A woman was charged over the weekend with threatening to kill President Trump.
Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, made a series of threatening posts on social media before traveling Saturday to Washington D.C., where she appeared at a protest outside the White House.
Secret Service interviewed Jones in New York the day before, and she told them she would kill Trump if given the chance, calling him a "Nazi."
In the days leading up to her arrest, Jones called for Trump to be killed or deposed in posts on Facebook and Instagram and blamed him for deaths from COVID-19.
"I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present," one of the posts said.
She appeared Saturday at a protest outside the White House, where she denounced Trump's federal takeover of Washington D.C and accused his "regime" of killing people by undermining vaccines.
"It’s unconscionable. It’s not a political issue,” she said. “This should be health care. It never should have been made partisan. It’s a tragedy for the United States of America. This regime has to go, the whole administration.”
“I was in the reserve, but you do not deploy the military against the American people,” she said in an interview with NewsNation. “We will not be suppressed. We will not exist in this authoritarian regime. We will not accept fascism.”
She admitted to threatening Trump during a second interview with Secret Service after the protest, but she denied having any present desire to harm him. Secret Service arrested her afterwards.
Jones was charged 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.
"Threatening the life of the president is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution," U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a news release. "Make no mistake — justice will be served."
Jones described herself as someone who suffers from schizophrenia in a four-year-old video shared on World Schizophrenia Day.
"I am someone who identifies as schizophrenic," Jones said. "What that means for me is: I think I'm famous, and let's get there."
