Laura Ingraham hosted clinical forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman on her Fox “News” show tonight to critique the new book by Donald Trump’s niece Dr. Mary Trump, “Too Much Is Never Enough,” which Lieberman called a “case of projection” by Mary Trump.
In her book, Dr. Trump, a clinical psychologist, says that she has “no problem calling Donald a narcissist,” and she believe he also “meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, wich in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy….”
Claiming that Mary Trump want people to “believe her hook, line and sinker,” Lieberman says that Dr. Trump makes her determinations based on family dynamics, but because Dr. Trump is 20 years younger than President Trump, she wouldn’t have the same view of the family as Donald and she’s “conjecturing” when citing potential causes for Donald’s personality disorders.
“[I]f the family is as maliciously, ah, we– malignantly, um, dysfunctional as she says, then she obviously would have been–and is–ah… affected by that as well, so that is affecting her truth telling,” Lieberman claims.
“However, even more importantly, she says that we should believe her because she’s a psychologist, a Ph.D. psychologist, and yes, presumably that’s correct,” Lieberman continues. “However, New York State has no record of her being licensed as a psychologist.”
In fact, Dr. Mary Trump never claimed to practice as a clinical psychologist, which would require a license. She entered academia after receiving her Ph.D., teaching courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology.
After Lieberman speculates that Dr. Trump could be licensed “under some assumed name”, Ingraham goes on to air heavily edited and cobbled-together snippets (each no more than three seconds of Trump talking) from Dr. Trump’s interview with George Stephanopoulos, which will air tomorrow on ABC.
Lieberman goes on to declare Dr. Trump “a very confused woman”, that being largely to do “with her relationship with her [garbled]… who does, he seems rather cold and he had some problems.”
Then Lieberman claims it’s all about Daddy issues: “Really, she’s angry at her father, her deceased father, and she’s blaming all the problems that her father had on Donald Trump and on her grandfather as well.”
“The motivations behind this are clearly greed because she’s still angry that she didn’t get her share of the family fortune; jealousy, um, jealousy of the success that Donald Trump has; um, politics, she is totally opposite him in politics,” Lieberman concludes.
Lieberman gave no basis for her claims about Dr. Trump.
Lieberman is perhaps best known for providing commentary on on-going trials. She also wrote the pop-psychology book Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them, and When to Leave Them and the follow up Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets.