The Daily Signal’s Friday scoop, “Judge in Trump Trial Gets Risk Assessment by Hostile Psychiatrist,” was timely, considering Trump opponent Biden’s obvious mental decline. It also may have triggered metaphorical PTSD in close readers of the New York Times.
The name of that “hostile psychiatrist” is Bandy X. Lee, and until her irresponsible diagnosis of political figures from afar got her fired from Yale Medical School, she was quite the radical gadfly on the Letters and news pages of the Times.
The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas wrote:
Five mental health professionals, some of whom already accused Donald Trump of being “dangerous,” prepared a risk assessment for New York state Judge Juan Merchan to consider in his July 11 sentencing decision on Trump, according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a longtime critic of the former…
