Jimmy Carter unloads on 'cruel' Trump

[kpete]

Last edited Sun Jul 15, 2018, 05:40 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/ex-president-jimmy-carter-unloads-cruel-trump-us-government-now-worse/

When speaking to salon about his famous “Crisis of Confidence” speech, former President Jimmy Carter had this observation about America’s current commander-in-chief, Donald Trump.

“I think that under Trump the government is worse than it has been before,” Carter explained by email. “This is the first time I remember when the truth is ignored, allies are deliberately aggravated, China, Europe, Mexico and Canada are hurt economically and have to hurt us in response, Americans see the future worse than the present, and immigrants are treated cruelly.”




UPDATE to add this link I just found:
The Rest:
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/15/jimmy-carter-reflects-on-a-lifetime-under-trump-the-government-is-worse-than-it-has-been-before/

[WePurrsevere]

1. You know it's bad when...

A past president breaks the normal code of silence and speaks out against the current one.

You know it's truly awful if that past president is Jimmy Carter.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Word!

[blue-wave]

5. Absolutely!

[Soxfan58]

10. Well put

[bitterross]

11. Especially Carter. One of the most decent

Carter has to be really upset if he's speaking out like this.

[FakeNoose]

13. Yes but they should all do it now

These aren't normal times! I respect Jimmy Carter and I think he's doing the right thing.

Why won't "Shrub" open his mouth? We already know that none of the Bushes voted for Trump.
So what's the big deal? Speak up now boys, you might not get another chance!

[WePurrsevere]

17. I agree they all should & they should...

as a united front, making a huge production of it calling in all of the MSM and simultaneously cast to FB, Twitter, etc to cover their big announcement.

That 'might' get a few people that are sitting around acting like 'Hear no evil, See no evil and Speak no evil' to wake up, take action and VOTE to get this disaster of a president and admin contained before even more innocent people are hurt or killed.

[LisaM]

22. Bush caused Trump.

He stole an election and got away with it, making a blue print for future elections going forward. He then proceeded to stack the Supreme Court with justices who let Citizens United happen, not to mention their dismantling of the Voting Rights Act. I don't care what he has to say, unless it's a big fat apology to the world.

[zanana1]

24. Agreed.

That election was stolen, with help from a very conservative Supreme Court.

[olegramps]

29. Absolutely. The same corrupt machine elected both of them. F**k Bush and the horse he rode in on.

Bush and his administration should be painting pictures from a jail cell for their lies that cost us over 5,000 American soldiers lives and ten of thousands seriously maimed for life.

[calimary]

31. Yep.

[sarah FAILIN]

18. My first thought.

Carter would stay quiet through anything till now. Shit has hit that Georgia fan for him to speak out.

[uponit7771]

21. +1

[Stuart G]

3. kick for exposure. Carter says it better than anyone. Thank You for posting this..

[nolabear]

4. His heart must be breaking to see his country in this shape.

Half my reason for being determined not to die or give in is to outlive that bastard and maybe see things begin to recover. I don’t know how I’d feel at his age.

[BigmanPigman]

7. All our hearts are breaking to see the country in this shape.

[calimary]

32. I know exactly how you feel, nolabear.

But I’m not heartbroken as much as I am spitting-fire angry.

[roamer65]

6. The midterms will decide the fate of the republic.

[bronxiteforever]

8. A great humanitarian and American k & r!

[keithbvadu2]

9. treat our allies as the enemy while treating our enemies as our allies........

(from another blog)
The Trump Doctrine - treat our allies as the enemy while treating our enemies as our allies........

[sandensea]

12. Carter tried to warn us about the New Right during his 1980 campaign

"The year 2000 is just less than 20 years away, just four Presidential elections after this one. Children born this year will come of age in the 21st century.

The time to shape the world of the year 2000 is now. The decisions of the next few years will set our course, perhaps an irreversible course, and the most important of all choices will be made by the American people at the polls less than 3 months from tonight.

But there is another possible future:

In that other future I see despair—despair of millions who would struggle for equal opportunity and a better life and struggle alone.

And I see surrender—the surrender of our energy future to the merchants of oil, the surrender of our economic future to a bizarre program of massive tax cuts for the rich, service cuts for the poor, and massive inflation for everyone.

And I see risk—the risk of international confrontation, the risk of an uncontrollable, unaffordable, and unwinnable nuclear arms race."

[gabeana]

16. wow

left speechless reading that thanks for the post

[sandensea]

19. A man of vision.

And here's the kicker: his teleprompter mysteriously failed to turn on, so Carter gave most of his '80 acceptance speech - including the part above - from memory.

I doubt Cheeto could give you his phone number from memory (probably Putin's though).

[karin_sj]

28. Wow!

Everything he said (and more) came true.

[calimary]

34. And America turned its backs on him.

He’s a living saint. And a visionary. He saw all this coming, but he was so diminished by the smug attacks that nobody felt like listening.

[Garrett78]

14. "I think that under Trump the government is worse than it has been before."

That's the idea. Undermine trust in government and other institutions. That's been the Republican (and Putin) agenda for decades.

[heaven05]

15. bout time

and hope more speak up in warning.

[StevieM]

20. Carter said something else in that speech, something that is being proven wrong at this very moment.

"I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure."

Our democracy is now in grave peril and it is not entirely clear that it will endure. And Donald Trump is not the primary cause--he is the primary symptom.

[oberliner]

23. Raw Story doing it's usual rip off of someone else's reporting

Thanks for including the actual link to the actual story from Salon. I'd encourage you to delete the click-bait Raw Story one.

[Scurrilous]

25. K&R

[Achilleaze]

26. k & r

[greatbaldeagle]

27. But what happened to all that "benefit of the doubt" Carter wanted to give him?

Carter is all over the place. I like what he's saying now but he was one of the people trying to tone down the reaction Trump was getting from the media and the public. I thought he came of very SOFT in his previous statements.

"But my own preference would be that he not be impeached, but that he be able to serve out his term, because I think he wants to do a good job. And I'm willing to help him, if I can help him, and give him the benefit of the doubt."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carter-my-preference-would-be-that-trump-not-be-impeached/

[LanternWaste]

30. Carter's opinion has been tempered... not replaced.

It's not out of the realm of possibilities for a position to change when faced with so much evidence as to require that reevaluation. That's not "all over the place...", it's simply additional consideration given to that which is relevant.

[greatbaldeagle]

35. Are you saying evidence didn't exist as of March of THIS YEAR?

So are you saying that it was only after March of THIS YEAR that Carter was able to determine that Trump was cruel and that our government and the rest of the world was in trouble? We already had his birther BS before he ran for office, which should have taken away any future benefit of the doubt. The day President Obama had to stand before the world and show his birth certificate was a sad day in history. That alone should have been enough. But we had all of the racist and dangerous rhetoric during the campaign ("Lock her up!", "Build a wall!", "Would have been taken out on a stretcher in the old days".) Mocking a disabled reporter. Going after a gold star family. The Mexican judge. Once in office, all of the tweets about "big buttons" as it relates to NUCLEAR WEAPONS and the proven lies during his first year in office. He never showed his tax returns. He tried to end the Affordable Care Act. The Muslim ban. Withdrawal from the Paris agreement. The transgender ban in the military. Showing hostility towards the press and labeling them "fake news". He fired the FBI director after he wouldn't pledge his loyalty. His cabinet has been the biggest revolving door in history. His "both sides" BS as it related to Nazis in Charlottesville and calling NFL players "sons of bitches" because they dared to kneel because unarmed people are being killed by law enforcement. But I guess that just wasn't enough.

Yes, he's all over the place if in March of THIS YEAR he didn't have the perspective that he claims he has now.

[smirkymonkey]

33. K&R