A former Florida nurse has pleaded guilty to making death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, pleaded guilty on Friday to six counts of making threats to kill the vice president, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida.
In early March, Secret Service agents were notified of the threat to kill Harris after prison officials intercepted videos and photographs Phelps sent to her incarcerated husband.
“If I see you in the street, I’m gonna kill your ass Kamala Harris,” Phelps said in one of the videos.
“I’m going to the gun range, just for your ass,” Phelps reportedly said in another video, according to the criminal complaint.
In a February 18 video she warned, “50 days from today, mark this day down, stupid bitch, Kamala fuckin’ Harris vice president. You gonna fuckin’ die 50 days from today, I swear to fuckin’ God.”
Four days later she applied for a concealed carry permit and photographs intercepted by prison authorities allegedly show her smiling and posing at a gun range holding a pistol, standing next to a target riddled with bullet holes.
Prosecutors say Phelps admitted, in court to sending her husband the videos.
“The videos show Phelps making the threats, screaming curse words, saying she had accepted $53,000 to carry out a ‘hit’ against Vice President Harris, and explaining that she would carry out the assassination within 50 days,” federal investigators said.
Phelps recorded some of the clips herself, while her children recorded others, according to prosecutors.
Phelps, who is black, told authorities that she threatened Harris because she does not believe that the VP is “actually black,” according to the criminal complaint. Harris’ parents were Asian and Jamaican immigrants. Phelps was also angry because she believes Harris “disrespectfully put her hand on her clutch purse instead of the Bible,” during the swearing-in ceremony, a claim that is false.
Phelps will be sentence on November 19. She faces a maximum five years in prison.
