Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the last remaining author of the 1973 Goldwater Rule by the American

Psychiatric Association, which prevented psychiatrists from diagnosing politicians unless

they have treated them, who is now going public, repudiating the Goldwater Rule.

Dr. Alan Dyer, a retired George Washington University

psychiatric professor, is now offering his diagnosis that Trump's recent behavior warrants

medical evaluation for dementia. Dr. Dyer has observed that Trump seems to be progressively

cognitively impaired,

and quote,

I find it concerning that he doesn't complete his sentences,

seems to lose track of the question he's trying to answer or avoid,

and that one thought doesn't lead to another,

but appears to veer tangentially off track.

Joining us is a victim of the Goldwater Rule who was fired from Yale at the urging of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's friend Alan Dershowitz, Dr. Bandy Lee, a medical doctor, forensic

psychiatrist and a world-renowned expert on violence. She taught at Yale School of Medicine at Yale Law School for 17 years and 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 a president.

She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and her latest books

are The Psychology of Trump Contagion, an existential danger to American democracy and all

humankind, and the more dangerous case of Donald Trump.

40 psychiatrists and mental health experts warn anew.

She also blogs at bandyx-lea.substack.

Then we'll compare the countdown from democracy to dictatorship under Hitler

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