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.
