A woman accused of threatening to kidnap and kill President Donald Trump was released from jail by an Obama-appointed judge, per court records.
Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was arrested in Washington DC last month after participating in a protest outside the White House.
She was charged with two felonies related to her threats, which allegedly included ‘disemboweling [Trump] and cutting out his trachea.’
She was released last week by Chief US District Judge James Boasberg and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and see a psychiatrist once she is back home in New York City, Law & Crime reported.
Judge Boasberg’s decision to release Jones came just days after US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya denied her bond over the social media threats.
The judge told the court that while he was concerned about the former pharmacist’s ‘oddly specific’ threats, he did not think Jones posed a threat if released.
‘If she had a gun with her this case is easy,’ Boasberg said. ‘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?’
Several of Jones’ friends wrote letters to the judge in support of her release. They said she has schizophrenia and would never harm anyone.
Jones’ attorney, assistant federal public defender Mary Petras, said Jones had changed medications before she posted the threats online.
Judge Boasberg has been in the news recently over his bid to pursue criminal contempt for Trump officials he says defied his orders in March by by sending Venezuelan men to a prison in El Salvador without due process.
Daily Mail reached out to District Judge James Boasberg and Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya for comment on this story.
Extraordinary social media posts seen by the Daily Mail on Jones’s account beginning on August 2 detail the woman’s apparent unhinged threats and attempts to have Trump removed from office before she made the trip to D.C.
‘I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present,’ a post from her account read on August 6.
‘Listen up, Donald J. Trump. I’m psychotic,’ she wrote on August 11.
The posts on her Facebook account became increasingly unhinged and frequent.
On August 14, she allegedly wrote directly to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pleading with him to ‘arrange the arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump as a terrorist on the American People from 10-2pm at the White House on Saturday, August 16th, 2025.’
On August 15, the Secret Service conducted a ‘voluntary interview’ with Jones, during which she insisted Trump was a ‘terrorist’ and a ‘Nazi’.
In that interview, she allegedly said that if given the opportunity, she would kill Trump at ‘the compound’, adding that she had ‘a bladed object’ which could ‘carry out her mission of killing.’
Jones allegedly said she wanted to ‘avenge all the lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic,’ and said she blamed the Trump administration’s position on vaccines for the deaths of so many.
On the day of her arrest, Jones had shared several photos from the front lines of a protest at the White House, demanding Trump’s immunity from prosecution be ‘stripped’ and doubling down on her demands for him to be removed from power.
During a second interview with Secret Service on the day of her arrest, Jones allegedly denied she had any present desire to harm the president.
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.