Conservatives are slamming President Biden for using former President Jimmy Carter’s death Sunday to take a jab at incoming President Donald Trump.
Biden, asked Sunday what his former Republican rival could learn from Carter’s presidency, replied, “Decency, decency, decency.
“Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking?” Biden said. “Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?”
The political remark did not sit well with conservatives, who ripped Biden, 82, for using the opportunity to attack instead of merely honoring Carter’s legacy — and for having the audacity to speak about “decency.”
“The unmitigated gall of the corrupt Biden lecturing Americans on decency off of Carter’s death,” radio host Jorge Bonilla wrote on X.
Another radio personality, Hugh Hewitt, also unloaded on Biden’s use of the word “decency.”
“Is it ‘decent’ to have deceived the American public for years about your condition and to do so via a complicit and complacent legacy media?” Hewitt said on the site, referring to the elderly president’s apparently ailing mental and physical faculties.
“The greatest cover-up in modern American political history, and the greatest media scandal as well, is still unacknowledged on the record by anyone around President Biden and by almost all legacy media figures. Their sunk costs are enormous but they won’t cut them loose and own the cover-up or the complicity,” Hewitt said.
Legal analyst Jonathan Turley pointed out that Carter, unlike Biden, did not pardon a family member embroiled in a corruption scandal. Biden infamously pardoned his son Hunter for a period of nearly 11 years after vowing not do so repeatedly on the campaign trail, while Carter did not pardon his brother Billy amid questions concerning a loan he took from Libya.
“Instead of showing Carter’s honesty, Biden lied for years and then pardoned his own son after repeatedly denying that he would ever do so during the campaign,” Turley wrote. “He pardoned his son for any crimes committed over a ten-year period, including potential crimes that many believe implicated the President himself in the multimillion influence-peddling operation.”
Carter, the 39th president, died Sunday at the age of 100. His death prompted those on both sides of the aisle, including Trump, to come forward praising his legacy and long life.
“Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social.
“The challenges Jimmy faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.”
The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post on Monday.
