A New York City woman who was arrested for making threats to kill President Donald Trump was quietly released in late August by Obama-appointed Chief US District Judge James Boasberg. Her release came after a US Magistrate judge denied Jones bond over the repeated threats she made on Trump’s life on social media.
As conditions of the release, 50-year-old Nathalie Rose Jones was ordered to have a GPS monitor fitted and meet with her New York City psychiatrist no later than 5 pm on August 27. Jones has been charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or injure the president and transmitting kidnapping threats using interstate commerce.
In a bond hearing on August 26, Boasberg said that while he was concerned by the "oddly specific" threats Jones allegedly posted, federal prosecutors had not met their burden to keep Jones detained pending trial, per WUSA. "If she had a gun with her this case is easy. 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?"
