Democrats plan Capitol Hill event to put Trump's mental health under fire

[Vidal]

Democrats are planning to host a Capitol Hill event featuring psychiatrists who will warn that President Trump is unfit for office based on his mental health.

The event will be led by Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book that argues psychiatrists have a responsibility to warn the public when a president is dangerous. The position is controversial because psychiatric associations urge members never to diagnose patients they haven't personally evaluated, saying it undermines the scientific rigor of the profession.

But Lee and others who agree with her stance say that their description of the president's behavior, of his showing mental instability and dangerousness, shouldn't be interpreted as issuing a diagnosis.

“The president's condition has been visibly deteriorating to the point where there's a lot of talk right now about his mental state beyond mental health professionals," Lee said. "It no longer takes a mental health professional to recognize the seriousness of the current presidency."

The date for the town hall hasn't been set but would be held "imminently soon within the next couple of weeks," said Lee, who said the event was meant to be bipartisan. Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., who has called for Trump's impeachment, confirmed the event was in the works, but said it would be more likely to occur in July because lawmakers have a full plate in June with spending bills.

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[Shell_Seas]

1. Well, this should make for good TV.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Which is exactly what we need--a TV show.

Sad to say, that's the only way Americans are going to pay attention. They need a TV show. I say the Dems give it to them.

[Shell_Seas]

4. Won't it be on CSPAN?

[GoCubsGo]

5. Most people don't/won't watch C-SPAN.

It needs to be on the network TV channels.

[Shell_Seas]

7. Really? I watch CSPAN all the time... Aren't I normal?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Ah a first grade math test?

That would be a real short test. Ponzi Don could possibly get one answer right.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. There's another way to see it.

One scene in the Wire, that great tv series about drugs in Baltimore, has the 8-9 year kid having problems wioth his math homework, and his older brother is trying to help him. The older brother, not even 20 I think, is selling drugs in the projects they live in.

So the multiplication is giving the little kid fits, it's one of those storybook .." If John has 5 apples and Bill has 3 times as many, etc"
kid can;t relate to it.
the older brother gives him the same problem in drug money talk.
"Of 6 (drug) fiends buy........."
and the kids snaps immediately with the answer,
Because, he says," if you don't have the count right when the gang comes to collect your money, they will kill you, so you GOTTA have the count right."

Trump can track money numbers when it is important to him.