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Jimmy Carter Still Alive Despite Fake Death Announcement

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Former US President Jimmy Carter, 99, has reportedly been in palliative care since February 2023 at his Plains home.

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ATLANTA, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter is alive despite a fake letter circulating online claiming he has died, the Carter Center confirmed to the media Tuesday.

Carter, 99, has reportedly been in palliative care since February 2023 at his Plains The family told Southern Living that the 39th U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner is “experiencing the world as best he can as he continues this process.”

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But it’s the news of Carter’s supposed death that has X users talking after a fake letter circulated on the social media platform.

“That’s false. There has been no announcement and no change,” the Carter Center told Channel 2 Action News.

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Fox 5 Atlanta shared a copy of the letter, noting that it appeared to have first appeared on investigative journalist Laura Loomer’s X account.

Loomer shared with X his discovery that the letter was indeed fake. The letter was dated Tuesday.

Carter is set to turn 100 on October 1. His late wife of 77 years, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, died on November 19 after suffering from dementia.

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“After 77 years of marriage … I don’t think any of us really understand what he’s feeling right now,” their grandson Jason Carter told Southern Living. “We have to accept that there are things in the mind that we just can’t understand.”

Rosalynn Carter was commemorated over a three-day period, which included a visit from President Joe Biden.

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At the time, Jason Carter told Southern Living that it was the Plains community that came to see the church procession at his funeral that stuck with him.

“That’s the part we’ll remember the most, because the connection to this town and this small community in rural Georgia is really the most important thing in their lives,” he told Southern Living.

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