The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right -- The vindication of Bandy Lee by Joshua Kendall
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right The vindication of Bandy Lee. Joshua Kendall September+October 2022 Issue On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale, Lee had been too preoccupied with her mother’s condition to pay attention to the nascent presidential race, so she was taken aback when she saw footage of a Donald Trump rally airing on the hospital room’s small TV. What shocked her was the way Trump interacted with the crowd. “He said something about how his supporters should knock the crap out of hecklers,” she recalls, “and that if they did, he would pay their legal bills.” His belligerent behavior meant more to Lee than it might to a casual viewer. As part of her clinical work in prison settings, she had evaluated and trea...