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Home Front: Politix
Jimmy Carter broadsides Donald Trump: Republican tapped ‘reservoir of inherent racism'
2017-07-01
[Wash Times] Former President Jimmy Carter pulled no punches against Donald Trump in a recent interview with The New York Times.

The 39th commander in chief told the newspaper by phone on Monday that Mr. Trump’s Republican presidential campaign is fueled by lingering U.S. racism.

Mr. Carter, 91, said in February that the billionaire was his favorite Republican candidate because he is "completely malleable." The former Democrat president now says Mr. Trump "tapped a waiting reservoir there of inherent racism" to succeed.

"When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights," Mr. Cartersaid of the Republican’s plan to deport illegal immigrants and temporarily halt Muslim immigration into the U.S.

The newspaper also asked Mr. Carter, who is planning to hold a summit of Baptists in Atlanta, Georgia, later this summer, why Mr. Trump’s support among evangelical Christians is so strong.

"The use of the word ’evangelical’ is a misnomer. I consider myself an evangelical as well. And obviously, what most of the news reporters thought were evangelicals [over the years] are conservative Republicans," the former president said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  The ONLY thing I want to hear about Jimmy Carter is that he died. (Peacefully, in his sleep.)
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-07-01 23:18  

#19  and other expensive cars left behind when the hundred or so Iranian sailors left the Base.

The Iranians I've known are big on looking successful. Very fashionable, expensive accessories, houses, cars. Problems were kept carefully hidden.

Mr. Carter did not get his second term because he drove away the Jewish vote with his blatant hate of Israel. He drove many of the remaining Jews in his foundation when he wrote that final book, which was even more open about it. He has no leg to stand on when accusing others of bigotry.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-01 21:19  

#18  I was at the Submarine Base in Connecticut when the Shah was overthrown, you should have seen all the Corvettes, Mercedes, and other expensive cars left behind when the hundred or so Iranian sailors left the Base.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-07-01 20:07  

#17  I grew up with Pro Shah Iranians, smart ones too, Surgeons
, Dentists, Business owners, good people!
Posted by: 746   2017-07-01 18:56  

#16  I was at San Diego State then, Civil Engineering. We had a lot of Iranians (tuition $$$) and most were pro-Shah.
Posted by: Frank G   2017-07-01 18:42  

#15  We need to stop letting them use racism as the end all cudgel to attack any part of western civilization. After all the smoke, its always the same, they want money and power and use guilt and projected shame to weedle it from the people who actually built this nation and its ideals. Enough!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-07-01 18:09  

#14  He was a moron then, he's still a moron now. His brother billy was in fact, smarter than him.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-01 18:08  

#13  Jimmah can definitely grow peanuts.

Methinks Shipman would disagree.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-01 14:02  

#12  Remarkable how racist the nation became the moment it elected its first black president.
Posted by: Iblis   2017-07-01 13:38  

#11  I recall that Iranian students disappeared from campus quickly and without much ado.

Those who stayed just became very quiet. The Iranian boy I knew then, advised by his parents not to come home under any circumstances, was given a full scholarship with room, board, and a job with buildings&services by the university so he wouldn't starve. Nice kid, the usual Persian charm and non-American educated class's disinterest in physical labour, but not on the excessively intelligent side of the bell curve.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-01 13:16  

#10  Jimmah can definitely grow peanuts.
As for the rest, he is his usual bigotted, self inflated peasant yokel.
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2017-07-01 13:06  

#9  Illegals are fully-fledged citizens -- of other countries. If they don't want second-class status, they can go home.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-07-01 12:01  

#8  At least he is now the 2nd worst president ever.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-01 11:59  

#7  As I recall Jimmah Carter banned Iranians from coming to US in 1980. He also suspended visas for those already here. I recall that Iranian students disappeared from campus quickly and without much ado.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-01 11:27  

#6  And if you people keep behaving like you do - you'll tap their reservoir of inherent violence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-01 10:37  

#5  This is the guy from Georgia, right?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-01 10:31  

#4  And the Democratic Party's policy of inherent white fault for the past and societies ills isn't racism?
Evangelical in this context can be defined as "can't possibly leave anyone alone".
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-07-01 10:15  

#3  "Former President Jimmy Carter", who became that way because he is the single term embarrassment to the whole country.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-07-01 10:15  

#2  Epic failure says what?
Posted by: Frank G   2017-07-01 10:10  

#1  Jimmy Carter broadsides Donald Trump: Republican tapped into our ‘reservoir of inherent racism'

FIFY. Still trying to shovel the Donk party sins of slavery and segregation upon everyone else. It's called projection.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-01 08:31  

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