North Texas Realtor Jenna Ryan Says She Regrets Rioting For Trump
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A little more than a month after boasting that she had no regrets about being part of the mob that stormed the Capitol building Jan. 6, North Texas Realtor Jenna Ryan appears to be changing her tune.
In a Feb. 10 interview with the Washington Post, Ryan says that she now feels betrayed by the people she once considered “fellow patriots.”
“I bought into a lie, and the lie is the lie, and it’s embarrassing,” she said to interviewer Todd C. Frankel. “I regret everything.”
The Post article goes on to highlight how many of those involved in Capitol insurrection have suffered from financial difficulties. Despite telling Candy’s Dirt on Jan. 7 that she makes a ton of money while only working a few hours a week, records show that she has been struggling for years.
In 2010, The IRS filed a tax lien against her. In 2012 Ryan filed for bankruptcy. Records indicate that Ryan also faced foreclosure at one point and is still paying off a $37,000 lien for unpaid federal taxes.
Additionally, on Feb. 10 during the second day of impeachment hearings, House impeachment manager Rep. Joe Negues (D-Colo.) showed two clips of Ryan as evidence that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the capitol insurrection. In both video snippets, Ryan says that she was there at the request of the president.
“I thought I was following my president,” she told a KTVT CBS 11 reporter. “I thought I was following what we were called to do.”
Ryan faces four federal charges: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
The criminal complaints filed in the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia cites Ryan’s own social media posts as evidence. Since Ryan’s arrest and investigation, the North Texas real estate agent’s Facebook and Twitter accounts have been taken down.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Regrets only because she was caught, arrested and charged. Talk about a deficit in critical thinking by the insurrectionists. Trump lied, people died. Lock them all up in federal prisons.
I agree with Preston Butango, she only regrets is now since she was caught. I bet if she wasn’t caught she would still be bragging about it. Hopefully she’ll do what trump said – remember this day forever. It will give her something to do while in prison.
I agree with the other commenters. Indeed, the time for regret would have been January 5th or before. There were plenty of places to find the “truth” if she wanted to. She was gambling, went all in on her bet (not that she had much, according to this post) and lost.
She should put on her big girl panties and accept the consequences. If she’s big enough to raid the Capitol (I mean, REALLY?), she is big enough to spend a couple of years in jail
I’m sorry, Jenna. Not a whole lot of sympathy from where I sit.
I appreciate her convenient change of heart. However, it doesn’t change that she must be sentenced to several years of confinement in order for her to not need such a change of heart again. What she did is UnAmerican and places in jeopardy the basics of democracy. She is a danger to civil society and the rule of law. I pray she be given a prison sentence that provides her enough years of reflection for her to understand the social contract required to live among society.
These people only blame Trump as a way of deflecting their own responsibility. It’s like Antifa saying Biden sent them to destroy Portland. I am not buying the bull.
Had the insurrectionists been a group of teenagers, the media would have been all over the story from multiple angles (drugs/violent video games etc). The youngest reported offender in this whole mess is aged 18 and the average age of these adult is well over 30. All of them have been eating up the lies of the past 4 years. Many of them are Q-Anon followers hook, line and sinker. They are an active echo chamber of meme idiocy that made the decision to attend Washington DC. Any regret they are showing is a direct result of federal criminal charges they are facing. Once Jenna Ryan is tried, convicted and officially a felon, does she face the loss of her real estate license? It would be shameful that a group of hard-working agents, brokers and sales people be painted by the same brush as their most infamous member.