Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a book, "The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House," that will be published next week. In it, the former Speaker describes several doctors approaching her in 2019 to express their concerns with the mental health of the Malignant Loser. The Guardian received an advance copy of the book and reports:
"In early 2019, at a memorial service for a prominent psychiatrist, a succession of 'doctors and other mental health professionals' told Nancy Pelosi they were 'deeply concerned that there was something seriously wrong' with Donald Trump, 'and that his mental and psychological health was in decline'. [snip]
Questions about Trump’s fitness for office form a thread through the book. At 78, Trump is the oldest candidate ever, his campaign-trail utterances studied for frequent mistakes, his speeches are often rambling and marked by bizarre references.
Trump’s volcanic behavior and disregard for societal norms also stoke such questions, not least because he left office having been impeached twice, the second time for inciting the deadly January 6 Capitol attack; has been convicted on 34 criminal charges and faces 54 more; has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in civil cases including one concerning a rape claim a judge called 'substantially true'; and has promised if re-elected to govern as 'a dictator' on 'day one'.
On the page, Pelosi says she did not solicit statements about Trump’s mental health from attendees at the memorial for Dr David Hamburg, “a distinguished psychiatrist who … served as the president of the Carnegie Corporation, where he had been a great voice for international peace”, and who died in April 2019." (our emphasis)
Readers of this blog may recall posts (here and here for example) reporting on a number of mental health professionals trying to alert the country that the Malignant Loser was mentally disturbed and unfit to hold office. Under the concept of a "duty to warn" the community of someone potentially dangerous to it, the psychiatrists and other professionals published a book in 2017, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President," pointing out his pathological narcissism, violent speech and casual dishonesty. The case can easily be made that his condition is worse now seven years later.
Now that we have evidence from his lawless administration, his vindictiveness for anyone who doesn't support him blindly, and the items mentioned above, a cognitive test for him would be the minimum requirement: a full professional psychiatric examination should (but sadly won't) be administered before the election.
