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Why a CIA Psychiatrist Called Trump Nuts

Why a CIA Psychiatrist Called Trump Nuts

Jerrold Post said 'the period between the election and the inauguration will be a very dangerous period.'

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Dec 07, 2020
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Dr. Jerrold M. Post was a highly respected trailblazer as the CIA’s first political profiler, the founder of the discipline of political psychology. Post, a psychiatrist who served for two decades at the  CIA, died on November 22 of covid-19. He was 86 years old. 

In January, just  before the start of the pandemic, Post participated in one of his final i…

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