Mike Lee falls for fake news about former president’s death

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee was fast to supply his condolences to the household of Jimmy Carter on the passing of the previous president on Tuesday.

Too fast, it seems. Carter, 99, isn’t useless.

Lee fell for a hoax information launch posted to X from the “Workplace of Jimmy Carter.”

The faux announcement contained some specific language when referring to Carter’s late spouse, Roslyn. It included a fabricated quote from the previous president supposedly calling her a “baddie” and the “authentic Brat” — slang phrases for a lady who will get her manner — and evaluating her sexual talents to these of the late first woman Nancy Reagan.

The senior senator from Utah seems to haven’t learn that a part of the assertion when he posted on X from his private @BasedMikeLee account that, “Former President Jimmy Carter has died. My ideas and prayers are together with his household.”

Lee deleted the submit a short while later. His workplace didn’t reply when requested concerning the senator’s goof.

The hoax launch concluded with a bogus assertion from Carter’s son, Chip, saying that the previous president shall be missed “not solely by his household however by the American folks and our enemies world wide who thrive as we speak due to his peace-through-weakness agenda.”

The Carter Heart confirmed to tv station Atlanta Information First that the previous president is, in truth, alive. He’s in hospice care in Georgia and can flip 100 on Oct. 1.