Rebekah Jones, Florida ‘Whistleblower,’ Claims She Never Said She Was Asked To Delete COVID Deaths. She Claimed That Specifically.
Following National Review editor Charles C. W. Cooke’s exposé last week on Jones’ fraud, the woman at the center of the alleged scandal in Florida defended herself in a lengthy screed and then responded when Fox News’ Tucker Carlson featured her fraudulent claims on this nightly program. Carlson said on his show that Jones “claims she was instructed to delete data on COVID deaths.” Jones on Twitter claimed: “Deleting deaths was never something I was asked to do. I’ve never claimed it was.”Except, as Cooke noted, Jones claimed that specifically. In a deleted tweet from Christmas Eve 2020, Jones linked to a Sun Sentinel article claiming Florida has a delayed death reporting process. Jones commented on the article: “The woman who told me to delete cases and deaths is now blaming DOCTORS for the death backlog. She’s the most corrupt, lying, incompetent and ignorant person that could be [sic] ever be put in charge.”
Jones was referring to Florida’s Deputy Secretary of Health Dr. Shamarial Roberson. As Cooke wrote, the claim that Roberson told Jones “to delete cases and deaths” is “at the heart of her case.”
“That she now insists that she never made it is extraordinary,” he added.
