Quoted chapter-and-verse in the anti-Trump press, 94-year-old former President Jimmy Carter slammed 73-year-old President Donald Trump overseas while he was in high-stakes negotiations with China over ending the current trade war at the G20 in Osaka, Japan.. Carter presided over the worst U.S. economy since the Great Depression, with the prime interest rate hitting 21%, mortgage rates about 17%. Carter pandered to Democrats’ ongoing mud slinging, hoping to damage Trump before the 2020 election. But unlike Carter, whose economy was called “stagflation,” for high inflation and low growth, Trump’s economy is the opposite. Today’s inflation runs at nearly zero, unemployment at 30-year lows and the Gross Domestic Product [GDP] at 2.2%. Speaking at Carter’s human rights’ conference with former Vice President Walter Mondale, Carter called Trump an “illegitimate president.”
Carter insisted that Trump was not a legitimate president because of known Russian interference in the 2016 election. Saying 18 intel agencies plus the Mueller Report confirmed Russian meddling, Carter doubled down that Trump was not a legitimate president. Carter’s message has been the Democrat talking point since Trump beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Nov. 4, 2016 with a Electoral College victory [304-227]. Hillary won the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, making Carter’s argument preposterous. If Russia truly influenced the popular vote, Trump would have won it by a landslide. “There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated, would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016, and he was put into office because the Russian interfered on his behalf,” Carter said.
Historian John Meacham, moderating Carter Center’s human rights conference in Leesburg, Va., asked Carter if Trump was a “illegitimate president?” “Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract,” said Carter. “It’s a typical talking point,” Trump said at the G20 in Osaka, Japan. When Carter says Russian interference can’t be quantified,” he’s not kidding. What’s quantified is the fact that Hillary won 2,864,974 more popular votes than Trump. U.S. Intel agencies and Mueller found that Russian surrogates played around with fake news stories on social media, like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Neither Mueller nor any intel agency can say with any certainty that whatever Russia did in 2016 it changed even one vote. Yet Carter shows he can throw the Democrat mud with the best of them. Carter knows Hillary won nearly 3 million more popular votes than Trump in 2016.
Carter says if an investigation takes place then he’s convinced it would show that Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election. But the federal and state election commissions looked carefully into whether there was any evidence of Russian interference or tampering with election results. No investigation determined that even one vote was changed because of so-called Russian meddling. ”The president himself should condemn it, admit that it happened,” Carter said, referring to Russian tampering affecting the vote. Carted mocked Trump telling Putin at the G20, “Don’t meddle in the election,” prompting a laugh from Putin. Carter’s on the Democrat bandwagon insisting that Trump is an illegitimate president. There’s zero evidence from any U.S. intel agency, including the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA], that Russia changed even one vote in the 2016 election.
Anti-Trump media hype wants the public to think that Russia changed the outcome of the 2016 election. Yet all intel agencies or Mueller could say was that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, making no statement about changing any votes. Mueller’s Report said some members of Trump’s campaign showed interest in Russia dirt but no crimes were committed. Mueller said nothing about Hillary paying Glen Simpson’s FusionGPS’s former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to get as much Russian dirt on Trump as possible. Steele claimed he had inside contacts at the Kremlin to dredge up Trump’s past behavior in Russia. Mondale got his own shots in on Trump at Carter’s human rights conference. “He openly loves authoritarian leaders, has contempt for democratic leaders,” Mondale said. “He’s got something in him that is detestable,” Mondale concluded.
Carter and Mondale didn’t talk about human rights, they both had a free-for-all attacking a sitting president doing business overseas. Mondale repeats the oft-cited Democrat talking point that Trump likes dictators. When you consider Trump’s defused a dangerous situation with North Korea, something no other U.S. president has ever done, Mondale accuses Trump of appeasing dictators. Trump maintains a friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin because it’s the right thing to do with the world’s most heavily armed nuclear power. If you really listen to Carter and Mondale, you’d conclude it’s in the U.S. best interest to not get along with adversaries. When Carter and Mondale slam Trump, they’ve stooped to the same level as other Democrat hacks looking to score cheap political points. Trump said Carter was a “terrible president,” leaving the U.S. economy in shambles.
