A federal grand jury has declined to indict a woman accused of threatening President Trump, the second surprising Washington, D.C., grand jury decision in as many weeks.
Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was arrested on Aug. 16 in the nation’s capital and accused of making death threats against Trump on social media.
She posted her threats on a Facebook account, which was first noticed by Secret Service agents in early August, according to the feds. She allegedly wrote, “I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea.”
D.C. U.S. Attorney and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro called it “one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution.”
But the grand jury didn’t see it that way and declined to provide an indictment against Jones, according to her lawyer, public defender Mary Manning Petras.
“Given that finding, the weight of the evidence is weak,” Petras wrote Monday in a court filing. “The government may intend to try again to obtain an indictment, but the evidence has not changed and no indictment is likely.”
Grand juries rarely ever decline to indict someone, such that legal experts often say “a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.”
But last week, in another surprising loss for prosecutors, a different D.C. grand jury refused to indict a man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in the nation’s capital.
With News Wire Services
