Trump's Mental Health, Not Impeachment, Could Be His Undoing: Professor, Crypto Coins News
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Trump’s mental health has been the focus for many over the past week as impeachment actions dragged on.
While he’s unlikely to be ousted from the White House over the Ukraine scandal, his letter to Nancy Pelosi could contribute to another effort to strip him of his title.
A Yale psychiatrist says as Trump’s colleague, Pelosi, could order an involuntary psychiatric evaluation.
In (**************************************************, President Trump became the third president in history to be impeached. That isn’t likely to get him out of the White House, though. The Republican majority in the Senate means the president’s impeachment trial probably won’t end with him being ousted from the oval office. That leaves the Democrats with two options – either defeat him in the 221048 campaign orget him committedafter Trump’s letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prompted questions about his mental health.
Trump’s Pelosi Letter Questioned Yes, you heard that right. According to Bandy X. Lee, president of the World Mental Health Coalition and a psychiatry professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, Trump should besubmitted for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation. Lee says Nancy Pelosi, a fierce Trump opponent, has the right to call the president out on his bizarre comments.
Specifically, Lee said, his six-page letter to Pelosi ahead of the impeachment vote suggests Trump’s mental health is in a questionable condition.
for those with mental illnesses as a measure of protection. Just days after sending Pelosi the infamous letter, Trumpattended a mental health summitin which he called for reinstating the mental institutions he remembers from his childhood in Queens:
And we must give major consideration to building new institutions. You know, when I was growing up in Queens, in New York, we had a number of mental institutions. And I’d look and I’d see these big buildings. And all of a sudden, you go and you don’t see them anymore. And you say, ‘What happened to all of those beds? What happened to all of that work? And where are those people? ’And in many cases, those people are living on the streets. It’s much different.
Trump’s Mental State a Constant Target
This is not the first time Trump’s mental health has been called into question – videos of him incoherently babbling on the campaign trail have made the rounds on the internet in recent weeks. But Lee’s calls for a psychiatric evaluation go beyond internet interpret poking fun at the president.
Hillary Clinton was
slated on the
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for having mental health issues, and the 2020 race looks to have more of the same in store. But the stakes have been raised from mudslinging to actual accusations. Many of Trump’s opponents have remarked on his behavior— but backing those claims up with action is a different beast altogether.
It’s unlikely the Democrats will take another swing at Trump until the election rolls around as the impeachmentappears to have done very little
to dull the enthusiasm among his supporters. Still, if Trump continues behaving erratically and doesn’t reign in his rhetoric, Lee’s suggestion could be the Dem’s next move.
**************************** This article was edited by****************** Gerelyn Terzo
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