233 Mental Health Professionals Spell Out Dangers Of Donald Trump In Chilling Letter
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Conservative attorney George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC turned to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to explain exactly why they believe former President Donald Trump is unfit to enter the Oval Office for a second term.
Four such professionals slam the Republican nominee as a “malignant narcissist” incapable of caring about anyone but himself and a “danger to the republic” in a new 60-second spot.
Watch the ad here:
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An open letter condemning Trump — that had been signed by 233 professionals as of early Friday ― will also run as a print ad in The New York Times, the PAC said in a statement sent to HuffPost.
The signatories “have an ethical duty to warn the public that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy,” they write. “His symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder—malignant narcissism—makes him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous. He is grossly unfit for leadership.”
“Clinicians have had years to observe Donald Trump, and his behavior has long been indicative of malignant narcissism,” clinical psychologist John Gartner, the lead signatory of letter, said in a statement sent to HuffPost.
“We have a duty to warn the public about the grave danger posed by returning this man to power,” Gartner added. “Trump’s conduct recalls that of some of history’s most brutal dictators, and he has already demonstrated his willingness to wield state power to hurt his enemies without remorse. Let this be a warning.”
Longtime Trump critic Conway said the PAC, of which he is president, “was founded for one reason: to make the case to voters that Donald Trump is a narcissist and a sociopath.”
“If it wasn’t clear by his erratic, self-obsessed behavior, his pathological lying, his lack of moral conscience, his assaults of women, and his blatant disregard for the safety of others, more than 200 experts agree that he is unfit for office,” he added. “Voters need to recognize the threat we face electing this deranged man.”
The PAC said it was spending $500,000 on this campaign, its final push of the 2024 election. It has previously released videos showing Trump being condemned by his onetime allies and friends and placed mocking billboards near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and golf courses.
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It is irrational and irresponsible for patriotic citizens to vote for a self-deluded malignant narcissist who places himself over everything, including the Constitution.
It is utterly un-American to vote for a tyrant who has already attacked the republic once, and nearly succeeded in bringing it down.
Not even close.................FFS
Do you not understand what took place between the election and Jan 6? Trump lost a free and fair election and decided to try and take power anyway. That's an attack on the Republic.
The whole point of Jan 6 was to pressure Pence, as president of the Senate, into either accepting fake Trump electors or rejecting valid Biden electors from contested states, or to just declare the certification as invalid and 'send it back to the states' in an attempt to set up a chaotic situation in which no victor could be determined by the Electoral College. The newly Republican-controlled House could then vote to elect the president themselves per the 12th Amendment.
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.
From the timeline of the 6th...
1:02 p.m.: Pence refuses to go along with Trump's plan to pick and choose electors, and tweets a letter stating in part,
"It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."
1:05 p.m.: Congress meets in joint session to confirm Joe Biden's electoral victory.
2:24 p.m.: President Trump tweets
"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"
After that, the insurrectionists surged and started calling for Pence to be brought out and hung.
I don't know how some have managed to twist reality into something that makes Trump innocent of an attempted coup. Here are the Eastman memos laying out a couple versions of the general plan:
First memo (a six-step plan for Pence to overturn Biden's election):
Second memo (a more extensive plan with multiple scenarios for Pence to overturn Biden's election):
As a sitting president, Trump tried to subvert the election, the Constitution, and the Republic itself in order to usurp power. He placed himself above all three. That's reality. It happened. Trump is an oath-breaking tyrant and a traitor to the Republic.
If Pence had gone along with it we might very well be living under a tyranny right now.
Incidentally, J.D. Vance says he would have gone along with it, an admission that he's willing to betray the Republic just as much as Trump is.
Many MAGA's have never heard of the Eastman memo because it is not mentioned in their media bubble. They think the riot at the Capitol was all that was going on. The way things look now though, they would have denied its importance even if they did know about it.
“Not even close.................FFS”
FFS…how can you dismiss the attempt? Just how ‘close’ would it need to have been to raise a concern? Unless, of course, your concerns were unfathomably in alignment with the ultimate purpose. FFS indeed.
He's been inciting ever since in preparation for Insurrection Part II but they'll be prepared for him and the maga this time.
He's definitely going to try some shit again if he loses. No doubt about it.
What, they couldn't get 234?
223? How many actually conducted a real evaluation (i.e. had him in their offices and done a proper evaluation)? None? Findings to be printed in the NYT? And I'm supposed to take that seriously.
You do know that a mental health professional doesn't actually need to perform some physical on the patient, they do their evaluation by listening to the patient's words, watch their body language or are given descriptions of their actions and behavior by those who have been around them. We have MORE than enough footage of Trump for most mental health experts to come to a conclusion based on his words, body language and actions.
I think some people were expecting a multiple choice test be given ... /s
And that puts their methodology, "findings", ethics and credibility in question. One would have to be a fool to believe this article as anything other than idiotic gaslighting.
Seems like the National Library of Medicine disagrees with you.
Is it ever ethical for doctors to diagnose patients they haven’t examined? - PMC
There is a term called "duty to warn", but according to the article...
"But part of that duty rests on having done a proper evaluation, according to Dr. David Goldbloom, a psychiatry professor and senior medical adviser for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. “You are intervening to abrogate fundamental civil freedoms,” he said. “ You can’t do that from having read an article or watched television.”"
These people need to lose their licenses.
Anyone with two open eyes can see that Trump is mentally ill.
The same article you linked also says:
I get why some would "frown" on this type of diagnoses, but I think the large number of mental health professionals agreeing should be admissible in a general examination of a person's character though wouldn't be ethical if used to actually take away a person's personal freedoms like putting them in a mental hospital against their will. These health professionals aren't saying they want Trump put in a hospital against his will, but they can weigh in with their professional opinions and it's up to us as to whether we want to allow that to alter our opinion. The fact is this won't actually affect anyone's opinion, this just reaffirms what the vast majority of rational Americans know about Donald Trump, and for his boot lickers it will only serve to upset and enrage them or perhaps claim these health professionals must be from the deep state or lizard people.
So we have 233 mental health professionals who are diagnosing a patient they have never met. Fucking morons who should have their license to practice revoked.
Trump has been on full public display almost daily for 9 years now – statements, body language, and actions. Do they really need him to come in and sit on a couch?
You do not appear to have any qualms about diagnosing Ms. Harris without ever having met her.
Bravo... got a bunch of unprofessional idiots with a license to spout bullshit.
Except it's not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a diagnosis. Add in these people have not met with Trump in person, only what they have seen on TV and they feel they can diagnose him? They should be more worried about losing their license due to malpractice.
As there's more than a million mental health professionals in the US, come back when you can get even 5% to agree to a diagnosis.
This is no better than the 51 National Security experts who all signed the letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. LOL
No one really needs the opinions of mental health professionals to know that Trump is a malignant narcissist, unfit for leadership and a danger to the republic. That is obvious to any rational, thinking, sane human being.
And has been since 2015.
Or earlier. Think about his Obama birther fraud, as one notable example.
Of course his actions and words are normal, all one has to do is watch and listen and you be taken back to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Trump is quite normal for a mental institution.
Malignant narcissism is a mental health condition that involves traits of both narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Trump told a radio interview yesterday that the SC immunity ruling means none of the indictments against him have any validity, now or in the future. There is no doubt he believes that he can do anything he wants, with immunity, in a second term. The only thing that will stop him is the people around him, and thats not looking too good either.
True. The guardrails are down now. A second Trump administration would be nothing like the first, as off the rails as it was.