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AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 25, 2021 at 3:00 pm knew keenly from the start that Donald Trump would be very dangerous with presidential powers. This is why we came forth in unprecedented ways and risked our careers to publish the public-service book, in 2017. We tried to warn the nation that the dangers he posed were greater than people suspected, that they would grow worse over time, and, without intervention, that they would spread.The nation saw some of the effects on Jan. 6, 2021 — a “,” according to now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. We knew and repeatedly stated that, no matter what, Trump would never admit error or accept defeat and would therefore become a great danger after the 2020 election, which he would claim to have won regardless of outcome. Over the summer I even wrote to help the public prepare for what I saw coming. I specifically warned: “We must come to the recognition that he is truly someone who would do anything...no matter how destructive, to stay in power.” The insurrection at the Capitol proves how far he was willing to go and how close he came to causing the kind of chaos that may have allowed him to remain.AdvertisementIndeed, I and thousands of my colleagues at the World Mental Health Coalition predicted such a scenario for years, issuing of letters, petitions and statements asserting that, if Trump were not restrained via the special counsel’s report, impeachment or the 25th Amendment, he would become “uncontainable” over time. In March 2020, we issued a “,” stating that the president’s removal, or at least removal of influence, was necessary to avoid a catastrophic death toll. In September 2020, more than went on video record to announce that Trump was too psychologically dangerous and mentally unfit to qualify for the presidency or candidacy for reelection.Now we greatly fear that, if the Senate does not properly convict him and swiftly remove such privileges as access to the nation’s greatest secrets through the , he will continue to pose a great danger to the country for the following reasons:AdvertisementAs violence experts among mental health professionals warned, the public health consequences of violent rhetoric can be more powerful, in terms of creating , than specific orders or direct physical assaults. New cultural norms of violence and lawlessness are more likely to take hold without the discrediting and containment of Trump’s harmful influence.In sum, not convicting him under these circumstances would make him a serious continuing danger to the country. It would also have serious consequences to the health and wellbeing of the nation, even to .We have witnessed the perils of permitting a dangerously unfit person in an office he cannot handle. Only conviction would help mitigate the vast harm to the nation’s mental health he has caused, in addition to being a check on his own behavior.Lee is a forensic psychiatrist, violence expert and president of the World Mental Health Coalition. Advertisement

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 25, 2021 at 3:00 pm knew keenly from the start that Donald Trump would be very dangerous with presidential powers. This is why we came forth in unprecedented ways and risked our careers to publish the public-service book, in 2017. We tried to warn the nation that the dangers he posed were greater than people suspected, that they would grow worse over time, and, without intervention, that they would spread.The nation saw some of the effects on Jan. 6, 2021 — a “,” according to now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. We knew and repeatedly stated that,...

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