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[Raskolnikov]

Just In: Belgium SLAMS THE DOOR on Green Energy Insanity – Restarts FULL Nuclear Fleet in Massive Victory for Common Sense and Energy Independence!The Wind is Turning in Europe – Pragmatism is BACK!



In a stunning blow to the radical green agenda that has crippled Europe for years, Belgium has officially chosen REALITY over fantasy.

Prime Minister Bart De Wever just dropped a bombshell: His government has sealed a landmark deal with ENGIE to take full control of the country’s nuclear fleet and restart it completely.

All dismantling work? Halted immediately. No more suicidal shutdowns. No more bowing to EU climate zealots.

This isn’t some half-measure. This is a full-throated commitment to safe, affordable, low-carbon, reliable energy that actually keeps the lights on without begging Russia, China, or the Middle East for scraps.

De Wever’s statement says it all: “This government makes the choice of secure, affordable, and sustainable energy, with less dependence on fossil fuel imports and more control over our own supply.”

Translation: No more virtue-signaling blackouts. No more destroying working power plants to appease the WEF crowd. Belgium is choosing sovereignty, jobs, and lower bills over the Green New Deal’s economic suicide pact.

And here’s the best part: This move positions Bart De Wever as a true rising star on the European stage — a no-nonsense leader who’s not afraid to put his people first.

The Gateway Pundit has been warning for years: Europe’s reckless war on nuclear power — pushed by hysterical climate alarmists and globalist bureaucrats — was always going to end in disaster.

France kept its reactors. Germany shut its down and now begs for coal and Russian gas. Belgium just said ENOUGH.

This is the return of reason. The pragmatic right is winning because voters are sick of freezing in the dark while elites lecture them from their private jets.

The future is nuclear. Is Europe finally waking up? One by one, nations are rejecting the green religion that has driven up energy prices, gutted industry, and made the continent dangerously dependent on foreign powers.

Belgium just proved it can be done. Safe nuclear. Cheap power. Energy independence. De Wever is showing the way. Will the rest of Europe follow? Or will the climate cult keep doubling down until the lights go out for good?

Share this far and wide — the globalist green lobby is melting down as we speak.

The wind is turning.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...nity-restarts/

[John Hilton]

Interesting rundown on current events in the USA.

Two federal indictments, fourteen thousand SNAP recipients in Maseratis, the petrodollar dying in less than a week, and a Google co-founder switching teams—just for starters. Massive good-news roundup
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/hap...-april-29-2026

U.S. seizes $500 million in IRGC crypto and their French villas; big finance bans SPLC donations; key informant flips on the woke hate-charity; SCOTUS drops decision bomb upending midterm calculations
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cos...-april-30-2026

Corruption in the USA
https://loricolley.substack.com/p/co...no-racist-maps

[Ravenlocke]

Leading Report

United Airlines flight smashes into delivery truck near Newark Airport in New Jersey.

Driver hospitalized with only minor injuries, according to multiple reports.

https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2051055606706889023

https://x.com/PressTV/status/2051058863416185183

[Ravenlocke]

Ragıp Soylu

The plane carrying Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made an emergency landing in Ankara

— Turkish media

https://x.com/ragipsoylu/status/2051033733113815359

Open Source Intel

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez's plane made an emergency landing in Ankara after a technical malfunction mid-flight to Yerevan. He stays overnight, continues in the morning. - Reuters


https://x.com/Osint613/status/2051034625074487588

[grapevine]

MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak live: Brit fights for life in cruise ship horror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...-live-37106369

Three people have died and one Brit is fighting for his life after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde.

A man, 70, fell ill on the MV Hondius and died on arrival at St Helena Island, while his wife, 69, also became ill and passed away in hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. A South African official says the couple were Dutch. Details of the third person who died have not yet been released.

A British man, aged 69, remains in intensive care in Johannesburg. Deadly hantavirus is contracted by inhaling infected rodent urine, droppings or saliva, and is the same disease that killed Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa in February last year.

And reported separately:
Dutch authorities looking to repatriate two ill passengers from ship
Dutch authorities are looking to repatriate two people on the cruise ship with symptoms of hantavirus.

In a statement, Oceanwide Expeditions said: "Dutch authorities have agreed to lead a joint effort to organise the repatriation of the two symptomatic individuals on board MV Hondius from Cape Verde to the Netherlands."

The Dutch foreign ministry said it was "busy looking at the possibilities to medically evacuate a few people from the ship".

"If this can take place, the ministry of foreign affairs will coordinate it," a spokesperson told the AFP.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qvVlm4UdV3o

[Ravenlocke]

Ethan Levins 🇺🇸

$200 BILLION has been WIPED from the stock market the past 20 minutes!

Whats going on?!

https://x.com/EthanLevins2/status/2051330180841357380

[Szymon]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
RAW EGG NATIONALIST

A grim milestone: the first recorded death as a result of a meat allergy caused by a tick bite. A man ate a hamburger at a BBQ and was dead within an hour. He had almost certainly been bitten weeks before by a lone-star tick, which spreads alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to a sugar found in mammalian meat.

It's now reckoned that millions could have alpha-gal syndrome in the US, as the range of the lone-star tick has spread.

https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1989429226681110932

https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1989100985516474730

MJTruthUltra

Oct 23
Do you believe the government has genetically engineered ticks to cause us to get sick?

🚨 Over the last several months, there has been a surge in tick-borne Meat Allergies from the Lone Star Tick.

— Kentucky: Rapid rise in cases reported August 2025.

— Virginia: Rapid rise and tracking starting July 2025.

— Arkansas: Alarming rate increase reported July 2024.

— Washington: Onset case after tick bite with symptoms starting 2023 (documented March 2025).

— Maine: numerous cases reported throughout 2014-2023.

🔻 United States: Annual uptick in suspected cases from 13,371 in 2017 to 18,885 in 2021, with over 90,000 total suspected during 2017-2021.

🔻 This video is a WEF bioethicist named Matthew Liao, who in 2016, talks about unknowingly making humans allergic to meat through human engineering.

“You will eat less meat. And you will be happy”

Hey
@SecKennedy
, can we end these types of programs please?

https://rumble.com/v70p7do-wef-bioet...c-to-meat.html

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1981505248767382003

Camus

Sep 21
Of course Bill Gates was involved.
Published 2023

The Gates Foundation, GMO Ticks, and a Mysterious Meat Allergy – A Story of Billions, Bugs, and Beef.

The number of Americans with Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS), a life-changing red meat allergy caused by tick bites, surged by 41.3% in 2021.

Why is this significant? Let's connect the dots.

1/ The Tick & The Grant: In that same year, 2021, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $1.47M grant to Oxitec Ltd. Their mission? To genetically engineer the Rhipicephalus microplus tick—a known vector for AGS—with a "self-limiting gene."

2/ The "Solution": Oxitec's plan was to release these GMO male ticks to mate with wild females, aiming to crash the population. In June 2023, after reporting "high efficacy," Gates poured another $4.8 million into the project.

3/ The Pharmaceutical Stake: Gates holds significant investments in Pfizer, a major producer of doxycycline—the primary antibiotic used to treat tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease. His foundation also funded Ceres Nanosciences, a Lyme disease diagnostics company.

4/ The Food Industry Pivot: Simultaneously, Gates is a massive investor in the alternative meat industry. He backs Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, Upside Foods, and Good Meat—companies positioned to replace the very red meat that AGS renders inedible.

5/ A Controversial Playbook? This isn't the first time this pattern appears. Look at malaria, eradicated in the US for decades until recently:

2007: Gates makes malaria a top priority, investing hundreds of millions.

2018: A Gates-backed drug, Krintafel, becomes the first new malaria treatment in 60 years.

2020: Gates funds Oxitec (again) to release GMO mosquitoes in Florida and Texas.

2023: A Gates-backed malaria vaccine is stocked.

Weeks later, the CDC announces locally acquired malaria cases in... Florida and Texas. The CDC, which receives Gates funding, then recommends the very vaccine he backed.

The Question: Are we witnessing a devastating (coincidence) or a deeply concerning pattern? A problem emerges, a solution is funded, and the funder holds stakes in both the cause and the cure—while also investing in industries that benefit from the societal shift the problem creates.

There is no definitive evidence of causality yet. But the correlation and timing demand extreme scrutiny, total transparency, and absolute accountability.

The public is not a testing ground. Our health is not a portfolio.

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1969740086125158538

Friends, regarding this, all you have to do is grab a UV torch/light, go to the field, and see if you get fluorescence on the ticks. Then you will know with a high degree of certainty that these ticks or mosquitoes are modified.

The Fluorescent Marker

A marker gene has also been introduced to our insects; producing a fluorescent protein called DsRed2. This protein is found throughout the body of the larvae, pupae and adults, and glows under a special light. DsRed2 is non-toxic, non-allergenic and is also inherited by all offspring.

The fluorescent marker is essential for a control program as it allows us to easily examine juvenile pests from the field and, among them, identify the offspring of our Friendly™ males. This a valuable tool for tracking performance of Friendly™ males in the field, providing us with data to tailor our releases and ensure we achieve optimal pest suppression.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831...our-technology

[Ravenlocke]

Thomas Kennedy

This is wild: Leaked audio recordings implicates former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump in an attempt to create a media outlet to disseminate fake news regarding the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum and Gustavo Petro.

https://x.com/tomaskenn/status/2052486270643736678

[Szymon]

News just in.

"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has OFFICIALLY signed the state's new Congressional maps into LAW

LET'S GO!!! 🔥

Tennessee will soon have NINE Republicans and ZERO Democrats in Congress"

[John Hilton]

The Hantavirus Theater Continues: Fear Over Facts, and Why We Already Have Solutions
https://curativabay.substack.com/p/t...ater-continues

and

Minnesota Democrats Have Voted Unanimously To Block A Requirement To Remove Dead People From The Voter Rolls
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2052400268696793530

[John Hilton]

Badlands Brief: Intel Treason & Insider Trading
https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-brief-e15

Tennessee Republicans calmly redraw maps while Democrats scream at troopers. The Times admits faith fixes birthrates, then forgets. UK Labour got shellacked. The polycrisis goes global. More.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cap...day-may-8-2026

What Greece Just Did To Its Muslims Changes Everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOuOfDzVaC0

[John Hilton]

I haven't tried this. Indeed, I haven't needed to yet as Brave browser's layout is still OK. But, for the record:

How to Undo YouTube's Terrible New Layout
https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-u...ble-new-layout

[Ravenlocke]

Calla

The US says it removed all of Venezuela's enriched uranium and brought it back to the US for "processing and reuse," in cooperation with the new Venezuelan government and the IAEA.

https://x.com/CallaWalsh/status/2053030652040069272

[Vicus]

Nolte: Still More Disney Employees Arrested for Child Porn on a Cruise Ship



A major child porn arrest sweep on the docks of San Diego last month resulted in 28 arrests, including crew members on a Disney cruise ship.

Yep, once again we see “child porn” and “Disney employees” in the same headline.

Hell, as you’ll see below, this isn’t even the first time we’ve seen “Disney Cruise” and “child porn” in the same headline!

At this point, some of you are probably wondering why Disney doesn’t do a better job of screening its employees. Well…

I hate to break this to you, but based on everything I’ve seen when it comes to Disney, including the epidemic of arrests (listed below) and the deliberate targeting and grooming small children with queering and adult sexualization in Disney content, I am of the informed opinion (we are still allowed to have opinions, right?) that Disney’s employment screening process is in fact firing on all cylinders because, well, birds of a feather….

So, those of you who book Disney cruises to enjoy some of that good ole’ fashioned, oh-so innocent, Disney family fun, be warned…

“Families hoping to make memories on a cruise were unknowingly surrounded by alleged child predators working aboard the ships, according to law enforcement officials,” reports the New York Post.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection boarded five cruise ships, including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25 as part of ongoing child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) enforcement operations, a CBP spokesperson told The California Post.”

Here’s my favorite part of the story…

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the Post. “These individuals are no longer with the company.”

continue with many links: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainm...a-cruise-ship/

[onawah]

Former CDC Autism Scientist Extradited to U.S. on Fraud, Money Laundering Charges
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
May 11, 2026
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/d...tm_id=20260511

(Podcast at the link. Hyperlinks in the article not embedded here.)



"Poul Thorsen, a Danish native who worked for the CDC beginning in the late 1990s, was indicted in 2011 for the alleged misuse of over $1 million in CDC grant money that was earmarked for autism and public health research. Thorsen is accused of redirecting the funds for his personal use. He is also known for his role in authoring studies finding no link between vaccines and autism. Critics allege the studies, still widely cited today, were flawed.

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who played a key role in research that denied any link between vaccination and autism was extradited to the U.S. last week to face charges of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a 2011 indictment.

Poul Thorsen, 65, a Danish native, began working for the CDC in the late 1990s. In 2011, a federal grand jury indicted him for the alleged misuse of over $1 million in CDC grant money that was earmarked for autism and public health research. Thorsen is accused of redirecting the funds for his personal use.

Despite the indictment — and the existence of an extradition treaty between the U.S. and Denmark — Thorsen continued to live and work in Denmark. However, he was arrested in Germany last year on an INTERPOL warrant.

On May 8, U.S. Air Marshals escorted him from Germany to Atlanta, where he was arraigned.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which listed Thorsen on its most wanted list in 2012, posted a video of his extradition.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Thorsen faces two counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering. He is being held without bail until trial.

In 2011, studies Thorsen co-authored were used to dismiss cases filed by the parents of autistic, vaccine-injured children that were part of the Omnibus Autism Proceedings pending before the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

A 2016 book, “Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC,” focused on the Thorsen case, describing him as “a world-class villain whose manipulation of health data gave CDC and big pharma what they wanted: a report clearing thimerosal of any possible role in the autism crisis.”

Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said Thorsen “was central to the CDC and Pharma lies that ‘vaccines do not cause autism.’”

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for CHD, said Thorsen’s work “set autism research back more than 20 years.”

“Previous administrations did not appear interested in pursuing Thorsen,” according to the MAHA Report. As a result, Thorsen was “living openly, apparently without concern of being captured in Denmark.”

HHS and DOJ did not respond to The Defender’s requests for comment.

Thorsen co-authored ‘flawed’ papers still used to disprove vaccine-autism link

When he first joined the CDC as a visiting scientist, Thorsen’s research focused on birth defects and developmental disabilities. However, by the early 2000s, he shifted his focus to autism research.

According to the DOJ, two Danish government agencies received over $11 million between 2000 and 2009 for a series of studies, including research on the vaccine-autism link.

Thorsen returned to Denmark in 2002 and “became responsible for administering the research money awarded by the CDC.” However, the DOJ and HHS allege that Thorsen embezzled some of this money, some of which was used to buy a home in Atlanta, two cars and a motorcycle.

Despite the alleged fraudulent activity, Thorsen left a strong imprint on autism research — and on subsequent narratives that autism isn’t linked to vaccines.

According to a 2017 report by the World Mercury Project — predecessor to CHD — “Thorsen’s influence on US vaccine projects and policies is extensive.”

“The studies he led had a strong influence on the review and outcomes of the Institute of Medicine (now known as the National Academy of Medicine) … when they looked at thimerosal in vaccines,” the report states.

One of those studies — the “Madsen study,” published in 2002 in The New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by Thorsen — was a population-based study of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The study concluded that there is “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”

However, according to the 2017 report, the Madsen study was “flawed from the outset” because the researchers reviewed clinical records of only 40 of the 316 children who had autism in the study’s cohort. A peer-reviewed analysis last year cast further doubt on the study’s conclusions.

In 2003, Madsen and Thorsen were among the co-authors of a study published in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. That study did “not support a correlation between thimerosal-containing vaccines and the incidence of autism.”

Hooker accused the authors of both studies of hiding data, making simple arithmetic errors designed not to find a correlation and cherry-picking information “to form the CDC’s narrative.”

Both studies relied on Danish population data. According to the 2017 report, the studies bypassed ethical reviews required for this category of research:

“Thorsen’s Madsen MMR-Autism study was conducted and published without a review and approval from the ethics committee (the Danish version of the IRB [Institutional Review Board]). It also shows that Thorsen failed to obtain annual human subject protection reviews, as required under US federal law.”

When the CDC discovered Thorsen hadn’t obtained the required ethics approvals, the agency didn’t report the errors, and the studies weren’t retracted. Instead, CDC officials engaged in a cover-up, the 2017 report states

Thorsen used Danish data to draw conclusions about U.S. vaccine schedule

The use of Danish medical data to draw conclusions about the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and its potential link to the autism epidemic among U.S. children raises questions, according to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In an op-ed Kennedy wrote last year for TrialSite News, he noted that the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule is “considerably more aggressive than Denmark’s,” which makes direct comparisons questionable.

Kennedy cited more recent Danish studies that have continued to deny any link between vaccines and autism. Some were produced by researchers at the North Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliance (NANEA) — a Danish research institute that Thorsen led and to which he channeled significant CDC funding.

“The purpose of NANEA’s research was to take health data from Denmark — not America — to conduct studies to determine whether vaccines were behind the rise in autism in the U.S.,” according to the MAHA Report.

‘Vaccine industry would have collapsed’ if Thorsen’s research not published

According to the 2017 report, the Madsen-Thorsen papers were used to reject over 5,000 claims filed as part of the Omnibus Autism Proceedings.

“These claims, if settled in the claimants’ favor, would have resulted in payouts totaling an estimated $10 billion,” the 2017 report states.

Researcher James Grundvig is the author of “Master Manipulator” and the parent of a child with autism who was vaccine-injured. Grundvig, who filed one of the claims that the VICP rejected, said the rejection motivated him to investigate Thorsen and the CDC, and to write his book.

Grundvig’s investigation revealed that Thorsen was useful for the CDC, as his findings fit the narrative that vaccines don’t cause autism.

“They knew inside the CDC what was causing the autism epidemic back then, and they needed to go basically spend $25 to $30 million over the next five years, which was a lot of money 25 years ago, to cover up all of the fraud and cover up a signal between autism and vaccines,” Grundvig alleged.

He said that “the whole vaccine industry would’ve collapsed at that time” if Thorsen’s research hadn’t been published.

Dr. Dave Weldon, a physician and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives between 1995 and 2009 — and who President Donald Trump nominated to lead the CDC in late 2024 before retracting his nomination — called Thorsen’s “dubious research” his “greatest crime.”

Weldon said:

“His greatest crime is not the money he stole but his dubious research, which was used by CDC to dismiss the legal case brought by hundreds of families with obviously vaccine-injured children.

“This was a total corruption of congressional intent when the vaccine compensation program was created, and justice is long overdue. We need full accountability and full transparency.”

Facing decades in jail, will Thorsen come clean about autism studies?

Following his 2011 indictment, Thorsen lived and worked in Denmark, including for Lillebælt Hospital and for the University of Southern Denmark, according to the 2017 report.

Grundvig said it is likely that Denmark avoided extraditing Thorsen as part of an effort to cover up broader research-related fraud.

“If Denmark and its medical community is trapped into this incredible fraud and lie that basically allowed the autism epidemic to happen, it is going to look really bad on them. So, there was no way Denmark was ever going to extradite Thorsen,” Grundvig said.

Thorsen’s extradition also has political dimensions. According to Danish newspaper Politiken, Thorsen “risks becoming a Danish casualty of the political pressure the Trump administration has increasingly exerted on the American justice system.” Thorsen’s lawyers told German authorities he would not receive a fair trial in the U.S.

The Danish Justice Ministry, Interior Ministry, Danish Police, the Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C., Lillebælt Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark did not respond to The Defender’s requests for comment. The Danish Foreign Ministry and Danish Prime Minister’s Office referred The Defender to the Justice Ministry.

The 2017 report noted that it was not the CDC that uncovered the fraud Thorsen was allegedly involved in, but his former employer, Denmark’s Aarhus University.

The report also noted that U.S. public officials “failed to distance themselves from Thorsen in any manner.” One CDC official, Diana Schendel, maintained an inappropriate romantic relationship with Thorsen and later accepted a position at Aarhus University to lead autism research there. She remains employed there today.

Hooker said that “both the U.S. and Denmark had much to lose” by extraditing Thorsen. “HHS has been captured by Big Pharma for many years. Only under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership could this monumental task be undertaken,” Hooker said.

Grundvig said Thorsen, who now faces decades behind bars, may seek to reveal information about fraudulent research in exchange for a lighter sentence. He said this information may implicate U.S. public health officials and researchers.

“If he faces 20, 25 years, he’s going to die in an American prison,” Grundvig said. “Does he want that? Probably not. So, you would have to logically think he’s going to sing like a canary and tell everything.”

Holland said, “Facing indefinite incarceration in the U.S., I hope he will tell the truth about what he did, who his co-conspirators were and their whole criminal scheme.” "

Related articles in The Defender

Criminal Conduct – Poul Thorsen
Fugitive Scientist Behind Vaccine and Autism Studies Arrested for Stealing $1 Million From CDC
Study Claiming No Link Between Aluminum in Vaccines and Autism Riddled with Flaws, Critics Say
‘Numbers Literally Don’t Add Up’: New Peer-Reviewed Analysis Casts Doubt on 2002 Study Claiming No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
Calls Grow for Journal to Retract Danish Study After Corrected Data Show Link Between Aluminum in Vaccines and Autism
‘Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism’ Claim Built on ‘House of Cards,’ Authors of New Review Say
1 in 31 Kids Had Autism in 2022 — Up From 1 in 36 in 2020

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and host of "The Defender In-Depth" on CHD.TV.

[Bill Ryan]

Below is a 2-page PDF of a current portion of the US Congressional Record.

https://www.ippnw.org/wp-content/upl...04_30_2026.pdf



I'll copy and paste what may be the important part, which has only just started to be noticed by a few. I won't change a thing by adding any extra formatting, but it can be seen that it was signed by 36 individuals, all of whom cited their credentials and two of whom are Nobel laureates.

I won't make any personal comment either, but this is a real thing that has happened and it might well surface in the news cycle sooner or later to become more prominent.

STATEMENT FROM MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent to have printed
in the RECORD the following statement
from medical professionals and their
names into the RECORD on behalf of
myself and Senator REED.
There being no objection, the mate-
rial was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
MEDICAL CONCERNS ABOUT PRESIDENT DON-
ALD J. T RUMP AND HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE
The following is not a political statement.
It is a medical one, made by individuals
holding both conservative and liberal
ideologies, identifying as both Republicans
and Democrats, from different backgrounds,
races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic
psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and
other physicians, along with other mental
health professionals, experienced in the diag-
nosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating
dangerousness to self and others. Among us
are professionals whom the courts and crimi-
nal justice system regularly turn to for our
expert opinion on these matters. We are also
consulted by governments in matters related
to national security and the psychological
profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presi-
dential election in the Fall of 2024, a state-
ment assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental
fitness for the presidency was issued. At that
time, serious signs of cognitive decline were
identified, and in our expert opinion, these
signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on pre-
vious and ongoing assessments, that Donald
Trump’s mental state since our 2024 state-
ment has deteriorated even further. In keep-
ing with our professional ethics, and for
those of us who are physicians, with the Dec-
laration of Geneva—the successor to the Hip-
pocratic Oath that binds us to the humani-
tarian principles of medicine since the Nur-
emberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a
President of the United States who is in-
creasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the re-
sponsibility that comes with making it,
lightly.
The President was not examined face to
face, and he is not a patient of any member
of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in
this case is not our role. We have closely fol-
lowed his behavior and his statements over
the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious
medical concern include:
Marked deterioration in cognitive func-
tioning, evidenced by disorganized and tan-
gential speech, rambling digressions, factual
confusions, unexplained sudden changes of
course in strategic matters, both national
and international, episodes of apparent som-
nolence during critical public proceedings.
Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including
assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself
as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being
a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as
combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians,
and claims that his decision-making author-
ity is unlimited—with no need to consider
domestic and international laws and con-
strained only by his ‘‘own morality.’’
Severely impaired judgment and impulse
control, reflected in reckless threats of vio-
lence, advocacy of lethal force against civil-
ians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions
by armed supporters, repeated threats and
often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police,
military, and by invoking emergency pow-
ers—against political opponents and others
who disagree with him.
Significant loss of self-control
(disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same
thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move
on (perseveration), including seemingly com-
pulsive, manic-like late-night communica-
tions—e.g., 150 social media posts in one
night—fixation on perceived enemies, perse-
cutory ideas, and prolonged, dispropor-
tionate attacks on specific individuals and
institutions.
Escalating violence that threatens na-
tional and global stability. As Commander-
in-Chief of our military—more than 5,000 nu-
clear warheads in inter-continental missile
silos, on submarines, and in bombers around
the world, are ready for launch solely upon
his order, and no one now has the authority
to countermand his order
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard
Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House
Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was
so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of
the White House at night, sleepless, dis-
traught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out
loud to portraits of past presidents on the
walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary
James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schles-
inger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any
military orders from Nixon—especially nu-
clear ones—first be cleared through him or
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has
been reported that the nuclear ‘‘football’’
that contains the codes for a nuclear launch
was then quietly removed from Nixon’s con-
trol.
The public and those with the power to ad-
dress such potentially catastrophic condi-
tions must ask themselves if they—and we—
are confident that officials such as Secretary
of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of
State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the be-
haviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are nei-
ther momentary lapses nor political theater.
It is our professional opinion that they re-
flect a rapidly worsening, reality-
untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.
If we were called upon under the 25th
Amendment to judge the President’s present
ability to discharge the duties of his office,
we would have to conclude that he lacks the
capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing
that he presents a clear and present danger
to our country and to the world, it is our ex-
pert opinion that Donald J. Trump is men-
tally unfit to be the President of the United
States, and that steps to remove him from
office must be undertaken with the greatest
urgency, with vital responsibilities on the
shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Henry David Abraham, M.D., Professor of
Psychiatry Emeritus, Tufts University
School of Medicine.
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D., Professor Emer-
itus and Former Chair of Psychiatry, Univer-
sity of Missouri School of Medicine.
William Bernet, M.D., Professor Emeritus
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Van-
derbilt University School of Medicine.
Ravi Chandra, M.D., Distinguished Fellow,
American Psychiatric Association.
Eric Chivian, M.D., Former Assistant Clin-
ical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Med-
ical School, Co-Founder, International Phy-
sicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
Lance Dodes, M.D., Former Assistant Clin-
ical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Med-
ical School, Training and Supervising Ana-
lyst Emeritus, Boston Psychoanalytic Soci-
ety and Institute.
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D., Clinical Pro-
fessor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
George Drinka, M.D., Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health
Sciences University, Former Medical Direc-
tor, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital, Portland, Or-
egon.
Julian Fisher, M.D., Former Lecturer in
Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Justin Frank, M.D., Former Clinical Pro-
fessor of Psychiatry, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Co-Director,
Metropolitan Center for Object Relations,
New York City.
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D., Professor
Emerita of Urban Policy and Health, The
New School.
Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Former Professor
of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University
of California, San Francisco.
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D., Past
President, American Psychoanalytic Asso-
ciation.
Gordan P. Harper, M.D., Associate Pro-
fessor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School.
Ira Helfand, M.D., Former Chair of Emer-
gency Medicine, Cooley-Dickinson Hospital,
International Steering Group, The Inter-
national Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weap-
ons, Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D., Former Lecturer
in Psychology, University of California,
Irvine, Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Con-
tent Analysis Scales.
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., Professor
of Population and Public Health Sciences,
Keck School of Medicine of USC, University
of Southern California.
Jerome Kroll, M.D., Professor Emeritus of
Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical
School.
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D., Professor Emer-
itus, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hop-
kins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City
Hospital, now known as The Cambridge
Health Alliance.
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., President,
World Mental Health Coalition (Washington,
DC), Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now
(New York), Former Faculty of Social Medi-
cine, Harvard Medical School, Former Fac-
ulty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medi-
cine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai.
Craig Malkin, Ph.D., Lecturer in Psy-
chology, Harvard Medical School, Former
Chief Inpatient Psychologist, Cambridge
City Hospital, now known as The Cambridge
Health Alliance.
James R. Merikangas, M.D.,
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry, George Washington University
School of Medicine.
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., Former Pro-
fessor of Psychiatry, University of Cali-
fornia, San Francisco.
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., Pro-
fessor of Social Work, New York University,
Past President, International
Psychohistorical Association.
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D., Founder,
Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston,
IL).
John O. Pastore, M.D., Professor of Medi-
cine, Tufts University School of Medicine,
Former Research Physician, Atomic Bomb
Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Naga-
saki.
Mark Peppercorn, M.D., Professor of Medi-
cine Emeritus, Harvard Medical School.
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D., Former Presi-
dent, Association for the Advancement of
Philosophy and Psychiatry.
Robert C. Rutherford, M.D. M.P.H., Emer-
gency Physician, Former Director, Monroe
County Health Department, Florida.
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D., Clinical Asso-
ciate Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell
Medical Center.
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D., Professor, Boston
Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Former
President, Psychologists for Social Responsi-
bility, Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical
Psychology.
Lise Van Susteren, M.D., Associate Clin-
ical Professor of Psychiatry, George Wash-
ington University School of Medicine, Con-
sultant Profiler to the Executive Branch,
Federal Government.
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D., Former Assist-
ant Clinical Professor of Psychology, North-
western University Medical School.
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W., Former
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School.
John Zinner, M.D., Clinical Professor
Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Science, George Washington University Med-
ical Center, Former Head of Family Therapy
Studies, National Institute of Mental Health.

[Kryztian]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I'll copy and paste what may be the important part, which has only just started to be noticed by a few. I won't change a thing by adding any extra formatting, but it can be seen that it was signed by 36 individuals, all of whom cited their credentials and two of whom are Nobel laureates.

I won't make any personal comment either, but this is a real thing that has happened and it might well surface in the news cycle sooner or later to become more prominent.

STATEMENT FROM MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS

This has been in the congressional records now for 12 days! Why are we just hearing about this now? As far as I can tell there was no mainstream media coverage of this story at all ... zero. Yet many news outlets have journalists sitting right there in the galleries of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the congressional record is usually available on line within a day. The list of credentialed people is quite amazing and yes, they seem to be paying attention to all the relevant details for an objective diagnosis.

Bill, how did you hear about it?

[Szymon]

This looks like the location.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

https://www.ippnw.org/



https://www.ippnw.org/wp-content/upl..._5_26.docx.pdf

[Merkaba360]

All these geniuses from Cabal Universities (Harvard medical school, Cornell, Etc.) found nothing wrong with Biden, but now all of the sudden trying to use Trump's over the top behavior to take him down. lol Some of it has surely been acting and distraction. Funny to pretend the president actually unilaterally makes decisions. As if, they just allow presidents to nuke whoever they want unilaterally. Wonder if they are getting paid to stand up now.

Whatever the case, the good news is that if they can actually rally enough to remove Trump, decent chance Trump exposes as much as he can on his way down. Hope his ego is so huge that he refuses to go out looking like the bad guy and exposes as many other bad guys along with him. lol Pretty confident he hates not being popular and would hate to go down as a bad guy and let the much worse bad guys walk away unscathed. Ruining his Trump brand and legacy for his family.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Kryztian (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I'll copy and paste what may be the important part, which has only just started to be noticed by a few. I won't change a thing by adding any extra formatting, but it can be seen that it was signed by 36 individuals, all of whom cited their credentials and two of whom are Nobel laureates.

I won't make any personal comment either, but this is a real thing that has happened and it might well surface in the news cycle sooner or later to become more prominent.

STATEMENT FROM MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS

This has been in the congressional records now for 12 days! Why are we just hearing about this now? As far as I can tell there was no mainstream media coverage of this story at all ... zero. Yet many news outlets have journalists sitting right there in the galleries of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the congressional record is usually available on line within a day. The list of credentialed people is quite amazing and yes, they seem to be paying attention to all the relevant details for an objective diagnosis.

Bill, how did you hear about it?

I saw this 3 minute video published on 1 May by a YouTube channel called Physicians for Social Responsibility, which has had 58 (fifty-eight!) views and zero comments.

At 2:37 the IPPNW representative concludes by saying:

IPPNW's recommendations can be found in full online. Thank you.

I got curious and searched, and (with quite some difficulty!) eventually found their formal submission to the US Congressional Record.

IPPNW also has a YouTube channel that's been there for over a decade, but their last video update was 2 years ago. Below is what they say about themselves.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons. We recognize that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. IPPNW is committed to ending war and advancing understanding of the causes of armed conflict from a public health perspective.

They don't appear to have a political affiliation. While they seem to be low key and virtually unknown to the public, the list of signatories to the letter looks to be impressive. Their stated focus is on preventing nuclear war, not about presidential mental acuity per se.

2026 IPPNW NPT Statement

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zC3nv0phd5w