# Post ts_116712260792747726

- Post ID: `ts_116712260792747726`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-06-08T03:02:48.439Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> 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

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-06-09T17:38:09.072Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

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.

## 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.'

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. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### 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

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

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

**Identity Claims:**
- President DJT
- guardian of electoral integrity
- voice 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:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**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

- 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

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-06-09._

> 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.

Sources: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-accuses-democrats-of-cheating-in-california-over-slow-vote-counts-12030091; https://www.worthynews.com/114910-trump-warns-of-great-trouble-as-california-vote-count-shifts-los-angeles-mayoral-race; https://www.newsweek.com/what-trump-has-said-about-california-elections-as-fraud-probes-launched-12040108; https://time.com/article/2026/06/07/la-mayor-results-california-election-rigged-trump/; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/doj-office-investigations-california-elections-trump-claims-cheating-rcna348746; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/06/us-attorneys-office-california-announces-probe-into-elections/; https://www.ms.now/news/california-ag-trump-voter-id-primary-election-ballots; https://abc7news.com/post/2026-primary-election-slow-california-vote-count-criticized-trump-republican-governor-hopeful-steve-hilton/19236270/; https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/spencer-pratt-nithya-raman-primary-la-mayor-election-results/3900328/; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/spencer-pratts-runner-edge-democrat-raman-1-thousand-ballots; https://abc7.com/live-updates/california-primary-election-2026-voters-decide-key-races-governor-los-angeles-mayor-congressional-districts/19213908/entry/19242772/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_gubernatorial_election; https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/upcoming-elections/primary-election-june-2-2026

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- election_fraud_claim (95%)
- california (90%)
- delegitimization (90%)
- dumocrats_epithet (80%)
- stochastic_terrorism (60%)
- preemptive_attack (85%)
- splitting (80%)
- all_caps (60%)
- djt_signoff (70%)

## That day

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

**California loss triggers "Rigged Election" reflex while kingmaker mode runs in parallel**

Trump spent the day in New York after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden the night before, where he was loudly booed. His morning opened with a defeated, reflexive "Rigged Election!" reaction to a California Republican losing a Los Angeles runoff, a grievance he revisited at midday with a longer "Third World Nation" rant. In parallel he ran a heavy kingmaker operation — pushing through roughly two dozen endorsement posts for Nevada and South Carolina primary candidates — and claimed credit for an imminent Israel-Iran ceasefire. The day's sharpest flash of anger came in the afternoon, when he demanded the Senate Majority Leader fire the Senate Parliamentarian, blaming her rather than the four Republicans who actually sank his SAVE America Act last week. Overall mood was confident with brief vulnerable flares around the losses, no signs of a manic spiral, and no public reaction at all to the MSG booing.

Full digest for 2026-06-08: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, June 8). Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116712260792747726
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in..." Truth Social, 8 Jun. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116712260792747726. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in...," Truth Social, June 8, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116712260792747726.

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