G. Heath KIng is a highly irregular Newsmax columnist, in both senses of the word. He writes so infrequently that he has not been given his own archive. He claims to be a psychoanalyst, but a lot of that seems a bit dubious. A 2013 article offering his purported insights on North Korea’s Kim Kong Un declared that King is “a regular contributor to Newsmax, having penned articles analyzing the minds and actions of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes and Sandy Hook Elementary’s Adam Lanza.” In a 2018 column, King touted his earlier writing on Kim in touting Donald Trump’s attempts to negotiate with North Korea:
It is unprecedented that an American president will meet with a leader of North Korea; and this requires an equally unprecedented entrepreneur of global political savvy to initiate and consummate. My advice, made to a close confidant of the president several months ago, was that Trump, who hammered out and finessed the formula for an unparalleled economic expansion in peace time, should at the outset negotiate directly with Kim.
[…]Trump’s recent appointment of the far-sighted and innovative Larry Kudlow as chief White House Economic Advisor appears timely for the next stage of this advance.
Trump would no doubt extend similar cultural geniality to Kim Jong Un at Mar-a-Lago as he did when his two grandchildren sang in Mandarin the Chinese ballad “Jasmine Flower” to Xi and his wife. Former schoolmates of the more hip Kim say that his favorite song is “Brother Louie,” a hit tune of the German electropop band Modern Talking, while Dennis Rodman reports he listens to the “Rocky” and “Dallas” theme songs for hours at a time. As both Kim and Trump are ice cream aficionados there could be no better way of beginning entrepreneurial negotiations than with two sundaes, one with Kim’s favorite hot kimchi sauce, the other with Trump’s hot fudge.
Actually, Kudlow is much better known for his failed predictions on the economy than anything else he’s done.
In his first Newsmax work in six years, King spent an Oct. 25 column serving up an armchair diagnosis of Kamala Harris as having mental issues:
I have been a psychotherapist evaluating patients for over 30 years, and have little doubt that Kamala Harris may suffer from serious cognitive issues.
Before assuming the most powerful job in the world, Harris has exhibited serious cognitive deficiencies that should set off alarm bells for any health professional.
I am not diagnosing the vice president.
But I am saying there are serious issues the American people have a right to know about a major public official.
Former President Donald Trump has unceremoniously called into question Harris’ level of intelligence as she seeks to lead the nation.
It’s a fair question, but perhaps less threatening than serious mental deficiencies by which Harris may be impaired.
Like many other observers, Trump has also noted Harris’ chronic, inappropriate episodes of laughter.
The fact that these two conditions — intelligence issues and erratic laughter — are so pronounced, protracted, and interlaced suggests they are manifestations of a single clinical condition.
Harris’ unusual laughing fits do not necessarily reflect a happy mood.
Harris, in fact, may have a condition known as pseudobulbar affect (PBA), a neuropsychological disorder that arises from trauma, most often from a lesion to the head resulting in damage of neuro fibers transmitting motor instructions from the cerebral cortex to the lower brain stem.
This neurological disorder and accompanying compromised intellectual grasp may have been induced by a severe blow to the head with a rock incurred by Harris at the age of 5 during a quarrel at school.
KIng then launched a personal attack on Harris:
This lack of cognitive grasp may explain why Harris has evaded interviews to a degree unprecedented by any presidential candidate.
When she has spoken at campaign events, her presentations were written by speechwriters like Adam Frankel, a Princeton alumnus and Fulbright Scholar who eclipses Harris intellectually.
By contrast, Harris performed unremarkably at Hastings Law School, ranked 82nd in the nation.
She is in fact the only presidential candidate in modern history with a law degree who did not graduate from a top-ranked law school.
[…]A crisis of confidence issuing from a deficit in cognitive grasp can also take the form of avoiding all interviews, as Harris did for over 40 days since she was catapulted to the position of Democrat presidential candidate.
This was noted by the eminent body language expert Susan Constantine when Harris, under pressure from all quarters, finally granted an interview with media ally CNN, propped by her vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, “to whom she was looking for acknowledgment.”
Particularly revealing, as Constantine pointed out, was Harris’ head bobbling when struggling to come up with answers, as if she were asking herself, ‘What part of the file in my subconscious am I going to pull out? Which ones are my answers?'”
Constantine continued, “She couldn’t come up with a crystal clear answer, and that’s why she tends to bobble,” showing “she is not confident in what she’s saying.”
What criteria was King using to judge Constantine a “eminent body language expert”? We don’t know. Instead, he continued to obsess over Harris’ laughter, as if he’s been told that’s a useful right-wing talking point:
In Harris’ case, bouts not only of unseemly laughter but also of fits of anger appear to have intensified in the greater anxiety-inducing atmosphere of higher office and public exposure, as evidenced by an even higher turnover of staff while she has been vice president.
The eruption of PBA-induced anger is often unpredictable and, like laughter, inappropriate to the social context.
This is conveyed by a former aide who reported, “You never knew when she was going to snap at you.”
Understandably, this created a toxic work environment and “sense of paranoia.”
King concluded with more approved right-wing talking points:
Intelligence and innovative solutions thrive in free speech, while those lacking cognitive ability will naturally gravitate toward decisions made for them from above as by state oversight, what George Orwell foresaw as the advent of a “Ministry of Truth.”
The intellectually compromised Harris received reinforcement in this with the legacy of her Jamaican Marxist father having dedicated his book on economic state control to her.
The dedication came after he compounded her original trauma by abandoning the family in a protracted, acrimonious divorce.
She was 7, two years after her severe blow on the cerebral cortex.
Clinically, I cannot say Harris suffers from PBA, but the warning signs are apparent.
The press and public should demand the vice president undergo serious cognitive testing.
This is no laughing matter.
King didn’t disclose that his profession has pointed out that “Armchair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical.” He also made no effort to offer a similar armchair diagnosis of Donald Trump despite his numerous word salads.