National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke is out with a must-read exposé on Rebekah Jones, the fired data scientist and alleged felon in Florida who continues to claim that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been hiding the true death toll from COVID-19 in the state:
BREAKING: Charles Cooke has written the definitive exposé about fired geographer and alleged felon Rebekah Jones, who is a public figure, but is not a whistleblower.
Read it, quote it, and share it.https://t.co/2swQxXwNvw
— "Max Nardou" (@MaxNordau) May 13, 2021
Do read the entire thing, but Cooke broke it down in this brutal thread on the “fabulist who has been dismissed and charged with crimes almost everywhere she has gone”:
Why is Twitter absolutely full of people in states with high COVID death rates obsessing over Florida, which has a below average rate? Because of one person: Her name is Rebekah Jones, and she’s an extremely effective conspiracy theorist: https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Rebekah Jones is the reason you’ve been told by the terminally gullible that Florida is “fudging” its COVID numbers. The problem? The story isn’t true. She’s a fabulist who has been dismissed and charged with crimes almost everywhere she has gone. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Wherever Rebekah Jones goes, she seems to end up in disgrace, with criminal charges filed, and with the cops at the door. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3 pic.twitter.com/KJOmHQF52c
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
How detached from reality is Rebekah Jones? She accuses the well-respected African American chronic-disease epidemiologist who is currently serving as Florida’s deputy secretary of health of being a “murderer." https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
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There is something remarkable about Rebekah Jones's ability to cast herself as the victim even when she's being fired for having sex with a student in her classroom—which she admits—and then retaliating by putting explicit photos of him on her website. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3 pic.twitter.com/P3FKBL9b6b
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Rebekah Jones has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars (was nearly half a million by December, 2020, per Tampa Bay Times) through multiple GoFundMe accounts and paper checks, and has been promoted by Nikki Fried, Charlie Crist, Joy Reid—among others. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Jared Moskowitz, the progressive Democrat who has led Florida’s fight against COVID, tried to warn his party about Rebekah Jones. But it didn't listen. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Rebekah Jones is not an epidemiologist. She’s not a data analyst. She's not a whistleblower. She's a fabulist, who has an uncanny ability to convince online types that something dodgy happened in FL. It didn’t. If you believe her, you’re the mark. https://t.co/psWHIG84o3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 13, 2021
Now, let’s see how her enablers in the media respond to the article:
Essential reading on the charlatan @GeoRebekah. All of this has long been publicly available information. Hasn’t stopped her from being put on air by MSNBC personalities like @Lawrence, @KatyTurNBC, @AriMelber, and others. https://t.co/joB44pNex3
— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) May 13, 2021
As for Jones, she doubled down in a response to Jeb Bush who shared Cooke’s piece:
Rebekah Jones, the COVID Whistleblower Who Wasn’t https://t.co/noxx5B3TOo
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) May 13, 2021
Her response:
Thanks for the attention to this important issue, Mr. Bush! We've already covered and proven this over the last year, but we must really be digging into the GOP if they're finally recycling this old article from… a year ago.https://t.co/2Quko66FAS everyone!
— Rebekah Jones #Vaccinated (@GeoRebekah) May 13, 2021
Narrator: She did not prove this over a year ago.
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