Radio Host Takes A Shot At Biden’s Dismal Record While Paying Tribute To Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter died last week at the age of 100, prompting a flurry of condolences and retrospectives from media and political figures far and wide.

For conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, such a statement came during a recent Fox News Channel appearance. Though Carter’s single term in the White House was generally considered to be a failure, Hewitt said he nevertheless died knowing that at least one of his successors did even worse.

As the Daily Caller reported:

“I’m not so sure that Joe Biden’s stab at a comment in the Virgin Islands, ‘decency, decent, decency,’ wasn’t aimed at Donald Trump rather than at the eulogizing of Jimmy Carter. In fact, it was indecent what he did with the 37 murderers whose sentences he commuted,” Hewitt said.

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“President Biden is not capable of discharging the office right now,” Hewitt added. “He ought to have resigned more than a year ago, as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month. I think what we are seeing is a man fairly desperate to do something that is a signature accomplishment.”

During his remarks regarding Carter’s passing, Biden said the former president had “character, faith and humility,” and said Americans would succeed if they were “more like Jimmy Carter.” Biden was then asked if Trump would benefit from Carter’s legacy, to which Biden said “everybody deserves a shot” at “decency.”

Hewitt said Carter died “knowing he hadn’t been the worst president of the post-war period.”

Biden’s seemingly disingenuous call for “decency” was widely pilloried by social media critics:

The unmitigated gall of the corrupt Biden lecturing Americans on decency off of Carter's death pic.twitter.com/B0kTiVfaFq

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 30, 2024

Maybe Joe Biden could learn something from Carter’s decency. Give me a break. pic.twitter.com/mabGRyxgYj

— reaction.gif 🇺🇸 (@TheReactionGif) December 30, 2024

Biden tells Trump he could learn decency from Jimmy Carter.
Meanwhile…👇😗 pic.twitter.com/kgjPbILwWe

— Epstein's Sheet. 🧻 (@meantweeting1) December 30, 2024

The New York Post covered the backlash against Biden’s remarks:

“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.

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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.”

Here’s what former Trump administration senior counselor Kellyanne Conway had to say about Biden’s remarks:

.@KellyannePolls on Biden Talking About ‘Decency’: Nobody Knows More About it than a Guy Who Pardoned His Own Son pic.twitter.com/WnPbgJot4m

— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) December 31, 2024