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Grand juries in Washington, D.C. refused to indict two individuals accused of threatening the lifetime of President Donald Trump, prosecutors confirmed to Fox Information Digital Tuesday.
Officers from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Washington mentioned each instances concerned threats towards the president whereas jurors rejected fees, stopping the instances from shifting ahead to trial.
One case concerned Nathalie Rose Jones, who’s accused of posting on-line threats to assassinate Trump and later repeating these threats on to Secret Service brokers throughout an interview.
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Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was arrested final month for allegedly making dying threats towards former President Trump. A federal decide ordered her launch below GPS monitoring on Aug. 27, 2025. (Fb)
U.S. Lawyer for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, whose workplace pushed for the indictment, blasted the jury’s refusal on Tuesday.
“A Washington D.C. grand jury refused to indict somebody who threatened to kill the President of america. Her intent was clear, touring by way of 5 states to take action,” Pirro advised Fox Information in an unique assertion.
“She even confirmed the identical to the U.S. Secret Service. That is the essence of a politicized jury. The system right here is damaged on many ranges. As a substitute of the outrage that must be engendered by a particular menace to kill the president, the grand jury in D.C. refuses to even let the judicial course of start. Justice shouldn’t depend upon politics,” Pirro added.
U.S. Lawyer for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, whose workplace pushed for the indictment, blasted the jury’s refusal on Tuesday, calling the system “damaged on so many ranges.” (AP Picture/Evan Vucci, File)
In a second case, one other grand jury declined to indict Edward Alexander Dana, who allegedly threatened to kill Trump whereas being arrested final month on unrelated fees of vandalism in Northwest D.C.
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In keeping with charging paperwork, Dana advised police he was intoxicated, admitted making the menace and described himself as a descendant of the Huguenots, French Protestants who waged rebellions within the 1600s.
Then, Justice of the Peace Choose G. Michael Harvey denied a request by prosecutors to maintain the jury’s determination sealed, ordering the disclosure of the “no true” invoice to Dana’s lawyer.
Nathalie Rose Jones and Edward Alexander Dana each allegedly threatened to kill President Donald Trump in separate incidents. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
Dana’s protection lawyer, Elizabeth Mullin, advised Fox Information Digital she had “by no means seen something prefer it” in over 20 years of observe.
“That is the results of them taking weak instances and making an attempt to shoehorn them into federal district courtroom,” Mullin mentioned.
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In the meantime, Pirro mentioned grand juries in D.C. are politically motivated and unwilling to carry violent or threatening defendants accountable.
Final week, she advised Fox Information that residents have been “so used to crime” that they’re more and more unwilling to indict.
On Tuesday, she known as the choices to not indict Jones and Dana “an indication the system is collapsing from inside.”
