Borowitz - Jimmy Carter Deserved Better. So Do We.

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2. Carter at one point accused George Will of leaking his debate

briefing papers to the Reagan campaign. Will denied it and it was never proven, but seriously, who are you going to believe?

Here's the Wikipedia page about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debategate

And for people who didn't see it, Will did an editorial smear piece on Carter in the Washington Post yesterday, hours after he died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/29/george-will-jimmy-carter-ronald-reagan/

That's behind a paywall so if you can't see it, it might be for the better. At least the comments uniformly expressed disgust.

Back to Wikipedia, here is a bit of that entry:

In 2004 and again in 2005, Carter accused columnist George Will of giving the briefing book to the Reagan campaign.[14] In a 2005 syndicated column, Will called his role in Reagan's debate preparation "inappropriate", given his position as a columnist, but denied any role in stealing the briefing book. In his column, Will quoted from a letter he had written to Carter privately: "My cursory glance at it convinced me that it was a crashing bore and next to useless—for you [Carter], or for anyone else".[15] In response to Will's column, Carter wrote a letter to The Washington Post retracting his accusations. Carter apologized to Will for "any incorrect statement that I have ever made about his role in the use of my briefing book.... I have never thought Mr. Will took my book, that the outcome of the debate was damaging to my campaign or that Mr. Will apologized to me".[16

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