Psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson warns no political figure has been more falsely and thoroughly “vilified” than former president Donald Trump, noting that Richard Nixon could be a possible exception.
Dr Peterson sat down with Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan to discuss the upcoming US election, the Israel-Hamas war and political activism in the entertainment world.
The public intellectual pointed to the “idiot conclusion” of Russian collusion as evidence of the former president’s vilification.
“Trump has no shortage of flaws, a statement that can be said of all of us, but apart from vicious criticism with regard to those faults, there has been an absolute surfeit of devastating criticism and persecution for faults that are not real,” he said.
“It isn’t obvious to me how much a person can take without starting to feel continuously embattled.”
