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The truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.

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The truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.

    Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society

    Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society

    Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard.
    Dr. Lee is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
    She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the problem of dangerous leadership and its contribution to a “mental health pandemic.”
    Dr. Lee continues to warn that Trump and his MAGA movement and American neofascism constitute a public health emergency, which as seen on Jan. 6 and with Trump’s escalating threats of massive violence and destruction is only continuing to get worse. She also warns that Trump’s megalomania and the enduring power of the MAGA cult reflects how American society is sick with malignant normality and how that collective state of evil and pathological behavior can only lead to doom and destruction. 
    Dr. Lee reflects on where the country would now be if the news media, political class, and other elites had responded properly to the warnings issued by mental health professionals more than seven years ago that Donald Trump represented an extreme threat to American society and that his obvious unwellness would spread and infect the nation if he were to become president – and if he wins the 2024 Election Dictator for Life will become a terminal disease for American democracy and society. 
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    • 34 min
    On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Defended American Democracy From Donald Trump's Coup Attempt and MAGA Attack Force

    On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Defended American Democracy From Donald Trump's Coup Attempt and MAGA Attack Force

    Sgt. Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He’s been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He’s been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Immigrant Award.
    Sgt. Gonell’s new book (with co-author Susan Shapiro) is American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy.
    Sgt. Gonell shares what it was like on the ground as he and his fellow officers tried to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6 against Trump’s MAGA terrorist mob and attack force who were trying to end American democracy as part of the coup attempt.
    Sgt. Gonell also reflects on his personal trauma, healing, questions of character, and how he became the type of man he is as shown by his service to the country when it would have been much easier to not have shown up to work on that historic Jan. 6.
    WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
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    • 32 min
    Dr. Justin Frank Explains Donald Trump's God Complex

    Dr. Justin Frank Explains Donald Trump's God Complex

    Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
    He warns that Donald Trump appears to be a megalomaniac, who as demonstrated by his recent comments at a rally in Iowa, truly does believe that he is some type of Chosen One who has been selected by “god” and “Jesus” to be America’s first dictator.
    Dr. Frank also explains how Trump’s obviously diseased mind and severe mental unwellness is rooted in a need to protect himself from reality – and how the pro-democracy forces can perhaps pierce Trump’s defense shield as they try to stop his fascist movement and takeover of the country. 
    WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
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    • 17 min
    Donald Trump and His Cabal’s Plans to Make Him a Dictator Are Being Announced in Public

    Donald Trump and His Cabal’s Plans to Make Him a Dictator Are Being Announced in Public

    On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “The secret to Trump's revenge plot: He's making his plans for vengeance public”.
    WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
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    My email:
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    HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?
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    Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

    • 7 min
    Donald Trump’s Evil Dream Nightmare of An American Fourth Reich

    Donald Trump’s Evil Dream Nightmare of An American Fourth Reich

    On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump Dreams of an American Fourth Reich — and He's Not Kidding”.
    WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
    On Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega
    On Facebook:
    https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega
    My email:
    chaunceydevega@gmail.com
    HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?
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    Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

    • 11 min
    What do Donald Trump’s Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?

    What do Donald Trump’s Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?

    Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
    Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump’s mind and how the ex-president’s mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy. 
    In the end, Dr. Frank warns Trump will become increasingly detached from reality as he exercises even more violent control and power over his MAGA cult followers who view the ex-president as a type of father figure and personal god.
    WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
    On Twitter:
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    My email:
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    HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?
    Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast
    Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

    • 38 min

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