Here’s a common tactic of the legacy media: Find an activist with credentials in a field they haven’t worked with in years, someone with a laundry list of made-up grievances, someone fundamentally bitter and angry, and have them speculate on some personal aspect of a person they’ve never met or spoken with. 

Case in point: CNN recently trotted out a Dr. Chris Pernell, a left-wing activist who hasn’t practiced medicine since her residency, to remote-diagnose President Trump’s chronic venous insufficiency. It should come as no surprise that she immediately started crying the president’s doom.

A CNN doctor who painted a dark picture of President Donald Trump’s health appears not to have practiced medicine since her residency, instead spending her career as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist. She is also an “apostle” of a church whose leader describes Trump as the “antichrist.”

Chris Pernell, a frequent television doctor on CNN and other news stations, warned last week that President Trump’s broadly unremarkable diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency could be more than it seemed.

“It is a disease that is progressive,” Pernell said. “And what that means is that if there aren’t conservative treatments, elevation, compression, medication, if needed, to treat accompanying ulcers or skin changes, it can worsen and actually put a person at risk for deep venous thrombosis.”

OK, so we know she can read WebMD. And, honestly, anyone capable of that can do a quick internet search and come up with the exact worst-case scenarios as this “expert.” And we already know that the president’s condition is miles and miles away from a “worst-case.”

So let’s look at this “Doctor” Pernell’s background. Why did CNN choose her?

Though Pernell does have an M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine and completed a residency with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her LinkedIn page does not mention having treated patients. After completing her degree at Duke, receiving a Master’s degree in public health from Columbia, and her time with Johns Hopkins, Pernell served as “Chief Strategic Integration and Health Equity Officer” at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. In that role, she drafted the hospital’s first “equity and inclusion strategy,” hired the hospital’s first “director of equity and inclusion,” and instituted mandatory implicit bias and structural racism training.

Pernell said during an October 2022 appearance on the Karen Hunter Show that she faced multiple compliance probes from hospital leadership, stemming in large part from her public criticism of Trump and Republicans. In 2021, for instance, she compared vaccine-skeptical Americans to white supremacists on MSNBC’s airwaves.

Uh huh.

This is not a doctor. Oh, she may have an M.D., but it’s been years, it seems, since she ever saw a patient. No, this is a race-baiting activist, a DEI-pushing charlatan who is lightning-fast to blame all of her personal failings on racism, when it’s more likely that she’s simply too obnoxious and too inexperienced. No reputable physician, mind you, would engage in this kind of remote diagnosis. And if there’s one thing President Trump is not, it’s sickly. The man runs rings around most of his staff and cabinet, and is racking up wins left and right; there has never been a president who has accomplished so much, so quickly.

These are not the acts of a man in poor health, and the White House physician, who actually has examined President Trump, would seem to agree.

CNN would have done better to consult these popular physicians of screens, both large and small..