Claim:  A letter by Dr. Keith Albow said President Trump is “stone cold sane” and that “there’s a genius in the Oval Office” in response to critics who have questioned the president’s mental fitness. 
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: John Gartner (psychologist)
text: leader, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer. At the end of April 2017 he was able to forward the petition with more than 41.000 signatures of mental healthcare professionals to Washington D.C.. Core of the petition: "My professional judgement is that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States." "And I respectfully request him be removed from office, according to article 3 of the 25th Amendment, and so on". According to Gartner, President Trump's mental handicaps are a mix of 1.narcissism, 2. paranoia; 3.sociopathy; and 4. a

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: claims about their respective "nuclear buttons". In reaction, Richard W. Painter, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, deemed Trump "psychologically unfit" and supported transferring his powers to Vice President Pence under the 25th Amendment. In April 2018 "Vanity Fair" reported that Trump's advisers "worry about his mental health" when he is outside the controls available in the White House environment. In September 2017, Jeanne Suk Gerson wrote in "The New Yorker": "A strange consensus does appear to be forming around Trump's mental state," including Democrats and Republicans who doubt Trump's fitness for office. Journalist Bill Moyers interviewed psychiatrist

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: in 2018 that Trump had dictated this letter over the telephone. He said: "Mr. Trump dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn't put in there." In August 2016, Bornstein stated that Trump's "health is excellent, especially his mental health." In February 2016, presidential candidate Jeb Bush speculated that Trump had mental health issues, stating "I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but the guy needs therapy". In early 2017, psychologist John Gartner collected more than 25,000 signatures of mental health professionals on a petition, directed to the national opposition leader, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer. At the

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: own political perspective, as other mental health professionals differ. Lee and others contend that Trump's presidency represents an emergency allowing, or even requiring, psychiatrists to take exception from the APA's Goldwater rule, which holds that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures without having examined them in person, and without their consent. The letter titled I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration published by the New York Times declares most if not all those working for Trump see him as mentally unfit for his job. It has been asserted that Trump

title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
text: Trump as "crazy" or doubted his mental health. In this book, mental health professionals examine that claim. They define Trump's behavior in terms of psychiatric disease, such as narcissistic personality disorder. They conclude that “anyone as mentally unstable as Mr. Trump simply should not be entrusted with the life-and-death powers of the presidency.” Lozada wrote that these conclusions are "compelling," but the contributors are writing from their own political perspective, and other mental health professionals differ. Presidents with mental illness, like depression, can be effective, and presidents without mental illness can still be dangerous. Estelle Freedman, the Robinson Professor in

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: Robert Jay Lifton and said that Trump "makes increasingly bizarre statements that are contradicted by irrefutable evidence to the contrary". Lifton replied, "He doesn’t have clear contact with reality, though I’m not sure it qualifies as a "bona fide" delusion." As an example, Lifton said, when Trump claimed that former president Barack Obama was born in Kenya, "he was manipulating that lie as well as undoubtedly believing it in part." In April 2017 forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee hosted a meeting at Yale University medical school regarding the ethics of discussing Trump's mental health. In October 2017, Lee published "The

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: end of April 2017 he was able to forward the petition with more than 41,000 signatures of mental healthcare professionals to Washington D.C.. The core of the petition stated: "My professional judgement is that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And I respectfully request him [sic] be removed from office, according to article 3 of the 25th Amendment, and so on". Gartner asserted that Trump's mental handicaps are a mix of 1. narcissism, 2. paranoia; 3. sociopathy; and 4. a dash of sadism.

title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
text: and sociopathy. Consequently, Trump's presidency represents an emergency not only allowing, but perhaps also requiring, psychiatrists to deviate from the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater rule, which holds that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give professional opinions about public figures without examining them in person. According to Jeanne Suk Gerson in "The New Yorker", "A strange consensus does appear to be forming around Trump’s mental state," including Democrats and Republicans who doubt Trump's fitness for office. In a blog post republished on "Salon" in September 2017, journalist Bill Moyers wrote that "[t]here will not be a book published this fall

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: the word 'would' instead of 'wouldn't'". Former Republican governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman wrote of this assertion that if Trump did make this error, "it demonstrates his inability to articulate accurately U.S. foreign policy at the highest level, for the highest stakes". Trump has dismissed questions regarding his mental health, stating that he is a "very stable genius". As evidence of his mental capacities, he pointed to his business success, his victory over Republican competitors, and his election to the presidency against Hillary Clinton. Trump and others have asserted that such questions are evidence of a problem with

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: his critics, labeling them as suffering from a "Trump derangement syndrome" (TDS). For example, commenting on the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump", RealClearPolitics writer Carl M. Cannon argued that the foreword by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton "offers the melodramatic view that clinicians who don't warn the world about Donald Trump's shortcomings are akin to Nazi doctors who worked at Auschwitz. At the risk of practicing medicine without a license, I'd suggest that this historical comparison is "de facto" evidence of TDS – and paranoid grandiosity". In response to speculation about his cognitive abilities, Trump was administered the Montreal

title: Insane Clown President
text: be very sick indeed." The author writes about Donald Trump's campaign style, "He can do plenty of damage just by encouraging people to be as uninhibited in their stupidity as he is." Taibbi refers to Trump as an ignorant individual engaged in confidence tricks, "bloviating and farting his way" along the trail of the 2016 election. The author recalls Trump, "saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next." The book offers a positive assessment of the campaign of Bernie Sanders for president. Taibbi writes, "More than any politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is

title: Health of Donald Trump
text: Dangerous Case of Donald Trump", containing essays from 27 psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals on the "clear and present danger" that Trump's mental health poses to the "nation and individual well being". They argued that the president's issues affected the mental health of the United States population, and that he placed the country at grave risk of war because of his pathological traits. They defined Trump's behavior in terms of psychiatric diseases, such as narcissistic personality disorder. Carlos Lozada, writing for "The Washington Post", considered these conclusions "compelling", but also noted that the book contributors were writing from their

title: Fire and Fury
text: continued to attack the book, calling it "a complete work of fiction" and "a disgrace", and labeling Wolff a "fraud." Also that day, in a move interpreted as a response to the book's raising questions about Trump's competence for office, Trump tweeted that his "two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." From his successes in business, television, and politics, Trump concluded that he was in fact "a very stable genius." On January 7, Bannon issued a statement calling Trump Jr. a "patriot and a good man," saying that his comments were directed at Paul Manafort,

title: Goldwater rule
text: including grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and 'malignant narcissism, and that he has a "dangerous mental illness", despite having never examined him. John Gartner, a practicing psychologist, and the leader of the group Duty to Warn, stated in April 2017 that: "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness." The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), a different organization from the APA, sent a letter on June 6, 2017, that highlighted differences between the APA and APsaA ethical guidelines, stating that "The American Psychiatric Association's ethical stance on the Goldwater Rule applies to its members

title: Eliot A. Cohen
text: to help steer good people to an administration that understandably wanted nothing to do with the likes of me, someone who had been out front in opposing Trump since the beginning.Cohen also wrote an op-ed piece in "The Atlantic" on 29 January 2017 commenting on his distaste for Donald Trump as a person:Many conservative foreign-policy and national-security experts saw the dangers last spring and summer, which is why we signed letters denouncing not Trump’s policies but his temperament; not his program but his character. We were right. And friends who urged us to tone it down, to make our peace

title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
text: for RealClearPolitics, Carl M. Cannon, by contrast, argued that the book's foreword, by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, "offers the melodramatic view that clinicians who don't warn the world about Donald Trump's shortcomings are akin to Nazi doctors who worked at Auschwitz. At the risk of practicing medicine without a license, I'd suggest that this historical comparison is "de facto" evidence of <nowiki>[</nowiki>Trump Derangement Syndrome<nowiki>]</nowiki> – and paranoid grandiosity". The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 book, edited by Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, containing essays from 27 psychologists, psychiatrists, and

title: Oliver Stone
text: Obama's policies, having originally thought he would be "a man of great integrity." He said: "On the contrary, Obama has doubled down on the (George W.) Bush administration policies," and "has created ... the most massive global security surveillance state that's ever been seen, way beyond East Germany's Stasi". In April 2018, Stone attended a press conference at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, where he likened President Donald Trump to "Beelzebub", the biblical demonic figure. In an interview with "The Times" newspaper on July 25, 2010, Stone claimed that America does not know "the full story" on Iran and

title: Insane Clown President
text: Insane Clown President Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus is a non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi about Donald Trump and the 2016 United States presidential election. The book contains illustrations by "Rolling Stone" artist Victor Juhasz. Taibbi's choice of title for the book was motivated by Trump's marketing style. His work was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson, who had previously published "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Taibbi begins the work by quoting from his 2008 book "The Great Derangement", asserting he predicted the onslaught of fake news and the beginnings of the alt-right in society.

title: Bandy X. Lee
text: the World Health Organization. In April 2017 Lee hosted a meeting at Yale University medical school to discuss the mental health of President Donald Trump. In an interview with "Salon" in May 2017 she argued that the subject of the President's mental health amounted to a "state of emergency" as "our survival as a species may be at stake." She also discussed her political views, linking what she sees as increasing inequality in the United States to a deterioration in collective mental health. Later in 2017 she was the editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump", a book of

title: Camel Club
text: and paranoia. As a child, his parents had him act in a side show, adding extremely high numbers in his head and reciting extremely long sections of text without faltering. As is shown in "Stone Cold", Farb's gifts allow him to win extremely high amounts of money at casino games, such as blackjack. Farb was hired by the National Health Institute, but was fired after sending a threatening letter to the President. Stone met him and got him on the TV show "Jeopardy!" With medication, Farb was able to make a small fortune, with which he started a company for