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Another Trump Dr Feelgood

Published by digby on November 21, 2018

Another Trump Dr Feelgood

by digby

He doesn’t read so any recommendations are based on Fox News appearances. But if you’re wondering what this is about:

Gina Loudon, the Republican commentator and author, recently declared that she has scientific evidence that Donald Trump might be the “most sound-minded” president in history. It’s a claim that might carry more weight if her new book didn’t falsely describe her as having a doctorate in psychology.

Loudon, who worked as a surrogate for the Trump campaign and frequently appears on the airwaves to defend the president, obtained a Ph.D in a field called “human and organization systems” from an online school called Fielding Graduate University.

Loudon, 58, who often refers to herself as “Dr. Gina,” does not have a psychology degree or license.

But the author’s bio on the jacket of her new book, Mad Politics: Keeping Your Sanity in a World Gone Crazy—which contains theories that experts say have been dismissed by scientific research—states she has two masters’ degrees “as well as a Ph.D in psychology.”

The text on the front flap refers to her as “America’s favorite psychological expert,” and one of the blurbs inside gushes that she “has the depth of a credentialed psychoanalyst.”

Inside the book, Loudon—a member of Trump’s 2020 campaign Media Advisory Board—admits she does not have clinical training. “My gut instincts, which have nothing to do with my professional training, are pretty solid,” she writes.

Her “gut instincts” tell her that Trump is the most sound-minded president in history. You can do the math.

If you’d like to see a great example of journalism, read the whole Daily Beast report which uses her thesis as a way to get real psychologists and psychiatrists to weigh in on Trump’s psychological problems without forcing them to

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