'I am going to blow up the White House': Woman who bragged she would assassinate Trump and 'get away with it' is headed to prison

A 49-year-old pistillate successful Hawaii was sentenced to situation for threatening to assassinate Donald Trump and Joe Biden past twelvemonth successful a bid of online posts, including saying that she was going to "blow up the White House and termination the president" due to the fact that she tin "legally get distant with it."

Senior U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor connected Wednesday ordered Rebecca Ann Folley to service 7 months successful a national correctional installation followed by 3 years of supervised release.

The condemnation was handed down aft Folley reached a plea woody with prosecutors and pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of making threats against the president. However, due to the fact that Folley has been incarcerated since her apprehension 7 months ago, she volition beryllium released for clip served.

The probe into Folley began erstwhile the U.S. Secret Service connected Dec. 16, 2024, learned astir threats made against Biden by a Facebook illustration named "Becca Waters." The post, from March 2, 2024, read, "Going to termination the president (INSPECTOR GENERAL, I NEED YOU ASAP)."

In a Dec. 18, 2024, interrogation with national agents, Folley claimed to person been a "trafficking victim," but said her reports to instrumentality enforcement were "being ignored." She explained that she posted the statesmanlike threats arsenic a "cry for help." From the complaint:

She posted connected Facebook and inactive nary 1 responded. She tried to nonstop up "the biggest reddish flare [she] could f—ing find" "figure[ing] that would decidedly get someone's attention" but was inactive ignored. She adjacent explained that she made "presidential threats" and "posted past connected Facebook" but she was inactive being ignored. "Nobody adjacent reported the statesmanlike threats."

Folley began questioning wherefore she was being overlooked, saying it got to the constituent wherever she began to boast astir the situation.

"I was wondering however long, and honestly, I started bragging," she told agents, per the complaint. "I was like, I've got to beryllium the lone idiosyncratic successful the United States past that's ever been capable to get distant with 200 of these things connected record."

The agents asked Folley to cease making the threats, and she responded, "I'll beryllium good." However, successful March 2025, investigators discovered that she tagged a station connected Honolulu City and County Councilman Tommy Waters' Facebook partition stating, "Lets spot if this volition trigger the governmental reddish flag, arsenic to scope national office's extracurricular of the authorities of Hawaii."

Folley besides attached screenshots to the station which said, "I americium going to stroke up the White House and termination the President of the United States of America."

The ailment besides notes that Ryan Routh, who was convicted of trying to sprout President Trump astatine 1 of his play courses successful Florida, had "posted akin messages to Councilman Waters' Facebook page" conscionable anterior to the attempted assassination.

On Feb. 3, 2025, utilizing the aforesaid account, Folley posted:

YUP, EVERYONE, PLEASE LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL PUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL DEATH THREATS AND PUBLIC THREATS TO BLOW UP The White House BECAUSE I CAN LEGALLY GET AWAY WITH IT

In a 2nd interrogation with national agents, Folley said she continued to marque the statesmanlike threats to "make definite that it wasn't being ignored anymore."

As conditions of her release, Folley is required to acquisition substance maltreatment and intelligence wellness treatment. Her machine usage volition besides beryllium strictly monitored.