‘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
President Donald Trump attends the 157th National Memorial Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 26, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).
A 49-year-old woman in Hawaii has been sentenced to prison after threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden through multiple posts on social media last year. In one message, she claimed she would “blow up the White House and kill the president,” adding that she could do so “legally” without facing consequences.
On Wednesday, Senior U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor ordered Rebecca Ann Folley to serve seven months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Since she has already been detained for seven months, Folley will be released immediately for time served.
The sentencing came after Folley accepted a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to one count of making threats against the president.
The investigation began on December 16, 2024, when the U.S. Secret Service discovered threatening posts aimed at President Biden from a Facebook account named “Becca Waters.” One post, dated March 2, 2024, read, “Going to kill the president (INSPECTOR GENERAL, I NEED YOU ASAP).”
During a federal interview on December 18, 2024, Folley described herself as a “trafficking victim” whose attempts to seek help from law enforcement were being ignored. She told agents that her threatening posts were intended as a desperate cry for attention. According to court documents, she wrote that she had tried “the biggest red flare [she] could f—ing find” and even explicitly made threats against the president on Facebook, but “nobody even reported the presidential threats.”
Court records indicate that Folley became increasingly frustrated that her posts were overlooked, to the point where she began bragging about the situation. “I was wondering how long, and honestly, I started bragging,” she told federal agents. “I’ve got to be the only person in the United States history that’s ever been able to get away with 200 of these things on record.”
Federal agents instructed her to stop making threats, and she assured them she would. Yet in March 2025, Folley posted again, tagging Honolulu City and County Councilman Tommy Waters with a message that read, “Lets see if this will trigger the governmental red flag, as to reach federal office’s outside of the state of Hawaii,” along with screenshots stating, “I am going to blow up the White House and kill the President of the United States of America.”
The complaint notes a similarity to Ryan Routh, who was convicted of attempting to shoot President Trump at a Florida golf course and had posted comparable messages to Councilman Waters’ Facebook page prior to his attack.
In a follow-up interview, Folley admitted that she continued making threats to ensure her messages were no longer ignored.
As part of her release conditions, Folley must participate in mental health and substance abuse treatment programs, and her computer activity will be closely monitored.
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