The Still Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
During the hearings of the January 6th Select Committee, one question keeps coming up, “Did Donald Trump believe he had actually won the election?” “How could it be, that after being told repeatedly that no substantial fraud had occurred, he still maintained he won?”
“Is the man crazy?”
It just so happens that we looked into this very question on the Bill Press Pod back in the summer of 2020 with our series, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, based on the bestselling book of the same name. In the podcast, in conversations with a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists, we explored the pathologies that make Donald Trump the person he is. So with that question on our mind, as well as the very real possibility that Trump could once again be president, we thought it prudent to revisit some highlights of the series that illuminate the behavior the January 6th Select Committee is investigating.
To try to understand why Donald Trump was ignoring reality and pushing the Big Lie.
In this episode you will hear from: the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Bandy Lee, a then a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School
Dr. James Gilligan who was on the faculty of The Harvard Medical School and was for 13 years, the director of the Harvard Institute of Law and Psychiatry
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, one of the most prominent psychiatrists in America and one of the originators of the field of psycho-history, which is the study of psychological motivations for war, terrorism, and genocide. He wrote the forward to the first edition of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. He was a lecturer at The Harvard Medical School and is a professor emeritus at The City University of New York.
Stanford Professor Emeritus, social psychologist Phillip Zimbardo
Stephen Soldz, a clinical psychologist and director of the Social Justice and Human Rights program at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Dr. Judith Herman, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Harry Friedman a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School
Harper West, a psychotherapist.
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| 1:05.3 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to a special edition of the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, as we watched the hearings of the January 6th committee last couple of weeks, one question keeps coming up. |
| 1:13.4 | Did Donald Trump believe he had actually won the election of 2020? |
| 1:18.8 | I mean, how could it be that after being told repeatedly that no substantial fraud |
| 1:24.5 | had occurred, he still maintained that he won. I mean, is the man just crazy? |
| 1:30.3 | Well, it just so happens that we looked into this very same question on the Bill Press pod |
| 1:37.3 | back in the summer of 2020, you might remember, with our series called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, |
| 1:46.0 | based on the best-selling book of the same name. |
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