Lindsay Graham isn't a psychologist but his assessment of Trump is right on
By Hal Brown, MSW
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| Background by DonkeyHotey |
This story is making the news today:
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| HUFFPOST article above |
On the face of it this isn't surprising. The fact that Lindsay Graham, testifying during a special grand jury investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn his defeat in Georgia, said that “if somebody had told Trump that aliens came down and stole Trump ballots, that Trump would’ve believed it," isn't really my point. Politically, Graham doesn't run for the Senate until his current term expires in 2027 so apparently he doesn't believe saying this about Trump will hurt his election chances.
Trump has turned curious critics into armchair psychologists. Until he came along the average American not familiar with psychological concepts who reads articles by and interviews with mental health professionals became familiar with several syndromes. They may have looked up malignant narcissism, dark triad, and Dunning-Kruger effect on Wikipedia when they decided that the best way to defeat one's enemy was to fully understand him.
Do a Google image search for Trump in strait jacket and this is what comes up (click images to enlarge):Trump was such a candidate for mockery because of his unhingedness, but the seriousness of his mental state tended to be overlooked or minimized by those who should have known better.
When the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" was published the editor, Yale University forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee, went to Washington, met with a dozen members of Congress, and made sure every Democrat in Congress had a copy. (See Yale psychiatrist briefed members of Congress on Trump’s mental fitness , CNN (Jan. 5, 2018)
In 2022 it was revealed that John Kelly read "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and came to believe he was
"pathological liar whose inflated ego" was the sign of a "deeply insecure person,” according to upcoming book "The Divider." (LINK)..
The first article about Trump being a narcissist by a mental health professional,
Northwestern University psychologist Dan P. McAdams, as far as I can tell, was in The Atlantic in June, 2016 I won't put a link because if you click you will use a free read unless you have a subscription.
You can read a summary of the article for free here.
I wrote many articles about Trump's psychopatholgy first published on Capitol Hill Blue and then posted on Daily Kos. In Sept. 2022 I used this image of a Google search page for Trump mentally ill in a Daily Kos posting:
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Bottom line: Trump has amply demonstrated that in addition to sharing the authoritarian and white supremacist beliefs of Ron DeSantos he is manifestly psychologically unstable. There is no way someone like him should be within 100 miles of
the nuclear football.
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3 comments:
Since Lyndsey Graham is a hypocritical liar (perhaps not on the same scale as Trump) I don't trust him that his testimony isn't geared towards an "Incompetent" but not "criminal" defense on Trump's behalf. That if people believe he's too stupid to know that aliens didn't steal votes, then he's too stupid to know he was committing a crime. I realize that ignorance of the law is not a defense but there may very well be a jurist who believes stupidity should get you off.
Lindsey Graham is completely lacking in any kind of a backbone. What a pathetic excuse for a United States senator he is.
When Trump was running in the Republican Primary in 2015 Graham was openly critical of Trump calling him 'a race baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.' As soon as Trump won the GOP nomination Graham became Trump's #1 lapdog. Of course Graham had to stand in line to get that role since so many others wanted it.....Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz .. the list goes on.
Graham is just like Trump in that neither of them stand for or believe in anything... they are both political opportunists who care only about being reelected.
At least Trump is mentally ill, not sure what Graham's excuse is.
I agree that trump would believe in vote-stealing aliens.
Only problem is that Graham changes his position every hour on the hour
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