Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee M.D. is concerned that Americans are being "blocked from receiving the most critical education" about Donald Trump and possible "dementia."
After a lengthy press conference at Mar-a-Lago Thursday, questions surfaced again about Trump's purported decline. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich penned a column on his Substack complaining about the media ignoring Trump's mental stability.
Amid the "lies and insults," Reich cited a number of stories where the ex-president didn't appear to remember facts correctly.
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“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours — same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not — we had more," Trump said.
According to Reich, "These are not the statements of a sane person. Trump is showing growing signs of dementia."
Dr. Lee authored her own column on the matter Friday, citing the book she and colleagues wrote together: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
She alleged that she and the authors of the book, "Have been sidelined and stymied in ways that could not prevent further calamities, such as 1.2 million American deaths from Covid-19 mismanagement or the January 6 violent insurrection against the government and attack on democracy—not to mention the collective psychosis of Trump Contagion and the predicament of a third Trump presidential candidacy."
She said that the experts came together because there was an "existential threat to American democracy" and "to all humankind" with Trump in the White House.
"It should now be obvious that Donald Trump is in a psychotic spiral," Lee wrote on X Friday morning. "His obsession with crowds to delusional levels and his vicious name-calling point to severe unraveling. When there is no other possibility and extreme danger, mental health experts have a duty to speak up."
She explained that her concern is that far too many Americans are "under the 'spell' of Trump Contagion, so much so that the abnormal has become the new norm."
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