Conservative attorney
George Conway’s
Anti-Psychopath PAC turned to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to explain exactly why they believe former President
Donald Trump is unfit to enter the Oval Office for a second term.
Four such professionals slam the Republican nominee as a “malignant narcissist” incapable of caring about anyone but himself and a “danger to the republic” in a new 60-second spot.
An open letter condemning Trump that had been signed by 233 professionals as of early Friday also will run as a print ad in The New York Times, the PAC said in a statement sent to HuffPost.
The signatories “have an ethical duty to warn the public that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy,” they write. “His symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder—malignant narcissism—makes him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous. He is grossly unfit for leadership.”
“Clinicians have had years to observe Donald Trump, and his behavior has long been indicative of malignant narcissism,” clinical psychologist John Gartner, the lead signatory of letter, said in a statement sent to HuffPost.
“We have a duty to warn the public about the grave danger posed by returning this man to power,” Gartner added. “Trump’s conduct recalls that of some of history’s most brutal dictators, and he has already demonstrated his willingness to wield state power to hurt his enemies without remorse.