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Carter on Trump issues
Oct 23rd, 2017 at 9:27am
 
Jimmy Carter, the liberal 93-year-old former president, surprisingly sided with President Trump when he told The New York Times that the media have been been too hostile on the current commander-in-chief.

“I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about,” Carter told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. The 39th president served one term from 1977 to 1981.

Carter added that he thought the media “feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”

The former president also pushed back on accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, saying: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes.” He said his wife, Rosalynn, disagreed with him, before he added, “We voted for [Bernie] Sanders” in the primary.

Carter also doesn’t believe the current president’s “America First” strategy is out of step with the larger world, spoiling international relations. “Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump,” he told the Times. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”

Carter also said he's willing to go to North Korea on a diplomatic mission amid the escalating tensions over nuclear weapons.

“I don’t know what they’ll do,” he said of North Korea. “Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong Un. He’s never, so far as I know, been to China.”

He called the North Korean dictator “unpredictable.”

In September, Carter expressed optimism that Trump might break a legislative logjam with his six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.

Carter told Emory University students that the “pressures and the publicity that Trump has brought to the immigration issue” could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.

He blamed both major parties for an inability to pass any major immigration law overhaul since a 1986 law signed by President Ronald Reagan.

“I don’t see that as a hopeless cause,” Carter said. He added that Trump’s critics, including himself, “have to give him credit when he does some things that are not as bad” as they are depicted.
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Re: Carter on Trump issues
Reply #1 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 9:28am
 
Trust Jimmy Carter?
Sure do, always did.
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Reply #2 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 10:02am
 
Jimmy Carter is proof that American Christians don't want a Christian president.
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Reply #3 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 10:03am
 
They probably have been harder on Trump, buts it hard to resist when he throws so many soft pitches
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Reply #4 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 10:20am
 
bogarde73 wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 9:28am:
Trust Jimmy Carter?
Sure do, always did.



You know all about trusting, don't you, Goebbels?
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Reply #5 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 11:27am
 
Well Carter was a weak and terrible president.  His views on Trump are also weak and terrible.
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Reply #6 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 12:11pm
 
Trump declared war on the media in general, and the NYT specifically, even before he was elected. They now bomb him any chance they get. It doesn't surprise me, anyway.

Trump is right about illegal aliens sneaking into the USA. He's right about Iran and North Korea. He's dead wrong about dismantling environmental protection and oil drilling in delicate ecological areas. He's a lying son of bitch when it comes to his opposition to unwinnable Middle Eastern wars. And he's a total slime-ball when it comes to his attitude toward women. Him and Harvey Veensteen, best buds.
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Reply #7 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 2:20pm
 
issuevoter wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 12:11pm:
Trump declared war on the media in general, and the NYT specifically, even before he was elected. They now bomb him any chance they get. It doesn't surprise me, anyway.

Trump is right about illegal aliens sneaking into the USA. He's right about Iran and North Korea. He's dead wrong about dismantling environmental protection and oil drilling in delicate ecological areas. He's a lying son of bitch when it comes to his opposition to unwinnable Middle Eastern wars. And he's a total slime-ball when it comes to his attitude toward women. Him and Harvey Veensteen, best buds.

Taking on the media is how he won the election: protest all you want but that is how he won because no one else had the balls to do it!

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Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 10:03am:
They probably have been harder on Trump, buts it hard to resist when he throws so many soft pitches

What are you talking about?

...he attacked the media his whole campaign: the media hate him because he told the whole country the media was crap and he won the election by selling that one exact message... the media have been exposed as total pariahs that the whole country hates.

Grin Grin

Talk about soft pitches all you want but you are just avoiding the truth: Trump called the media scum for two years to win the election and he won.... that proves to the media that they are more hated than Trump!

You just can't accept that little fact buddy....  Cheesy

Wait, wait,.... I meant to say: you just can't accept that little fact FAKE buddy  Cheesy Cheesy
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Reply #9 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 4:05pm
 
Maybe in some commentary, Bogie, but in the news section, all the negative press I've read has been based on Trump's own words.

Most reporting of Trump's tweets, for example, or his stump speeches, have been just that - Trump's own words. The lies, the attacks, the vanity - the pussies - it all comes from Trump. And when it's reported, Trump is dumb enough to call it FAKE news.

You can't polish a turd like Trump. He represents the worst of America - the spoilt, over-indulgent, superficiality. The kitsch displays of affluence and ugly, bloated wealth. The ignorance of the rest of the world or how the other half live. The sheer vanity and unabashed self-promotion. Trump's sole claim to fame is being rich, and we only know this because he's spent his entire adult life promoting this.

Sorry, Jimmy Carter, it's pretty hard to see how you could blame anyone other than Trump. He has always championed the no-press-is-bad-press line. Trump's now reaping what he's sown.
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Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 4:05pm:
Maybe in some commentary, Bogie, but in the news section, all the negative press I've read has been based on Trump's own words.

Most reporting of Trump's tweets, for example, or his stump speeches, have been just that - Trump's own words. The lies, the attacks, the vanity - the pussies - it all comes from Trump. And when it's reported, Trump is dumb enough to call it FAKE news.

You can't polish a turd like Trump. He represents the worst of America - the spoilt, over-indulgent, superficiality. The kitsch displays of affluence and ugly, bloated wealth. The ignorance of the rest of the world or how the other half live. The sheer vanity and unabashed self-promotion. Trump's sole claim to fame is being rich, and we only know this because he's spent his entire adult life promoting this.

Sorry, Jimmy Carter, it's pretty hard to see how you could blame anyone other than Trump. He has always championed the no-press-is-bad-press line. Trump's now reaping what he's sown.

He is still using the press.... get a grip you stupid woman  Grin
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Reply #11 - Oct 23rd, 2017 at 5:05pm
 
TheFunPolice wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 4:54pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 23rd, 2017 at 4:05pm:
Maybe in some commentary, Bogie, but in the news section, all the negative press I've read has been based on Trump's own words.

Most reporting of Trump's tweets, for example, or his stump speeches, have been just that - Trump's own words. The lies, the attacks, the vanity - the pussies - it all comes from Trump. And when it's reported, Trump is dumb enough to call it FAKE news.

You can't polish a turd like Trump. He represents the worst of America - the spoilt, over-indulgent, superficiality. The kitsch displays of affluence and ugly, bloated wealth. The ignorance of the rest of the world or how the other half live. The sheer vanity and unabashed self-promotion. Trump's sole claim to fame is being rich, and we only know this because he's spent his entire adult life promoting this.

Sorry, Jimmy Carter, it's pretty hard to see how you could blame anyone other than Trump. He has always championed the no-press-is-bad-press line. Trump's now reaping what he's sown.

He is still using the press.... get a grip you stupid woman  Grin


Not anymore, Death. Mr Trump avoids the press like the plague.

He now uses Twitter and Fox News.
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