Yale psychiatrist to Pelosi: A “mental health hold” on Trump is inevitable; advises Pelosi to call 911 to report him to local authorities hotair.com/archives/karen…
It is nothing new for Bandy X. Lee to sound the alarm about her opinion that President Trump is mentally ill. Lee began warning anyone who would listen about the danger she believes President Trump presents to the country even before he was elected.
She finds a willing audience among Democrats and anti-Trumpers. Now, she’s upped her game and is insisting that Speaker Pelosi, as a coworker, report Trump to local authorities in order for him to be subjected to a mental evaluation.
Bandy Lee says that Pelosi has not done enough, especially now that we are in the impeachment process. While Lee thinks it has been effective for Pelosi to withhold the articles of impeachment instead of delivering them to the Senate, she thinks Trump is becoming more dangerous.
Trump’s six-page letter to Pelosi after the votes on the articles of impeachment seems to be the breaking point for Lee. She now advises Pelosi to do something drastic, like call 911 and report Trump as a danger to the country. Yes, really.
From @Salon:
“As a coworker, she [Pelosi] has the right to have him submit to an involuntary evaluation, but she has not,” Lee told Salon. “Anyone can call 911 to report someone who seems dangerous, and family members are the most typical ones to do so.
“As a coworker, she [Pelosi] has the right to have him submit to an involuntary evaluation, but she has not,” Lee told Salon. “Anyone can call 911 to report someone who seems dangerous, and family members are the most typical ones to do so.
“But so can coworkers, and even passersby on the street. The law dictates who can determine right to treatment, or civil commitment, and in all 50 U.S. states this includes a psychiatrist.
“The advantage of a coworker starting this process is that a court can mandate a mental capacity evaluation before the dangerous person returns to work,” Lee continued. “The committing physician is preferably the patient’s treater, but does not have to be.”
Just the visual of some unhinged Democrat picking up the phone and calling 911 to report President Trump as a danger to the community and the nation, in general, is comedy gold.
This kind of suggestion makes me wonder who is the person in mental distress? It sounds like it is her.
She comes off as unhinged as any Democrat these days. After the Mueller Report backfired and didn’t produce the results hoped for by The Resistance, Democrats put all their hopes into the articles of impeachment.
The problem is that Americans watched the process play out and realized that there is nothing to impeach the president over. Independents are moving away from them and are ready for it all to be over with, to just move on.
Trump is not a danger to democracy. The impeachment of President Trump is a purely partisan exercise. For Lee to be insisting now that Pelosi ratchet up the madness is something that only the most strident of anti-Trumpers will find appealing – like the readers of Salon.
Meanwhile, Trump is still president and frankly, he’s had a very good year as far as implementing his policies and judicial appointments go. He’s on the road to re-election.
