{"id":537154,"date":"2021-05-22T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537154"},"modified":"2021-05-22T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:35:52","slug":"rebekah-jones-florida-whistleblower-claims-she-never-said-she-was-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-she-claimed-that-specifically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rebekah-jones-florida-whistleblower-claims-she-never-said-she-was-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-she-claimed-that-specifically\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebekah Jones, Florida \u2018Whistleblower,\u2019 Claims She Never Said She Was Asked To Delete COVID Deaths. She Claimed That Specifically."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frebekah-jones-florida-whistleblower-claims-she-never-said-she-was-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-she-claimed-that-specifically%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1214137814.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rebekah Jones, the woman the media portrayed as a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d and a martyr for allegedly exposing Florida\u2019s fudging of COVID data, has admitted she was never asked to delete death data. She also claimed she never made such an accusation, but the receipts say otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Following National Review editor Charles C. W. Cooke\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/05\/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt\/\">expos\u00e9<\/a> last week on Jones\u2019 fraud, the woman at the center of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-wanted-to-believe-florida-was-fudging-covid-19-data-but-the-story-is-a-fraud\">alleged scandal<\/a> in Florida defended herself in a lengthy screed and then responded when Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson featured her fraudulent claims on this nightly program. Carlson said on his show that Jones \u201cclaims she was instructed to delete data on COVID deaths.\u201d Jones on Twitter claimed: \u201cDeleting deaths was never something I was asked to do. I\u2019ve never claimed it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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: \u201cThe woman who told me to delete cases and deaths is now blaming DOCTORS for the death backlog. She\u2019s the most corrupt, lying, incompetent and ignorant person that could be [sic] ever be put in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones was referring to Florida\u2019s Deputy Secretary of Health Dr. Shamarial Roberson. As Cooke wrote, the claim that Roberson told Jones \u201cto delete cases and deaths\u201d is \u201cat the heart of her case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat she now insists that she never made it is extraordinary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rebekah-jones-change-numbers.jpg\">also claimed<\/a> Roberson asked her \u201cto change numbers and delete records to present a rosier picture of Florida\u2019s pandemic than reality.\u201d Several months later, she again claimed that Roberson asked her \u201cto go into the raw data and manually alter figures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in her lengthy response to Cooke\u2019s original article, Jones admitted she didn\u2019t even have the ability to do what she claimed she had been told to do. As Cooke wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18.646840148699\">\n<p><em>As part of the 10,000 word screed Jones wrote after my piece was published, she linked to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rebekah-jones-code.png\">snippet of code<\/a>&nbsp;that shows clearly that her dashboard did not interact directly with the state\u2019s database, but instead utilized Excel files that other people at the Florida Department of Health had put on a network drive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or, put another way: Jones confirmed this week that she has been lying about the role she played in the department. And, once she\u2019d done that, there was nothing that she could do except to back off her main claim. No direct access to the database means no ability to delete data from the database. No ability to delete data from the database means no claim that she was asked to delete data from the database. No claim that she was asked to delete data from the database means no scandal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect the media, who happily repeated Jones\u2019 evolving claims, to report this new information.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebekah Jones, the woman the media portrayed as a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d and a martyr for allegedly exposing Florida\u2019s fudging of COVID data, has admitted she was never asked to delete death &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312687,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1214137814.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Rebekah Jones, Florida \u2018Whistleblower,\u2019 Claims She Never Said She Was Asked To Delete COVID Deaths. 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