{"id":149354,"date":"2025-09-04T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149354"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:18:55","slug":"judge-boasberg-frees-woman-with-a-mental-illness-who-threatened-to-kill-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/judge-boasberg-frees-woman-with-a-mental-illness-who-threatened-to-kill-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Boasberg frees woman &#8216;with a mental illness&#8217; who threatened to kill Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/category\/breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> September 4, 2025<\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A New York woman who in a Facebook post threatened to kill President Donald Trump and then traveled to Washington, D.C. with the intent to \u201celiminate\u201d the president was arrested only to be granted release by anti-Trump Judge James \u201cJeb\u201d Boasberg.<\/p>\n<p>Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was arrested after threatening to \u201csacrificially kill\u201d Trump, bragging that she would disembowel him with a blade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149359\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-149359\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/NatalieJudge-1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"224\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathalie Rose Jones and Trump Judge James \u201cJeb\u201d Boasberg. \/ Video image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She posted her threats on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service interviewed Jones on Aug. 15 and she admitted that she was in D.C. to \u201ccarry out the mission of killing\u201d Trump with a \u201cbladed object.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day, she showed up at a protest near the White House and was detained.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya denied Jones\u2019s release and ordered a competency evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>But then Jeb Boasberg got involved.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Jones told Boasberg, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011, that she has a history of \u201cschizophrenia\u201d and mental illness but has never become violent, Law and Crime reported, citing court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg reversed Upadhyaya\u2019s detention order and scheduled a hearing for Aug. 25. While acknowledging the \u201coddly specific\u201d nature of Jones\u2019 social media posts, Boasberg nonetheless downplayed her intentions. \u201c[Why] shouldn\u2019t we consider this the rantings of someone with a mental illness with no ability to carry this out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg asked prosecutors. \u201cIf she had a gun with her, this case is easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg then allowed Jones to collect her items from police, drive back to New York wearing a GPS device, and meet with her psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative journalist Julie Kelly noted that Jones \u201cmay soon be free of her ankle monitor. After a D.C. grand jury just refused to indict Jones \u2014 a rarity becoming commonplace in the D.C. courthouse \u2014 her public defender is asking Boasberg to drop all conditions of release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly noted that a D.C. grand jury had previously refused to hand down an indictment in a case brought by the Trump DOJ. This time, D.C. residents refused to indict Edward Dana, a lunatic with a long history of violent incidents, for threatening Trump last month.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Boasberg refused to hold Dana, who was on probation at the time, under pretrial detention.<\/p>\n<p>Revolver News noted: \u201dMeanwhile, keep in mind that Trump supporters rotted in solitary for eons. But not one but two self-appointed \u2018Trump killers\u2019 are free to go. That\u2019s the twisted two-tier \u2018justice\u2019 system that\u2019s still going on in Trump\u2019s America, and it needs to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>A deranged woman threatened on Facebook to kill the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Making it worse, she reaffirmed her intent to kill the President when questioned by Secret Service agents.<\/p>\n<p>A DC federal magistrate judge correctly detained her in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably, DC\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Mike Davis \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@mrddmia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrddmia\/status\/1962894635593769334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News September 4, 2025 A New York woman who in a Facebook post threatened to kill President Donald Trump and then traveled to Washington, D.C. with the intent to \u201celiminate\u201d the president was arrested only to be granted release by anti-Trump Judge James \u201cJeb\u201d Boasberg. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,16],"tags":[623],"class_list":["post-149354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-u-s-politics","tag-judge-boasberg-frees-woman-with-a-mental-illness-who-threatened-to-kill-trump","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}