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    ## extracts from an article published in a major media in Canada this morning - Translated from french ##

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    "Trump more dangerous than ever"

    Interview with Dr. Bandy X. Lee, forensic psychiatrist at Yale University and author of the best-seller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and the new book Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul, published last month.
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    (...) Trump has shown signs of psychological danger since he began his presidency, and of mental incapacity since April 2019, when I and 36 other psychiatrists and mental health experts drew him in attention on this issue.

    Trump is spreading this psychological danger among his supporters. You can see that they are not rational because they are unable to absorb facts and evidence. Any information that does not confirm their beliefs is rejected. They are also likely to resort to violence when confronted: their natural response is to get angry and attack rather than changing their beliefs to reflect reality.

    (...) One of the indicators of the severity of symptoms of a mental disorder is denying the problem. A healthy person will always be able to have doubts and be open to the possibility that they have a problem. But when you refuse to hear anything, say, like Trump, that you are a "very stable genius", that you never make mistakes, that you are always right, that's where it is worrying.

    Question : You say we are entering the most dangerous phase of Donald Trump's presidency. Why ?
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    Because the ultimate threat to his psychic survival is now realized. The problem is not so much to lose the office of the presidency --- Trump does not give a damn about the office of the presidency --- but to lose the adulation, the approval, the power that the presidency gave him. This is what prompted him to become president in the first place.

    (...) He is in the fight of his life. It is a matter of psychic survival, and when a troubled mind comes to that it is likely to respond with rage, revenge. The security of the United States, if not the world, can be at risk. Donald Trump is now more dangerous than ever. Of all of Trump's presidency, the next three months worry me the most.

    Question : Will Donald Trump's supporters change once Trump is out of the White House?
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    Trump will probably want to be the Republican nominee again, continue to be in the media. It will be necessary to see if the media will continue to allow him to propagate his pathology.

    (...) there would be some return to normalcy, but I believe the population will continue to be vulnerable for some time. His supporters are going to look for another superman, another idol.

    Without Trump, the emotional part of the problem will be solved. But the cognitive part will continue. We have entertainment channels in the United States on TV and on the Internet that say they are "news", and will continue to broadcast false information and tell people how to think. It must stop.

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