Re: "Trump Digs in on Wiretap, No Matter Who Says Differently" — Letters that should have been in the new york times

To the editor,

President Trump's struggle to grasp reality should be of great concern to all Americans. His reliance on unsubstantiated claims on Fox news that former President Obama wiretapped his phones using British intelligence shows that he is grasping at straws not the truth. As you report, (NYT, 3/16/17, Trump Digs In on Wiretap, No Matter Who Says Differently) 'Much like his longstanding assertion that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States, Mr. Trump dismisses contrary information with undiminished surety.' As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, I am in no position to offer a diagnosis of President Trump's underlying mental condition. But this mode of thinking, whatever its cause, puts our country in harms way. President Trump poses a risk to our national security and patriotic Americans, regardless of party, should speak out for love of country.

Respectfully,

Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.