Former President Jimmy Carter said Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election because of Russian interference, and is an “illegitimate” president. Carter made the remarks during a recent C-SPAN panel on human rights in Washington, DC. The nation’s 39th president also appeared with his former vice president, Walter Mondale, on the panel along with presidential historian and author Jon Meacham during the Friday morning broadcast.
Carter, 94, continues recovering recovering from a broken hip, and used a cane to walk on and off stage. Carter fell at his home in May in Plains, Georgia, while getting ready to go on a turkey hunt. Carter underwent successful surgery to repair the hip.
In March 2019, Carter became America’s oldest living ex-president in history, surpassing George H.W. Bush, who died last November. Prior to Bush, previous record holders were Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover and John Adams.
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Carter, who turned 94 last October 1, was elected in 1976 at the age of 52. He has been out of office for more than 38 years, losing a reelection bid in a landslide loss to Reagan in 1980. He has since become one of the most active ex-presidents in U.S. history, founding The Carter Center, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, and continuing to participate in frequent Habitat for Humanity homebuilding efforts.
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Carter served as governor of Georgia before he launched his 1976 White House bid, a campaign that propelled the little-known peanut farmer to the nation’s highest office and unseating then-President Gerald Ford in a huge political upset.
Carter’s remarks were published the day after the second of two debates among the 20 Democrats seeking to unseat Trump next year. Also on Friday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms endorsed Joe Biden, who served for eight years as vice president during the Barack Obama administration.