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The truth about Jimmy Carter.
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Outgoing President Joe Biden urged incoming President Donald Trump to
learn “decency” from permanently outgoing former president President
Jimmy Carter. Biden once set his sights high by trying to compare
himself to FDR and JFK, now has to settle for being the second Carter.
On his way out the door, the media continues to insist that Biden is a
good man. And that Carter, despite presiding over one of the worst administrations in history, was a good man.
Biden and Carter had many things in common, record unpopularity, crooked brothers, and empowering Islamic terrorists, but decency was never one
of them.
Joe Biden was not a good man. Neither was Jimmy Carter.
Carter ran for office promising an administration “that’s turned away
from scandal and corruption and official cynicism and is once again as
decent and competent as our people.” That was a lie.
That “new morality” turned out to be a corrupt triangle between Billy Carter, Jimmy’s version of ‘Hunter’, a drunk who peddled foreign influence and mismanaged the family business, only to be bailed out by
the National Bank of Georgia, whose president Bert Lance, was a Carter appointee, adviser and head of the Office of Management and the Budget.
Lance was forced to resign and was indicted on charges of bank fraud in
a trial that required testimony from Carter’s mother and involved
accusations of improper loans to family members.
Peanuts from the Carter warehouse were being used as collateral for
loans from the bank complete with forged documents allowing the family
business to sell the ‘collateral’ and a special counsel was appointed to investigate whether the dirty money found its way into the Carter
campaign funds. The media argued that the actions of his brother and OMB director had nothing to do with Jimmy Carter. Even when Carter expressed
his support and pride for Lance.
When Billy Carter shilled for Libya, the media also claimed it had
nothing to do with his brother. And then Jimmy left office and began
shilling for so many dictators that the full list would run for pages.
Over the course of his long retirement, Jimmy Carter not only met with
Gaddafi, who had paid his brother $220,000, but with Zimbabwe’s Mugabe,
Kim Il Sung of North Korea, Venezuela’s Maduro and Hugo Chavez, Syria’s Assad and Fidel Castro in Cuba.
And Carter not only met with them, he loved them and covered up for
them. He claimed that he “never doubted Hugo Chávez’s commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen” and on
Castro’s death remembered “fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his
love of his country.” The more people Jimmy’s tyrants killed, the harder
he hugged them.
Jimmy Carter loved terrorists and so he not only embraced Arafat, but
also Hamas.
In April 2008, Jimmy Carter met with Hamas and claimed that the Islamic terrorists wanted to live in peace with Israel. The next month, as a
peaceful gesture Hamas fired a rocket at an Israeli shopping mall,
wounding 90 including a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.
But the more tyrants and terrorists Jimmy Carter met with, the more he
built up his reputation as a good man just trying to fix the world. But
Carter wasn’t fixing the world by empowering some of the worst mass
murderers in the world, he was continuing to break it and make it worse.
Carter met with mass murderers responsible for starving half a million
people to death and then with terrorists aspiring to take over countries
like Israel not because he wanted to stop the violence, but because he
wanted to dial it up further by providing them with legitimacy.
Jimmy’s ‘Carter Center’ claimed to monitor foreign elections while sanctioning corrupt leftist takeovers like the one in Venezuela which
led to protests, starvation and mass migration to America. His
activities on behalf of enemies like Saddam Hussein and North Korea went
well beyond lobbying or even violations of the Logan Act and into a
territory of outright treason.
That included contacting world leaders and urging them to oppose the
United States and making announcements in America’s name at meetings
with foreign leaders. A normal D.C. lobbyist would have gone to prison
for half the things that Carter did. And no one except a former
president wearing the media mantle of sainthood could have gotten away
with it.
Why did Carter go to such trouble for Saddam Hussein and North Korea?
Why did he go on a fundraising mission for the Islamic terrorists of the
PLO? While Carter claimed to be a peacenik, tens of millions of dollars
were pouring into the Carter Center including from foreign governments.
Long before the Clinton Foundation, Jimmy Carter had built a massive
foreign influence machine under the guise of a humanitarian operation
that “came to him in a dream.”
Even Habitat for Humanity, a key element in the rebranding of Carter as
a humanitarian, couldn’t escape the sleaze when he led efforts to cover
up sexual harassment at the organization.
It wasn’t the first time that Carter let out the lust in his heart and protected sexual abusers.
Biden’s mass commutations for murderers and rapists shocked a nation,
but before him Carter had pardoned Peter Yarrow, of the group, Peter,
Paul & Mary, for sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
Jimmy Carter had covered for tyrants and terrorists who had murdered
entire populations. Compared to that, what was the worth of the life and innocence of a single teenage girl?
The worst thing about Carter was the way he had of converting his crimes
into virtues. Unrepentant until the day of his long-delayed death,
Carter and his defenders always claimed that everything he did only came
about because he was too trusting and forgiving.
Any other man with that the same political and family corruption, the
cronies and associates who ripped off businesses and the country, the
parade of terrorists and dictators, would have been denounced, but Jimmy
Carter beatifically smiled, acting as if his ties to sinners made him
that much more of a saint, and that embracing evil was evidence of his
moral superiority.
The worse Jimmy’s monsters were, the more he acted like he was saving
their souls.
Joe Biden could only dream of wearing that same fake religiosity that
Jimmy wore through the White House and to Havana, Pyongyang and Caracas,
or of a post-presidency redeeming himself by courting the world’s
monsters. Biden may have been the second coming of Carter, but the stars aligned so that the first coming concluded weeks before the second
coming was done
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