WASHINGTON: A 50-year-old Indiana woman, Natalie Rose Jones, has been arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap and kill U.S. President Donald Trump on social media. The arrest was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
According to court documents, the U.S. Secret Service began investigating Jones after discovering a series of threatening posts on her social media accounts between August 6 and August 15. In one post, Jones allegedly wrote that she was “willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him.”
When interviewed by the Secret Service on August 15, Jones reportedly referred to the President as a “terrorist” and a “Nazi” and stated that her motive was to “avenge all the lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic,” which she blamed on the administration. She claimed to have a “bladed object” for her mission.
Jones was arrested on August 16 after she attended a protest near the White House and was interviewed a second time. Although she denied any current intention to harm the President, she confirmed she had posted the threatening messages. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Secret Service have both emphasized that threats against the President are taken with the utmost seriousness and will be met with swift prosecution.
