Trump Was More Gracious to Carter Than Jimmy Was to Him… Here’s Proof (Video)

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President Jimmy Carter, 100 years old, has now entered his rest. He had been in hospice care for a very long time, and yesterday, the public reacted to that announcement.

It is expected, when a former president passes, that others who bear that title do so with a certain dignity and respect… if not for the man and his policies, then at least for the office.

Not only are there fewer than 4 dozen Presidents in all of US history, but at any point in that history, only a few former office holders would remain alive… especially when you account for the fact that eight of those forty-some-odd died while in office.

But Trump is no ordinary President and with the bad policy decisions of Jimmy Carter being so often compared to those of Joe Biden, it remained to be seen whether Trump would take the high road, or whether he would use the occasion to troll his political opponents.

The DJT of 2016 would likely have gone for the trolling, using conflict as the heat to bring attention to his points. But he’s learned that getting stuff done in DC plays by some different rules than getting stuff done in a board room. The mechanisms are different, and so are the tactics.

Big bluster and bloody noses can sometimes come back to haunt you

— just look at the John McCain thumbs-down example. The lingering bad blood that followed any immediate satisfaction of the cheap shot may have been what cost him an important policy win.

The second-term Trump is already showing a more measured version of Trump. He still lets his inner troll off the leash (just ask Justin Trudeau), but he’s a little more conscious about when and where it might not be worth it.

This is the statement made on Trump’s social media when the news first broke.

And a follow-up an hour later, where even acknowledging his sharp policy differences allowed for a gracious memory of the life he lived.

Here are a few examples of criticism whose sharp tone Trump (surprisingly?) did not echo:

So with all the talk about Jimmy Carter being unusually decent and winsome, did that extend to his treatment of a political rival like Trump?

Judge for yourself:

When GOP voters made similar claims about the election just one year later, they were denounced, censored, and deplatformed as ‘election deniers’.

There is greater evidence that Zuckerberg illegally tampered with 2020 results than we have that Russia illegally tampered with 2016 in order to elect Trump. (HEY CNN: Putin Wanted Hillary To Win And Your Boy Brennan Knew It… Care To Comment?)

Calling someone a Russian stooge when all the evidence points to the contrary is called ‘bearing false witness’.

He may have taken the ‘high road’ in many instances in his life. But his public statements about Trump were NOT one of them.

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[H/T Conservative Firing Line]



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