Democrats plan to join forces again with a #Resistance psychiatrist to prove that they can be just as immoral and unethical as President Trump.

That ought to show him.

The Washington Examiner’s Kimberly Leonard reports:





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



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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., 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, 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.[…]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.

Bandy Lee's name should be familiar by now. She has worked hard these past few years securing a top spot in the competitive world of anti-Trump medical professionals, many of whom have discarded decades of ethical standards and practices in return for book deals and speaking time on the #Resistance circuit.

In February 2017, 33 mental health experts sent a signed letter to the New York Times warning of the president's "emotional instability." Later, in October 2017, 125 health professionals marched on Broadway, demanding that the president be declared mentally unsound and removed immediately from the White House. In January 2018, more than 100 medical professionals signed a statement urging lawmakers to “take urgent steps to restrain [Trump’s] behavior and head off the potential nuclear catastrophe” with North Korea. At around the same time as the statement’s release, congressional Democrats summoned a mental health expert to Capitol Hill to discuss the president's possible instability.

Not a single one of these health professionals have performed an in-person diagnosis on the president. Yet here they are, suggesting they know enough to suggest he is mentally unwell.

Lee is one of the top signatories on the statement released in January. Lee is also the medical expert summoned by Democrats.

This behavior stands in sharp contrast to the codes of conduct championed by both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, which state that it is both extremely reckless and unethical for mental health professionals to perform armchair analyses on persons with whom they have never met to conduct an in-person evaluation.

Lee, of course, does not see what she is doing as unethical or detrimental to broader attempts to destigmatize mental disorders.

“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," she said. "It no longer takes a mental health professional to recognize the seriousness of the current presidency."

I am sure this isn't just about selling books.