(WXIN/WTTV): Federal authorities have arrested an Indiana woman who allegedly threatened to kill President Donald Trump.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 50-year-old Nathalie Jones of Lafayette was arrested on Saturday on allegations that she threatened to kidnap and take the life of the president on social media.
The release said she was charged 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.”
According to court documents, investigators and members of the U.S. Secret Service sifted through several threats posted by the Instagram user “nath.jones” between Aug. 2 and Aug. 9. The user reportedly called for President Trump to be removed from his post before calling him a “terrorist” and his administration a “dictatorship.”
The threats also referenced Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming his actions led to “extreme and unnecessary loss of life,” the release said.
Investigators allege Jones also posted threats directed at the president on her personal Facebook account. Jones reportedly said in one of the posts from Aug. 6 that she was “willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.”
During an interview with members of the U.S. Secret Service on Aug. 15, the release said Jones continued to call Trump a “terrorist” and a “nazi,” allegedly doubling down on her previous assertions that she would use a “bladed object” to take the president’s life to “avenge all the lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
The following day, the release said Jones participated in a demonstration that occurred near the White House complex. After the march ended, Secret Service members interviewed her a second time where she reportedly admitted to threatening to harm the president.
Jones allegedly admitted to being the owner of the Facebook user account “Nath Jones” and conceded that she was the individual responsible for posting the threats, according to the release. When she was pressed further on her social media posts, Jones reportedly denied having any intentions to physically harm the president.
“Protecting the President of the United States is our highest priority, and every potential threat is addressed with the utmost seriousness,” said Special Agent in Charge Matt McCool of the U.S. Secret Service, Washington Field Office. “Special Agents from New York and Washington, DC, working in close coordination with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, acted swiftly and decisively to neutralize this alleged threat before it could escalate. We are deeply grateful to the dedicated professionals who worked tirelessly to advance this investigation and safeguard our nation’s leadership.”
The case remains under active investigation by the U.S. Secret Service.
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