Even with former President Jimmy Carter’s passing over the weekend, Monday’s CBS Mornings still wanted their dose of President-elect Trump. So, while liberal co-host Tony Dokoupil was speaking with anti-Trump presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, the former teed up the latter to recount how Carter had supposedly “guilted” Trump into making a gift to the Carter Center, much to the amusement of all the liberals on set. But there didn’t seem to be any evidence that Trump had written them a check.
“Well, he wasn’t afraid of criticizing the former presidents, right? He didn’t think George H.W. Bush should have gone into Iraq, he thought Obama was wrong on surveillance issues, I mean, you name it,” Dokoupil said. To which Brinkley noted that Carter was “not part of that presidents’ club in those ways.”
Brinkley then recalled a conversation…
