Indiana woman federally charged after posting assassination threats against Trump

Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, posted on Aug 6: “I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney…”

She admitted it to the Secret Service, said she had a blade, and even traveled to D.C. claiming she’d “carry out her mission of killing him.”

Court filings show she repeatedly called Trump a “terrorist” and a “nazi,” blaming him for COVID deaths and saying she wanted to “avenge the lives lost.”

Jones faces up to 10 years in prison on two federal counts.

Jones was tracked down in the District of Columbia the following day and confirmed her previous statements but said she no longer wanted to harm the president, records show.

“Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said in a news release. “Make no mistake — justice will be served.”

Trump has faced multiple assassination threats, and he survived a shooting during a campaign rally in July 2024 when a bullet grazed his ear.

The Hill’s sister station NewsNation interviewed Jones during a protest in D.C. before her arrest Saturday. She told the station that she believed Trump’s policies cost lives by undermining vaccines and health care needs of the vulnerable.

“This regime has to go, the whole administration,” she said.

She also addressed Trump’s recent federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of D.C.’s National Guard to address crime.

“You do not deploy the military against the American people,” Jones told NewsNation. “We will not be suppressed. We will not exist in this authoritarian regime. We will not accept fascism.”