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CNN commentator Scott Jennings, the token conservative among CNNÆs well- established leftist anchors and commentators, offered a different perspective on former President Jimmy CarterÆs legacy than the hagiographic perspectives given by his colleagues.

Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100.

ôLet me preface my take by offering condolences to the Carter family on his death. He was obviously one of the most unique post-presidencies weÆve ever
had because he lived so long and he did so much,ö Jennings began.

Then he segued into his assessment of the damage Carter had wrought during
his presidency and political life: ôThat having been said, he was a terrible president. ThatÆs why he lost in a landslide after his one term. And if itÆs possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in U.S. foreign policy, because of his saddling up to dictators around the
world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than
dabbling in anti-Semitism over the years.ö

Carter befriended dictators such as arch-terrorist PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Daniel Ortega. His anti-Semitism has been amply documented in a spate of reports.

In 2002, Jay Nordlinger noted in ôCarterpalooza!ö that ôNo one quite realizes just how passionately anti-Israel Carter is. William Safire has reported that (CarterÆs Secretary of State) Cyrus Vance acknowledged that, if he had had a second term, Carter would have sold Israel down the river.ö Nordlinger noted
of CarterÆs close friendship with Arafat, ôAt their first meeting ù in 1990 ù Carter boasted of his toughness toward Israel, assuring Arafat at one point,
æ. . . you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh
with the Israelis.Æö

Carter claimed Israel was an apartheid state; Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt wrote how Carter had ôrepeatedly fallen back à on traditional anti- Semitic canards.ö

ôHe often vexed Democrats. Obama didnÆt even have him speak at his Æ08 convention,ö Jennings continued. ôHe put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was a guy who had a
huge ego and believed that he was uniquely positioned to do all these things even after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership.ö

ôSo, I respect people who run for president and get elected president, but in his particular case, I think he, time and again proved, why he was never
suited for the office in the first place,ö Jennings stated, then added, ôIn
the run-up to the Persian Gulf War, he wrote letters to all of our allies and to Arab states asking them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with
the United States of America. If itÆs not treasonous, itÆs borderline treasonous.ö

My thoughts on Jimmy CarterÆs legacy last night on @cnn: terrible
president, soundly rejected by the American people. Even worse ex-
president, whose meddling in US foreign policy & virulent anti-
Israel/anti-Semitic views must not be forgotten. Undermined US
interests repeatedly. pic.twitter.com/kbBupU0K7O

ù Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 31, 2024

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Jimmy Carter: History's greatest monster

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