of unchallenged power—a hallmark of unresolved narcissistic injury. The vague targeting ("These people") combined with calls for imprisonment, issued on the same day as DOJ investigations of political opponents and Insurrection Act threats, creates an elevated concern pattern. The self-RT amplification suggests supply-seeking through grievance recycling. The contamination narrative is striking: even victory is experienced as tainted by perceived persecution, preventing stable gratification.

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_115928072762537955

### Context
This post is a retweet/boost of Trump's own prior post, with added commentary demanding imprisonment and declaring a "RIGGED ELECTION." Posted on January 20, 2026—the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration—while likely at the White House. The attached image (not viewable) likely contains purported evidence of election irregularities. The URL appears malformed, with "These" concatenated directly to the link.

### Authorship
Posted at 10:13 AM ET (business hours, White House). However, the ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional intensity, incomplete URL formatting, and stream-of-consciousness quality ("These people must be in JAIL, for a long time. Totally RIGGED ELECTION!!!") are characteristic of authentic Trump posting. The triple exclamation marks and impulsive RT-of-self pattern suggest personal authorship despite the timing.

### Psychological State
The one-year anniversary context is notable—rather than celebrating accomplishments (which he does in other posts this day), this post reverts to grievance about election integrity. This perseverative return to "rigged election" claims, now a full year into his second term and while holding power, reflects deep narcissistic preoccupation with legitimacy validation.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Projection**: Attributing illegitimacy to others while holding unchallenged power
- **Perseveration**: Returning to election grievance despite having won and governed for a year

### Rhetorical Devices
The demand for imprisonment ("must be in JAIL, for a long time") combined with the vague "These people" creates a stochastic targeting pattern—unspecified enemies identified for punishment. The ALL CAPS on "JAIL" and "RIGGED ELECTION" function as emotional intensifiers.

### Danger Assessment
The call for lengthy imprisonment of unnamed individuals over unsubstantiated election claims, issued from the presidency, represents an elevated concern—particularly in the context of the same day's DOJ investigation of Minnesota officials and Insurrection Act threats.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Totally RIGGED ELECTION" | **False** | Trump posted this on January 20, 2026 (the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration) as a self-retruth with added commentary demanding unnamed people be jailed. Multiple news outlets (Newsmax, Raw Story) confirmed the post referred to the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden. This is a claim Trump has repeated over 500 times on Truth Social according to a CREW investigation spanning 13,000+ posts.

The claim that any election was 'rigged' against Trump is contradicted by an overwhelming body of evidence from across the political spectrum:

Court record: Over 60 post-election lawsuits were filed by Trump and his allies after 2020. Nearly all were dismissed for lack of evidence or lack of standing, including 30 dismissed after hearings on the merits. Trump-appointed judges were among those rejecting the claims. Judge Stephanos Bibas (a Trump appointee on the Third Circuit) wrote: 'Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.'

Trump's own officials: Attorney General William Barr stated in December 2020 that the DOJ had 'not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.' Barr later told NBC News he told Trump directly that the fraud claims were 'bullshit.' CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), led by Trump appointee Christopher Krebs, issued a joint statement with bipartisan election officials calling the 2020 election 'the most secure in American history,' finding 'no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.'

Conservative review: A group of eight prominent conservatives, including former federal judges and Republican-appointed officials, reviewed all 64 court cases in a 72-page report and reached an 'unequivocal' conclusion: 'Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case' and 'there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct.'

Voter fraud prevalence: The Heritage Foundation's own database documents approximately 1,500 proven instances of voter fraud across decades, during which billions of votes were cast, establishing fraud as exceptionally rare and nowhere near the scale needed to alter a presidential election.

Regarding the 2024 election: Trump won decisively with 312 electoral votes and 49.8% of the popular vote, flipping six states. There are no credible allegations of systemic fraud in 2024 either. Isolated investigations (e.g., 33 potential noncitizen voters in Texas, 46 referrals in Wisconsin out of 3.4 million ballots) represent a vanishingly small fraction of votes cast and do not support claims of a 'rigged' election.

The claim is rated false because no credible evidence supports it for any election Trump has contested. It has been examined and rejected by courts, bipartisan officials, Trump's own appointees, conservative review panels, and every major independent fact-checking organization. |

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS emphasis on JAIL and RIGGED ELECTION
- Triple exclamation marks
- Malformed URL (no space separation)
- Stream-of-consciousness brevity
- Self-RT pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Perceived challenges to electoral legitimacy)

**Rage:** Intensity 60% targeting Unnamed election-related individuals
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.70

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- High-volume posting day with multiple topics
- Emotional intensity and ALL CAPS usage

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 40%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance invocation
- righteous anger modeling
- enemy identification

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Presidential call for imprisonment of vaguely defined targets
- Pattern of same-day DOJ investigations and Insurrection Act threats amplifying punitive rhetoric
- Unspecified 'these people' creates broad target for follower action

### Gaslighting

- Claiming election was 'Totally RIGGED' despite winning and holding office
- Demanding jail for unnamed people over unsubstantiated claims

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-29._

> Totally RIGGED ELECTION

**FALSE**

Trump posted this on January 20, 2026 (the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration) as a self-retruth with added commentary demanding unnamed people be jailed. Multiple news outlets (Newsmax, Raw Story) confirmed the post referred to the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden. This is a claim Trump has repeated over 500 times on Truth Social according to a CREW investigation spanning 13,000+ posts.

The claim that any election was 'rigged' against Trump is contradicted by an overwhelming body of evidence from across the political spectrum:

Court record: Over 60 post-election lawsuits were filed by Trump and his allies after 2020. Nearly all were dismissed for lack of evidence or lack of standing, including 30 dismissed after hearings on the merits. Trump-appointed judges were among those rejecting the claims. Judge Stephanos Bibas (a Trump appointee on the Third Circuit) wrote: 'Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.'

Trump's own officials: Attorney General William Barr stated in December 2020 that the DOJ had 'not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.' Barr later told NBC News he told Trump directly that the fraud claims were 'bullshit.' CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), led by Trump appointee Christopher Krebs, issued a joint statement with bipartisan election officials calling the 2020 election 'the most secure in American history,' finding 'no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.'

Conservative review: A group of eight prominent conservatives, including former federal judges and Republican-appointed officials, reviewed all 64 court cases in a 72-page report and reached an 'unequivocal' conclusion: 'Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case' and 'there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct.'

Voter fraud prevalence: The Heritage Foundation's own database documents approximately 1,500 proven instances of voter fraud across decades, during which billions of votes were cast, establishing fraud as exceptionally rare and nowhere near the scale needed to alter a presidential election.

Regarding the 2024 election: Trump won decisively with 312 electoral votes and 49.8% of the popular vote, flipping six states. There are no credible allegations of systemic fraud in 2024 either. Isolated investigations (e.g., 33 potential noncitizen voters in Texas, 46 referrals in Wisconsin out of 3.4 million ballots) represent a vanishingly small fraction of votes cast and do not support claims of a 'rigged' election.

The claim is rated false because no credible evidence supports it for any election Trump has contested. It has been examined and rejected by courts, bipartisan officials, Trump's own appointees, conservative review panels, and every major independent fact-checking organization.

Sources: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-2020-election-nevada/2026/01/20/id/1242825/; https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674912437/; https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/donald-trump-has-spread-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-500-times-on-truth-social/; https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940819896/barr-says-no-election-fraud-has-been-found-by-federal-authorities; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-no-evidence-election-fraud/2020/12/01/5f4dcaa8-340a-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html; https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure; https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/14/934220380/as-trump-pushes-election-falsehoods-his-cybersecurity-agency-pushes-back; https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/28/instagram-posts/trump-campaigns-evidence-of-fraud-was-reviewed-bef/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/14/most-remarkable-rebukes-trumps-legal-case-judges-he-hand-picked/; https://campaignlegal.org/results-lawsuits-regarding-2020-elections; https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3559758-conservative-group-finds-absolutely-no-evidence-of-widespread-fraud-in-2020-election/; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-false-claims-about-voter-fraud-and-rigged-elections; https://www.factcheck.org/2025/01/factchecking-trumps-inaugural-address/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election; https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trumps-judicial-campaign-to-upend-the-2020-election-a-failure-but-not-a-wipe-out/; https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2024; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-check-trumps-2024-win-doesnt-prove-claims-that-the-2020-election-was-stolen

Overall Veracity: 0%

## Tags

- election_denial (100%)
- imprisonment_demand (90%)
- perseveration (80%)
- anniversary_grievance (70%)
- self_amplification (60%)

## That day

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

**Anniversary day curdles: a victory lap spent relitigating 2020, with a 1:30 AM rage spike and a NATO-savior boast posted amid tariffs on NATO**

On the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration — a day the White House had staged as a victory lap, complete with a proclamation, a "365 Wins" document, and a 104-minute press briefing — Trump spent his 40 posts mostly relitigating old grievances instead of celebrating. He was up past midnight posting about Greenland and NATO before hitting the day's angriest moment around 1:30 AM, calling Minnesota protesters trained insurrectionists and demanding jail or deportation for them. After a normal night's sleep he returned late morning with a rapid-fire hour of roughly two dozen posts, nearly all of them recycled videos about 2020 election fraud, immigration, and Minnesota, several carrying dehumanizing language from other speakers that he simply passed along. The strangest four minutes of the day came at midday: he blamed Biden for America's crime problem, then declared that NATO would not exist without him — on the same day his tariff threats had eight NATO allies in an uproar. When his plane suffered an electrical failure and had to turn back, he said nothing about it at all.

Full digest for 2026-01-20: https://trump.fm/date/2026-01-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, January 20). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115928072762537955
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 20 Jan. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115928072762537955. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, January 20, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115928072762537955.

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