Posted on 02/12/2024 1:44:02 PM PST by Carl Vehse
I didn’t read the entire report but from what I read in news reports, Hur didn’t really diagnose anything. He seemed to just report his observations and excerpt transcripts from the deposition, which was “Biden couldn’t recall this or that”. That is exactly what lawyers do. They take their evidence and put it before the courts in pleadings. This has nothing to do with psychiatry diagnoses.
As for a prosecutors, they have to make a separate determination whether a prosecution is likely to be successful. They have to consider the evidence and crimes to be charged if any based on the evidence, and consider what the defense might bring up in trial or pretrial hearings which might include expert testimony from a psychiatrist attesting to cognitive abilities and the like.
So I am not sure what this author is driving at - just a knee jerk reaction in defense of the POTUS that is not relevant to the matter.
Same guy probably thought Trump should have been removed via 25th amendment.
Most psychiatrists are crazy.
I’d not let them be the final arbitrator.
Funny, I remember every quack in the U.S. diagnosing Trump when he was in office, without ever examining him.
Good points. Thanks.
Because why would he need to? He’s in tip top shape and
everyone knows that. /s
The absurdities around this guy...
Does he also propose that mentally deficient defenses should not be allowed in determining guilt or innocence in a criminal proceeding? Do you think for one moment that Biden’s lawyers would not raise that defense?
Gee doc, should such assessment be illegal?
How do you know? you’re not a lawyer.
I’m a homeless moron with an IQ of 47,,and I know senile when I see it.
Really,,,,I'm just shade tree mechanic....but I still know engine failure when I see it....
I'm in agreement with the good doctor.
I’d guess Hans
Fledermaus wrote: Same guy probably thought Trump should have been removed via 25th amendment.
January 11, 2021:
To the Editor [New York Times]:
The stability of our nation rests on the ability of White House aides to effectively function as mental hospital orderlies to contain President Trump. How effectively they can control him in his remaining days in office is not clear.
If they fail and Mr. Trump is able to act in a manner that brings harm to our country and the world, the responsibility forever will rest on Vice President Mike Pence for not exercising the 25th Amendment. It is known by all that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger.
Sidney Weissman
Chicago
The writer is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Female Special Agents at Bidens swimming pool were clearly qualified to assess Joe Biden.
They kept saying; I can see your nuts.”
Gee, I didn’t know that lawyers gave physicals......
Yep.
And, our lying MSM just keeps giving this fool a pass.
I didn’t know psychiatrist practiced law
Actually, Dr. Sidney Weissman, MD - Psychiatry Specialist in Chicago, IL • Age 84, was feeling insulted. I’ll bet he has lapses of memory as he has over 58 years of questionable experience in the medical field.
Fine then force him to take cognitive test on national tv or be charged with treason for sharing National secrets to our enemies
Fledermaus wrote: Same guy probably thought Trump should have been removed via 25th amendment.
January 11, 2021:
To the Editor [New York Times]:
The stability of our nation rests on the ability of White House aides to effectively function as mental hospital orderlies to contain President Trump. How effectively they can control him in his remaining days in office is not clear.
If they fail and Mr. Trump is able to act in a manner that brings harm to our country and the world, the responsibility forever will rest on Vice President Mike Pence for not exercising the 25th Amendment. It is known by all that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger.
Sidney Weissman
Chicago
The writer is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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