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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Independent: More than 230 doctors declare Trump too unstable to serve in ad campaign from George Conway's PAC
The Independent - More than 230 doctors declare Trump too unstable to serve in ad campaign from George Conways PAC
Letter states that the Republican candidate appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup
Andrew Feinberg
3 hours ago
More than 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals have signed on to an open letter declaring Donald Trump to be far too mentally unstable to be president as part of a new ad campaign from conservative lawyer George Conways Anti-Psychopath PAC.
The open letter will be published on Thursday as a paid advertisement in The New York Times, and states that Trumps symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder malignant narcissism have rendered him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous as well as grossly unfit for leadership.
The mental health experts whove signed the letter also say the ex-president, who despite being the oldest ever person to seek a second term at age 78 has not released any meaningful medical records, appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup, including a dramatic decrease in verbal fluency, tangential thinking, diminished vocabulary, overuse of superlatives and filler words, perseveration, confabulation, phonemic paraphasia, semantic paraphasia, confusing people (not just names), as well as exhibiting deteriorating judgment, impulse control, and motor functioning (including a wide-based gait).
We suspect the results of such an evaluation would be disqualifying. If, as we suspect, Trump does have organically based cognitive decline, it will only get worse over time, grossly degrading his already impaired judgment, impulse control, memory, attention, reality testing, and capacity to process information, while dramatically exacerbating the symptoms of his toxic personality disorder, they added.
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Letter states that the Republican candidate appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup
Andrew Feinberg
3 hours ago
More than 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals have signed on to an open letter declaring Donald Trump to be far too mentally unstable to be president as part of a new ad campaign from conservative lawyer George Conways Anti-Psychopath PAC.
The open letter will be published on Thursday as a paid advertisement in The New York Times, and states that Trumps symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder malignant narcissism have rendered him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous as well as grossly unfit for leadership.
The mental health experts whove signed the letter also say the ex-president, who despite being the oldest ever person to seek a second term at age 78 has not released any meaningful medical records, appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup, including a dramatic decrease in verbal fluency, tangential thinking, diminished vocabulary, overuse of superlatives and filler words, perseveration, confabulation, phonemic paraphasia, semantic paraphasia, confusing people (not just names), as well as exhibiting deteriorating judgment, impulse control, and motor functioning (including a wide-based gait).
We suspect the results of such an evaluation would be disqualifying. If, as we suspect, Trump does have organically based cognitive decline, it will only get worse over time, grossly degrading his already impaired judgment, impulse control, memory, attention, reality testing, and capacity to process information, while dramatically exacerbating the symptoms of his toxic personality disorder, they added.
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The Independent: More than 230 doctors declare Trump too unstable to serve in ad campaign from George Conway's PAC (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
6 hrs ago
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dutch777
(3,380 posts)1. At this point, I think Don could be comatose and 50% of US voters would still vote for him. Logic and reason are gone.
hlthe2b
(105,772 posts)2. Link to the letter: