Psychiatrists who warned that Donald Trump was fomenting violence receive threats of violence from Trump fans. Let's call that, point made.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Two psychiatrists who warned that Donald Trump was inspiring violence had their point made, the hard way, when Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) abruptly canceled a planned public meeting with them at a senior center after receiving violent threats about the event. 

According to Bandy X. Lee, an associate professor at Yale who was scheduled to speak at the event, Raskin informed her just 24 hours beforehand that it was off, because going forward would have posed “significant safety risks” to attendees. 

“Sorry about tomorrow night—we’ve been getting so many threats,” Raskin said, according to Lee, the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a controversial collection of essays arguing that Trump’s affinity for violence represents a danger to the public, and a leading member of the National Coalition of Concerned Mental-Health Experts (full disclosure: the group’s members include Claire Silverman, a psychologist and this reporter’s mother) that’s raised public questions about Trump’s fitness for office. 

Raskin has roused the ire of Trump supporters since he submitted a bill in April of last year calling for the creation of a committee to evaluate the president’s physical and mental fitness. 

“Whenever my boss talks about the 25th Amendment, there will be an uptick in comments on social media, or phone calls, or emails, that contain either explicit threats or generally violent and hateful language,” Lauren Doney, Raskin’s communications director, told The Daily Beast, while confirming that Thursday’s event had been canceled.

Nothing proves that you are not inspiring violence, like your fans threatening to kill everybody who says you are inspiring violence.

Nicely done deplorables.

On "Meet the Press" author Michael Wolff says the 25th Amendment is talked about all of the time. Update!

Courtesy of NBC News: 

Concern in the White House about President Donald Trump’s fitness for office has become so great that members of the president’s administration routinely talk about a constitutional solution, the author of an explosive new book claimed in an exclusive interview on “Meet The Press.” 

Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury,” alleged Sunday that the 25th Amendment, which would allow the president’s cabinet to remove him from office, is a concept that is "alive every day in the White House." 

Wolff said White House staffers he talked to would say things like "we're not at a 25th Amendment level yet." Others, he said, called Trump's behaviors "a little 25th Amendment."

Like I said, this is becoming more and more viable every day.

And if they are talking about it in the White House with this kind of frequency, they know it as well.

Update: As if to prove he is unfit for office Trump tweeted this out just tonight.

 Now if you are trying to figure out what an "enormously consensual presidency" is you are not alone, so was everybody on Twitter.

Trump later removed it and replaced it with one that made a little more sense.

“His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency. So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2018

Because you know, quoting from articles by sycophantic reporters so that you can talk about yourself in the third person is SO MUCH saner. 

"Covfefe."

"Stable genius."

"Enormously consensual presidency."

It's like with every tweet Trump just makes a 25th Amendment solution all the more viable.

Washington lawmakers bring in Yale psychiatry professor to brief them on Donald Trump's mental instability.

Do I look crazy to you?

Courtesy of Politico:  

Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump’s mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings about his recent behavior. 

In private meetings with more than a dozen members of Congress held on Dec. 5 and 6, Lee briefed lawmakers — all Democrats except for one Republican senator, whom Lee declined to identify. Her professional warning to Capitol Hill: “He’s going to unravel, and we are seeing the signs.” 

In an interview, she pointed to Trump “going back to conspiracy theories, denying things he has admitted before, his being drawn to violent videos.” Lee also warned, “We feel that the rush of tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency.”

Lee, editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which includes testimonials from 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assessing the president’s level of “dangerousness,” said that she was surprised by the interest in her findings during her two days in Washington. “One senator said that it was the meeting he most looked forward to in 11 years,” Lee recalled. “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.” 

The conversation about Trump’s fitness to serve is ongoing — and gaining steam after Trump’s tweet this week taunting the leader of North Korea with my-nuclear-button-is-bigger-than-yours bravado.

Politico suggests that all of this might be preparation for pulling the trigger on the 25th Amendment which could remove Trump from office due to his lack of mental fitness.

I have to admit that I had previously discounted the possibility of anybody actually using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, because I simply did not think the Republicans had it in them to use it.

Make no mistake, doing this will cost them politically.

But now in light of this new information that possibility seems far more likely.

And of course it is not the ONLY possibility being considered to take Trump down, so I do not think it is at all risky to suggest that Trump will never make it to the end of his first term in office.

For this Fourth of July weekend Americans were protesting for a new kind of independence, from Donald Trump.

Happening Now. Impeachment March at Piedmont Park coincides with Anti-Trump marches nationwide. #fox5atl pic.twitter.com/jx3lgjlPd3

— Aungelique Proctor (@aungeliquefox5) July 2, 2017

Courtesy of NBC News: 

People gathered in cities across the United States on Sunday, two days before Independence Day, to call on Congress to impeach President Donald Trump. 

In Los Angeles, they carried a black coffin draped in red, white and blue flowers, topped with a hand-written sign: "The Presidency 1789-2017." 

In Austin, Texas, they marched from the state Capitol to City Hall, tussling with counter-protesters along the way, and in downtown San Francisco, a chant made their goal plain: "What do we want? Impeachment! When do we want it? Now!" 

As in many other cities, protesters were greeted by supporters of the president in Austin. 

"There's no reason at this point to impeach the president. He's committed no crimes. There's no reason," Jake Lloyd, who backs the president, told NBC station KXAN. "I don't think they understand what impeachment is." 

The "impeachment marches" added to the fledgling effort among lawmakers who have invoked the "I" word. 

Among them is Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who first called for Trump's impeachment for obstruction of justice on the House floor on May 17 and who repeated his call to hundreds of protesters Sunday in Austin.

statesman: UPDATE: Verbal confrontation but no arrests at ‘Impeachment’ march https://t.co/0CJnf7iHia pic.twitter.com/Eqz8vSmCPX

— Austin Fox. UT (@myfoxaustin) July 2, 2017

 Boy that Donald Trump rally knows how to energize Americans, doesn't he?

By the way I USED to think that the idea of impeachment was frivolous and unlikely, but the further we get into this catastrophic presidency the more I think that he may not only be possible, but also necessary.

There is also talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.

Section four of which states the following:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Up until this point nobody has ever pulled the trigger on this, and the 25th Amendment has only come into play after an assassination of a sitting president, so this would be breaking new ground for sure.

But then again Donald Trump is clearly mentally ill, and if there were ever an appropriate time for something like this, now would be it.