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In a new interview withCBS News, Carter accused the president of being “careless with the truth.”
“I think it’s well-known that the incumbent president is very careless with the truth,” Carter said, adding: “I think I went through my campaign and my presidency without ever lying to the people or making a deliberately false statement, and I think that would be a very worthwhile thing to reinsert into politics these days.”
The nation’s 39th president, 93, has until recently been less vocal than other former commanders in chief about the goings-on in the White House.
Butin an interview withThe Washington Postpublished Aug. 17, Carterseared Trump’s policies and character.
“I think he’s a disaster … In human rights and in treating people equal,” the former president said before his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 91, jumped in. “The worst is that he is not telling the truth, and that just hurts everything,” she added.
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Carter has questioned Trump’s values before but never in such explicit terms. During aLate Showappearance in March, whenhost Stephen Colbertasked if “America [wants] kind of a jerk as president?” Carter quipped back, “Apparently, from this recent election year. I never knew it before.”
And when Colbert picked the former Democratic president’s brain about the one quality every president should have, Carter took a jab at Trump’s trustworthiness. “I used to think it was to tell the truth, but I’ve changed my mind lately,” he said.
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“If President Trump is successful in getting a peace treaty that’s acceptable to both sides with North Korea, I think he certainly ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize,”Carter told Politico in May.
Carter told CBS News that in spite of his criticisms, he still wants Trump to succeed.
“I’m not here to criticize the incumbent president, just wish him well and I pray for him,” he said.
source: people.com
