Major All-Day Dangerous Case of Donald Trump Conference in Washington, DC

To be Held before the Election if You Will Help Make It Possible

FUNDRAISING FOR:

‘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 Case of Donald Trump” conference was considered important enough that it was broadcast for all 3 hours on C-Span.  As never before, or since we brought together thirteen highly respected experts from many different areas of expertise including psychiatry, political science, economics, philosophy, fascism, politics, journalism, climate, and nuclear weapons.  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 as well as some highlights of the conference itself.

Now this coming September, a little more than a month before the election, we would like to hold a very major conference at what is now an even more critical time and with which we can have even greater impact.

To make this a significant live event in Washington as well as online throughout the country, we will need to get professionals to work with us to prepare it, widely publicize it, broadcast it live, as well as get C-Span once again to cover it.  This needs to be a major and 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 all-day conference will open at 9 a.m. with short, intense presentations from all of the participants in the morning.  That opening session with be followed by a buffet lunch for all who attend.  Then there will be a multi-hour afternoon question-and-answer session and discussion with major media, members of Congress and also 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 moments—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 be worth doing if we can reach a vast audience of millions—with many persons filling the Ballroom at the National Press Club, many watching live, and many more in subsequent days watching 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 to make this happen.  This can only happen if we quickly raise the funds needed.

A generous donor has given us enough to get started, but we need your help for the rest. A gracious volunteer has started a GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-expose-the-dangers-of-a-second-trump-presidency

You will make possible:

PARTICIPANTS:  These are the multidisciplinary persons from many areas of expertise who participated in the previous conference.  Many of them will be invited to join in this new conference along with a few special additional persons:

Bandy Lee – Leading Forensic Psychiatrist, President of the World Mental Health Coalition, and Author of “Profile of a Nation” and “The Psychology of Trump Contagion”

Jeffrey Sachs – Leading Economist, University Professor at Columbia, and Coauthor of a recent landmark report on Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths in the U.S.  Click here for his “First 100 Days” recommendations, presented at the conference.

Richard Painter – former Chief White House Ethics Counsel for the Bush/Cheney Administration, Professor of Law at University of Minnesota, and Coauthor of the recent devastating report on the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr

Ruth Ben-Ghiat – Leading Historian, Professor at New York University, and Author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”

Jason Stanley – Leading Philosopher of Language and Epistemology, Professor at Yale University, and Author of “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them”

Gar Alperovitz – Leading Political Scientist, former Professor at the University of Maryland, and former Legislative Director of the U.S. Congress and Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of State

Scott Ritter – Leading Nuclear Expert and former United Nations Weapons Inspector in Iraq

Joseph Romm – Leading Climate Expert, Physicist, former Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Editor-in-Chief of Front Page Live

David Cay Johnston – Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist; Reporter on Worldwide Tax, Public Finance, and Business; and Founder of DC Report

Mehdi Hasan –Journalist and Broadcaster of Zeteo

Philip Zimbardo – Leading Social Psychologist, Professor Emeritus at Sanford University, and Principal Investigator of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment

Jerrold Post – former Leading CIA Psychological Profiler and Director of Political Psychology Program at George Washington University

Noam Chomsky – Leading Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, and Cultural Critic

Jamie Raskin – U.S. Representative for Maryland, Lead Impeachment Manager for the Second Impeachment of President Donald Trump, and Member of the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

John Dean – former White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon, Leading Political Thinker, and Coauthor of “Authoritarian Nightmare”

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 everyone who has contributed with a specific breakdown of how the funds have been spent and what impact we are able to have.  Here are the estimates.

Conference Planning and Preparation:  $15,000
Conference Expenses for Participants:  $5000
Conference Location Fees and Banners:  $5000
Conference buffet lunch for all who attend:  $5000
Conference reception for all who attend, including hors d’oeuvre and drinks:  $5000
Conference special dinner only for participants and invited media:  $2500

Advertising and Promotion including full-pages in The Hill and Politico both print and online : $10,000
Contacting of Major Media and Members of Congress to attend:  $2500
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:

·   Mid-August - initial preparations for Conference, confirmation of speakers, and meeting at National Press Club for date selection, confirmation, and deposit

·   Last week of August - ongoing preparations for conference continuing throughout the next month

·   1 - 3 September - set up website devoted solely to the conference

·   12 - 15 September - final preparations for conference with the Press Club and all involved, with everything confirmed and double checked

·   16 September - arrangements this week at DC Universities to invite students to the conference with shuttles to bring students from key universities to the National Press Club

·   19,20,23 September - full-page announcements of the upcoming conference emphasizing inviting members of Congress and media - The Hill, Politico, and other publications both in print and online

·   24 September - CONFERENCE DATE National Press Club all-day Conference

·   26 September - many short highlight clips of key things at conference as well as full conference video all online at new website specifically and only about the conference

·   25 September - 4 November - the professional media firm works intensely on getting Dr. Lee and other conference participants on major media

·   25 September - 4 November - any remaining and additional funds intensely used to get more media attention to the importance of the conference

Please consider donating to our GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-expose-the-dangers-of-a-second-trump-presidency