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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Doctors told Pelosi of concern for Trump’s mental health, ex-speaker says in book

Woman in white coat rips up paper while man with white hair claps
Nancy Pelosi rips up a copy of Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in February 2020 in Washington. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

In early 2019, at a memorial service for a prominent psychiatrist, a succession of “doctors and other mental health professionals” told Nancy Pelosi they were “deeply concerned that there was something seriously wrong” with Donald Trump, “and that his mental and psychological health was in decline”.

“I’m not a doctor,” the former speaker writes in an eagerly awaited memoir, “but I did find his behaviors difficult to understand.”

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