# Post ts_117536719518293568

- Post ID: `ts_117536719518293568`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-31T17:33:30.227Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> So, in Los Angeles, our Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California (and various other titles which were forced upon us by the ridiculous Blue Slip SCAM where nobody can get confirmed without the Dumocrats’ approval — which is IMPOSSIBLE to get in that they are all Trump Deranged Lunatics!), Bill Essayli, has done a fantastic job. He is one of the best, EVER! He caught a massive number of Illegal Votes, 20,000, but potentially Hundreds of Thousands, and maybe even Millions, and the Court has just ruled against it. Why would they reject fixing Election Fraud? That’s like, in the 2020 Rigged and Stolen Election, when we had a great case, but the Supreme Court would not hear it because they said I, the President of the United States of America, had NO STANDING to bring such a case. Think of it, the President, on a Federal Election, has NO STANDING over himself, and so it goes. We are going to continue our yearslong fight on Election Integrity. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-31T17:59:37.582Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Within two days, a federal judge and then a Ninth Circuit panel refused the Justice Department's bid to set aside about 20,000 Los Angeles ballots it linked to suspected noncitizens. Three days before the midterm, the post recasts that dispute as a finished fact ("caught a massive number of Illegal Votes"). It then inflates the number in one clause to "potentially Hundreds of Thousands, and maybe even Millions," with nothing offered for the larger figures. Rather than engage with the ruling, it turns to 2020 and misstates what the Supreme Court did. The Court found that Texas lacked standing and dismissed Trump's motion to intervene as moot. It never held that "the President... had NO STANDING," and the phrase "NO STANDING over himself" garbles even the grievance. Defenses on display: distortion of the legal record, continued denial of the 2020 result, and splitting (Essayli is "one of the best, EVER"; Democrats are "Trump Deranged Lunatics"). There is also a rationalization that blames Essayli's legally contested acting status entirely on the blue slip. A brief resigned note, "and so it goes," shows the wound under the combativeness. The concern is timing. The post gives readers a ready-made reason to reject California's count while it is still under way and casts the courts as protecting fraud. Its only stated remedy is continued litigation, and it names no individual target.

## A ballot ruling in Los Angeles, run back through 2020

The trigger is a court loss from the previous 48 hours. The Justice Department sued California and Los Angeles County to have ballots from about 20,000 voters it flagged as likely noncitizens set aside before counting. Judge David Carter denied the emergency request, saying it "would wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway," and a Ninth Circuit panel then ruled 2-1 against the department. The post went up three days before the November 3 midterm, while those ballots were being processed. "The Court has just ruled against it" is a fair report of that outcome. Everything around it reshapes the outcome.

## How 20,000 suspected registrants become millions of votes

The post turns a list of registrants whose eligibility is disputed into a finished finding: Essayli "caught a massive number of Illegal Votes." No court found that any of these ballots was illegal. The department's own request was to verify them before counting. The number then grows in a single clause: "20,000, but potentially Hundreds of Thousands, and maybe even Millions." Each step is softened ("potentially," "maybe"), which lets the post put "Millions" in front of readers while keeping a literal escape hatch. This is a familiar escalation pattern in his election posts. The hedges do no epistemic work, because nothing is offered for the larger figures. The rhetorical question "Why would they reject fixing Election Fraud?" assumes the fraud and makes the court's procedural reasoning look like a refusal to act.

## The 2020 detour and what it misremembers

The ruling is never discussed on its merits. "That's like, in the 2020 Rigged and Stolen Election" turns straight to a six-year-old grievance, and the analogy carries the argument: courts block fraud cases, then and now. The account of 2020 is wrong where it matters most. In *Texas v. Pennsylvania* the Supreme Court found that Texas lacked standing, and it dismissed Trump's motion to intervene as moot. It never ruled that "I, the President of the United States of America, had NO STANDING." The next sentence, "the President, on a Federal Election, has NO STANDING over himself," does not correspond to any legal concept. It reads as a compressed version of "no standing in his own election" that came out garbled. This is distortion in Vaillant's sense: the record is reshaped so that the loss becomes institutional persecution of the office itself. Calling the election "Rigged and Stolen" continues the long-running denial of the 2020 result. Then comes a rare fatalistic tag, "and so it goes," a moment of resigned vulnerability before he recovers with "We are going to continue our yearslong fight."

## Splitting around Essayli

The two camps are drawn without middle ground. Essayli "has done a fantastic job. He is one of the best, EVER!" Democrats are "Dumocrats" and "all Trump Deranged Lunatics," and the confirmation process is a "ridiculous Blue Slip SCAM." The parenthetical about "various other titles which were forced upon us" alludes to Essayli's contested status: a federal judge ruled he was not lawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney. The post blames those improvised titles entirely on the blue slip. That is a rationalization with some factual basis, since home-state Democratic senators can block U.S. attorney nominees under Judiciary Committee practice, but it leaves out the Vacancies Act limits that produced the ruling against him. The narcissistic state is mixed. It is grandiose in fusing self with office ("I, the President"), and vulnerable in the repeated "NO STANDING," the injury he chose to capitalize twice.

## Voice and authorship

The post went out at 1:33 pm Eastern on a Saturday (EDT was still in force, and both Washington and Palm Beach are on Eastern time). That is daytime, which weakens the timing signal. The text itself points to him. It opens with "So," uses a spoken "That's like," and builds a roughly forty-word parenthetical that holds a dash clause, a capitalized "IMPOSSIBLE," and an exclamation point before it returns to the subject. It drifts from Los Angeles ballots into 2020, and it speaks in the first person. The full title "Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California" is the one polished element, and it fits dictation as easily as aide drafting. The sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP" regularly closes his own long posts.

## Language production

The nested parenthetical does close correctly, and the sentence gets back to Essayli, so the syntax holds under load. The weak points are local. "Ruled against it" has no clear referent ("it" is either the vote catch or the case), and "NO STANDING over himself" is a semantic slip. Long digressive chains that reroute to 2020 have been part of his baseline since at least 2021. Against his 1980s and 1990s interviews, where sentences were shorter and stayed on topic, the drift fits a long-documented shift more than any change this week.

## Pre-election framing

The risk lies in timing and scale, not in any instruction. Three days before a national election, with Los Angeles ballots being counted, the post says "maybe even Millions" of illegal votes exist there and that courts "reject fixing Election Fraud." That gives readers a ready-made reason to dispute California results whatever they turn out to be. No individual judge is named, and the only action proposed is the "fight on Election Integrity," which in context means litigation. Without a named target or a call to gather, the post stays below a stochastic-terrorism pattern. The prior same-day fragment "Reuters (One of the Worst!) Reporter." shows the press hostility running in the background.

Sources: [NBC News](https://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-rules-california-ballots-alleged-non-citizen-voters-trump-doj-rcna606100), [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-rejects-doj-request-block-california-immediately-counting-ballots-linked-alleged-noncitizens), [WLT Report](https://wltreport.com/2026/10/30/ninth-circuit-trump-doj-california-ballots-suspected-noncitizens), [Townhall](https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/10/29/bill-essayli-california-voter-fraud-indictments-n2685515), [RedState](https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/10/29/judge-issues-ruling-on-emergency-motion-to-sequester-20000-california-ballots-n2208747), [ABC7](https://abc7.com/post/federal-judge-rules-top-us-prosecutor-los-angeles-bill-essayli-isnt-legally-serving/19988277/), [NBC Los Angeles](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/bill-essayli-judge-rules-isnt-legally-serving/3962166/), [Patch](https://patch.com/california/across-ca/socals-top-prosecutor-position-illegally-judge-rules), [Wikipedia: Bill Essayli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Essayli)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Court has just ruled against the effort to set aside the ballots Essayli's office flagged" | **True** | Judge David Carter denied the DOJ's emergency request to sequester about 20,000 Los Angeles County ballots, and a Ninth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 against the department days before the post. |
| "Essayli caught a massive number of illegal votes, 20,000" | **Mostly False** | About 20,000 is the DOJ's count of voters it considers likely noncitizens, and it asked to have their ballots verified before counting. No court has found those ballots illegal. A grand jury has indicted some noncitizen registrants, but the 20,000 figure is an allegation, not a set of proven illegal votes. |
| "Potentially hundreds of thousands, and maybe even millions, of illegal votes" | **False** | The DOJ's own filing put the figure at about 20,000 suspected registrants. Neither the post nor the government's case offers a basis for numbers in the hundreds of thousands or millions. |
| "In 2020 the Supreme Court would not hear the case because it said the President had no standing" | **False** | In Texas v. Pennsylvania (December 11, 2020) the Court denied Texas leave to file because Texas lacked standing. It dismissed Trump's motion to intervene as moot and made no finding about his standing. |
| "The 2020 election was rigged and stolen" | **False** | Courts, state election officials of both parties, and Trump's own Attorney General William Barr found no fraud on a scale that could have changed the outcome. |
| "Under the blue slip, nobody can get confirmed without the Democrats' approval, which forced Essayli into acting titles" | **Half True** | Senate Judiciary Committee practice lets home-state senators block U.S. attorney nominees, so California's two Democratic senators can stop a confirmation. However, Judge Seabright's ruling that Essayli was not lawfully serving rested on Federal Vacancies Reform Act limits on acting service, which the post leaves out. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- First-person 'I, the President of the United States of America'
- Spoken-register openers 'So,' and 'That's like,'
- Forty-word parenthetical nesting a dash clause, IMPOSSIBLE in caps and an exclamation point
- Drift from LA ballot ruling into 2020 Supreme Court grievance
- Garbled phrase 'NO STANDING over himself'

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 10%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 70%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Angry hostility (neuroticism) paired with low trust (agreeableness)

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

Primary drive: revenge

### Narrative

- **Role:** Persecuted fighter denied standing by the institutions he leads
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Democrats ('Dumocrats', 'Trump Deranged Lunatics') and courts that 'reject fixing Election Fraud'

**Identity Claims:**
- 'I, the President of the United States of America'
- Leader of a 'yearslong fight on Election Integrity'
- Patron of an excellent appointee ('our Acting U.S. Attorney')

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (District court and Ninth Circuit rulings refusing to sequester ~20,000 LA County ballots flagged by DOJ)

**Rage:** Intensity 50% targeting Courts, Democratic senators ('Dumocrats'), the blue-slip process
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.60

Baseline Deviation: slight

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

Cognitive Markers:
- semantic paraphasia
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'our Acting U.S. Attorney' and 'forced upon us'
- 'Think of it' direct address inviting shared indignation
- 'We are going to continue our yearslong fight' enlisting readers in the cause

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Claim of up to 'Millions' of illegal votes in Los Angeles three days before a national election
- Courts framed as refusing to 'fix' fraud while ballots are being counted
- Restatement of 'Rigged and Stolen' 2020 narrative tying past and present elections
- Primes rejection of California results; no named individual target and no call to assemble

### Gaslighting

- Recasts the Supreme Court's finding that Texas lacked standing as a ruling that the President had none
- Asserts 2020 was 'Rigged and Stolen' against the documented record
- Presents suspected noncitizen registrants as 'caught' 'Illegal Votes'
- Frames judicial caution about disrupting an election as rejecting 'fixing Election Fraud'

## Fact Checks (6)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-31._

> The Court has just ruled against the effort to set aside the ballots Essayli's office flagged

**TRUE**

Judge David Carter denied the DOJ's emergency request to sequester about 20,000 Los Angeles County ballots, and a Ninth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 against the department days before the post.

Sources: https://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-rules-california-ballots-alleged-non-citizen-voters-trump-doj-rcna606100; https://wltreport.com/2026/10/30/ninth-circuit-trump-doj-california-ballots-suspected-noncitizens

> Essayli caught a massive number of illegal votes, 20,000

**MOSTLY FALSE**

About 20,000 is the DOJ's count of voters it considers likely noncitizens, and it asked to have their ballots verified before counting. No court has found those ballots illegal. A grand jury has indicted some noncitizen registrants, but the 20,000 figure is an allegation, not a set of proven illegal votes.

Sources: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-rejects-doj-request-block-california-immediately-counting-ballots-linked-alleged-noncitizens; https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/10/29/bill-essayli-california-voter-fraud-indictments-n2685515

> Potentially hundreds of thousands, and maybe even millions, of illegal votes

**FALSE**

The DOJ's own filing put the figure at about 20,000 suspected registrants. Neither the post nor the government's case offers a basis for numbers in the hundreds of thousands or millions.

Sources: https://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-rules-california-ballots-alleged-non-citizen-voters-trump-doj-rcna606100

> In 2020 the Supreme Court would not hear the case because it said the President had no standing

**FALSE**

In Texas v. Pennsylvania (December 11, 2020) the Court denied Texas leave to file because Texas lacked standing. It dismissed Trump's motion to intervene as moot and made no finding about his standing.

Sources: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf

> The 2020 election was rigged and stolen

**FALSE**

Courts, state election officials of both parties, and Trump's own Attorney General William Barr found no fraud on a scale that could have changed the outcome.

> Under the blue slip, nobody can get confirmed without the Democrats' approval, which forced Essayli into acting titles

**HALF TRUE**

Senate Judiciary Committee practice lets home-state senators block U.S. attorney nominees, so California's two Democratic senators can stop a confirmation. However, Judge Seabright's ruling that Essayli was not lawfully serving rested on Federal Vacancies Reform Act limits on acting service, which the post leaves out.

Sources: https://abc7.com/post/federal-judge-rules-top-us-prosecutor-los-angeles-bill-essayli-isnt-legally-serving/19988277/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Essayli

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- election fraud claims (95%)
- 2020 election denial (80%)
- Bill Essayli (70%)
- blue slip (50%)
- judiciary (60%)
- Democrats (60%)
- victimhood (60%)
- distortion (70%)

## That day

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

**A cartoon of 'Islam' torching America's door, posted between batches of midterm endorsements**

Three days before the midterms, almost the whole day was a campaign machine. Wave after wave of near-identical endorsement posts for Republicans in five states went out, each batch timed to one of his phone rallies and plainly written by staff, typos and a duplicate included. His own voice came through mainly in grievance. He insisted that losing a court fight over Los Angeles ballots proved "maybe even Millions" of illegal votes, mocked a Reuters reporter's weight, and wedged an attack on New York's attorney general into one of the endorsements. In a lull between the Florida and New York batches, a cartoon went up showing "Islam" setting fire to America's door after burning down European countries, the ugliest post of the day, which ended quietly with a black-tie group photo on Halloween evening.

Full digest for 2026-10-31: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 31). So, in Los Angeles, our Acting U.S. Attorney for... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536719518293568
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "So, in Los Angeles, our Acting U.S. Attorney for the..." Truth Social, 31 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536719518293568. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "So, in Los Angeles, our Acting U.S. Attorney for the...," Truth Social, October 31, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536719518293568.

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