Republican Senator Spreads Vulgar Jimmy Carter Death Hoax And Hours Later Slams ‘MSM Fake News’
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Republican Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) shared a fake and very crude letter on Tuesday announcing the death of ex-President Jimmy Carter. Lee, after deleting his tweet, went on in a separate post hours later to blast the “fake news” mainstream media.
“Rosalynn was a baddie. Jill, Melania, even throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on Rosalynn,” read the letter shared by the Republican senator. “She was the original Brat. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it.”
Lee shared the letter with the caption, “Former President Jimmy Carter has died. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake noted this was the second misleading “news” shared by Lee in recent days. “Lee also recently circulated a baseless claim that Biden was having a medical emergency on Air Force One,” noted Blake of the senator.
Lee later went on to post, “This is why Donald Trump’s term for the MSM-“fake news”-caught on. It’s not that everything they say is fake, it’s that any objectivity they try to portray is itself fake.”
Lee was quickly roasted online, here are some reactions to the Republican’s post:
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) appears to have been duped by a fake letter announcing Jimmy Carter’s death.
The fake letter quoted the former president as calling his late wife a “baddie” and the “original Brat” who “throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on.” pic.twitter.com/Z0GYDCXwNy
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) July 23, 2024
an hour or so after being duped by this fake letter…Sen. Mike Lee rails against “fake news” https://t.co/DGb2rXupww pic.twitter.com/0o7MCNOXAy
— Chris D’Angelo (@c_m_dangelo) July 23, 2024
Mike Lee, like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson, just falls for anything on this website: any prank, any fake news, any nonsense. Pudding brains. https://t.co/g10qoqEjBr
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 23, 2024
When @clairecmc was the first Senator to embrace Twitter, I thought, as a young staffer: holy shit, that is is a bad idea.
But I was wrong about her in many ways. She was good at it.
Mike Lee’s misuse of Twitter is exactly what I had in mind about boss-led Twitter.
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) July 23, 2024
Senator Mike Lee falls for a death hoax. pic.twitter.com/HgGFWj5rBS
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 23, 2024
Lee also recently circulated a baseless claim that Biden was having a medical emergency on Air Force One. https://t.co/IxDkc59JXH
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 23, 2024
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