# Post ts_116813755890271897

- Post ID: `ts_116813755890271897`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-06-26T01:14:20.728Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (4:50), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> To begin today with breaking news, a major legal battle involving Mike Lindell has come to an end. The voting technology company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems, now operating as Liberty Vote, has agreed to dismiss a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow. Court filings show both sides agreed to drop all claims with prejudice. That means the case cannot be refiled. The lawsuit stemmed from Mike's repeated claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 presidential election. Allegations the company strongly denied. The dismissal marks a significant end to one of the most closely watched election-related lawsuits stemming from the 2020 presidential race. I am just celebrating the good news coming out of this. Tell us about this legal case and what the latest is. Well, here it is everybody. This is the second one now. Remember the evidence, the $5 million challenge got overturned last summer and they said Mike was right. This is all about the voting machine evidence and now yesterday, if you don't see in the news, they did one article out there from law and crime. Dominion dropped the lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow and that was yesterday. I just want everybody to know it doesn't mean anything that I'm going to stop fighting these voting machine companies. It was a nice gesture, but we're all in to get rid of them, get to paper ballots, hand count it and here I'm going to announce right now it should be within the next half hour. We're going to be posting on Lindell TV, everybody. It's 800 page historical drop of the voting machine evidence. This has never been seen before. A lot of it, a lot of it you might have, we have bits and pieces were out there. This has been compiled over the last five years. This will be right here on Lindell TV. It'll be posted, like I say, in about 20 minutes. We're doing a press release on it and anyone that ever tells you then, Vanessa, that ever says, "Oh, there's no evidence, there's no evidence." This is like a library. It's a historical library with 500 and some articles and 100% evidence that back each thing up. This was actually part of this given to the president when he walked off that reporter a few weeks ago and he re-truth it. So it's a very exciting day. We're going to tie in all this stuff going on. It is a relief for me that my pillow, which never did anything when Dominion sued them for $1.3 billion with a B, everybody, and my employees had to sit and worry about that because their CEO is out there practicing his free speech. This is a big relief. So we got one, two down. We are also appealing. The appeal just went out. It'll actually go out today. The Colorado case, that my pillow won a year ago. Vanessa, you were there. My pillow won and this is the last piece of that where we're putting in the appeal and hopefully they rule on that very fast. It seems like the voting machine companies are falling like dominoes here. Then we have the last one you'll see in the newest Smartmatic here in Minneapolis. That's like a parked car. It's sitting there because if everybody remembers the judge made a ruling before even going to trial that I defamed them and then a week later it came out that Smartmatic is in fact committing crimes with their company, with their voting machines and against other countries and a lot of that will be coming out too. But that was funny with that one because they're going, I'm going okay. A week after this judge makes this ruling here in Minneapolis, it all comes out that yes, this is a criminal organization basically. It's like I defamed the mafia, right? I figured it'd be like my cousin Vinny going, okay, in light of the new evidence, he's dismissed. But according to my lawyers, that's now how it is. It can just sit there like a parked car and judges can sit on it as long as they want.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/813/744/837/270/530/original/e0435520ab8038e1.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 10,162
- Reposts: 2,476
- Replies: 284
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- Metrics collected: 2026-06-26T21:01:03.080Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-09T20:45:24.602Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Media-only post: a broadcast clip announcing Dominion/Liberty Vote's dismissal with prejudice of its $1.3B defamation suit against Mike Lindell, followed by Lindell reframing that procedural outcome as vindication of 2020 voting-machine fraud claims and announcing an "800 page" evidence drop. The subject attached no words. The analyzable behavior is selection and amplification.

Posted 9:14 PM Eastern from the Washington, D.C. area, breaking the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off pattern that terminates all five adjacent posts — a modest lean toward personal selection, though with no text there is no stylometric evidence and confidence must stay low.

Psychologically this is vindication-supply retrieval directed at the 2020 defeat. The state is mixed: celebratory surface, vulnerable substrate. That a sitting president who won in 2024 still requires the prior loss re-litigated by proxy indicates the injury remains unresolved by victory. Defenses are pathological denial and distortion (dismissal converted to proof), with projection, splitting and rationalization supplied by the clip and ratified by transmission.

The clip demonstrates the RAND firehose model — bulk substituting for probative value — plus complete DARVO structure and delegitimization extended from election vendors to judges. Notably, rage is absent; the affect is celebratory.

Danger is elevated not by this artifact's content, which contains no threat, dehumanization or mobilization call, but as a maintenance dose in a five-and-a-half-year regimen historically linked to political violence. Consistent with baseline; significant for persistence, not novelty.

## Analysis: Media-Only Amplification of Lindell/Dominion Dismissal Segment

### 0. The analyzable act

There is **no written text**. The subject published a video clip and nothing else. Stylometry is unavailable — no capitalization pattern, no punctuation habits, no sign-off, no typos to score. The behavior under analysis is **selection and amplification**: what he chose to place in front of roughly ten million followers, unmediated by a single word of his own.

The clip is a two-part broadcast package: (a) a news read announcing that Dominion Voting Systems — now operating as Liberty Vote — agreed to dismiss with prejudice its $1.3 billion defamation suit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow, and (b) an interview segment in which Lindell reframes that procedural dismissal as substantive vindication, announces an "800 page historical drop of the voting machine evidence," characterizes Smartmatic as "a criminal organization basically," and vows to "get rid of them, get to paper ballots, hand count it."

Notably, the transcript contains a direct claim about the subject: *"This was actually part of this given to the president when he walked off that reporter a few weeks ago and he re-truth it."* The subject is being told, on his own feed, that he is already a participant in this evidence chain — and by reposting, he ratifies that framing without saying so.

### 1. Authorship attribution

**Score: 0.7 (leaning personal selection). Confidence: LOW — and necessarily so.**

With no written text, there is no stylometric evidence whatsoever. The attribution question here is narrower than usual: not *who wrote this* (nobody wrote it) but *whose hand selected and pressed post*. Available evidence:

- **Timing.** 01:14 UTC = **9:14 PM Eastern, June 25**. The subject was in the Washington, D.C. area (National Mall State Fair kickoff June 24, follow-up posts June 25). This falls outside staff business hours, in the evening television-consumption window that has historically produced his most personal reposts.
- **Structural break from the surrounding feed.** Every one of the five preceding posts in the longitudinal window terminates with the staff-formatted signature block **"President DONALD J. TRUMP."** That signature is a communications-shop convention. This post carries no text and therefore no signature — it breaks the pattern of the day entirely.
- **Content class.** Grievance-adjacent, litigation-vindication, election-fraud-linked content of this kind is rarely staff-originated; a professional communications operation has active institutional incentives *not* to re-platform 2020 voting-machine claims from the official presidential account, given the defamation exposure that destroyed several allied figures.
- **Counter-consideration.** Media-only reposts are the easiest possible act to delegate, and a social-media aide monitoring friendly outlets could plausibly clip and post this. Absence of text cuts both ways.

The score should be read as a modest lean, not a finding. **The confidence cap at "low" is not a hedge — it reflects genuine evidentiary absence.**

### 2. Psychological state and trigger

**Trigger type: supply-seeking, vindication subtype.** The underlying injury being addressed is the oldest and most load-bearing one in the subject's psychological architecture: the **defeat** of November 2020. This post is not a reaction to a fresh wound. It is a retrieval operation — a piece of external material that can be read, however tenuously, as the world conceding a point he lost.

The psychological economy is precise. A voluntary dismissal with prejudice is a *settlement outcome*, not an adjudication of truth; it says nothing about whether voting machines altered the 2020 result. But it produces a headline shape — "Dominion drops lawsuit" — that can be metabolized as exoneration. The clip does that metabolizing work for him, in someone else's voice. He does not have to assert anything. He merely has to broadcast it.

This is a **characteristic pattern worth noting for longitudinal tracking**: the use of third-party voices to carry claims the subject has legal or political reasons not to state himself. It permits the narrative to circulate at full strength while preserving deniability. Whether this represents strategic calculation or simple affective preference for flattering content cannot be determined from a single artifact.

**Narcissistic state: mixed.** The surface affect is grandiose-adjacent — celebration, momentum, "falling like dominoes." Underneath sits a vulnerable substrate: the persistent need, five and a half years on, for the 2020 loss to be re-litigated and reversed by proxy. A securely grandiose position would not require this. The posture of the man who won the 2024 election and is currently president, still curating evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, is the tell. **Victory did not resolve the injury.**

**Rage: not present in the subject's act.** The clip carries grievance and combative intent ("we're all in to get rid of them"), but the amplification itself is celebratory rather than enraged. This is an important discrimination: not every election-related post is rage-driven, and scoring it as such would flatten a real distinction in his affective range.

### 3. Defense mechanisms

- **Denial (pathological).** The foundational operation. Five and a half years after a contested election adjudicated in more than sixty courts, the premise that voting machines were compromised remains active and is being actively refreshed.
- **Distortion (pathological).** The reframing of a *procedural dismissal* as *evidentiary vindication* is a substantial reshaping of reality to meet an inner need. The clip supplies it ("they said Mike was right"); the subject transmits it unaltered.
- **Projection (immature).** The clip's core move — Smartmatic recast as "a criminal organization," "like I defamed the mafia" — relocates criminality from the accused to the accuser. The party alleging fraud becomes the victim of fraudsters. By selecting this segment, the subject endorses that inversion.
- **Splitting (immature).** Absolute epistemics: "100% evidence that back each thing up," versus those who say "there's no evidence." No middle register exists.
- **Rationalization (neurotic).** The Smartmatic case's continued pendency is explained not as legal weakness but as judicial obstruction — "it can just sit there like a parked car and judges can sit on it as long as they want."

### 4. Rhetorical and propaganda techniques

The clip is a compact demonstration of the **RAND firehose model**, and the subject's amplification is the distribution mechanism:

- **Volume as proof.** An "800 page historical drop," "500 and some articles," "compiled over the last five years." The evidentiary claim rests on *bulk*, not on any single verifiable item. Nothing in the segment identifies a specific falsifiable finding. This is quantity substituting for probative value — the signature move of a firehose operation.
- **Legal-outcome laundering.** Procedural events (a dismissal, a pending appeal, a stalled docket) are converted into substantive vindications. Each is technically anchored in something real, which is what makes the composite durable.
- **DARVO structure.** Deny the fraud claims were false; attack the voting companies as criminals; reverse victim and offender — the defamation defendant becomes the persecuted party, the plaintiff becomes the mafia.
- **Momentum framing.** "Falling like dominoes," "one, two down." Constructs an inevitability narrative from two unrelated procedural events.
- **Folk-authority appeal.** The *My Cousin Vinny* reference translates a complex procedural posture into a common-sense grievance that requires no legal literacy to feel.
- **Eliminationist language, institutional target.** "We're all in to get rid of them." The target is corporate and technological, not human — this is a policy demand (hand-counted paper ballots), not a threat to persons. It should be logged, not inflated.

**No dehumanizing language directed at persons. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism pattern** — there is no named individual target, no call to mobilization, no implied action against people.

### 5. Reality distortion and epistemic closure

The post scores affirmatively for **epistemic closure**. The clip explicitly constructs an in-group/out-group epistemology: there are those who possess "the evidence," and there are those who say "oh, there's no evidence" — the latter defined not as mistaken but as willfully blind. The "historical library" framing positions the material as a permanent counter-archive, a parallel record maintained against the consensus one. This is the structural signature of a closed epistemic system: it cannot be falsified from outside because outside testimony is disqualified in advance.

**Gaslighting is present by amplification rather than assertion.** The subject makes no claim. He broadcasts a claim structure that inverts a documented reality (courts and audits found no machine-based fraud; Dominion secured a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over these same allegations) and presents its opposite as newly proven. Transmitting a distortion to an audience of millions without a word of qualification is a communicative act with consequences distinct from private belief.

### 6. Archetypal and order/chaos positioning

**Archetype: Warrior in vindication phase, with Victim substrate.** The clip's protagonist (Lindell, and by proxy the subject) is a man who absorbed a $1.3 billion attack for "practicing his free speech" and emerged unbroken. The Shadow content is legible: criminality, organized corruption, and contempt for law are projected wholesale onto the voting-technology companies and the judges handling their cases.

**Order/chaos: order-restorer with asymmetric application.** The demand — paper ballots, hand counting — is framed as restoration of a lost proper order. Order is promised to voters presumed disenfranchised; chaos is directed at election infrastructure, its vendors, and the judiciary that has repeatedly ruled against these claims. The **judiciary is a notable secondary target here**: judges are characterized as sitting on cases indefinitely and ruling against the evidence, extending the delegitimization from election machinery to courts.

### 7. Danger assessment

**Level: elevated.** Not because this artifact contains a threat — it does not. The elevation reflects a specific, historically documented mechanism: sustained presidential-account amplification of the stolen-election narrative is the same input that preceded January 6, 2021. The relevant risk is not this post in isolation but the maintenance of a delusional frame in a large audience, and the extension of illegitimacy claims to courts. As a discrete communicative act, the violence risk is low; as a maintenance dose in a five-and-a-half-year regimen, it is not negligible.

### 8. Cognitive status

**No assessment possible.** The post contains zero language produced by the subject. Word-finding, syntactic complexity, coherence, perseveration and temporal orientation are all unmeasurable here. Baseline deviation recorded as "none" solely because there is nothing to compare. **Any longitudinal cognitive scoring must exclude this post from the sample** rather than treat absence of markers as evidence of intactness.

### 9. Fact checks

**None recorded, by design.** Every factual assertion in the transcript is made by a broadcaster or by Mike Lindell. The subject asserts nothing. Attributing the dismissal claim, the "800 page" claim, or the Smartmatic-criminality claim to him by name would misrepresent the record. The substance of those claims is addressed in the prose above: the dismissal is real and reported accurately in its bare facts; the *inference* drawn from it — that it vindicates the machine-fraud allegations — is not supported, as a voluntary dismissal with prejudice resolves no factual question.

### 10. Clinical significance

Moderate. This post is **consistent with baseline rather than deviant from it**: it fits an established pattern of election-narrative maintenance via third-party voice. Its interest is not novelty but persistence — the demonstration that an injury from 2020 remains sufficiently active in 2026, during a second term, to warrant curation and rebroadcast at 9 PM on an evening otherwise devoted to celebrating a rally crowd. **The confidence in this reading is medium.** A single media-only repost is thin evidence, and inferences drawn from an act of selection are inherently weaker than those drawn from authored language.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Posted 9:14 PM Eastern (01:14 UTC) from the Washington, D.C. area — outside staff business hours, within the evening television-consumption window historically associated with personal reposts
- Structural break from same-day feed: all five preceding posts carry the staff-formatted 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' sign-off; this one carries no text at all
- Content class (2020 voting-machine litigation, defamation-adjacent) carries institutional risk a communications shop has incentive to avoid re-platforming
- Transcript explicitly references the subject having previously 're-truthed' related material, consistent with a personal ongoing interest in this content stream
- Counter-indicator: a media-only repost is the most easily delegated act possible, and a social-media aide monitoring friendly outlets could plausibly have clipped it

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 55%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Openness — values rigidity: a fixed premise maintained against sustained disconfirming evidence, refreshed rather than revised

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Vindicated truth-teller — the persecuted party proven right by attrition, with the subject positioned as beneficiary and quiet endorser rather than speaker
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Voting-technology companies (Dominion/Liberty Vote, Smartmatic) and the courts, media and fact-checkers who ruled the 2020 fraud claims baseless

**Identity Claims:**
- The 2020 election result was illegitimate and the evidence is accumulating
- Those who made the claim were persecuted through the courts for exercising free speech
- Time and litigation are vindicating them
- He is part of the evidentiary chain (the clip states material was 'given to the president' and 'he re-truth it')

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Defeat (Dismissal with prejudice of Dominion/Liberty Vote's $1.3B defamation suit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow, framed by the clip as vindication of 2020 election-fraud claims)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 75%
- Sadism: 15%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Wordless amplification — the audience is invited to supply the endorsement the subject withholds, deepening participatory investment
- Delegation of the claim to a third-party voice, allowing the narrative to circulate at full strength while preserving deniability
- Insider-archive framing ('this has never been seen before,' 'a historical library') that positions followers as custodians of suppressed knowledge
- In-group epistemic test: acceptance of the machine-fraud premise functions as membership credential

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Presidential-account amplification of the stolen-election narrative, the same input stream historically linked to the January 6, 2021 violence — risk arises from maintenance of the frame, not from this artifact's content
- Delegitimization extended beyond election vendors to the judiciary ('judges can sit on it as long as they want'), broadening the set of institutions cast as illegitimate
- Institutional eliminationist phrasing amplified ('we're all in to get rid of them'), directed at corporate targets rather than persons
- Announcement of a mass evidence release designed to re-energize a dormant grievance movement

### Gaslighting

- Amplification (not assertion) of the claim that a voluntary dismissal with prejudice proves the underlying fraud allegations true
- Transmission of 'they said Mike was right' regarding the $5 million challenge, inverting the documented arbitration outcome's meaning
- Re-platforming denial of a documented event — the adjudicated absence of machine-based fraud in 2020
- In-group epistemic test framing: those who say 'there's no evidence' cast as willfully blind rather than mistaken
- Reverse victim and offender: the defamation defendant framed as persecuted for 'practicing his free speech,' the plaintiff as criminal

## Tags

- media-only repost (100%)
- 2020 election denial (95%)
- litigation vindication (90%)
- denial (85%)
- distortion (85%)
- DARVO (80%)
- firehose of falsehood (80%)
- vindication supply (85%)
- voting technology companies (80%)
- judiciary (50%)
- Mike Lindell (90%)
- mixed narcissistic state (60%)
- proxy voice amplification (85%)

## That day

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

**Grievance by proxy at night, glory by daylight — and one ninety-minute window where the mask of the showman slipped into "plague" and "animals."**

Trump posted 23 times, and the day split cleanly in two. It opened with a late-evening run of wordless videos — other people's voices making his arguments about a stolen 2020 election, Democrats who "are going to cheat," and hidden communists at home — then he slept a full nine hours and woke up in an entirely different mood. Most of the daylight hours went to self-celebration: a friendly poll putting his approval at 65 percent, a boast that his deportation numbers crush Obama's, a street named after him in India, a passport with his face on it, and a Fourth of July airshow he promised would be the biggest in American history. He also threatened a 100 percent tariff on any country taxing American tech, and reported Iranian drones hitting a cargo ship with striking calm on a day U.S. jets struck ten Iranian targets. The one sharp break came right before a speech to a religious conservative group, where he called newly elected progressives "godless Communists," a "plague," and "animals" — and he never said a word about Tucker Carlson, who had just told him to shut up.

Full digest for 2026-06-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-26/analysis

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