CNN’s ‘Cult Expert’: All of America Needs Deprogramming Because of Trump

MenRec ^ | 01/19/21 | Staff

[rustyweiss74]

CAMEROTA: “Before we get to how that’s going to happen, I just want to show a little bit more of what happened inside the U.S. Capitol. Just so that we understand, some of the people, Mr. Hassan, you see here were once elementary school counselors. Some of these people were firemen. One of them was an Olympic swimmer. How is it that they lose control of their own sort of judgment and that a cult leader, or in this case President Trump, takes over their mindset and allows them to risk their lives for him?”

HASSAN: “So, in studying all the thought-reform brainwashing models, I developed a bite model of authoritarian control, and it basically talks about controlling behavior, information, thoughts and emotions to create a new identity that’s dependent and obedient. And this is a radical personality change in the mental health literature, in the APA DSM-5 it’s called the dissociative disorder, questioning of identity. And the bottom line is, all of America needs deprogramming because we’ve all been negatively influenced by Donald Trump.”

CAMEROTA: “But for the people who were willing to go in there and storm the Capitol, how did they radically change their personality? What was it? What tool was it that President Trump used to get them to do that?”

HASSAN: “So, I need to say that in 1974 I was fasting for Richard Nixon during Watergate. I was programmed to believe that democracy was satanic and God needed to take over America. And I saw people from my cult, Sean Moon brought a bus load of people to D.C. So I could have been there if my family hadn’t cared enough to rescue me.”

[rustyweiss74]

Reason number 3,475 that CNN is trash,

[crusty old prospector]

Hassan. Ain’t that an English surname?

[BenLurkin]

The guy is a nut.

[SkyDancer]

Which is all of the lame stream media and their bobble headed reporters.

[sauropod]

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[wardamneagle]

we are “deprogrammed deplorables.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How is it that they lose control of their own sort of judgment and that a cult leader, or in this case President Trump, takes over their mindset and allows them to risk their lives for him?

Far more sensible questions are:

How is it that multiple states coordinated their election theft programs in the dead of night when it was evident President Trump was going to win in a landslide?

How is it that a brain-dead, zero energy, Alzheimer's patient hid in his basement, never campaigned and never took a position on any topic could win the election?

How is it that a super high-energy, indefatigable guy who broke the mold for POTUS and won the hearts of a hundred million people who campaigned tirelessly for him could lose?

How is it a guy could successfully implement his pro-American agenda in the face of the most vile and illegal opposition in the history of the nation NOT win re-election?

[Paladin2]

Pure Projection.

CNN needs deprogramming.

Especially that crazed Zucked person.

[SaveFerris]

[Reason number 3,475]

You need to inflate that number by a wee bit.

At least by 100,000 to 100,000,000.

[SaveFerris]

[Reason number 3,475]

You need to inflate that number by a wee bit.

At least by 100,000 to 100,000,000.

[itsateaparty]

It never occurred to them that maybe they are the cult.

[Fedora]

Hassan, a former Moonie who practices hypnosis, is a phony, unethical "expert" who has resorted to kidnapping and suborning perjury.

[mabarker1]

KISS MY A$$ SH!T FOR BRAINS

[mabarker1]

KISS MY A$$ SH!T FOR BRAINS

[cockroach_magoo]

I like it. But I’d go with “deprogrammable deplorables.”

[cowboyusa]

This is not going to end well.

[Dragonspirit]

CNN is the worst thing in the history of America. They truly are disgusting and overt enemies.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yep, I’ll never forget all those little school children singing songs praising Donald Trump.
Oh wait...

[bray]

Amazing coming from an echo chamber you must march lockstep in.

[Fedora]

The National Resource Development and Economic Council was formed in the mid 1980s and had become institutionalized as a special unit within CAN by 1987.[26] The unit's role was to provide referrals to deprogrammers in exchange for a 'kickback' – either in cash or in the form of a tax deductible "donation" or "commissions" which were then funneled back to national CAN headquarters.[26][27] Journalist Nora Hamerman, in writing about the Dobkowski deprogramming, referred to CAN as "a clearinghouse for kidnap-for-hire rings",[28] referring to the "financial symbiosis between CAN and coercive deprogrammers".[26] CAN-associated deprogrammers include Steven Hassan. . .According to Alexander Cockburn, the role of the Cult Awareness Network and its representatives "may well have been crucial" in the law enforcement actions during the 1993 Waco siege.[68] A series of newspaper articles in the Waco Tribune-Herald and allegations of child abuse by CAN Executive Director Priscilla Coates were followed by increasing interest and investigation by law enforcement. . .In a 1996 joint hearing before the United States Congress on the Waco Siege entitled: Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians, it was stated[who?] into the record that publicists for the New Alliance Party had circulated a report to Congress and the media called "What is the Cult Awareness Network and What Role Did it Play in Waco?"[1] Testimony was also entered into the record stating, "Their report relied on [conspiracy theorist] Linda Thompson, organizations created or funded by the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church" and a "long-time cult apologist". Cult Awareness Network