# Post x_1338246163368046600

- Post ID: `x_1338246163368046600`
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- Posted: 2020-12-14T03:15:23.000Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> The RINOS that run the state voting apparatus have caused us this problem of allowing the Democrats to so blatantly cheat in their attempt to steal the election, which we won overwhelmingly. How dare they allow this massive and ridiculous Mail-In Voting to occur...

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T19:38:03.697Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 10:15 PM EST on December 13 — hours before Electoral College certification — this post represents a clinically significant snapshot of acute narcissistic crisis. Multiple converging injuries preceded it: the Supreme Court's dismissal of the Texas lawsuit, AG Barr's announced resignation after publicly contradicting fraud claims, and Georgia's double-recount recertification of Biden's victory. The response is structurally predictable: injury → externalized rage → expanded blame network. The extension of blame to Republican officials ('RINOs') reveals splitting under pressure — when the in-group fails to protect the grandiose self, it is instantly reclassified as adversarial. 'How dare they' is a textbook entitlement-rage phrase presupposing others' obligation to serve Trump's needs. The assertion 'which we won overwhelmingly' is not rhetorical spin but likely genuine reality distortion — pathological denial operating as a load-bearing cognitive defense against an outcome the ego cannot integrate. Projection is prominent: the party actively attempting to reverse certified results attributes criminal theft to the certifiers. The trailing ellipsis and late-night timing confirm authentic authorship. Danger is rated elevated rather than high due to absence of explicit violent imagery, but the targeting of Republican election officials with extreme betrayal framing at a constitutional inflection point contributed materially to the radicalization trajectory culminating three weeks later on January 6.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Post — December 13, 2020 (10:15 PM EST)

## Authorship Attribution — HIGH CONFIDENCE: AUTHENTIC

The UTC timestamp (03:15:23) converts to **10:15 PM Eastern Standard Time** — Washington D.C., where Trump was resident during this period. This places the post in the 10 PM–midnight window most characteristic of authentic Trump posts. Supporting indicators:
- Trailing ellipsis (`...`) suggesting incomplete, stream-of-consciousness thought
- Emotionally reactive content to same-day events (Supreme Court rejection, Barr departure)
- No polished grammar or event-announcement structure
- Syntactic pivot mid-sentence ("caused us this problem of allowing...")
- CAPS emphasis (`RINOS`) consistent with authentic voice

**Authorship confidence: 0.92**

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## Situational Context

This post arrives at a moment of cascading narcissistic injury:
1. **Supreme Court (Dec 11):** Texas lawsuit — Trump's final major judicial hope — rejected for lack of standing
2. **AG Barr (Dec 14):** Announced resignation, having already stated DOJ found no widespread fraud
3. **Georgia (ongoing):** Republican officials twice certified Biden's win
4. **Electoral College:** Voting was hours away when this was posted

The legal apparatus had collapsed. The last line of friendly Republicans was retreating. This is a pressure-cooker context for narcissistic decompensation.

---

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Big Five Traits
| Trait | Assessment | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Extraversion | Very high (0.82) | Assertive, commanding, public blame assignment |
| Agreeableness | Very low (0.06) | Contempt, blame, no acknowledgment of others' legitimacy |
| Conscientiousness | Very low (0.18) | Impulsive, unfiltered, no deliberation |
| **Neuroticism** | **Very high (0.87)** | **Dominant facet: angry hostility** |
| Openness | Very low (0.12) | Rigid, closed to disconfirming information |

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
- **Dominant motive: Power (agency = 0.94).** The post is entirely about loss of control over an outcome Trump regards as rightfully his.
- **Schema — self:** Winner; legitimate authority; moral superior
- **Schema — others:** Either loyal instruments or treacherous enemies; no intermediate category
- **Schema — world:** Zero-sum arena where victory is stolen if it goes to the other side

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** Wronged champion / victimized warrior hybrid — simultaneously the rightful victor and the aggrieved victim of coordinated betrayal
- **Narrative sequence:** **Contamination** — implied prior victory ("which we won overwhelmingly") has been corrupted by cheating and RINO cowardice
- **Contrasting other:** The RINO-Democrat axis, newly fused into a single betrayal network
- **Identity claim:** "We won overwhelmingly" — winner identity is asserted as non-negotiable even against documented evidence

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## Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Components
| Component | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Narcissistic features | 0.88 | Grandiosity ("won overwhelmingly"), entitlement rage ("How dare they"), absence of any empathy for democratic process |
| Antisocial features | 0.72 | Contempt for court outcomes, disregard for legitimacy of legal processes that ruled against him |
| Paranoid features | 0.85 | Coordinated cheating conspiracy spanning Democrats + RINOs; preoccupation with organized attack |
| Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.45 | Contemptuous framing of RINOs; public shaming serves dominance function |

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Denial (pathological):** "which we won overwhelmingly" — the documented outcome is simply negated
2. **Projection (pathological):** The actor attempting extralegal reversal of election results attributes criminal theft to those certifying results lawfully
3. **Splitting (immature):** Republican officials instantly recategorized as RINO enemies upon failing to serve Trump's needs
4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Mail-in voting constructed as intrinsically fraudulent to provide post-hoc loss explanation

### Narcissistic Dynamics
- **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury — defeat + abandonment (Barr, SCOTUS, Republican governors)
- **Narcissistic state:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable — grandiose assertion of victory overlaid with genuine wounded victimhood
- **Narcissistic rage:** Present at intensity 0.82. Proportionality to actual stimulus: ~0.08. Response wildly disproportionate — directed at officials following statutory duty.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

### Techniques Deployed
- **In-group expulsion:** The RINO label performs real-time demotion of Republican officials from ally to enemy class, creating a purity mechanism
- **Big Lie repetition:** "overwhelmingly" win claim stated as settled fact despite total judicial rejection
- **DARVO:** Deny loss → Attack certifiers as cheaters → Reverse Victim/Offender (positions Trump as the real victim)
- **Contamination framing:** Mail-in voting cast as inherently criminal instrument rather than legal method
- **Trailing ellipsis:** Open-ended, invites follower imagination to complete the implied escalatory logic

### Propaganda Dynamics
This post is one iteration in what RAND analysts would classify as a Firehose of Falsehood model: high-volume, emotionally intense, internally consistent false narrative repeated across multiple channels regardless of evidentiary challenges. The goal is not persuasion through logic but saturation of the information environment.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present.** Four major reality inversions:
1. Biden's documented victory recast as Trump's "overwhelming win"
2. Legally authorized mail-in voting recast as fraudulent instrument
3. Republican officials' lawful duty recast as criminal enablement
4. Trump's extralegal reversal effort invisible; only Democrats are framed as the actors disrupting legitimate process

The DARVO structure is complete: Deny (we actually won) → Attack (RINOs and Dems cheated) → Reverse Victim and Offender (we are the aggrieved party, they are the perpetrators).

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "we won [the election] overwhelmingly" | **False** | Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received approximately 81.2 million popular votes (51.3%) to Trump's 74.2 million (46.8%), a margin of roughly 7 million votes. No credible metric supports 'overwhelmingly' for Trump. |
| "Democrats so blatantly cheat[ed]" | **False** | By this date, 60+ federal and state lawsuits had been rejected, Georgia had conducted two recounts and a hand audit confirming Biden's win, and AG Barr stated DOJ found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the outcome. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Raffensperger and Republican Governor Kemp certified Biden's victory. |
| "RINOs run the state voting apparatus [and enabled/caused this]" | **Half True** | True that many of the state election officials who certified Biden's wins were Republicans (Raffensperger in GA, Benson in MI was Democrat, Boockvar in PA was Democrat, etc.). Attribution of causation and the framing as sabotage by ideological traitors is misleading — officials were following state law. |
| "Mail-In Voting [was improperly allowed]" | **Mostly False** | Expanded mail-in voting in 2020 was legally authorized in all relevant states, in many cases to accommodate COVID-19 pandemic conditions. Courts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia upheld the legality of their mail-in voting procedures. No court found mail-in voting itself to be improper. |

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Danger Assessment — ELEVATED

No explicit violent imagery or direct call to action prevents a "high" rating, but the following indicators warrant "elevated":
- **Target identification:** Republican state election officials explicitly named as a culpable class at a constitutional flashpoint
- **Grievance articulation:** "steal," "cheat," "blatantly" — extreme criminal framing with no mitigation
- **Timing:** Posted hours before Electoral College certification, maximizing incitement potential
- **RINO purity mechanism:** Subjects named officials to mobilized base hostility
- **Escalatory series:** Previous day's "MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!" shows ascending intensity
- **Historical trajectory:** This post is part of the documented rhetorical escalation culminating in January 6, 2021

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)

**Dominant archetype: Warrior + Victim in contamination sequence.** Trump casts himself as a righteous warrior whose legitimate victory has been stolen by a coalition of external enemies and internal betrayers. The Shadow is fully projected — the extralegal disruption of democratic process is entirely attributed to the other side. The **Trickster** archetype (rule-breaking disruptor) has shifted here toward the **Tyrant** — the leader who, denied recognition of his rightful authority, begins attacking the legitimacy of the institutions themselves.

**Mythological resonance:** The betrayal narrative (Stab-in-the-Back, "Dolchstoßlegende") — the idea that a righteous cause was sabotaged from within by traitors — is one of the most historically potent and dangerous political myths, with documented use in authoritarian mobilization contexts.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

- **Trump's positioning:** Order Restorer + Chaos Agent simultaneously — claiming to restore "true" order (the election he says he won) while actively destabilizing the constitutional order of certification
- **Asymmetric application:** Order is owed to Trump and his followers; the existing legal/electoral order is delegitimized when it produces adverse outcomes
- **Hierarchy dynamics:** Attacking and restructuring Republican hierarchy — those who certify Biden are expelled downward; only unconditional loyalists retain standing

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## Longitudinal Note

Comparing to prior-day posts: "MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!" (all-caps, declarative), "How do states and politicians confirm an election where corruption and irregularities are documented throughout?" The December 14 post represents a slight rhetorical escalation — moving from abstract corruption claims to specific blame assignment at a named class of Republican officials. The trajectory is consistent: each day's posts narrow the circle of legitimate actors and expand the conspiracy's reach. No cognitive deviations from baseline are detectable.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 10:15 PM EST (UTC-5, White House/DC timezone) — late evening, squarely in authentic Trump window
- Trailing ellipsis ('...') suggesting stream-of-consciousness, unfinished thought
- Emotional register with 'How dare they' indignation phrase
- No polished formatting; grammatically fragmented mid-clause pivot
- Reactive content (Supreme Court rejection, Barr departure) matching impulsive response pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Supreme Court rejection of Texas election lawsuit, AG Barr's resignation after contradicting fraud claims, approaching Electoral College certification)

**Rage:** Intensity 82% targeting Republican state officials ('RINOs'), Democrats
- Proportionality: 8%

Sentiment: -0.88

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 72%
- Paranoid: 85%
- Sadism: 45%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 31%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct audience address through shared grievance ('us,' 'we')
- Enemy assignment validating in-group identity ('RINOs,' 'Democrats')
- Righteous indignation ('How dare they') inviting audience to share moral outrage
- Open-ended trailing ellipsis sustaining tension and engagement loop

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Targeting class: explicitly names Republican state election officials as culpable ('RINOs that run the state voting apparatus') at a moment of maximum political tension
- Grievance articulation: frames election outcome as active criminal conspiracy ('steal,' 'cheat,' 'blatantly')
- Posted hours before Electoral College certification — timing amplifies incitement potential
- RINO purity-expulsion rhetoric subjects Republican officials to mobilized base hostility
- Part of a documented escalating pattern (prior day: 'MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!') building toward radicalization
- No explicit call to action, preventing 'high' or 'critical' rating, but eliminationist framing of betrayal is present

### Gaslighting

- Asserts Trump victory as established fact despite 60+ court losses and Republican official certifications
- Frames legal mail-in voting as inherently fraudulent without evidence
- Redefines Republican duty-compliance as RINO betrayal, pressuring audience to accept the inversion
- DARVO pattern: positions himself as victim of cheating while his apparatus pursued extralegal means to overturn the election

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> we won [the election] overwhelmingly

**FALSE**

Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received approximately 81.2 million popular votes (51.3%) to Trump's 74.2 million (46.8%), a margin of roughly 7 million votes. No credible metric supports 'overwhelmingly' for Trump.

Sources: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election certified results; Electoral College certification December 14, 2020

> Democrats so blatantly cheat[ed]

**FALSE**

By this date, 60+ federal and state lawsuits had been rejected, Georgia had conducted two recounts and a hand audit confirming Biden's win, and AG Barr stated DOJ found no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the outcome. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Raffensperger and Republican Governor Kemp certified Biden's victory.

Sources: AG Barr December 1 statement; Georgia recertification; Federal court rulings November–December 2020

> RINOs run the state voting apparatus [and enabled/caused this]

**HALF TRUE**

True that many of the state election officials who certified Biden's wins were Republicans (Raffensperger in GA, Benson in MI was Democrat, Boockvar in PA was Democrat, etc.). Attribution of causation and the framing as sabotage by ideological traitors is misleading — officials were following state law.

Sources: State certification records, November–December 2020

> Mail-In Voting [was improperly allowed]

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Expanded mail-in voting in 2020 was legally authorized in all relevant states, in many cases to accommodate COVID-19 pandemic conditions. Courts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia upheld the legality of their mail-in voting procedures. No court found mail-in voting itself to be improper.

Sources: State legislative records; Federal court rulings on mail-in voting 2020

Overall Veracity: 18%

## Tags

- narcissistic_rage (90%)
- electoral_denial (95%)
- splitting (85%)
- DARVO (88%)
- RINO_expulsion (82%)
- mail_in_voting_delegitimization (80%)
- electoral_college_eve (90%)
- betrayal_narrative (87%)
- big_lie (92%)
- authentic_authorship (92%)
- late_night_post (85%)
- contamination_sequence (83%)

## That day

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

**Electoral College Day: Sleepless Rage, Institutional Scorched Earth, and Compensatory Vaccine Pivots**

The day the Electoral College formally certified Biden's victory was one of Trump's most psychologically turbulent on record. He spent most of the night awake, cycling between furious attacks on Republican officials, the Supreme Court, and swing-state election workers, with only brief pauses to claim credit for the COVID vaccine rollout. Sleep was minimal — perhaps three or four hours at most — and the pre-dawn hours brought a fresh wave of rage targeting Georgia's governor by name as a "fool" and "clown." The day's pattern was defined by sharp swings between grievance and self-congratulation, with election fraud claims growing more elaborate and detached from reality as every institutional off-ramp closed.

Full digest for 2020-12-14: https://trump.fm/date/2020-12-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, December 14). The RINOS that run the state voting apparatus... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1338246163368046600
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The RINOS that run the state voting apparatus have caused..." X (Twitter), 14 Dec. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1338246163368046600. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The RINOS that run the state voting apparatus have caused...," X (Twitter), December 14, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1338246163368046600.

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