What US presidents are not criminals, lol?

[Jason76]

Well, Jimmy Carter has this "weak" thing going against him, but aside from that, a basically good man. Any others? When you look at the 20th century, I don't there are many.

 

[Page]

Or OLD

 

[Jason76]

Or OLD

Yeah, it's like young folks don't exist anymore, or even middle age.

 

[MrDawn]

Any others?

Trump is pretty bad. But Andrew Jackson was way way worse. The guy got his rocks off murdering Native Americans.

But Jackson is even worse than his horrifyingly brutal record with regard to Native Americans indicates. Indian removal was not just a crime against humanity, it was a crime against humanity intended to abet another crime against humanity: By clearing the Cherokee from the American South, Jackson hoped to open up more land for cultivation by slave plantations. He owned hundreds of slaves, and in 1835 worked with his postmaster general to censor anti-slavery mailings from northern abolitionists. The historian Daniel Walker Howe writes that Jackson, "expressed his loathing for the abolitionists vehemently, both in public and in private."
Jackson's small-government fetishism and crank monetary policy views stunted the attempts of better leaders like John Quincy Adams to invest in American infrastructure, and led to the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis that touched off a recession lasting seven years. If that weren't enough, he was a war criminal who suspended habeas corpus and executed prisoners for minor infractions during his time as a general in the War of 1812.
Andrew Jackson deserves a museum chronicling his crimes and dedicated to his victims, not commemoration on American currency.

Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. He deserves no place on our money.

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[Jason76]

Trump is pretty bad. But Andrew Jackson was way way worse. The guy got his rocks off murdering Native Americans.

Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. He deserves no place on our money.

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Well, they should have at least paid the Native Americans a fair sum. That's what WIlliam Penn did in Pennsylvania.