Overview
- A short video circulated online by Right Angle News Network showed a woman identified by conservative accounts as Michigan nurse Rhonda Lee making graphic threats about traveling to Washington, D.C., with a knife; the clip spread widely on Monday.
- The U.S. Secret Service said it continuously monitors information streams, treats anything that could be perceived as a threat to the president seriously, and is reviewing the footage through its protective‑intelligence channels.
- Michigan Medicine confirmed to reporters that the woman identified in posts has not worked at the University of Michigan Medical Center since 2023 and that the institution is cooperating with law enforcement.
- Reporters quote the video as containing explicit violent language and a line about giving the president “a smiley face across his god damn neck,” though the footage as published does not name President Trump directly.
- The clip prompted swift online backlash, calls for criminal or professional consequences, and public tagging of federal agencies; there are no public records of charges so far and investigators have not disclosed further action.