Jimmy Carter: Handmaiden of the Deep State
After his presidency, Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 last year, built houses for the poor. That was a good thing. But he also spent considerable time violating the Logan Act, which forbids globe-trotting private citizens from acting as ad hoc diplomats. Carter was never charged with violating the 1799 statute, of course, but his machinations in the Middle East, notably in breaking bread with the Hamas terror outfit and sending a letter to Arab nations telling them not to join the 42-nation U.S. coalition to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait in 1990, were, arguably, treasonous.
“I don’t know why [President George H.W.] Bush was so mad; I sent him a copy of the letter in advance,” Carter said.
He apparently didn’t know why Americans were mad after four years of his disastrous presidency, and likely didn’t anticipate Ronald Reagan’s 44-state shellacking in 1980.
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