Psychologist: Trump is even more dangerous now than he was eight years ago
By Diana Hembree ● April 21, 2025
Q & A with Dr. Bandy X Lee, a forensic psychiatrist and leading expert on violence who served as an assistant clinical professor in the law and psychiatry department at Yale for 17 years.She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization that addresses the problem of dangerous leadership.
Eight years ago, psychiatrist and prominent violence expert Bandy X. Lee and a cadre of mental health professionals issued a dire warning: President Donald Trump was mentally unfit to remain in the presidency and his doing so amounted to a public health crisis. Today, she continues to sound the alarm despite ongoing harassment and death threats.
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On the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a score of 30 out of 40 indicates dangerous levels of psychopathy, and Trump scored 36.
"A panel of the most eminent psychiatrists in the country got together in June 2024 to do a dangerousness risk assessment before Trump’s sentencing in New York, and it included the highly reliable Hare Psychopathy Checklist. A score of 30 out of 40 indicates dangerous levels of psychopathy, and he scored 36. This means he has dangerous levels of symptoms such as glibness and superficiality, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, low frustration tolerance, pathological lying, lack of remorse, lack of empathy, a parasitic lifestyle, impulsivity, irresponsible behavior, and failure to accept responsibility for his own actions, among others. Since he is not only dangerous but dangerous to perhaps one of the highest possible degrees, we recommended maximal sentencing."
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On rule of law (sending offenders to El Salvador):
"We are accustomed to thinking in terms of rule of law, as we have been a mature democracy for a while, but the Trump administration is at a different developmental stage, which in moral psychology we call, 'preconventional.' This means that abstract concepts such as rules and the law do not yet make sense, but “might makes right.”
Long interview -- much more at the following link:
https://mindsitenews.org/2025/04/21/trump-and-dementia/
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