Dershowitz: Speculation About Trump's Mental Health 'Very Dangerous'
Alan Dershowitz
The speculation about President Donald Trump's mental status is "very dangerous " and the 25th Amendment was not made to be invoked when parties don't agree about a president's "emotional makeup  " Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz  said Monday.
"I have railed against the criminalization of political difference  " Dershowitz  told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Yale Professor Bandy Lee earlier this month briefed several congressional Democrats and one Republican earlier this month over her concerns over the president's mental state  and  Dershowitz  said her comments that  he  is dangerous and may need to be restrained from action are in themselves dangerous.
"Imagine how dangerous that would be  and you know  psychiatrists are notoriously bad at predicting violence " said  Dershowitz .
"Remember  what they are looking at are things they knew about since he was elected president "  Dershowitz  added. "I didn't like what I saw necessarily so I did what you do in a democracy  you vote for the candidate you prefer  I preferred Hillary Clinton. I knew about her  I knew about him. I made a balanced judgment. You don't lock them up. You don't put them in mental hospitals if you don't agree with them. So dangerous to democracy."
"[It] is designed for when somebody has a stroke or somebody is unconscious  perhaps what happened when President [Woodrow] Wilson was president " said  Dershowitz . "He had a serious stroke. It's not designed for differences about a person's emotional makeup."
In addition   Dershowitz  said that politically  the 25th Amendment likely would not be invoked as the vice president would have to do that  and if the president disputed the matter  then it would have to be voted for by two thirds of both houses of congress.
"It would happen only if any president  I'm not talking about a particular one  had a major psychotic break " said  Dershowitz . "Look  we once had a secretary of defense his name is [James] Forrestal  he jumped out of the window of the Walter Reed Center. He thought the communists were coming after him."
"Oh  by the way  one of the things [Lee] talks about that's a symptom of his mental illness is that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel " said  Dershowitz . "So did the majority of the Senate and majority of the House and so did I support that. Am I getting locked up next?"
 Dershowitz  on Monday also talked about the importance of allowing dissent on college campuses.
The way to solve the issue is to fight back   Dershowitz  added  while blaming college administrators for the unrest.
The speculation about President Donald Trump's mental status is "very dangerous " and the 25th Amendment was not made to be invoked when parties don't agree about a president's "emotional makeup  "  [TGT] said Monday.
"I have railed against the criminalization of political difference   [TGT] told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Yale Professor Bandy Lee earlier this month briefed several congressional Democrats and one Republican earlier this month over her concerns over the president's mental state  and   [TGT] said her comments that   [TGT]   is dangerous and may need to be restrained from action are in themselves dangerous.
"Imagine how dangerous that would be  and you know  psychiatrists are notoriously bad at predicting violence " said  Dershowitz .
"Remember  what they are looking at are things they knew about since he was elected president  [TGT] added. "I didn't like what I saw necessarily so I did what you do in a democracy  you vote for the candidate you prefer  I preferred Hillary Clinton. I knew about her  I knew about him. I made a balanced judgment. You don't lock them up. You don't put them in mental hospitals if you don't agree with them. So dangerous to democracy."
"[It] is designed for when somebody has a stroke or somebody is unconscious  perhaps what happened when President [Woodrow] Wilson was president " said   [TGT]  . "He had a serious stroke. It's not designed for differences about a person's emotional makeup."
In addition   Dershowitz  said that politically  the 25th Amendment likely would not be invoked as the vice president would have to do that  and if the president disputed the matter  then it would have to be voted for by two thirds of both houses of congress.
"It would happen only if any president  I'm not talking about a particular one  had a major psychotic break " said   [TGT]  . "Look  we once had a secretary of defense his name is [James] Forrestal  he jumped out of the window of the Walter Reed Center. He thought the communists were coming after him."
"Oh  by the way  one of the things [Lee] talks about that's a symptom of his mental illness is that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel " said   [TGT]  . "So did the majority of the Senate and majority of the House and so did I support that. Am I getting locked up next?"
 Dershowitz  on Monday also talked about the importance of allowing dissent on college campuses.
The way to solve the issue is to fight back   Dershowitz  added  while blaming college administrators for the unrest.