Anti-Trump D.C. Judge Boasberg ordered release of woman who made 'oddly specific' death threats against Trump

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 September 2, 2025

President Donald Trump, who has already survived at least two known assassination attempts, faces the constant threat of death or physical harm by deranged leftists and partisan opponents who want nothing less than to see him violently killed.

Yet, last week, a federal judge in Washington D.C., with a history of anti-Trump rulings, ordered the release of a woman who'd been arrested days earlier near the White House after making repeated death threats against the president, according to Fox News.

D.C. Chief District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, has frequently ruled against the Trump administration on various matters, including immigration policies and deportations, and clearly harbors an openly expressed bias against the president, for which the administration has sought his impeachment and removal for misconduct.

Charged for threats against the president

On August 18, D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office announced the arrest two days earlier of Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Indiana, after she was spotted participating in an anti-Trump protest outside the White House, just days after she'd admitted to federal agents that she'd posted multiple death threats against President Trump on social media.

In an August 6 Facebook post that tagged the FBI, Jones wrote, in part, "I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea," which followed other posts made on Facebook and Instagram in which she labeled Trump a "Nazi" and "terrorist," denounced his administration as a "dictatorship," and blamed him for all of the lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic, for which she asserted he deserved to die.

On August 15, just one day before her arrest in D.C., Jones was interviewed at her apartment in New York City by U.S. Secret Service agents, during which she acknowledged that she'd made the threatening social media posts and informed the agents that, if given the opportunity, she would use a "bladed object" to "carry out her mission of killing" the president.

"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 Pirro said in a statement. "Make no mistake -- justice will be served."

Ordered released from custody

Unfortunately, according to Law & Crime, D.C. Chief Judge Boasberg thought differently and ordered Jones released from federal custody last week without bond, albeit with instructions for her to wear a GPS ankle monitor, retrieve her vehicle and immediately return to her NYC residence, meet with her psychiatrist, and undergo a mental health evaluation.

That ruling reversed on appeal the decision made less than a week earlier by U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, who'd deemed Jones' repeated threats against the president serious enough to deny bond, and for the defendant to remain in federal custody and be submitted to a mental competency evaluation.

Boasberg, per Law & Crime, appeared to be swayed by the arguments of Jones' attorney and letters of support from her friends, who all noted that while Jones suffered from "schizophrenia" and took prescribed medication for the mental health disorder, she was actually harmless and posed no real risk of acting upon her many threats to inflict physical harm or death upon the president.

"If she had a gun with her, this case is easy," Boasberg said during a hearing, according to local CBS affiliate WUSA. "But the question is, why shouldn’t we consider this the rantings of someone with a mental illness with no ability to carry this out?"

The judge, who acknowledged the "oddly specific" threats made by the defendant, nonetheless further questioned why the Secret Service hadn't arrested Jones following the interview in NYC, and asked, "Doesn’t that kind of suggest they didn’t take those threats that seriously?"

Release will likely be appealed

WUSA reported that federal prosecutors, who'd argued vigorously that Jones should remain in custody, will likely seek a swift appeal of Judge Boasberg's order for her release from the D.C.-area jail and return to her NYC residence.

The outlet also noted that, on the same day, Boasberg likewise ordered the release from federal custody and home confinement of another man, Edward Dana of Virginia, who'd similarly been arrested and charged for making death threats against President Trump.

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