# Post ts_116091412418659980

- Post ID: `ts_116091412418659980`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-18T11:32:54.067Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (7:49), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Election systems across the country are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump. According to an unaudited analysis of data obtained from Edison Research, states using Dominion voting systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden. And the author also finds another 2.7 million Trump votes appear to have been deleted by Dominion, including almost 1 million Trump votes in Pennsylvania alone. The experts' claims are quite shocking and starkly contrast the narrative that we've heard. Media claims have been made that the machines were not connected to the internet, but according to the forensic report, that is patently false. The experts examined both Dominion and ES&S machines, and both were connected to the internet using wireless technology. This is a fact that the machine vendors knew well before the election, because their proposal to pitch for the contract included information about internet transmission and wireless capabilities. What is the vehicle for the transmission from the ICP? Is it cellular modem versus VPN? It is a cellular modem that can be configured in a VPN, right? And we currently in Chicago and Cook County, we work with Verizon to secure that network. So we would have the same capabilities here. What wireless chip set/modem does the hardware have? We support a variety. Some of the forensic evidence for this fact includes the wireless chip made by the company to LEAT. This is a picture from the forensic audit of the chip inserted into the machine to transmit information wirelessly. This is a clear admission that they knew the machines were connected to the internet and there were problems, so they had to tally manually. The media also claimed that there was no foreign involvement. But according to the forensic report, that is not true. The 4G card included in the ES&S machines, pictured here, was made by the company to LEAT. The project to manufacture the chips, according to the report, was funded by the Chinese and has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Some have accused these companies of obfuscating and in some cases misleading election administrators and the American public. So I'd like to ask each of you, do you have components in your supply chain that come from either Russia or China? Chairperson, we do not have components that come from Russia. We do have a limited number of components that come from China. It wasn't our company in the entire report, but we do have components in our products that come from China. Ms. Mathis? Yes, similar feedback here. We take the security of our supply chain very seriously and we actively monitor and assess all aspects of that supply chain, including country of origin. So do you have components from China or Russia? We do not have components from Russia, but we do have, similar to my colleagues, we do have components. And what would be the nature of those components? Similar resistors, capacitors, they're the global supply chain for technology components of that. And what percentage do you know? I don't have. We'll follow up with that. Is there any method of voting that's 100% secure? No. No. No. Do you sell voting machines that have network capabilities installed? Can you be more specific? Yes, you don't have the software installed, but you have the capability of installing it. For remote access software? Yes. We do not. We no longer install any remote access software. That process was discontinued in 2006 and is not allowed by any of the EAC testing. We got a firsthand look when we visited ES&S, the largest manufacturer of voting machines, and talked to CEO Tom Burt. Why is there a sprint thing here and a Verizon thing here? There's a small percentage of jurisdictions in the country, a lot of them are in Florida, who have decided that they want to modem unofficial results to the election office. Voting machines are not connected to the internet. Those are not connected. Voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet. And we knew that wasn't true. And cybersecurity expert Kevin Skoglin wanted to prove it. So he and nine other independent security consultants created their own search engine looking for election systems online. We found over 35 had been left online and we're still continuing to find more. ES&S insists while there are 14,000 of its modems in use, there are firewalls separating those modems from the public internet and that the modems are turned on for just seconds. But Skoglin says that's not enough. We're seeing Illinois and Michigan. Last summer, Skoglin's team found ES&S voting systems online and at least some of the precincts in 11 states, including the battleground states of Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. If you were able to get inside these systems, could you do more than perhaps mess up the preliminary results? Could you actually get deeper inside the system? Absolutely. And that's my biggest concern. Top computer scientist Andrew Appel agrees with Skoglin. Once the hackers starts talking to the voting machine through the modem, they can hack the software in the voting machine and make it cheat in future elections. In August, Skoglin took his results to election officials and the press, assuming the systems will get taken down. We were astonished when he showed us some of those systems are still online. Modems in voting machines are a bad idea. Those modems are network connections and that leaves them vulnerable to hacking by anybody who can connect to that network. We should make sure that voting machines are not connected to the internet. Period. Period. Mr. Pollis? Chairperson, we've never had any kind of remote access in our Dominion products. But I will say that I do want to draw a caveat. Some of our tabulators are designed around the ability to have an external plug-in modem to transmit unofficial results after it pulls close. Okay. What wireless chipset/modem does the hardware have? We support a variety. So it's really up to the jurisdictions what technology they want to use, what's compatible with their networks. Currently, some jurisdictions are using basically a modem that is a 3D modem, GSM, but we can support multiple varieties of modem. Including the latest 4D standards as well. So the answer is the next question is a 3D or 4G. Verizon, AT or T or Sprint, assuming all? Oh, yeah. All networks, right. Just to point it back, yeah. I mean, we actually transmit from the ICP in Mongolia as well, so we're not limited in networks. And in Puerto Rico, there's three vendors because the island is not covered by any of the vendors completely, so we use three different cellular vendors for some ICPs with this vendor, Maro, AT and T or T-Mobile, I think, in the different parts of the island. Analysts say the theft and destruction of votes are attributed to so-called glitches in Dominion Software and the extent to which this affected results can be verified by hand recounts of votes in each state.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/340/516/170/141/original/c44ae562ec4583fb.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,278
- Reposts: 3,089
- Replies: 373
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-19T23:15:45.042Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T09:00:02.348Z (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 media-only post carries no written text from the subject; he amplifies a multi-minute video alleging Dominion/ES&S voting machines were internet-connected and used to delete or switch millions of his 2020 votes, with claimed Chinese-linked supply chain components. Though six years old and occurring after his 2024 return to office, the claims are being recirculated without qualification. Psychologically, this reflects persistence rather than escalation: a paranoid, non-falsifiable grievance structure (official denials reframed as proof of concealment) consistent with the same week's 'hunted... now the hunter' post, suggesting an active persecution-to-vindication narrative arc rather than an isolated event. No explicit incitement or dehumanizing language appears in the clip, and the subject adds no personal commentary, so danger is rated elevated rather than high — reflecting the documented history of election-fraud content's downstream radicalizing effects rather than any acute signal in this post itself. Authorship attribution rests solely on early-morning posting time (~6:32am ET), a weak single-factor indicator; confidence is capped at low, and this concerns who selected the clip, not who wrote or narrated it, since there is no original text to analyze. No factual claims are attributed to the subject himself, as all propositional content originates from third-party speakers in the amplified video.

## Analysis: ts_116091412418659980 (2026-02-18, media-only)

**Content note:** This post carries no text from the subject. The attached video is a compilation (apparently drawn from a "2000 Mules"-adjacent forensic-audit segment and EAC/House-testimony clips) alleging Dominion and ES&S voting machines were internet-connected, foreign-manufactured, and used to delete or switch millions of Trump votes in 2020. All propositional content in the transcript is spoken by others (narrators, an EAC hearing moderator, vendor executives). Per protocol, none of this is attributed to the subject as his own assertion — the analyzable behavior is his choice to select and amplify this specific clip to his followers.

### Selection/amplification behavior
Six years after the 2020 election, and while occupying the presidency he already regained in 2024, the subject is still curating and distributing detailed "stolen election" forensic content. This is psychologically notable less for the technical claims (long since litigated, largely rejected in courts, and tied to the Dominion/Fox defamation settlement) than for the *persistence* of the grievance: the narrative "the 2020 election was stolen from me via foreign-linked machines" remains active supply material worth resharing even without present political necessity.

### Level 2 — Characteristic adaptations
- **Agency/power motive:** Reasserting legitimacy of ultimate political victory; framing 2020 as the "true" injury that necessitated his 2024 "comeback."
- **Schema:** World-as-conspiracy — foreign-linked technology, "the media," and election administrators are cast as coordinated actors suppressing his rightful mandate.

### Level 3 — Narrative identity
- **Protagonist role:** Victim-turned-vindicated-hero; consistent with the "hunted... now the hunter" post two days prior in the same window.
- **Sequence:** Redemption arc — betrayal (2020 "theft") redeemed by return to power — reinforced by resurfacing the original grievance evidence.
- **Contrasting other:** Dominion/ES&S (foreign-tainted institutions), unnamed media ("fake news" framing implied by highlighting media denials as "patently false").

### Level 4 — Clinical indicators
- **Paranoid features (moderate-high):** Suspicion of election infrastructure without new corroborating evidence; persistent preoccupation with a settled/adjudicated grievance years later; the clip explicitly frames official denials as proof of concealment rather than accuracy — a classic non-falsifiable paranoid structure.
- **Narcissistic features:** Implicit grandiosity by extension — the amplified claim of "millions of votes deleted" implies a landslide mandate stolen from him specifically.
- **Defense mechanisms:** Externalization/projection (blame placed on machines, foreign actors, media rather than the actual 2020 result); denial of consensus reality (courts, audits, and Fox's own defamation settlement rejected these claims).
- **Gaslighting/reality distortion:** By proxy — resharing content that denies well-documented judicial and forensic conclusions, implicitly asking followers to accept the distorted narrative as fact; consistent with DARVO-adjacent reframing (the "victim" of fraud recast as the rightful winner).

### Danger assessment
No explicit call to mobilization, no dehumanizing or violent language in the clip itself, and no direct textual overlay from the subject. However, "stolen election" content of this type has a documented history of downstream radicalizing effect (Jan. 6, 2021 context) even without direct incitement language, so it is flagged as **elevated** rather than none — a pattern worth tracking longitudinally rather than an acute threat in isolation.

### Authorship attribution
No stylometric evidence exists (no written text). Post time is 11:32:54 UTC = approximately 6:32am ET (assuming Trump was in the Eastern time zone, unconfirmed for this exact date), which falls in the early-morning window associated with his personal posting habits. However, this is weak, single-factor evidence, and a media-only repost is also consistent with staff scheduling/curation. This assessment concerns who selected/queued the clip for posting, not who wrote or narrated it — no one wrote anything in this post. Confidence is capped at low.

### Cognitive markers
Not assessable — no original language production from the subject in this post.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- No written text — no stylometric evidence available
- Post time ~6:32am ET falls in subject's typical early-morning personal posting window, but this is a single weak signal
- Media-only reposts of pre-packaged conspiracy content are also routinely queued by staff/supporters
- Assessment concerns who selected the clip for posting, not who authored the spoken content in it

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 0%
- Agreeableness: 0%
- Conscientiousness: 0%
- Neuroticism: 0%
- Openness: 0%

Strongest facet: not assessable — no original text

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** vindicated victim / rightful winner
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Dominion/ES&S voting machine vendors, foreign-linked (Chinese) supply chains, mainstream media 'fake news' framing

**Identity Claims:**
- Rightful winner of the 2020 election whose victory was stolen via fraudulent machines
- Vindicated victim now returned to power

### State

**Vulnerable State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Longstanding unresolved grievance over the 2020 election result, resurfaced without a specific proximate news event in the provided context)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying 'insider forensic' content that flatters followers with feeling of special access to hidden truth

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Gaslighting

- Amplifies content that denies documented judicial/forensic conclusions about the 2020 election (Dominion defamation settlement, multiple court rulings) without acknowledgment
- Frames vendor/media denials of internet connectivity as proof of a cover-up rather than addressing counter-evidence

## Tags

- election-fraud-conspiracy (90%)
- media-amplification (80%)
- paranoid-features (50%)
- victim-to-vindicated-hero (40%)

## That day

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

**The 6 a.m. hour went to six-year-old ballot-fraud video; the afternoon went to telling Starmer not to lease away Diego Garcia**

Trump posted twenty times, in an evening batch and a dense hour just after six in the morning, then went quiet for most of the working day. Nearly half of it was 2020 election material — old Detroit ballot-fraud testimony, a Dominion segment, a Georgia post crediting an ally with beating Fani Willis — none of it prompted by anything that happened that week, and almost all of it posted without a word of his own. The one thing he actually wrote was an afternoon message telling the British prime minister not to lease out Diego Garcia, dismissing Mauritius's internationally recognized claim as fictitious and raising the possibility of needing the base to strike Iran; it contradicted his own State Department. He said nothing about the Syria withdrawal, the herbicide order he signed that day, or the Geneva talks. No anger anywhere in the day, a normal night's sleep gap, and an unusually early stop in the late afternoon.

Full digest for 2026-02-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 18).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 18 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, February 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980.

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