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A letter posted on X claiming former President Jimmy Carter died is fake.
Far-right personality Laura Loomer posted an image of a letter announcing the 99-year-old died on Tuesday and it quickly spread like wildfire on social media.
Even Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) fell for the ruse – along with several media outlets.
But the Carter Center and the former president's doctor confirmed that reports of Carter's death are not true and his status, though poor, remains unchanged.
Carter entered hospice care in February 2023 and has now been receiving end of life care at his home in Plains, Georgia for 17 months, including through mourning the death of his beloved wife Rosalynn.
The former president was last seen at her funeral in Georgia in November last year.
Former President Jimmy Carter, 99, is not dead and remains in at-home hospice care after initiating end-of-life care in February 2023
The third paragraph of the note makes it incredibly clear that it is a fake.
'Despite these successes as President, all his life President Carter considered his marriage to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter his life's greatest achievement,' the letter reads before it goes off the rails.
'At her passing last November President Carter said, 'Rosalynn was a baddie. Jill, Melania, even throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on Rosalynn. She was the original Brat.'
Anything prior to that line and following it does not include anything out of the normal that would indicate it is a fake.
'Former President Jimmy Carter has died. My thoughts and prayers are with his family,' Lee wrote along with an image of the letter in a now-deleted X post.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was among those to fall for the letter spreading fake news of Carter's alleged death. The third paragraph, however, includes a line that makes it incredibly clear that the letter was a ruse
President Carter was last seen publicly in December 2023 at the funeral of wife Rosalynn Carter in hometown of Plains, Georgia
Many others also fell for the letter, which appeared to be first posted by Loomer, but quickly deleted their mistake.
'It appears that the letter saying Jimmy Carter has passed away is fabricated,' Loomer wrote on X after taking down her post.
'Gross. Why would someone fabricate a letter saying a President died?' she continued. 'I have deleted the letter and I'm keeping President Carter and his family in my prayers.'
'People should not post death hoaxes.'
The New York Post and Scripps News were among the news outlets that published about Carter's death before realizing the letter was fake.
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