'Cutting out his trachea': Woman threatens to 'sacrificially kill' Donald Trump to 'avenge' COVID-19 deaths, DOJ says

An Indiana pistillate stands accused of threatening to termination President Donald Trump, allegedly calling him a "terrorist" and a "Nazi" erstwhile interviewed.

Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was arrested successful Washington, D.C., connected Saturday, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced. She has been charged with threatening to instrumentality the beingness of, kidnap, oregon inflict bodily harm upon the U.S. president and transmitting successful interstate commerce communications containing threats to kidnap immoderate person.

The alleged threats are said to person begun connected Aug. 2, erstwhile an Instagram relationship aboriginal connected to Jones had made comments astir Trump. According to the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), she called for his removal from office, labeled his medication a dictatorship, and blamed him for the grade of the nonaccomplishment of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those posts continued until Aug. 9, the DOJ said, but it was comments Jones allegedly made connected Facebook that specifically captured instrumentality enforcement's attention.

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"I americium consenting to sacrificially termination this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting retired his trachea with Liz Cheney and each The Affirmation present," an relationship tied to Jones wrote to the FBI connected Aug. 6, according to the DOJ announcement.

Eight days later, successful a remark meant for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Lafayette, Indiana, pistillate allegedly wrote, "please put the apprehension and removal ceremonial of POTUS Trump arsenic a violent connected the American People from 10-2pm astatine the White House connected Saturday, August 16th, 2025."

On Aug. 15, the U.S. Secret Service spoke with Jones successful a "voluntary" interview, the U.S. attorney's bureau said. It was present wherever she allegedly made the "terrorist" and "Nazi" disparagements and allegedly provided much circumstantial details astir what she would bash if she got the chance.

According to the DOJ, Jones said she would termination Trump astatine "the compound" if indispensable and that she had a "bladed object" that she would usage arsenic her limb to "carry retired her ngo of killing" the president.

Furthermore, she reportedly stated her tendency to "avenge each the lives mislaid during the Covid-19 pandemic," for which she blamed Trump's archetypal medication and its presumption connected vaccines.

The time aft her interrogation with the feds, a protestation began astatine Dupont Circle and "circumnavigated" the White House. Jones took part, the DOJ said.

When the objection ended, the Secret Service interviewed Jones again. She reportedly "admitted that she had made threats towards President Trump during her interrogation the erstwhile day" but "denied having immoderate contiguous tendency to harm the President of the United States."

She was subsequently arrested and, according to authorities, confirmed that she was the proprietor of the Facebook relationship that had made the threatening statements.

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U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro decried the alleged crimes, saying threatening the beingness of the president is "one of the astir superior crimes" that volition beryllium "met with swift and unwavering prosecution."

"Make nary mistake — justness volition beryllium served," she added. "We widen our deepest gratitude to our dedicated instrumentality enforcement partners, particularly the Secret Service Special Agents from New York and Washington, D.C., for their tireless committedness to protecting our leaders and our nation."