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WASHINGTON () A federal grand jury in Washington has declined to indict a woman from Indiana accused of threatening President Donald Trump on social media.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia accused Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of threatening to kill, kidnap or harm Trump, and transmitting threats across state lines on Instagram and Facebook.
According to court documents, between Aug. 2 and Aug. 15, Jones took to different social media platforms on several occasions to call for Trump’s removal from office. She allegedly called him a terrorist and referred to the Trump administration as a dictatorship.
She also said Trump caused extreme and unnecessary loss of life in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and said she was willing to kill the president, according to the documents.
In an interview with Secret Service agents, Jones allegedly called Trump a “terrorist” and a “Nazi.”
Jones attended a protest in August against Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in D.C., where she spoke with just days before her arrest. She told she was there to protest the government’s handling of COVID-19 and criticized the administration as “authoritarian” and “fascist.”
In a Secret Service interview, Jones said that at the time of the protest, she had no desire to harm Trump.
Chief District Judge James Boasberg ordered Jones released on house arrest following the grand jury’s decision.
“Any threat to the President’s life should be taken incredibly seriously – now more than ever considering President Trump has survived not one, but two, attempts on his life,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement to . “This should be commonsense for anyone dealing with deranged individuals who make these types of threats.”