Analysis: Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in C...

2mo ago Jun 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM

Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in California. Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated, and so is America, which if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow. Watch this “Election” closely!!! President DJT

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-06-09. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

Elevated

Narcissistic State

Mixed

Authorship

Self-Written

Intensity

55%

Late-night authentic Trump post (≈11 PM ET, NYC) deploying the well-established preemptive election-delegitimization template against an ongoing California race. Linguistic signatures — 'CROOKED,' 'Dumocrats,' scare-quoted 'Election,' triple exclamation, 'President DJT' signoff — confirm authorship with high confidence. Defenses are immature and pathological: splitting (good Republicans vs. cheating Democrats), projection of corruption, devaluation via epithet, and reality distortion (declaring fraud without specifics). The clause 'great trouble and consternation will follow' is the clinically notable feature: a calibrated stochastic construction that forecasts civil unrest as consequence of an adverse electoral outcome, locating blame preemptively with opponents while preserving plausible deniability for the speaker. The pattern mirrors 2020 pre-certification rhetoric. Narcissistic state is mixed — grandiose prophet-protector overlaid on persecutory framing of self/in-group as 'cheated.' No acute rage; this is schema-driven rather than injury-driven, suggesting routine maintenance of the fraud narrative as ongoing characteristic adaptation. Danger level rated elevated due to the implicit-threat structure and historical resonance with prior eliminationist-adjacent forecasts. Cognitively unremarkable relative to baseline: syntax is run-on but coherent, vocabulary stable, no new word-finding or paraphasic features. The post is significant less for novel content than for confirming that the 'crooked election' frame remains the default response to any anticipated electoral loss, with the audience deputized as vigilant watchers.

Authorship Analysis

Self-Written

Indicators:

Late-night timing (11:02 PM ET June 7, after MSG game)
ALL CAPS 'CROOKED' and triple exclamation '!!!'
Signature 'Dumocrats' epithet (deliberate idiosyncratic misspelling)
Signoff 'President DJT' — characteristic Trump signature
Scare-quoted 'Election' for delegitimization

Psychological Profile

▶ Traits

Big Five:

Extraversion

70%

Agreeableness

15%

Conscientiousness

30%

Neuroticism

75%

Openness

25%

Strongest facet: angry_hostility

Agency

85%

Communion

20%

Primary drive: power

▶ Narrative

Role: vigilant warner / prophet-protector · Arc: contamination · Contrasting: 'Dumocrats' executing a 'mission' against America

President DJTguardian of electoral integrityvoice of America's victimization

▶ State

Mixed State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Anticipated/ongoing California election outcome unfavorable to Republicans)

Sentiment

-0.70

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

60%

Antisocial

65%

Paranoid

80%

Sadism

20%

Defense Mechanisms:

splittingprojectiondevaluationdistortion

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

40%

Parasocial Techniques:

Direct address ('Has anybody been watching')Call to vigilance ('Watch this Election closely!!!')Inclusion of audience in shared persecution ('so is America')

Danger Assessment

Elevated

Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected

Indicators:

'great trouble and consternation will follow' — calibrated forecast of unrest as consequence of adverse outcome
Audience activation imperative ('Watch this Election closely!!!')
Pre-emptive framing that primes followers to view a Democratic win as illegitimate provocation
Historical resonance with 2020 pre-Jan-6 rhetorical template

Gaslighting Detected:

Asserting an ongoing election is 'CROOKED' without evidence
Reframing electoral process as victimization of America
Demanding audience accept fraud premise as prerequisite to in-group membership

Reality Distortions:

Unsubstantiated fraud claim about an ongoing California election
Framing electoral outcome as opponents' 'mission' to harm America

Fact Checks (1)

"A California election is 'CROOKED' and 'Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated'"

Mostly False

Deep research identified the specific context: this post (made ~June 7-8, 2026) refers to California's June 2, 2026 top-two primary election, in which two Republican candidates were trailing as late-counted mail-in ballots favored Democrats. The two Republicans referenced — confirmed by a parallel Trump Truth Social post quoted by Newsweek — are Steve Hilton (gubernatorial candidate, Trump-endorsed) and Spencer Pratt (LA mayoral candidate). Trump explicitly wrote elsewhere: 'They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.'

The factual elements that are accurate: (1) a California election was indeed happening, (2) two Republicans (Hilton and Pratt) were in contention and saw their leads shrink as late ballots were counted. Hilton initially led the gubernatorial primary at ~27% but the race remained too close to call against Becerra and Steyer; Pratt's lead over Nithya Raman shrank from a comfortable margin to under 1% as late ballots were processed.

The 'crooked' / 'cheating' core claim is unsupported and authoritatively rebutted. California Attorney General Rob Bonta stated: 'There are no details, there is no specifics, there is no specific allegation of any individualized act of voter fraud,' calling the allegations 'only a figment of the imagination of Trump and others who follow that conspiracy theory.' Even First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, a Trump appointee who announced 'multiple election fraud investigations underway,' provided no specifics or evidence. Time Magazine, NBC News, and the Washington Post all reported that the claims stem from a misunderstanding of California's normal slow counting process: mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day can arrive up to June 9 and must be signature-verified, creating a well-documented 'pig in a python' counting bottleneck that historically produces a late shift toward Democrats. No specific irregularity, fraudulent ballot, or procedural violation has been documented. The 'cheating' frame is the long-running preemptive-fraud template applied to slow but lawful vote counting.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Analysis: California Election Delegitimization Post (2026-06-07, 11:02 PM ET)

Level 1 — Traits

High Neuroticism (angry hostility): 'CROOKED,' 'cheated,' threat of 'great trouble.'
Low Agreeableness: 'Dumocrats' epithet, hostile binary framing.
Low Openness: rigid fraud schema applied reflexively to unfavorable electoral process.

Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

Agency motives dominate: control, status protection of Republican allies.
Schema: elections that go against the in-group are 'crooked' by definition (epistemic closure).

Level 3 — Narrative Identity

Protagonist: vigilant warner-prophet ('Watch... closely!!!').
Contrasting other: 'Dumocrats' with a 'mission' to harm America.
Contamination sequence implied: legitimate election → fraudulent steal → national 'consternation.'

Authorship

Authentic Trump with high confidence. Timing (~11 PM ET in NYC the night of the MSG Knicks game), 'Dumocrats,' 'CROOKED,' triple-exclamation, vague candidate reference, and 'President DJT' signoff all converge.

Danger

Elevated. The clause 'great trouble and consternation will follow' is a calibrated stochastic-terrorism construction: it forecasts unrest without explicitly calling for it, while priming the audience to view a Democratic win as a triggering injustice. Pattern mirrors 2020 pre-election delegitimization rhetoric that preceded January 6.

Cognitive

Coherent, on-template; no marked decline from baseline. Syntax is messy (one long conditional sentence) but consistent with longstanding stylistic patterns rather than new word-finding issues.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"A California election is 'CROOKED' and 'Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated'"	Mostly False	Deep research identified the specific context: this post (made ~June 7-8, 2026) refers to California's June 2, 2026 top-two primary election, in which two Republican candidates were trailing as late-counted mail-in ballots favored Democrats. The two Republicans referenced — confirmed by a parallel Trump Truth Social post quoted by Newsweek — are Steve Hilton (gubernatorial candidate, Trump-endorsed) and Spencer Pratt (LA mayoral candidate). Trump explicitly wrote elsewhere: 'They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.'

Overall Veracity: 20%