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Fox News’ Will Cain Says Biden Has No ‘Standing’ To Claim Trump Lacks Jimmy Carter’s ‘Decency’

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Fox News host Will Cain said Monday that President Joe Biden has no “standing” to publicly claim that President-elect Donald Trump lacks former President Jimmy Carter’s “decency.”

Carter passed away at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia, Sunday after spending over a year in hospice care, leading Biden to commemorate the former president’s “decency” in a statement responding to his death. After a reporter asked Biden what Trump could learn from Carter, Cain accused Biden on “Fox & Friends” of lauding Carter’s character as a “political tool” against the president-elect.

“On the note of Joe Biden, I’ll accept the message without accepting the messenger, meaning I accept that Jimmy Carter was an example of decency,” Cain said. “I don’t want to necessarily hear that from Joe Biden when he’s using it actually as a political tool to suggest that Donald Trump is indecent. That was in response to a question about Donald Trump and comparing the two when I believe Biden invoked decency. I don’t think Biden has the standing to testify to somebody’s decency quite honestly, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about Jimmy Carter, and Jimmy Carter [was] a decent man.”

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In his statement about Carter, Biden praised his “character, faith and humility” and stated that all Americans would succeed if they were “more like Jimmy Carter.” When the president received a question on whether Trump would benefit from Carter’s example, Biden said “everybody deserves a shot” at “decency.”

“Decency. Decency. Decency. Everybody deserves a shot. Everybody,” Biden said. “”Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone that needs something and he just keeps walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or [how] they talk? I can’t. I can’t.”

Trump stated in a Truth Social post Sunday that Carter should be owed “a debt of gratitude” for his work to “improve the lives of all Americans.”

“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,” Trump said. “For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude. Melania and I are thinking warmly of the Carter Family and their loved ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers.”

Carter served as the 39th president after defeating then-President Gerald Ford and remained in the Oval Office until 1981 following a blowout loss to former President Ronald Reagan. He also served as Georgia’s 76th governor from 1971 to 1975 as a member of the Democratic Party.

The late president suffered from several health complications, including cancer and a brain bleed, in the final years of his life. He entered hospice care in February 2023 after a series of hospital visits.