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The ex-president died as Biden, a fellow one-term president heads for the door and chaos agent Trump returns to powerEarly in Mike Bartlett’s 2022 stage play, The 47th, the funeral of former US president Jimmy Carter is held at Washington National Cathedral. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton are all in attendance. Donald Trump is not invited but turns up anyway – and late. “He’s here to pay his disrespects, and use / A funeral for self-promotion,” Kamala Harris observes.Life – or rather death – is about to imitate art as Washington prepares to bid farewell to Carter, who died at home in Georgia on Sunday at the age of 100. He was the longest-lived president in US history and the first Democratic president to die since Lyndon Johnson more than half a century ago. Continue reading…
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-death-trump-biden
Author : David Smith in Washington
Publish date : 2024-12-30 01:04:00
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Jimmy Carter’s death comes at a time when rancour and uncertainty prevail
