'Goldwater Rule' Doc Recommends Dementia Tests For Trump

Saturday, October 26, 2024

A psychiatrist who helped craft the 1973 "Goldwater rule" that has kept many mental health professionals from opining on Donald Trump for nearly a decade said that it was not intended as a hard-and-fast prohibition, and that if he were Trump's doctor, he would order a full battery of tests to determine the cause of what he believes could be the former president's dementia. "He seems to be progressively cognitively impaired," said Allen Dyer, a retired George Washington University psychiatry professor.

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"[Dyer] added that if Trump has not yet gotten professional help for whatever is causing these and other behaviors, he should, for his own sake, so that an appropriate treatment could be started."

"I would want to do lab studies, imaging studies, and a battery of psychological tests," Dyer said. "One would want to know if this is dementia and decreased cognitive function."

Smoler said it would be important to figure out if Trump's problems are organic, based in brain chemistry or other physical factors, or psychological, such as anxiety and stress. "The first thing to do is to understand the problem," he said. "Then you try to figure out if there's a treatment."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-24 09:49 AM | Reply

"I've done cognitive tests. I've done them twice, and I aced both of them, and the doctor in one case said, I've never seen anybody ace them.'"

What doctor?

Get them on air to testify to that.

Better still, lets have them both do the test given by an independent doctor right now.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-24 11:59 AM | Reply

Putin's mush-brained bitch doesn't even know how old he is. What a dotard.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-24 12:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

LMAO You just had to off your President on Twitter a few months back because he couldn't make a complete sentence. You have no credibility.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-25 08:36 AM | Reply

Have him come take another test have it checked by the doctor and show the Actual test to the American public immediately.

#5 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-10-25 07:36 PM | Reply

Only problem though, are we also going to test all ------------? That would be lot's of unnecessary testing. We already know they are stupid so why test? Trump himself? I think he has dementia but I do

#6 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-26 03:39 PM | Reply

You Democrats are truly something. The real distressing old guy who still has his finger on the suitcase and is obviously incapable and after years you say nothing. OH! Oh you covered up for him and finally kicked him out only because he cant win. Why was he not already 25th Amendment-ED? Now you say the candidate that is obviously capable and effectively very capable and very much more so than those half his age needs a cognitive test. Democrat party is representative of a faction I never again want to be a part of. No ethics, no sense, no ability and nothing close to positive for USA.

#7 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-26 04:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

"Democrat party..."

#7 | Posted by Robson | Flag: Tracks

There is no such thing.

You're welcome.

#8 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 04:19 PM | Reply

SO... having a Criminal Traitor as President is, 'positive for the USA'?

Oh, wait. It's Bobson.

Nevermind.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-26 04:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#7 | Posted by Robson | Flag: A proud Russian bot since 2006 (perhaps)

#10 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 04:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I want him voted out... again... by larger margins.

I prefer Kamala's victory be achieved on the fair and square and he drifts off into dementia land exiled to foreign soil... a compassionate exile ... in Mexico like the Shah Pahlavi back in the 80's.

I want the sycophant Castratos backing him to whither away in shame for backing Putin's favorite sock puppet.

We're a week away... at this point, his dementia will only matter when he uses it to get out of prison... same as Reagan whose dementia saved him.

We need votes.

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-10-26 04:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

I just love this shvt....I really do.

.from 2022-2024 we watched the brain dead vegetable in the white house get worse and worse

and you people , with assistance from the democrat butt kissing media...did nothing but repeat the lies and make up your own.

now I read this and you expect us to take you seriously.....a goal that gets further away with every new day's press release.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-27 08:03 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Nurse Ratched, bed check on #12 ... Paging Nurse Ratched ...

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-27 08:23 AM | Reply

Odd isn't it? Democrat Party would prefer testing little people everywhere, but not the vegetable now in WH with his finger right now on the nuke control suitcase, all while Obama and Pelosi excluded him from POTUS candidacy. They did add a second Dem vegetable Kamala so she control your life post election too with some new biased test like they did with military etc and Covid. Their favorite thing is always to control you on their pet issues.

#14 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-27 01:43 PM | Reply

Democrats elected a turnip in 2020 and now they have a penchant for standards.. Hilarious

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-28 12:22 PM | Reply