Trump’s Cassandra was right all along

Yet she was excommunicated from her profession.

Journalism is too opaque and misunderstood. Chills gives a behind-the-scenes look at how dangerous investigative journalism gets made. 

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A psychiatric expert at Yale should have made an impact when she saw and named Trump for what he was. Instead, she received blowback from her own colleagues. (Photo by DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images)

Friends,

I apologize for the break in my postings. My trip to Ukraine has had a profound impact on me, both positive and negative. I’ve been unable to sleep past 1 a.m. for many nights — PTSD, activate! — and for those of you who’ve followed (on Twitter) my emergency fostering of an old miniature pinscher, Lucky, who lost his parent last week and turned out to be extremely ill himself, I hope you’ll understand why I’ve been quiet.

I am literally so tired that I just tried to put a pair of glasses on top of the pair on my face.

But there is something I would like to draw your attention to. It’s an article in Mother Jones called “The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right,” by Joshua Kendall. The dek (subhed aka subhead) is: “The vindication of Bandy Lee.”

It’s an excellent look at a psychiatric expert at Yale who could have and should have made an impact when she saw and named Donald Trump for what he was and is. Instead, she received terrible blowback from her own colleagues.

Kendall writes of when she first recognized Trump’s maleficence: