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January 15, 2021, 2:41 pm
Texas real estate agent and “life coach” Jenna Ryan is contributing to the public perception about the nature of most of the Trump insurrectionists after getting arrested and revealing that she took a private jet to the Capitol ahead of January 6.
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Many have pointed out that most of these Trump supporters were not poor, ill-educated hillbilly types but business owners and people who are generally rich enough to take time off work and travel to the Capitol from across the nation.
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In spite of her money, Ryan could not entirely escape justice and was charged with “knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds,” according to The Daily Beast.
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In a now-deleted video by Spectrum News, Ryan reportedly said that she “answered the call of my president” by participating in the fail coup attempt and that it wasn’t really storming the Capitol because “We the people own this building.”
However, this doesn’t really mesh with the Facebook post she published on the morning of the insurrection along with a bathroom mirror selfie.
“We’re gonna go down and storm the capitol,” she wrote. “They’re down there right now and that’s why we came and so that’s what we are going to do.”
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“This is a prelude going to war.”
It got even worse in the video she recorded during the insurrection, which she posted on Facebook but has since deleted, and includes even more violent rhetoric from the alleged life coach.
“We are going to f—ing go in here. Life or death, it doesn’t matter.”
First, however, she needed to make sure and plug her real estate business.
“Y’all know who to hire for your realtor,” she said just before entering the Capitol building. “Jenna Ryan for your realtor.”
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Ryan was featured in more than one of the more commonly circulated photos from that day, particularly the one where she’s posing with a peace sign in front of a broken window. She also posted that photo on her own social media with a bonus threat to journalists.
“And if the news doesn’t stop lying about us we’re going to come after their studios next,” she wrote.
As the days wore on and the public turned against the insurrectionists, Ryan attempted to defend her actions on social media and in interviews with those news people she wanted to “come after.” On Twitter, she claimed that she couldn’t be charged for her actions.
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“Can’t face federal charges for exercising my right to freedom of speech and assembly,” she said.
Of course, she was extremely wrong about that. She was also incorrect when she tweeted that people “can never cancel Jenna Ryan,” because her published has now canceled her previously upcoming self-help book. Also, the president of the National Association of Realtors, Charlie Oppler, personally condemned Ryan in a statement.
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“The scenes we are watching unfold as a nation are shocking and leave us in disbelief,” Oppler said. “America’s largest trade association stands with our democracy and our nation’s centuries-old observance of peaceful protests and the peaceful transfer of power. What happened today at the U.S. Capitol was an assault on both.”
*First Published: January 15, 2021, 2:41 pm
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