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'How Dare Liberals!': Dershowitz Blasts Fellow Dems Over Claims Trump Is Mentally Ill
insider.foxnews.com ^ | 1/8/18 | unknown

Posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:32 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz sounded off on claims the 25th Amendment should be used to remove President Trump over his mental capacity.

Dershowitz, a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, said calls for removal are "very dangerous."

"There’s only one thing worse than trying to criminalize political differences and that’s trying to psychiatrize them," he said. "These psychiatrists who are trying to diagnose without having even met the man. That’s what they did in Russia."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dershowitz; psychiatry; psychobabble; trump
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Every time the lefties/commies disagree with a Republican president's policy, they proclaim that he's crazy.

Cheap shots.

(Now Nancy Pelosi is spewing new hatred again: "The bigoted world view that Bannon pushed remains at the WH. White supremacists still have the ear of Trump and are shaping national policy through their hate-filled lenses. Yes, that means Stephen Miller who must be removed.")

1 posted on 01/08/2018 12:58:32 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease

That’s indeed what they did in the Soviet Union. If you didn’t support the communist party you were declared mentally ill and sent to a mental institution. Only it wasn’t really a mental institution, and the doctors weren’t really doctors.


2 posted on 01/08/2018 1:10:55 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: a little elbow grease
"These psychiatrists who are trying to diagnose without having even met the man. That’s what they did in Russia."

Yes...yes it is. Alan, are you insinuating there are a bunch of communist leftists using communist leftist subversive tactics in order to undermine a current duly elected government and siting president? Your late to the ballgame Al.

3 posted on 01/08/2018 1:18:41 AM PST by D Rider
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To: a little elbow grease

Imagine if the Deep State coup against our Constitution had succeeded, and surreptitiously installed Hillary as President.

Is there any doubt that a very twisted and demented person like Hillary, would not establish “hospitals” for her mentally impaired opponents?


4 posted on 01/08/2018 1:38:37 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: a little elbow grease

No one cares what Dershoshitz has to say. Why anyone gives this POS leftist a platform is beyond me.

Notice his game...’criminalizing political differences’. He defends Trump and then goes to bat for Hillary. He’s a fraud. A control. A lowlife leftist.


5 posted on 01/08/2018 1:41:43 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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Imagine if the Deep State coup against our Constitution had succeeded, and surreptitiously installed Hillary as President.

Is there any doubt that a very twisted and demented person like Hillary, would not establish “hospitals” for her mentally impaired opponents?

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I wouldn't doubt it. (But I better whisper, Hillary may still sneak in there.)

;-)

6 posted on 01/08/2018 1:44:21 AM PST by a little elbow grease (I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Late to the game, nonetheless Professor Dershowitz intellectual honesty and prowess is welcome.


7 posted on 01/08/2018 2:03:53 AM PST by A strike (Television is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: a little elbow grease

L8r


8 posted on 01/08/2018 2:52:21 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society. And if the news does not fit)
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To: a little elbow grease

“Hillary may still sneak in there”

Hillary is finished. This attempted coup, which may yet succeed, is 100% Obama.and his team.

Hillary was simply a tool for their interests and has now been discarded.


9 posted on 01/08/2018 2:53:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Electric Graffiti

No one cares what Dershoshitz has to say. Why anyone gives this POS leftist a platform is beyond me.

Notice his game...’criminalizing political differences’. He defends Trump and then goes to bat for Hillary. He’s a fraud. A control. A lowlife leftist.
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And I bet you think psychiatrists are scientists? Would it be a shock to find out they are not and psychiatry is all about promoting someone’d idea or even his or her own over everyone else’s idea? There is little or no fact behind psychiatrists and their opinions.

And I bet you think it is just fine for someone who is self aggrandizing like psychiatrists to point fingers at someone they have never sat down and discussed anything and decide based on that meeting or hearsay from other sources the mental competancy of that person?

I am so glad you have never been a student of mine. You would have dropped out within a week or I would have encouraged you to go be a reporterfor the NYT.


10 posted on 01/08/2018 3:39:21 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Would you prefer one less person speaking out against this?


11 posted on 01/08/2018 3:56:32 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Electric Graffiti

I think Mr. Dershowitz may be one of the few remaining principled leftists in this country. I seldom agree with him, but he tends to be fair-minded and is seldom, if ever, unhinged.


12 posted on 01/08/2018 4:08:07 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Bodega

Dershowitz is referring to Democrats’ recent attempts to criminalize political differences in order to remove President Trump from office, a practice that he has consistently and loudly opposed since the election. That tactic has failed and now the Democrats (and NeverTrump RINOs) have shifted to the “25th Amendment” tactic by questioning President Trump’s sanity. Once again, Dershowitz is standing for principle and the rule of law. Why would any honest person condemn Dershowitz for this?


13 posted on 01/08/2018 4:17:27 AM PST by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: Electric Graffiti

I, for one, am grateful that A.D. is speaking out. He’s a left-wing lawyer and was an esteemed professor at a far left leaning university. And he never fails to say he is a Hillary supporter abd voted for her.

He may be one of the few people the libs will listen to. If he’s telling the facts based on the Constitution — and, so far, he has been — how can that hurt?


14 posted on 01/08/2018 4:20:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Bodega

Psychiatrists are medical doctors, so, by that definition, they are, indeed, scientists. Like most, there are good ones and bad ones. The good ones are gold, the bad ones poison.


15 posted on 01/08/2018 4:40:44 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Electric Graffiti

Exactly. Dershowitz is simply warning the rest of his comrades that it is too early in the process to begin using re-education camps.

That will come later.


16 posted on 01/08/2018 4:40:55 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Jim Noble

Hillary is a spent force and she WAS even while she campaigned for the WH


17 posted on 01/08/2018 5:10:34 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: WayneS; Electric Graffiti

I find Dershowitz to be somewhat of a puzzle...

I hear him say things that make me sit up and conclude there are sane leftists left in this country. (The last sane one I remember was Zell Miller...)

But I agree with you WayneS, Dershowitz still says things that make him seem like a split personality to me.


18 posted on 01/08/2018 5:17:07 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: rlmorel

Pat Caddell is a person whom I would consider a sane leftist.


19 posted on 01/08/2018 5:26:53 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

I fully admit to simply tuning a lot of them out now...but I will check him out.


20 posted on 01/08/2018 5:30:58 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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