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CNN's 'Reliable Source' Says Trump 'May Be Responsible'..
Townhall.com ^ | August 25, 2019 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 8/25/2019, 7:39:40 PM by Kaslin

When CNN's Brian Stelter isn't worrying about whether or not Sean Spicer's foxtrot around ABC's dancefloor will cause lasting damage to America's social fabric, he's bringing guests on 'Reliable Sources' to sound off cockamamie psychological theories around President Donald J. Trump. Today, Stelter had on a psychiatrist who suggested that President Trump is 'more destructive' than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined.

Ex-Townhall contributor and current Washington Examiner writer Julio Rosas picked up the exchange.

Dr. Allen Frances, former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University, told Stelter that he is not in favor of psychologists and psychiatrists diagnosing President Trump as "crazy" because doing so hides the fact that Americans are "crazy" for electing him.

"Well, I think 'medicalizing' politics has three very dire consequences. The first is that it stigmatizes the mentally ill. I’ve known thousands of patients, almost all of them are well-behaved, well-mannered good people. Trump is none of these," Dr. Frances told Stelter. "Lumping that is a terrible insult to the mentally ill and they have enough problems and stigma as it is."

"Second, calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we’re crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist," Frances continued. "Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, Mao in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."

Psychiatrist: Trump 'may be responsible for many more million deaths' than Hitler and Stalin


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: barfalert; beyondfakenews; cnn; fakenews; lovetrumpshate; media; psychiatrist
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The rest of the title is: For More Deaths Than Hitler, Stalin, And Mao
But than, this is CNN
1 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:39:40 PM by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Today, Stelter had on a psychiatrist who suggested that President Trump is 'more destructive' than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined.

Hyperbole much?

2 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:44:55 PM by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Kaslin

“crazy policies”

Sound economy, national defense, rule of law.

Crazy?


3 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:45:41 PM by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

> a psychiatrist who suggested that President Trump is ‘more destructive’ than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined <

What? No mention of Pol Pot or Genghis Khan? This guy is really pulling his punches.


4 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:46:51 PM by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin
President Trump is 'more destructive' than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined.

This is psychotic. The only thing he's done is bomb an airfield in Syria. Beyond that... his hands are cleaner than... any president we've ever had, I think, at least in recent memory! These people are crazy. Bat-guano crazy.

5 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:47:47 PM by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Kaslin

Yet another psychotic psychiatrist.


6 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:48:35 PM by Mr. Mojo
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To: Kaslin
"I’ve known thousands of patients, almost all of them are well-behaved, well-mannered good people. Trump is none of these." -- Dr. Frances.

Doctor Frances went on to say "President Trump is a lot like Norman Bates and his mother Norma."


7 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:50:44 PM by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kaslin

TDS patient commits ethics violations, film at 11


8 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:53:54 PM by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Kaslin

This is nothing less than the MSM trying to incite violence against the leader of our nation. They spout insane garbage like this and hope some nut job will try something.


9 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:57:32 PM by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Kaslin

Luckily, CNN’s audience behind the camera crew consists of about 16 people who neglected to turn off the TV.


10 posted on 8/25/2019, 7:59:15 PM by stevem
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To: Kaslin
Here is a reply from a viewer

This man needs a psychiatrist. I would love to get in a room with him and tell him what I think of him. According to him, half of America is insane. The only problem, is he is calling the wrong half insane. I personally think that secure borders, proper and legal immigration, paying back your student loan money you signed a promissory note to borrow, paying for your own education as an adult, not killing babies at 40 weeks during the birthing process, are good things. I certainly do not think that makes me insane for voting for Trump. The fact that this bozo was Chair of Psychiatry at Duke, makes me want to puke. I would love to debate this cretin on national television.

11 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:00:48 PM by Kaslin
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To: stevem

More people watch CNN stuff when it gets repeated than the original brod cast.

There are FReepers who insist on posting garbacious CNN drivel


12 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:03:30 PM by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

I will agree with that “psychiatrist”.

Trump is more destructive than all of those people he mentioned.

Destructive to.....

The democrat/socialist/liberal/progressive/communist agendas.

Liberals and those other far-left ideologues, had their worst nightmare come true when Trump was elected and stopped their ever growing gains towards a socialist America and socialist world.

Love the kind of ‘destruction’ which Trump is exacting on the leftist agenda.


13 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:04:26 PM by adorno
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Obviously that moron doesn't realize that not every one needs a Shrink.

President Trump is one of those.

14 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:05:02 PM by Kaslin
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To: Mr. Mojo

Whatever happened to the code of ethics, or whatever it’s called, which forbids psychiatrists from diagnosing a patient they have not personally examined???


15 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:06:55 PM by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

I think it would be news if few 100 million people died , these people live in another dimension


16 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:08:32 PM by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

For more commentary on this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3774327/posts


17 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:14:44 PM by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kaslin

Leaving Trump and even the US out of this, let’s talk about Europe. The ‘crazy’ people in Europe think that bringing in MILLIONS of West-hating people from North Africa and the Middle East will destroy the European cultures that have existed for at least 1000 years now, particularly given their fertility rates.

The bottom line is that everyone gets to propagate their definition of ‘crazy’ - but THE MEDIA gets to choose which ones to amplify, as in this case.


18 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:15:11 PM by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Kaslin

Doctor, heal thyself.


19 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:16:02 PM by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Kaslin

CNN is being forced to greatly up the crazy because MSNBC is beating the tar out of them in the ratings ... it’s probably the main reason CNN hired the Mooch ...


20 posted on 8/25/2019, 8:17:40 PM by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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