Duty to Warn. Mental Health Pros: Trump is Dangerous to America & The World
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jerrold Post, M.D., Founder and former Dir. of the CIA’s Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior & Dr. Bandy X. Lee, M.D., Asst. Clinical Prof., Yale Medical School's Law and Psychiatry Division explain why even without an official diagnosis, Trump's abnormal and impaired behavior require them to warn of us the danger Trump poses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome or welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:11.1 | Well, by now we all know there's something wrong with Donald Trump's politics and his policies. |
| 0:17.8 | But some people suggest there may be something more seriously wrong with him. In fact, |
| 0:23.1 | a couple of years ago, a group of distinguished mental health experts published a book in which |
| 0:27.5 | they say that Donald Trump is so mentally unstable that he's unfit to be president of the United |
| 0:34.8 | States and in fact represents a serious danger to the nation. |
| 0:39.8 | I got to tell you, it's a book that I found extremely troubling. I wanted to know more about |
| 0:44.8 | just how dangerous Donald Trump really is. Is he so mentally ill that it's time to invoke |
| 0:51.7 | the 25th Amendment? So I sat down with two of these mental health professionals at an office in a Washington |
| 0:58.5 | suburb. |
| 0:59.7 | Dr. Gerald Post is president of the Political Psychology Associates. |
| 1:04.5 | Dr. Bandi Lee is assistant clinical professor in law and psychiatry at the Yale School |
| 1:09.8 | of Medicine. Dr. Lee, Dr. Post, good to see you. |
| 1:12.6 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:14.6 | I want to ask you first, so it was a couple of years ago |
| 1:18.6 | that Dr. Lee, you put together a group of mental health professionals |
| 1:23.6 | published through St. Martin's Press, |
| 1:26.6 | a book called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, |
| 1:31.5 | where you collectively issued a pretty strong warning about the mental instability of the |
| 1:39.5 | 45th president of the United States. This book came out two years ago. |
| 1:46.7 | Are you still worried and should Americans be worried? |
| 1:50.6 | Yes. |
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