Remarkably, the following was published in theNew York Times:
John F. Kelly, his second White House chief of staff, was so convinced that Mr. Trump was psychologically unbalanced that he bought a book called "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," written by 27 mental health professionals, to try to understand his boss better. As it was, Mr. Kelly came to refer to Mr. Trump's White House as "Crazytown."
Some of Mr. Trump's cabinet secretaries had a running debate over whether the president was "crazy-crazy," as one of them put it in an interview after leaving office, or merely someone who promoted "crazy ideas." There were multiple conversations about whether the 25th Amendment disability clause should be invoked to remove him from office.
I was a part of these conversations, at least as the U.S. Congress raised them, and it was not as far off as people seem to consider it now. Only after the American Psychiatric Association cut off all avenues for educating the public did it become non-viable.
"There were often discussions about whether he could comprehend or understand the policy and knowing that he didn't really have a grasp on those kinds of things," Ms. [Sarah Matthews, Mr. Trump's former deputy press secretary] said of her time in the White House. "No one wanted to outright say it in that environment-- is he mentally fit?-- but I definitely had my moments where I personally questioned it."
[C]oncerns about his age have heightened now that he is trying to return to office, concerns that were not alleviated by his unfounded debate claim about immigrants "eating the pets" in a small town.
What is remarkable is not that John Kelly consulted our book, which has been known for over two years, since theGuardian reported on it, but that the New York Times did not censor this information! (I have written about how the Times deleted only my quotes from at least thirteen articles I know about, over the last six years, after I appeared once on this issue on its front page). And:
A group of mental health, national security and political experts held a conference at the National Press Club in Washington last month on Mr. Trump's fitness.
Our conference finally made major news!! The article concludes:
Experts said it was hard to judge whether the changes in Mr. Trump's speaking style could indicate typical effects of age or some more significant condition. "That can change with normal aging," said Dr. Bradford Dickerson, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School. "But if you see a change relative to a person's base line in that type of speaking ability over the course of just a few years, I think it raises some real red flags-- .
But like some people approaching the end of their eighth decade, he is not open to correction. "Trump is never wrong," he said recently in Wisconsin. "I am never, ever wrong."
We have, of course, performed:
1. Our "duty to warn" and "duty to protect" society as our primary societal responsibility (we have a responsibility to society, just as we do to patients, according to all our ethics codes-- despite the American Psychiatric Association's distortions of its own code);
2. A full fitness evaluation in May 2019, when the appropriate data became available through Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, as a service to the public, by an independent, nongovernmental panel of top mental health experts from around the country-- which determined that Donald Trump is unfit;
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