Posted on 09/13/2018 8:52:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former President Jimmy Carter isn’t holding back in his assessment of Donald Trump, saying this week that if he could somehow become president again he would reverse all the policies Trump has put in place since taking office.
Carter made the remark at Emory University, where he speaks each year to incoming students. The 93-year-old former president said he prays for Donald Trump regularly, though it didn’t appear to be working as Trump would “have to change a lot of things” if his prayers were answered.
If he had the chance, Carter said he would make the changes himself.
“If I were foolish enough to feel I could be president again, I think the first thing I would do would be to change all of the policies that President Trump has initiated,” Carter said (via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Though former presidents have generally refrained from publicly criticizing those who currently occupy the office, a number have now made exceptions for Donald Trump. Former president Barack Obama has been active on the campaign trail in recent weeks, trying to energize Democrats for the critical midterm elections this fall. In doing so, Obama has offered some of his sharpest criticisms of President Trump.
Even President George W. Bush has spoken out against a number of Trump’s policies, though not criticizing Trump directly.
Jimmy Carter has also been relaying some advice to Democrats as they look to retake the House and Senate from Republicans, warning them away from drifting too far to the left and risking alienating independent voters.
“Independents need to know they can invest their vote in the Democratic Party,” Carter said on Tuesday (via The Associated Press).
This is not the first time that Jimmy Carter has taken aim at Donald Trump in recent weeks. Back in August, he attacked both Trump’s policies and his character amid the growing revelations of Trump’s hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet their alleged affair.
“I think he’s a disaster … In human rights and in treating people equal,” Carter told The Washington Post.
The remarks from Jimmy Carter came just after a federal indictment for Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for hush money payments to two women who claimed to have affairs with Trump. Donald Trump himself was named in Cohen’s court documents as a co-conspirator in the plan to pay the women, which amounted to a campaign finance violation.
well break out the peanut bongs, and Billy beer he is baaack, btw, billy beer swill will be all that’s affordable once he gets your money
Yes Jimmy Crater, that’s why we voted you out of office.
If it’s any consolation, I thought you were easily the worst president in my lifetime and we’re the worst imaginable......until Obama came along. I now think you were only the second worst.
Once a loser, always a loser.
Of course he would. After all, he’s the stupidest President in US history, and, until Obama came along, he was the worst.
Carter proved that this is true by being a worse President than Clinton.
Obama outdid them both by being both.
Of course he would. So would Obama and Clinton. They hate it when people are not dependent on them. Trump is giving them their freedom from the binds of slavery to that party.
"I think he’s a disaster … In human rights and in treating people equal."Isn't "He's a big ole meanie" specific enough for you?
It's always the same, isn't it? Zero specifics. They never look at his results. Carter's horrendously results speak for themselves. Those were some of the worst times I experienced.
hey Jimmy! ...all the independents already know everything they need to know...that the Democrats have gone so far left that Stalin is now “far right” to them.
People are walking away in droves. While it doesn’t mean they’re now republican, they know they’re not leftists and recognize leftist policies. And the leftists just keep declaring even more extreme (anti-Trump) ideas every day to the point of it being embarrassing, except they don’t even see it. People with no class don’t recognize they’ve no class, they think they’re being clever but just look juvenile. It’s like shouting somebody down and thinking you’re winning a debate.
I think that makes sense. But I insist on erecting tall walls to keep the Leftists out of my country.
Good one, Grey whiskers!
Nice!
Bilbo, the Ring has been passed on. Oh, and you're a backstabbling opportunistic loser who didn't fix the world when you had the chance. A**hole.
I may have to steal that. :^).
Jimmah Carter: Long gas lines, high inflation, hopelessness and decisions so bad in the Middle East that we’re still paying the price today. BUT his only ‘sex’ crime was ‘lusting in his heart’... so I guess the Morning Joe and Chuck Todd fools would approve...
Jimmah Carter: Long gas lines, high inflation, hopelessness and decisions so bad in the Middle East that we’re still paying the price today. BUT his only ‘sex’ crime was ‘lusting in his heart’... so I guess the Morning Joe and Chuck Todd fools would approve...no ‘stormy sluts’ in Jimmah’s past... no forced kissers when he was a teenager.
And thankfully there is zero chance of that...
Hostages in Iran, 18% interest rates, and negative economic growth are no way to “run a country.”
A lie, not a campaign finance violation.
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