Nurse’s social media comments about White House press secretary continues to draw criticism
By Angela Rozier
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida (WPBF) — A former labor-and-delivery nurse from Boca Raton is facing backlash for making offensive comments on social media about White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, prompting Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to call for the revocation of her nursing license.
When you have nurses, health care officials that are threatening the livelihood, threatening moms going through delivery, the toughest of times for partisan political reasons, that is wrong. These people should not have a license,” Uthmeier said.
The nurse posted on her TikTok page last week, expressing a wish for Leavitt to experience a severe childbirth complication after Leavitt announced her pregnancy with her second child. In her post, she said, “As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a 4th degree tear,” referring to the most severe type of tear during childbirth.
In a new 15-second social media post, the nurse said, “So they just murdered a man in Minnesota — they murdered a man in Minnesota and you ‘expletive’ — are coming after me because I used bad language.” She concluded the video by asserting she was on the “right side” and ended with an expletive.
Uthmeier took to his personal X account, stating, “The Florida Board of Nursing should yank this vile person’s license immediately. She doesn’t belong anywhere near patients.”
The nurse was previously employed at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, which confirmed last Friday that she is no longer employed there. The hospital has not identified her, and her name has not been released.
“If you’re going to make threats saying because somebody is a Republican, you know, I hope they get injured severely during childbirth, that’s unacceptable. That person should not be a health care provider,” Uthmeier said.
Attempts to reach the nurse for further comment were met with a response of “Sorry, no comment.”
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