The sad news about Jimmy Carter, former US President.

Former US president Jimmy Carter discontinued medical treatment and entered hospice care. The 98-year-old would be transferred to a hospice after “a succession of brief hospital stays,” according to a statement released by the Carter Center.

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“Former US President Jimmy Carter chose to spend his final days at home with his family today and accept hospice care rather than additional medical treatment,” the statement said.

“He has the full support of his family and medical personnel,” it said. The Carter family wants privacy at this time and appreciates the concerns of his many followers.

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President Carter reigned over the country for four years, from 1977 to 1981. He launched the Carter Center in 1982, helping many humanitarian endeavors.

President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in co-founding the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which supports worldwide disease prevention and eradication initiatives, election monitoring, and peace talks.

 

In 1994, he went to North Korea on the peace mission of then-President Bill Clinton. In 2007, he proclaimed his membership in The Elders, a group of independent international leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan, who collaborate on peace and human rights issues.

When President George H.W. Bush died in 2019 at 94, he became the president who had lived the longest.

President Carter was diagnosed with metastatic cancer in 2015, although he did not specify where cancer began.

Later that year, he reported that melanoma had been diagnosed in his brain and liver and that he had begun treatment with radiation therapy and an immunotherapy drug. In December 2015, he stated that his cancer testing had returned hostile.

 

The lawmaker fell several times in 2019 and later needed surgery in the hospital to relieve pressure on his brain caused by the fall’s hemorrhage.

Throughout the forty years since leaving office, he has written 30 novels, the most recently published only five years ago.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Jimmy continued to teach Sunday school in Plains, Georgia. He would spend a week each year with his wife Rosalynn, whom he married in 1946, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

Jimmy and Rosalynn have three sons, Jack, James III, and Donnel, and one daughter, Amy. They also have 13 great-grandchildren and 12 grandchildren.

 

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Trump says ‘Jimmy Carter is happy now,’ thanks to Biden

 

 

Former President Trump mocked former President Carter on Monday during his Iowa caucus victory speech, appearing to take a dig at Carter in the wake of his wife’s death.

“My wife attended the funeral two months ago of Rosalynn Carter. And it was beautiful. Jimmy Carter was there,” Trump said. “I thought to myself, Jimmy Carter is happy now, because he will go down as a brilliant president by comparison to Joe Biden.”

Trump has shared the sentiment before, first using Carter to dig at President Biden in November and referencing Rosalynn Carter on Sunday.

Carter, 99 years old and in hospice care, lost his wife Rosalynn in November. Her funeral was attended by every living former first lady, as well as former President Clinton.

 

Democratic advocacy organization American Bridge 21st Century denounced the Trump comments as “cruel” Tuesday.

“Donald Trump has operated the same way his entire four decades in public life,” spokesman Brandon Weathersby said in a statement. “He doesn’t care who he insults, disrespects, or offends as long as he gets his way in the end. Nothing is sacred or off-limits for Trump, not the dead, not American icons, not even some of our most decorated veterans or the memories of our war heroes.”

“This is the person to whom the Republican Party just handed the first state in its primary process and who, barring an act of God, will be their next nominee for president,” he added.