Jimmy Carter: Media tougher on Trump than any other president in memory
Jimmy Carter  the liberal 93-year-old former president  surprisingly sided with  President Trump  when  he  told The New York Times that the media have been too hostile on the current commander-in-chief.
“I think the media have been harder on  Trump  than any other president certainly that I’ve known about ” Carter told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.  The 39th president  served one term from 1977 to 1981.
Carter added that he thought the media “feel free to claim that  Trump  is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”
 The former president  also pushed back on accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election  saying: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes  or any votes.”  He  said  his  wife  Rosalynn  disagreed with  him   before he added  “We voted for [Bernie] Sanders” in the primary.
Carter also doesn’t believe the current president’s “America First” strategy is out of step with the larger world  spoiling international relations. “Well   he  might be escalating it but I think that precedes  Trump  ”  he  told the Times. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”
In September  Carter expressed optimism that  Trump  might break a legislative logjam with  his  six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800 000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.
Carter told Emory University students that the “pressures and the publicity that  Trump  has brought to the immigration issue” could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.
“I don’t see that as a hopeless cause ” Carter said. He added that  Trump ’s critics  including  himself   “have to give  him  credit when  he  does some things that are not as bad” as they are depicted.
Jimmy Carter  the liberal 93-year-old former president  surprisingly sided with [TGT]when  he  told The New York Times that the media have been too hostile on the current commander-in-chief.
“I think the media have been harder on [TGT]than any other president certainly that I’ve known about ” Carter told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.  The 39th president  served one term from 1977 to 1981.
Carter added that he thought the media “feel free to claim that  [TGT]is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”
 The former president  also pushed back on accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election  saying: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes  or any votes.”  He  said  his  wife  Rosalynn  disagreed with  him   before he added  “We voted for [Bernie] Sanders” in the primary.
Carter also doesn’t believe the current president’s “America First” strategy is out of step with the larger world  spoiling international relations. “Well   he  might be escalating it but I think that precedes  Trump  ”  he  told the Times. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”
In September  Carter expressed optimism that  [TGT]might break a legislative logjam with  [TGT]  six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800 000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.
Carter told Emory University students that the “pressures and the publicity that  [TGT]has brought to the immigration issue” could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.
“I don’t see that as a hopeless cause ” Carter said. He added that  Trump ’s critics  including  himself   “have to give  him  credit when  he  does some things that are not as bad” as they are depicted.