A Texas real estate agent who documented his trip to Washington DC, in the midst of a violent uprising, promised to “invade the Capitol” before posing beside broken windows outside the building, according to a criminal complaint.
Jennifer “Jenna” Leigh Ryan, 50, a real estate broker and life coach from Frisco, Texas, now faces charges of intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Calls and messages to her were not returned.
Ryan arrived in Washington on a private plane, officials said, to participate in a pro-Trump rally “Stop the Steal” on January 6, in which the president repeated baseless allegations of electoral fraud.
Jennifer “Jenna” Leigh Ryan has promised to break into the Capitol via social media, officials said.
(Department of Justice)
His documentation of traveling on a private jet and the mob attack spread over the internet. On the day of the insurrection, Ryan posted a video on Facebook showing his reflection in the mirror with the caption: “Let’s go down and invade the capital. They are there now and that’s why we came and that’s what we’re going to do. So wish me luck. “, prosecutors said.
In an interview with the Dallas cable TV channel, Spectrum News 1, she said she “answered my president’s call” when she illegally entered the building. Before arriving at Capitol Hill, Ryan posted a 21-minute Facebook Live video now deleted, where she filmed herself and a group walking towards the building during the unrest.
“We will [expletive] get in here, “she says in the video as she approaches the top of the stairs near the west side of the Capitol.” Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go.”
Minutes later, Ryan arrived at the desecrated door of the building when alarms went off and the shattered glass was visible. She is heard singing: “USA, USA”, “Here we are, in the name of Jesus”, “Fight for freedom, fight for freedom!” and “This is our home!” said the complaint.
Just before entering, she said, “You know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor,” according to the complaint.
The documents present several images of her inside the Capitol and in the areas around the area. On Twitter, she posted a photo of herself standing next to a broken window with the caption: “Window in the capital [sic]. And if the news doesn’t stop lying about us, we’ll go after your studios next. “
She continued to post on social media in the days after the insurrection to defend herself when the reaction followed. In the Spectrum News 1 interview, she said her mission was to support Trump, who she said inspired her actions.
She claimed she was unable to get through the Capitol door frame.
In a statement posted online on January 8, she said she took a trip to Washington to participate in what she believed to be a peaceful march that turned into a violent protest.
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The observations contrast with a previous tweet in which she said: “We just invaded the Capital [sic]. It was one of the best days of my life. ”
In an interview with CandysDirt.com, a website “for those truly obsessed with real estate in Dallas and North Texas,” Ryan said that “it didn’t matter that someone was shot on Capitol Hill because our freedom is more important to us than ours. lives. ” The woman shot, Ashli Babbitt, 35, died of her injuries.