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I remember how Jimmy Carter had to sell the family farm because it was viewed as a potential conflict of interest and how Mitt Romney's father, when making his run, when asked for a single year of tax returns made them all public, arguing that a single year could easily be manipulated to show anything, and that only by seeing the entirety of multiple years could an accurate evaluation be made.



>I remember how Jimmy Carter had to sell the family farm because it was viewed as a potential conflict of interest ...

Are you sure you remember that? Jimmy Carter put his farm in a blind trust, he didn't sell it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/24/fac...


Fair.

https://www.tastingtable.com/1204239/why-president-jimmy-car...

notes:

>Carter sold all his personal stocks, and he put his interest in Carter Warehouse and Carter Farms into a blind trust.




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