# Post x_1331225404351373300 - Post ID: `x_1331225404351373300` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2020-11-24T18:17:24.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1331225404351373300 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1331225404351373300/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1331225404351373300.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. In the past there were 20,000 people. This past election there were 120,000...and Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process.” @VicToensing @newsmax ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 50,083 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.785Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T18:18:09.643Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On November 24, 2020 — a day marked by Pennsylvania federal court dismissal, dual-state certifications for Biden, and GSA authorization of the Biden transition — this post represents the evidentiary layer of a multi-post fraud narrative, presenting a real but legally contextualized Wisconsin absentee voting statistic (a 6x increase in "indefinitely confined" filers) as implicitly fraudulent. The increase is documented but attributable to COVID-19 guidance; courts rejected the fraud interpretation. The "locked out" claim regarding Republican observers is similarly disputed and rejected in litigation. Posted at 13:17 EST (business hours), with correct grammar, no ALL CAPS, and structured attribution to a named ally attorney and Newsmax — this post shows multiple aide-involvement indicators, contrasting with the emotionally activated posts surrounding it. The psychological function is narcissistic-injury management: constructing a scaffold of apparent evidence to sustain denial of a certified electoral defeat. Defense mechanisms include rationalization (statistics as fraud proof), projection (observer-exclusion claim), and pathological denial of certified reality. The post contributes to a stochastic terrorism-adjacent pattern not through direct incitement but through systemic legitimacy destruction — providing "factual" ammunition for the 79% of Trump voters the adjacent post confirms already believe the election was stolen. Danger level assessed as elevated in context, not from this post alone but from its structural role in the broader epistemic assault on electoral outcomes. # Psychological Analysis: x_1331225404351373300 (2020-11-24) ## Framing and Context This post occupies a specific structural role within a high-volume, same-day posting campaign contesting the 2020 election results. Surrounded by emotionally activated posts ("RIGGED ELECTION!", "stench of the 2020 Election Hoax," "most corrupt election in American political history"), this particular post is notably restrained — presenting itself as factual, sourced, and evidentiary. This contrast is analytically significant. The known events context is severe: Pennsylvania and Michigan have both certified for Biden, a federal judge dismissed the Pennsylvania lawsuit with contempt, the GSA authorized the Biden transition, and the campaign disavowed Sidney Powell. The subject is experiencing cascading, compounding narcissistic injury from multiple directions simultaneously. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely aide-assisted or reviewed content (0.40 authentic)** The post was published at **13:17 EST** — deep within business hours. The structural characteristics reinforce this: no ALL CAPS, no exclamation marks, correct attribution format, no typos. The measured, evidentiary register contrasts sharply with the emotional tenor of surrounding posts on the same day. However, the *content strategy* — amplifying a loyal attorney ally via conservative media, deploying cherry-picked statistics, feeding the Newsmax ecosystem — is entirely consistent with Trump's information diet and rhetorical habits. The most likely scenario is aide-drafted or aide-reviewed content that Trump approved, possibly informed by his own cable news consumption that morning. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Neuroticism (High)**: Manifest in the surrounding post cluster; this post suppresses the emotional expression but operates in service of the same anxious, injury-response motivation. - **Agreeableness (Very Low)**: Interpersonal exploitation evident — using Toensing's credibility as a shield for an unsubstantiated claim. No acknowledgment of any legitimacy in the opposing electoral outcome. - **Conscientiousness (Low)**: The appearance of careful research (specific numbers, named source) is superficial; the claim lacks the rigor the format implies. - **Openness (Low)**: Rigid adherence to a pre-determined conclusion (fraud); statistics function as confirmation, not investigation. - **Extraversion**: Assertion mode, not dialogic — broadcasting to a receptive audience, not engaging with counter-evidence. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Status maintenance under threat** The indefinitely confined voter statistic is instrumentalized in service of a goal that precedes the evidence: preserving the narrative of a stolen election. The motive is not truth-seeking but grievance-validating. The post feeds the subject's base with a piece of ammunition they can deploy in interpersonal arguments, thereby maintaining the subject's role as information-provider and authority within the epistemic community he has constructed. **Schema revealed**: The world contains illegitimate processes that produce fraudulent outcomes when political opponents are involved; statistical anomalies (without alternative explanations) constitute evidence of conspiracy. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Investigator/Exposer — presenting himself (via proxy) as someone uncovering hidden truths others don't want seen. - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination — legitimate electoral process → revealed as corrupt mechanism → results are void. - **Identity claim**: I am the person who finds and reveals the fraud. - **Contrasting other**: Wisconsin election officials and Democrats who ran a procedurally captured, exclusionary counting process. The use of a named attorney (@VicToensing) allows the subject to simultaneously claim the role of validator ("look what this credentialed person found") while maintaining distance if the claim is rebutted — a characteristic deniability structure. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features (0.70)**: The post serves grandiosity by positioning the subject as uniquely aware of corruption others miss; entitlement manifest in sustained refusal to accept certified results. - **Antisocial features (0.50)**: Repeated propagation of claims that have been judicially dismissed; disregard for institutional legitimacy and the rights of other voters whose ballots are implicitly invalidated. - **Paranoid features (0.60)**: The framing assumes coordinated exclusion of Republicans — a persecution narrative without demonstrated causal mechanism. - **Sadism (0.10)**: Minimal in this specific post; no pleasure-in-humiliation evident. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: The 6x increase in "indefinitely confined" voters is presented as self-evidently suspicious, rationalizing the predetermined fraud conclusion with superficially numerical support. 2. **Projection (immature)**: Claiming Republicans were "locked out" — attributing procedural exclusion to the opposing party while engaging in broad delegitimization of millions of votes. 3. **Denial (pathological)**: The surrounding posts, taken as a cluster, represent sustained denial of judicially certified electoral reality. This post contributes to that structure by providing "evidence" to sustain the denial. ### Narcissistic State: Vulnerable The subject is in the vulnerable pole of the narcissistic spectrum — wounded, persecuted, constructing a reality in which defeat becomes fraud. The controlled presentation (relative calm, sourced statistics) represents an *ego-preserving* mode: rather than the grandiose assertion of dominance, this is the careful assembly of a defensive fortress against an encroaching reality. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee" | **Mostly False** | Wisconsin offers multiple absentee voting pathways. 'Indefinitely confined' is one specific category that waives photo ID requirements, not the sole eligibility criterion for absentee voting. The claim misleads about the structure of Wisconsin's absentee voting law. | | "In the past there were 20,000 indefinitely confined absentee voters; in 2020 there were 120,000" | **Mostly True** | The approximate numbers are accurate — documented increase in indefinitely confined filers occurred in 2020. The implied fraudulent causation is not supported; the increase correlates directly with COVID-19 guidance advising that pandemic health conditions qualified voters for this status. Wisconsin courts reviewed and declined to find fraud. | | "Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process" | **Mostly False** | Republican observers were present at Wisconsin vote-counting locations. Legal challenges regarding observer access and proximity were filed and largely rejected by courts. The claim conflates disputes over observer positioning with total exclusion from the process, a material distortion. | Overall Veracity: 40% ## Rhetorical Analysis This post executes a sophisticated propaganda function within the day's content sequence: it provides the **evidential scaffold** that emotional posts assert but cannot support. The structure is: 1. Name a credentialed ally (attorney Victoria Toensing) 2. Cite a specific channel (Newsmax — preaching to the converted) 3. Present a striking numerical contrast (20K → 120K) without explanatory context 4. Juxtapose with a process-violation claim ("locked out") 5. Imply systemic fraud without asserting it — the numbers and the observer-exclusion claim are left to create the conclusion in the reader's mind This is more rhetorically sophisticated than the surrounding posts, which further supports aide involvement or deliberate strategic composition. The **gish gallop** contribution is notable: adding Wisconsin to the Pennsylvania and Michigan claims creates a multi-state fraud narrative that overwhelms individual fact-checks. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion - The post presents a legally resolved statistical question (courts accepted the COVID explanation for increased indefinitely-confined filings) as an open, suspicious anomaly — a subtle but significant reality inversion. - The "locked out" claim denies documented presence of Republican observers, meeting the criterion for denial of documented events. --- ## Danger Assessment: **Elevated** This specific post does not contain violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or direct calls to action. However, assessed in its day's context: - It feeds a reality-distortion campaign that is producing documented radicalization of Trump voters (adjacent post: "79 Percent of Trump Voters Believe 'Election Was Stolen'... They are 100% correct") - It provides "factual" ammunition that will circulate in the ecosystem and be cited as evidence by actors less constrained than the subject - The statistical precision of the claim gives it disproportionate memetic durability compared to the more easily dismissible emotional posts The danger is systemic rather than immediate — this post is part of the infrastructure of a coordinated epistemic assault on electoral legitimacy. --- ## Longitudinal Note Compared to baseline posting style, this post is notably low-temperature. The subject's baseline Twitter style features ALL CAPS, exclamation marks, impulsive asides, and stream-of-consciousness structure. The absence of all these markers, combined with a business-hours timestamp and sourced-statistical format, represents a meaningful stylistic departure for this specific post — though not the broader day's content, which remains consistent with activated, grievance-driven baseline patterns. The day's posting as a whole (five-plus election posts, one raw negation "No!") is consistent with a subject under severe sustained narcissistic injury, managing the collapse of his electoral reality through a combination of emotional expression and strategic "evidential" content production. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - Posted at 13:17 EST (business hours) — consistent with aide-assisted or reviewed content - Relatively restrained, no ALL CAPS, no exclamation marks — atypical for authentic Trump posts on this emotional day - Quote-attribution format (@VicToensing @newsmax) is structured and deliberate, not stream-of-consciousness - No typos or misspellings - However, sourcing from conservative media allies and presenting partial statistics as damning evidence IS authentic Trump pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Election loss, Pennsylvania federal court dismissal, Michigan/Pennsylvania certifications for Biden) Sentiment: -0.45 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 60% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Presenting himself as a validator of audience grievances ('They are 100% correct' in adjacent post) - Naming a sympathetic authority figure (Toensing) to lend credibility to the audience's pre-existing beliefs - Feeding conservative media ecosystem loop: Fox/Newsmax → Trump amplification → base validation ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Systemic legitimacy destruction: presents judicially resolved statistical questions as open fraud evidence, sustaining mass belief in stolen election (adjacent post confirms 79% of Trump voters already hold this belief) - Evidential scaffold function: provides 'factual' ammunition to a radicalized audience more likely to act on grievances than the subject himself - Part of multi-post, multi-jurisdiction campaign overwhelming individual fact-checks (Firehose model) - Epistemic closure reinforcement: sourcing exclusively from allied media ecosystem (Newsmax) and allied attorney, structurally preventing exposure to counter-evidence ### Gaslighting - Presents legally adjudicated and contextually explained voter-registration increase as open, suspicious anomaly — inverts settled factual question into active 'evidence' - Republican observer 'lockout' claim denies documented presence of Republican observers at Wisconsin counting locations - Frames normal (if elevated) pandemic-era absentee voting behavior as evidence of systemic corruption without acknowledging the legal and public-health explanation courts accepted ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._ > In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee **MOSTLY FALSE** Wisconsin offers multiple absentee voting pathways. 'Indefinitely confined' is one specific category that waives photo ID requirements, not the sole eligibility criterion for absentee voting. The claim misleads about the structure of Wisconsin's absentee voting law. Sources: Wisconsin Statutes §6.86; Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance > In the past there were 20,000 indefinitely confined absentee voters; in 2020 there were 120,000 **MOSTLY TRUE** The approximate numbers are accurate — documented increase in indefinitely confined filers occurred in 2020. The implied fraudulent causation is not supported; the increase correlates directly with COVID-19 guidance advising that pandemic health conditions qualified voters for this status. Wisconsin courts reviewed and declined to find fraud. Sources: Wisconsin Elections Commission data; Court rulings in Trump v. Biden Wisconsin challenges > Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process **MOSTLY FALSE** Republican observers were present at Wisconsin vote-counting locations. Legal challenges regarding observer access and proximity were filed and largely rejected by courts. The claim conflates disputes over observer positioning with total exclusion from the process, a material distortion. Sources: Wisconsin circuit court rulings, November 2020; Wisconsin Election Commission observer documentation Overall Veracity: 40% ## Tags - election-fraud-claim (95%) - wisconsin-2020 (85%) - statistical-manipulation (80%) - aide-authored-probable (65%) - vulnerable-narcissism (75%) - epistemic-closure (85%) - newsmax-amplification (70%) - observer-claim-false (80%) - covid-voting-context-omitted (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Tactical Concession Wrapped in Total Denial: Trump Authorizes Transition While Pledging Never to Concede** Trump spent the day managing a cascade of institutional defeats — Pennsylvania and Michigan certifying for Biden, a federal lawsuit dismissed, and the GSA formally authorizing the transition — by publicly approving the transition while simultaneously insisting the election was stolen and vowing never to concede. Late-night and pre-dawn posting (including a defiant 4 AM screed) suggests badly disrupted sleep on one of the most consequential days of the post-election period. The midday hours brought a rapid-fire burst of grievance posts amplifying fraud claims, demanding Republican loyalty, and lashing out at General Mattis as a displaced target. The overall pattern was one of controlled institutional retreat paired with escalating rhetorical commitment to the stolen-election narrative. Full digest for 2020-11-24: https://trump.fm/date/2020-11-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, November 24). “In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1331225404351373300 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in..." X (Twitter), 24 Nov. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1331225404351373300. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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