This week I called Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s office to find out if he had a public comment on Donald Trump’s pardon of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, the commuting of sentences of traitorous felons guilty of seditious conspiracy, and the order to dismiss any pending indictments of those who assaulted our Capitol. I hadn’t seen anything in the local media about it. Not only was Fitzpatrick one of the members of Congress protected by law enforcement as they were brutalized for hours (140 wounded, some with life-long injuries, and one who would die the next day), but he was the only member of the GOP to attend the ceremony honoring those who defended the Capitol on its two-year anniversary. Being the only member of the Republican Party to honor the heroism and valor of our Capitol and Metropolitan Police took some courage if we now must define common decency as courage.
Five years ago, when I published a book on Donald Trump’s mental pathology out of a duty to warn, Congressman Fitzpatrick graciously granted me a meeting and the opportunity to explain how Donald Trump would have been an obligatory psychiatric discharge from the military (assuming he did not go to prison for fraud, sexual assault, or compromising classified documents). At the time, I was recovering from a bone marrow transplant for cancer due to burn pit exposure in Afghanistan. That day, Fitzpatrick told me that he agreed with everything I said. Then he proceeded to vote twice against impeachment.
I gave him a copy of my book and a year later he admitted that he never read it. I made him an audiobook at his request, but he never confirmed that he listened to it or the two podcasts I made as Trump’s crimes accumulated. I persisted in my attempts to inform him about the most dangerous diagnoses in mental health (antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder) and kept at it for three reasons: 1. The Congressman is a very busy man. 2. Personality Disorder is the least known mental illness and clinicians have very little experience with these two pathologies outside of the military or prison work. 3. Antisocial and Narcissistic personality disordered people are ego-syntonic, they feel normal, they feel symptom-free so they do not go to mental health. They do not suffer from anxiety or depression—their crimes, or their violation of rules and regulations are their symptoms. I could hardly blame the Congressman for the common misconception that an egomaniac (or a narcissist) is a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. But an egomaniac is not mentally ill and we do not discharge egomaniacs from the military.
Congressman Fitzpatrick’s Bio is quite impressive; as a career military officer I am most impressed with his deployment to Iraq and Ukraine, and his work at FBI headquarters where he was “recognized as an expert in restoring integrity to government institutions.”
Fitzpatrick, like all of us, has witnessed proof of Donald Trump’s guilt in running a fraudulent charity and university, the sexual assault of a woman, an $83 million fine for defamation, and a 34-count unanimous felony conviction. But most important of all, orchestrating a violent insurrection to overthrow a presidential election, as outlined in the January 6 Commission Report.
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He was there that day. He was protected by those cops and now he has been given the opportunity to defend them as they defended him. They matter! Their family’s matter!
They say silence is deafening.
Let us hope and pray that his silence is merely a form of cowering and not a pledge of allegiance to the will of a malignant narcissist who sees a day of violence as a day of love.
Shame on local media for giving a feckless congressman so much leeway, and shame on national media and so many in this nation for allowing our most sacred office to be occupied by someone so morally bankrupt.
