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July 17, 2019 13 mins

Host Jonathan Wolfman presents to you Read By Author Alissa Wolf and written By Sarah K. Burris 

‘He’s empty’: Psychiatrist warns Trump is in a ‘psychotic-like state,’
Dr. Lance Dodes warned that things were going to get worse under President Donald Trump in 2017. That’s precisely what happened.

“Is that what we’re seeing?” MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell asked the psychiatrist.


“Absolutely. Donald Trump, because he has a fundamental need to be all-powerful and all loved, can’t stand challenges,” Dr. Dodes said. “And the nature of democracy is that it challenges people. We have more than one opinion. So the more — it was predictable once he got into a position where people would challenge him, there are two parties, he would become more unhinged.
“As you watched him, respond to people, the more they challenged him, the more he ranted,” Dr. Dodes continued. “He stopped responding to the questions, and instead, he started to talk about how people were agents of fake news. He said that they would go out of business soon. They would die…This is the same kind of thing that he did when he was a candidate when he suggested someone protesting at his campaign rally be taken out and beaten up.”

The psychiatrist explained that Trump can’t handle when people disagree with him.

“The more he is challenged, the more he can’t stand anything that disagrees with him and the more you challenge him, the more unhinged he becomes, the more paranoid, and the more violent, potentially,” he said.

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