An Indiana woman has been arrested after threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday,\u00a0U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Nathalie Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHi everyone, it\u2019s Judge Jeanine. I just wanted to let you know here from the United States Attorney\u2019s Office in D.C. that an individual by the name of\u00a0Nathalie Rose Jones\u00a0is now in custody, charged with two federal crimes for knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the President of the United States,\u201d\u00a0Pirro\u00a0said in a clip she released on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe did come from New York to Washington, D.C. and she has been threatening and calling for the removal of the president and even worse as she got to D.C. Her threats were on Facebook and Instagram and she continued to call the president a terrorist and was working to have him eliminated. She is now in custody. She will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Make no mistake about that,\u201d Pirro said with a hint of a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOn Facebook between August 6 and August 15, \u201cNath.Jones\u201d allegedly continued to post threatening comments about President Trump. In an August 6 post directed at the FBI, Nath.Jones wrote that \u201cI am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 14, in a post directed to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Nath Jones allegedly wrote \u201cplease arrange the arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump as a terrorist on the American People from 10-2pm at the White House on Saturday, August 16th<\/sup>, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 15, the U.S. Secret Service conducted a voluntary interview with Jones, during which she stated the President was a \u201cterrorist\u201d and a \u201cnazi,\u201d that if she had the opportunity, she would take the President\u2019s life and would kill him at \u201cthe compound\u201d if she had to, that she had a \u201cbladed object,\u201d which she said was the weapon she would use to \u201ccarry out her mission of killing\u201d the president, and that she wanted to \u201cavenge all the lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d which she atrributed to President Trump\u2019s administration and its position on vaccinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 16, Jones joined a protest demonstration that started at Dupont Circle, and circumnavigated the White House complex. Following the march, the U.S. Secret Service interviewed Jones for a second time, during which she admitted that she had made threats towards President Trump during her interview the previous day. She denied having any present desire to harm the President of the United States. Law enforcement arrested her and she confirmed that she was the owner of the Facebook user account \u201cNath Jones\u201d and that she had posted the threatening statements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Pirro, who was best known in recent years for her hot takes on The Five<\/em>, is now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Her office also put out a statement on the arrest, which read, \u201cNathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday, August 16, and charged in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJones was charged in a complaint in U.S. District Court with threatening to take the life of, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, and transmitting in interstate commerce communications containing threats to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another,\u201d added the statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n