U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro Announces Arrest of Woman Accused of Threatening President Trump
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro — the former Fox News host now serving in the Department of Justice — announced Monday that a woman has been arrested and charged with threatening President Donald Trump.
“Hi everyone, it’s Judge Jeanine,” Pirro said in a social-media clip from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. “Nathalie Rose Jones is now in custody, charged with two federal crimes for knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the President of the United States.” Pirro said Jones traveled from New York to Washington, D.C., and posted escalating threats on Facebook and Instagram, calling for the president’s removal and urging violence. “She is now in custody and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Pirro said. “Make no mistake about that.”
A DOJ statement identified the defendant as 50-year-old Nathalie Rose Jones of Lafayette, Indiana. According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Jones is charged with threatening to kill or kidnap the President and transmitting interstate communications containing threats to injure or kidnap another person. “Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes,” Pirro’s statement added, praising the Secret Service agents from New York and Washington for their work on the case.
Court documents say the Secret Service first observed threatening posts by Instagram user “nath.jones” between August 2 and August 9. The posts described President Trump as a “terrorist,” called his administration a “dictatorship,” and blamed it for unnecessary COVID-19 deaths. Between August 6 and August 15, the same account allegedly posted threats on Facebook — including an August 6 message that told the FBI, “I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea.”
On August 14, an alleged post to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for an “arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump” at the White House on August 16. The next day the Secret Service conducted a voluntary interview with Jones, during which she reportedly repeated the threats and said she had a “bladed object” she intended to use. Jones later took part in a protest march that circled the White House on August 16; after a second interview in which she acknowledged the earlier threats, she was arrested. Law enforcement says Jones admitted ownership of the “Nath Jones” Facebook account and that she posted the threatening messages.
