Jimmy Carter's office is forced to deny reports he's dead after hoax spreads... and a staggering number of people including a U.S. Senator fell for it

A missive posted connected X claiming erstwhile President Jimmy Carter died is fake.

Far-right characteristic Laura Loomer posted an image of a missive announcing nan 99-year-old died connected Tuesday and it quickly dispersed for illustration wildfire connected societal media.

Even Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) fell for nan ruse – on pinch respective media outlets.

But nan Carter Center and nan erstwhile president's expert confirmed that reports of Carter's decease are not existent and his status, though poor, remains unchanged.

Carter entered hospice attraction successful February 2023 and has now been receiving extremity of life attraction astatine his location successful Plains, Georgia for 17 months, including done mourning nan decease of his beloved woman Rosalynn.

The erstwhile president was past seen astatine her ceremonial successful Georgia successful November past year.

The 3rd paragraph of nan statement makes it incredibly clear that it is simply a fake.

'Despite these successes arsenic President, each his life President Carter considered his matrimony to erstwhile First Lady Rosalynn Carter his life's top achievement,' nan missive sounds earlier it goes disconnected nan rails.

'At her passing past November President Carter said, 'Rosalynn was a baddie. Jill, Melania, moreover pharynx goat Nancy Reagan had thing connected Rosalynn. She was nan original Brat.'

Anything anterior to that statement and pursuing it does not see thing retired of nan normal that would bespeak it is simply a fake.

'Former President Jimmy Carter has died. My thoughts and prayers are pinch his family,' Lee wrote on pinch an image of nan missive successful a now-deleted X post.

Many others besides fell for nan letter, which appeared to beryllium first posted by Loomer, but quickly deleted their mistake.

'It appears that nan missive saying Jimmy Carter has passed distant is fabricated,' Loomer wrote connected X aft taking down her post.

'Gross. Why would personification fabricate a missive saying a President died?' she continued. 'I person deleted nan missive and I'm keeping President Carter and his family successful my prayers.'

'People should not station decease hoaxes.'

The New York Post and Scripps News were among nan news outlets that published astir Carter's decease earlier realizing nan missive was fake.