Jimmy Carter: Trump's comments are 'very stupid'
Carter: Trump a 'flash in the pan' 01:07
Washington (CNN)Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had made "some very stupid statements" about Mexican immigrants.
Carter,
a one-term Democratic president long maligned by Republicans, rejected
Trump's comments about the types of Mexican immigrants crossing the
border.
"I think he's made some very
stupid statements and I think ill-advised statements about immigrants,"
Carter, who once approached Trump for a donation to his presidential
library, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead." "He'll get a tiny little
part of the Republican Party support -- the ones that agree with him in
an extreme way -- but he's a flash in the pan."
Trump: I can't guarantee all my workers are legal 03:54
Trump has repeatedly stood by his remarks that many of these undocumented immigrants are "rapists" and "killers."
When
asked by CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday about a report that some of
the workers building a Trump hotel in Washington were undocumented,
Trump said he "can't guarantee" that all of them are here legally.
Carter, promoting his new autobiography, "A Full Life," also weighed in on Democratic presidential fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Carter voiced confidence that Clinton would win the nod.
"I
don't think there's much doubt that, in the long term, Hillary's still
the pre-eminent candidate for the Democratic nomination," Carter said.
"She and Bill together have made probably the most acutely aware and
knowledgeable and competent political team that we've ever seen."
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