Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We begin with how the American Psychological Association and the press are denying Americans

from receiving the most critical education about Donald Trump, whose obvious and manifest mental

instability and possible dementia were on display at his rambling press conference on Thursday.

We'll discuss how, if what the generals saw inside the Oval Office in his first term

was made public and acted upon instead of covered up,

America would have been saved from Trump's catastrophic first term,

making the need to avoid a second term even more critical.

Joining us is Dr. Bandy Lee, a medical doctor, forensic psychiatrist and world expert on violence

who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring to

Columbia and Harvard. She became known to the public by leading a group of

mental health professional colleagues in breaking the silence about Donald Trump's dangerous

psychology and publishing the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,

37 psychiatrists and mental health experts, assess the president. She is currently president

of the World Mental

Health Coalition, and she is the author of Profile of a Nation, Trump's Mind, America's Soul,

and her latest book is The Psychology of Trump Contagion, an existential threat to democracy

and all humankind. And she blogs at bandyxlead.substack.com.

Then we'll examine the latest round of swiftboat attacks against Tim Walsh by Trump's

campaign manager, who was behind the original swiftboating of John Kerry in 2004,

which was financed by Harlan Crow, Justice Clarence Thomas' billionaire Sugar Daddy.

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