A 50-year-old woman arrested for making social media posts threatening to kill President Donald Trump was released by a judge Wednesday and ordered to see a psychiatrist, court documents show.
Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old Indiana native, was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16 after allegedly issuing a series of threats on social media “in which she threatened to kill President Trump,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia said in a press release.
Court documents alleged the U.S. Secret Service found posts on Jones’ Instagram account calling for Trump’s removal, referring to the administration as a dictatorship, claiming Trump was a terrorist and stating Trump caused “extreme and unnecessary loss of life in relation to the coronavirus.”
On Aug. 6 she allegedly wrote a post directed at the FBI saying, “I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.”
On Aug. 15, the Secret Service conducted a voluntary interview with the 50-year-old in which she allegedly said if she had the opportunity to, she would “take the President’s life.” She also allegedly said she possessed a “bladed object” that she would use to “carry out her mission of killing” Trump.
During that interview she also referred to Trump as a “Nazi” and a “terrorist,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. (RELATED: Chief Justice Takes Aim At Politicians Who Use Heated Rhetoric, Raises ‘Threats Of Violence And Murder’ Against Judges)
In an interview the next day, she allegedly admitted to making threats targeted at Trump during the initial Secret Service interview but denied any “present desire to harm” the president. She was arrested that day after participating in a demonstration near the White House.
Court documents filed Wednesday and shared by the New York Post on Monday reveal Jones’ appeal of a detention order. Court documents signed by Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered that she be released no later than 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
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Jones was also ordered to get a GPS monitor and to drive directly to New York City where she was meant to meet with her psychiatrist before 5 p.m. on the day of her release. Jones is a New York City resident, according to the Post.
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury opted not to indict her based on evidence brought against her by the Justice Department prosecutors, the Associated Press reported, citing Jones’ attorney, Mary Manning Petras.
“Given that finding, the weight of the evidence is weak,” the attorney reportedly wrote in a court filing. “The government may intend to try again to obtain an indictment, but the evidence has not changed and no indictment is likely.”