As Impeachment Looms, 350 Mental Health Professionals Warn Congress

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/05/impeachment-looms-350-mental-health-professionals-warn-congress-nuclear-armed-trump

"We are convinced that, as the time of possible impeachment approaches, Donald Trump has the real potential to become ever more dangerous."

A group of more than 350 health professionals—led by three preeminent psychiatrists—delivered a petition to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday warning that President Donald Trump's allegedly deteriorating mental state could result in "catastrophic outcomes," including nuclear war, as the possibility of impeachment looms.

"We bear in mind that Donald Trump, as president, has the unfettered authority to launch nuclear weapons at any time for any reason," psychiatrists Bandy Lee, John Zinner, and Jerrold Post said in a statement accompanying the petition. "Short of this calamity, there are many other dangers he can pose by the use, fueled by rage, of his assumed absolute executive authority, and by the loyalists who serve him."

"His detachment from reality... his pathology is actually gaining ground more quickly than the ability of rational actors to bring up the facts."
—Bandy Lee, Yale Medical School

The trio of mental health professionals implored the Judiciary Committee to "take these danger signs seriously and to constrain his destructive impulses" as the impeachment inquiry moves forward.

[Poiuyt]

1. Thanks. I'll sleep better at night now.

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2. K&R