Posted on 09/07/2018 8:59:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Officials from the Trump administration reportedly contacted a Yale University psychiatrist last year because President Trump was "scaring" them.
Dr. Bandy Lee told Salon and the New York Daily News on Thursday that two White House officials flagged Trump's behavior last October.
"[They] said that Trump was 'scaring' them, that he was 'unraveling,'" Lee, who wrote the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” told Salon.
ADVERTISEMENT "Not wishing to confuse the role I chose, as an educator of the public, and a potential treatment role, I referred them to the local emergency room without inquiring much further," Lee added to Salon.
Lee also wrote an op-ed declaring that Trump is a "dangerous leader."
Lee repeated to the Daily News that she did not mention this development before because she "did not want to confuse my role an an educator to the public."
"I thought I would be more effective by retaining my public role than getting involved in either the treatment of those who were feeling scared or in the actual intervention with the President," she added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
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So now Bandy is speaking out? Why?
Just about a year ago !!!!!!!!
Just about a year ago !!!!!!!!
Idiots never had to deal with a real leader before
It is certainly not unusual and entirely within the realm of any normal person’s mental makeup to exhibit paranoia now and then when under stress.......
Especially a president who finds out his best friends are walking around taping him, plotting to get rich, writing books, going on TV with his enemies..... using made-up gossip about him.
I went to my shrink because Hillary Clinton was scaring me, and guess what — she was the previous appointment!
Trump’s approval ratings are unfazed by the Dems attacks, so they’ve drag this tool out yet again to spread her poison in the news. It won’t work, Dems...
Is there any place in the US where there are not snowflakes?
“SHRINK: “Show me where President Trump touched you.”
On this doll.
“Officials” contacted this Bandy Clown, huh?
Anonymous Sources = BS
All part of plan B. Russia crapola, plan A is dying for lack of evidence. Trump being declared insane or incompetant and the 25th Amendment invoked is plan B. When this fails look for plan C, the ultimate end of the Trump presidency. Look for the Deep State to deal with Trump the same way they dealt with JFK. If they succeed the Deep State will slither back into their holes while shoveling tons of manure to the cohorts in the media and they will go along with anything they are told to say.
The Democrats won’t even make a pretense at showing empathy for the crime they will openly celebrate the crime and the NeverTrumpers will do their faux sympathy thing and the globalist and Deep Staters will make sure that THEY pick the president from now on even if they have to rig the elections more than in the past. I pray for the Presidents safety daily.
Of course...I forgot to add that! Well...they DO act like children. Might be the best way...
Wait a minute. The Bandy Lee? Have we not heard her name before in connection with President Trump? I do believe we have found ourselves another Lib Liar.
She’s baaaaaaaack.......
Best damn laugh I’ve had all day, thanks:-)
I call BULL!
And what a bunch of pansies, if this is true. “Oh no mommy! The bad man yelled at me! He was mean!”
Your essay is much better than mine.
The important issue: Vote!
thisn’t here first attack on President Trump
Views on Donald Trump
In April 2017 Lee hosted a meeting at Yale University medical school to discuss the mental health of President Donald Trump.[4][5] In an interview with Salon in May 2017 she argued that the subject of the President’s mental health amounted to a “state of emergency” as “our survival as a species may be at stake.”[6] She also discussed her political views, linking what she sees as increasing inequality in the United States to a deterioration in collective mental health.[6] Later in 2017 she was the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book of essays that examined Trump’s mental health[7] and resulted in her receiving thousands of threatening messages by letter, phone and on social media that included death threats.[1] In December 2017 she met 12 members of the United States Congress (11 Democrats, one Republican) to give them her opinion on the mental health of Donald Trump in which she reportedly argued that he was “unraveling”.[1] She later made clear, however, the difficulty of arranging meetings with Republican members.[8] She has since met other Democratic law-makers.[9]
Lee’s book and her presentation to members of Congress has contributed to the debate about whether the Goldwater rule, the informal name given to the rule of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures they have not examined, still holds and its precise interpretation.[1][10][11] In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Jeffrey Lieberman, past president of the APA, argued that while he accepted that Lee and her co-authors were acting in good faith and out of a sense of moral obligation, they were guilty of a “misguided and dangerous morality”.[12] Lieberman himself, however, was later reported to have speculated on diagnosing Trump, the very act he accused Lee and colleagues of committing.[13][14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy_X._Lee
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