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Jimmy Carter at 99 without a single scandal to his name and Donald Trump at 78 with multiplicity of scandals galore, two Impeachments back to back, four or five criminal indictments back to back and a 91 count charge hanging over his neck like an Albatross.
The outlaw is still running his mouth telling his delusional supporters that the development is nothing more than a witch-hunt and some political interference and stunt to stop him from running for President again as the innevitable nominee of a major political party.
He also says much to his own Derision that the development is all designed to impact the 2024 Elections. I can tell you that his whole purpose of declaring to run two years earlier than mandated by the constitution is totally different from that of Jimmy Carter who knew that the American Presidentialal Race which needs a lot of preparation and practice and trial balloons to guarantee success.
But Donald Trump is running out of guilty conscience and to preempt his going to jail by looking for excuses to delay his indictment and trials for breaking the law as a repeat offender who knows no other way to do business than to cheat and to manipulate business records to make money and to avoid paying taxes like he has done for years without getting caught.
With New York State Attorney Letitia James, he knows his days are numbered and he is looking for excuses and loopholes to escape Justice.
The stuff we are witnessing today in the greatest country on Earth is something that could easily have been attributed to a third world country and to their leaders and hoodlums like Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada of Uganda who once gloated like Donald Trump that he had a good brain and would teach Uganda’s British Colonial Masters a lesson they would not forget in a hurry.
Bombastic General Idi Amin spoke pretty much like Donald Trump when Trump boasted that he would end the Ukrainian War in a few Hours and that the Covid Epidemic was a mere irritant that would go away on its own.
Donald Trump started singing a different tune when the Pandemic nearly took his own life and when the Pandemic killed more than a million Americans while causing America trillions of Dollars to subdue and to overcome.
Donald Trump had graduated from Wharton College of Business in Pennsylvania before
being enrolled in the Military by his father but he quickly dropped out of the Military to avoid been drafted to fight in Vietnam.
Jimmy Carter on the other hand had studied at Emory or Atlanta Polytechnic before being enrolled in the US Navy as a Ph.D holder Nuclear Physicist to serve in the submarine unit of the Navy before retiring to go into Politics from his self-chosen Occupation as a very successful Peanut farmer.
Jimmy Carter a sitting President for one term, had lost to newcomer cowboy Ronald Reagan in 1980 in large part due to his unfortunate mishandling of the American Hostages situation in Teheran in Iran where two American Helicopters had malfunctioned or collided killing few American soldiers and pilots and making Jimmy Carter look like a weakling even though the President had still managed to negotiate the hostages’ release or freedom before leaving office but it was Republican Ronald Reagan who exploited the tragedy to his own advantage and benefit.
He took all the credit for the
Release of the hostages hence Jimmy Carter was viewed as weak and that development had worked against him in the elections.
The huge difference between Trump and Carter was that Jimmy Carter had honorably admitted he lost to Reagan by 1 State to 49 and he quickly conceded defeat and was physically present on the Inauguration Day to formally hand over to Ronald Reagan before taking his last flight as President in the Air Force One back to his home in Plains, Georgia in total deference to the stipulations of the American Constitution.
Donald Trump who lost by close to 8 million votes to Joe Biden in 2020, was a Polar opposite of Jimmy Carter in that context.
Even though Donald Trump had lost to Biden and was told by all of his top aides, he still refused to concede defeat to Biden.
Rather than do that he falsely declared that his victory had been stolen away from him and he sponsored a Coup to steal the election away from the rightful winner, Joe Biden.
America is in a total mess today all because Donald Trump has been the Polar opposite of Jimmy Carter who has now become the oldest former President and one of the most respected former Presidents in the History of the United States who had great respect for the Constitution and for Democracy unlike Trump.
Donald Trump is 3 times divorced unlike Jimmy Carter whose marriage to Roseline Carter has become the most stable in the History of the American Presidency.
The life and the tenure of Jimmy Carter and that of Donald Trump could not have been more different.
Carter is a gentle man till now while Donald Trump is a Mafia Boss who talks and acts like one threatening anybody that crosses his path.
He recently and openly castigated General Mark Milley saying he deserves to be Courtmatialled and executed for Treason for refusing to obey his orders to use the Military to overturn the Election and to falsely declare him the winner.
Jimmy Carter, a disciplined Naval Officer would never have made such a statement under any circumstance, trust me.
We have never in America witnessed a former President who was criminally indicted like Donald Trump.
America is entirely on an uncharted waters right now because America has committed a big blunder in electing Donald Trump in 2016 to 2020 thru the Abracadabra of the Electoral College absurdity which trashes the Popular Vote only to glorify the Electoral College of only 570 handpicked electors as far superior to the verdict of the 137 million Americans who had voted in that 2016 by giving 62 million to Donald Trump and 65 million to Hillary Clinton who would have become the first female President of America if the outcome of the election was determined based on one-man-one-vote which is the foundation pillar of Democracy all over the World.
It’s like Jimmy Carter is the Saint while Donald Trump is Devil Incarnate who terrorizes the people and does what he likes, as if he owns the whole country.
Democracy would long have ceased to exist in America, if all of the 46 American Presidents so far elected have exhibited the same mindset as Donald Trump and his supporters who more often than not resort to violence as a way to resolve any disagreement.
Donald Trump Is asking his supporters to prepare for War like he had done on January 6, 2021 when he urged all of his supporters to march on the Capitol to take it over by force and by fire
We would not be having the conversation we are having today, if Michael Pence had done what Donald Trump had ordered and what he had clearly wanted.
Dr. Prince Wumi Akintide writes from Oyemekun Terrace New York City
