Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday that he considers the current president, Donald Trump, to be illegitimate, and that a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t win the 2016 election.
Speaking at a Carter Center conference on human rights, the 39th president was asked directly if he thought Trump was an illegitimate president. Carter replied:
“Based on what I said, which I can’t retract.”
The former president, who served from 1977 to 1981, added:
“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
NEW: Former president Jimmy Carter says a full investigation “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016….He was put into office because the Russians interfered.” Does that mean he’s an illegitimate president? “Based on what I said, which I can’t retract.” pic.twitter.com/Y3UFUBIIDy
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) June 28, 2019
President Carter also slammed Trump for separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in internment camps saying, “Every day we send a terrible signal” with our border policy, which he called, “A disgrace to the United States, and I hope it will soon be ended. Maybe not until the 2020 election.”
At @CarterCenter conference on human rights moderated by historian Jon Meacham, former president Jimmy Carter says “every day we send a terrible signal” with border policy, “a disgrace to the United States, and I hope it will soon be ended. Maybe not until the 2020 election.”
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) June 28, 2019
At the same Carter Center conference, former Vice President Walter Mondale was also asked about his thoughts on Trump. He told historian Jon Meacham:
“He’s got something deep in him that is detestable. His rhetoric, his harshness, his divisiveness. Doctors tell me they think they recognize symptoms of psychological problems.”
Former Vice President Walter Mondale on President Trump: “He’s got something deep in him that is detestable.” Cites “his rhetoric, his harshness, his divisiveness,” then adds: “Doctors tell me they think they recognize symptoms of psychological problems.” At @CarterCenter panel
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) June 28, 2019
Trump is in Osaka, Japan, for the annual G20 summit, and has not yet responded to President Carter’s remarks, though it seems likely we can expect a tweet or two later today.
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