Donate to Expose the Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency

FUNDING MAJOR ALL-DAY DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP LEADERSHIP FITNESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Greetings!

Like a deserter on a battlefield, our mental health system has abdicated its duty to warn the public of a collective psychosis that is severely threatening the American experiment.

Acting like an agent of the state under the Trump administration, the American Psychiatric Association gagged mental health professionals eager to warn the public about Trump’s mental unfitness for the United States presidency—and then was richly rewarded for its efforts. Despite protests from members, the APA has not lifted its “gag order,” apparently in preparation for a second Trump presidency.

The public has been deprived of critical expertise at the most critical time, and needs to hear from mental health experts! In order to circumvent the APA-induced media blackout, the World Mental Health Coalition needs $67,500 to host an all-day, live conference in Washington, DC, about the true dangers of a second Trump presidency.

Please contribute what you can at this critical time, so that this uniquely timely and vitally important conference can be prepared and have impact.

Below is an outline of our plan:

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MAJOR, IMPACTING CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE THEME:

THE MORE DANGEROUS STATE OF THE WORLD AND THE NEED FOR FIT LEADERSHIP

‘THE MUCH MORE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP’

We are at an extremely critical time, more than ever before in our lifetime. The year before the 2020 election we held a major conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. “The Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership” conference was considered important enough that it was broadcast for all 3 hours on C-Span. The second edition of our New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, was released at the conference. As never before or since, we brought together thirteen highly respected experts from many different areas of expertise including psychiatry, law, political science, economics, history, journalism, climate science, and nuclear science. The conference was convened by Dr. Bandy Lee, moderated by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, and among others included Dr. Jerrold Post, the psychiatrist who established the CIA’s program for psychologically evaluating foreign national leaders who in one of his final public appearances applied all of his experience and knowledge to warning about Donald Trump. Please watch this 17-minute video that opened the past conference (https://vimeo.com/916121682) as well as some highlights of the conference itself (https://youtu.be/uI6lFEPSI1g?si=dOUzexBLrym7Z9lb).

We have a rare opportunity to highlight the issue that has been central from the start of Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and beyond: Trump’s dangerous mental state! Refusing to do so has already had devastating ramifications, including 1.2 million American deaths, most of which could have been prevented, a violent insurrection that came too close to overturning our government, and escalating threats of continuing and expanding social and political violence. Now, we still face an all-too-possible return of Trump and what he would bring with him to the White House, including Project 2025 and the new Supreme Court designation of “Presidential Immunity.” At this critical time, we now have to work even harder to explain and expose how he came to power in the first place: through what Dr. Bandy Lee has called, “Trump Contagion.” We must finally contain it, prevent it, and protect our country and our world from it. Like any other pandemic, we cannot simply expect that it will go away on its own, especially if Trump were to return to the U.S. presidency.

We are proposing to convene a very major conference at what is now an even more critical time. This is a major responsibility as well as opportunity for all of us working together.

To make this a significant live event in Washington as well as online throughout the country, we will quickly need to get professionals to work with us to prepare it, widely publicize it, broadcast it live on YouTube and other platforms, as well as get C-Span once again to cover it. This needs to be a major newsworthy event, including having members of Congress and major media attending it and covering it. The single theme of the conference will be that Donald Trump absolutely must be kept from entering the Oval Office again, and that the three criminal trials—the January 6 insurrection in DC, classified documents in Florida, and election interference in Georgia—must all proceed to conclusion. To make this a major talked-about event, this major conference will open with short, intense presentations from all of the panelists. Then there will be a multi-hour roundtable and question-and-answer session, followed by a discussion with major media and members of Congress as well as persons online. To conclude the conference, there will be a reception for all attendees followed by a special limited sit-down dinner with the conference participants and major media people. Then, after the conference is concluded, we need to have a major publicity campaign so that millions will know about it and be able to watch key excerpts from it which we will have quickly edited and made available. Immediately after the conference, we will need to have a team of professional video editors to put together an hour summary of the key segments including key questions asked at the conference, along with a selection of short clips of key conference moment—all ready to be quickly put online and circulated to major media for their use within a day or two of the conference.

This conference will only have influence if we can reach a vast audience of millions—with many persons filling the Ballroom at the National Press Club, many watching live, and millions more being made aware of it and watching highlights and conclusions in subsequent days online. The conference will only be worth doing and have the kind of influence we need to have if it can be done in this major way and made widely known. We have very limited time now to get everything in motion and to make this happen. This can only happen if we quickly raise the funds and co-sponsorships. We have an initial private donation that is allowing us to begin. Please urgently consider joining with us as a co-sponsor.

Here are the elements all coming together to make this Conference of major significance at this crucial time next month.

NEW BOOK with theme of Conference: A short new book titled, “The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew,” will be published by the World Mental Health Coalition and featured at the conference. I became nationally known through the book I edited, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” published the first year of the Trump presidency. This will be an update as well as an expansion, applying mental health principles to what is happening nationally, globally, and how we might promote collective healing.

PARTICIPANTS: We have an illustrious list of speakers, the foremost in each of their fields, as well as former government officials, all gathering in one place to discuss the greatest existential problem of our time.

BUDGET: The overall financing for this of course has to be estimated at this time. If we are able to do the conference, we will provide a full accounting.

Conference Planning and Preparation: $15,000

Conference Expenses for Participants: $10,000

Conference Location Fees and Banners: $5000

Conference reception for all who attend, including hors d’oeuvres and drinks: $5000

Conference special dinner only for participants and invited media: $3000

Advertising and Promotion including in The Hill and Politico both print and online : $12,000

Online and Social Media Promotion about upcoming conference: $5000

Arrangements for University Students to attend: $2500

Special Opening Video as at previous conference: $2500

Professional Multi-Camera Video of conference, segment editing, and immediate placement on major video platforms including Vimeo and YouTube: $7500

Total: $67,500

TIMELINE TO PREPARE AND PROMOTE THE CONFERENCE:

Realizing how critical it is to inform the nation about “The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”—both the theme of the conference and the title of Dr. Lee’s new book that will be released at the conference—we began preparing the conference in mid-August. The dedicated website is now open: DangersOfTrump.org. Invitations and arrangements for the many expert panelists is underway. Promotion of the conference with the media is now being assisted by a well-established professional media company. Arrangements with the National Press Club are underway, as are arrangements to have the conference professionally videoed and quickly edited for watching throughout the nation in the critical weeks preceding the election. If funds permit, we are planning a full-page announcement of the conference in Politico as well as social media. Immediately after the conference, the full conference will be available online, but very importantly we will also have our video persons quickly select key short segments to be individually available as well as a one-hour documentary made from the full conference. Then throughout the critical month of October, right up until election day, our newly retained media relations company will be continually working to promote awareness of the conference, with Dr. Lee the key spokesperson, with major media.