Hey, remember Jenna Ryan?
She’s that awful Texas realtor who flew a private plane to Washington, D.C. to break into the U.S. Capitol building at Donald Trump‘s urging and then posted all about it on social media.
Well, she was just slapped with a prison sentence for her participation in the deadly attack after bragging about how she was “definitely” not going to jail earlier this year.
Ryan was arrested in January after she said storming the Capitol was “one of the best days of my life.” In March, she tweeted that she was “definitely” not going to jail when someone left on a comment saying she was headed for the slammer.
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“Definitely not going to jail,” she wrote. “Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong.”
Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong
— Jenna Ryan (@dotjenna) March 26, 2021
This week, Ryan was sentenced to two months in prison and ordered to pay $1,500 in fines to the Architect of the Capitol after she pleaded guilty to one charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.
During her sentencing, she told Judge Christopher Cooper, “This is not anything that remotely resembles who I am.”
“Your case has generated a fair amount of public interest,” he replied. “And as a result, people will be interested to know what sentence you get.”
And people certainly are interested. Here’s what they’re saying…
Jan 6 defendant Jenna Ryan
How it started: “Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I'm not going to jail.”
How it’s going: “You win!!! I'm going to prison. So you don't need to contact me anymore”
LOL. 60 days in prison
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) November 5, 2021
Jenna Ryan
How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/yWqI6FgDGI
— MM (@adgirl360) November 5, 2021
Right wing activist and Capitol invader Jenna Ryan once said that she's "definitely not going to jail." Today she received her sentence. She was right. She's not going to jail. She's going to prison.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 4, 2021
Today’s not a great day. To be Jenna Ryan. pic.twitter.com/hcfnnUdkRH
— Rockin' Bubbles Rialto Before Christmas ? (@PippiTheCat1) November 5, 2021
Who else is glad that Jenna Ryan, the insurrectionist who said she wouldn't go to prison because of her "blonde hair and white skin" has been sentenced to PRISON? ?
— Jon Cooper ?? (@joncoopertweets) November 4, 2021
The judge to Jenna Ryan: pic.twitter.com/J6RYsxckVW
— Drew (@Drew_TandB) November 4, 2021
Anyone else think the judge should have given Jenna Ryan another 6 months just for the arrogance of saying that she'd never go to jail because of her white skin and blond hair (if that's her natural color)?
— W. M. (@Minuteman04) November 4, 2021
Jenna Ryan's card was declined yesterday as she was sentenced to 60 days in prison for her involvement in the seditious attack on our nation's capitol. pic.twitter.com/AHiTq22mH2
— Labor Activist (@SuperDuperSJW) November 5, 2021
After yesterday’s sentencing, Ryan immediately took to Twitter to issue a “blanket statement” about the response her story has received.
“I’m just gonna make a blanket statement to all the people that are calling me and texting me,” she wrote. “You win!!! I’m going to prison. So you don’t need to contact me anymore. Pop champagne and then rejoice. But just leave me alone. Thank you.”
I'm just gonna make a blanket statement to all the people that are calling me and texting me. You win!!! I'm going to prison. So you don't need to contact me anymore. Pop champagne and then rejoice. But just leave me alone. Thank you
— Jenna Ryan (@dotjenna) November 4, 2021
She followed that up with a second statement saying she’s exploring alternative ways for people to send her donations to cover her legal expenses after she keeps getting blocked from mainstream money transfering platforms.
“Please note, payment gateways such as Stripe and Paypal have shut me down so that I am unable to fundraise to cover my legal expenses,” she wrote. “I will be seeking alternatives for fundraising.”
Please note, payment gateways such as Stripe and Paypal have shut me down so that I am unable to fundraise to cover my legal expenses. I will be seeking alternatives for fundraising.
— Jenna Ryan (@dotjenna) November 5, 2021
It looks as though Karma’s work here is done.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore
odowd4sure
If she has such a great job, why ask for assistance in paying legal bills?
Josh in OR
Because, like most (if not all) GQPers, ‘personal responsibility’ is for the poor, the ‘queers’, the ‘sluts’, and the ‘coloreds’, not for themselves!
White, wealthy, ‘Christians’ have no sins to deal with, nor do they ever do anything wrong. They are simultaneously the most perfect, god-blessed, holier-than-thou pinnacle of mankind…and the most oppressed, disadvantaged, abused victims of their ‘lessers’.
Their political leaders tell them so (in order to keep them both angry AND afraid so they’ll keep voting Republican) their pundits support it (with disinformation and blatant lies presented as fact), and their churches feed into it (by taking Christ’s message wildly out of context in order to justify hatefulness and ignorance as virtues) in exchange for more money and political power for their pastors.
SFMike
Josh you have explained it to perfection!
Mack
It is typical of right wingers to get others to pay their bills then get upset at people getting welfare. Recently a right wing businessman who owned several franchise coffee shops in two cities died and his family went on “Go Fund Me” to raise money for the funeral.
BaltoSteve
Bye Bye, Klu Klux Klannah Montana.
MISTERJETT
prison will bring her down a peg or two. two month’s is not enough.
Josh in OR
She’ll come out of this a Far Reich darling and a martyr for the cause.
And run for political office on a tidal wave of awfulness.
Watch…
Mack
@Josh in Or, I agree with you.
Openminded
I’m assuming it will be a cushy Federal prison as this was a Federal offense so it’ll likely be a decent 2 month break for her. I agree, two months doesn’t seem appropriate for ANY Federal crime, especially one where she is convicted of being in the building during the insurrection. I’m afraid the message the judge is sending is one of “You won’t really get slapped that hard if you decide to vent your frustrations about who gets elected by breaking the law.” Football has a history of victorious teams tearing down the goal posts. I’m wondering if the electorate will start a tradition of the losing party storming the Capitol after every election.
Prax07
60 days…every last one of these traitorous seditionists should be locked up for decades, not a handful of days with a minor fine. The judges are way to lenient on these scumbags.
Creamsicle
Nuts to that. They all deliberately organized and conspired to murder Congress and overthrow democracy. This is one of the only cut and dry cases where the only sensible sentence is public execution.
moretruth
Anyone who participates in a traitorous rebellion should get a felony and a minimum of ten years in prison.
Creamsicle
Not nearly enough. Execute them in public. They committed treason and then posted about it on Facebook and Insta. They attempted to murder Congress and subvert the U.S. Constitution. They are traitors to the country and deserve the punishment for months-long campaign to overthrow democracy.
Progressives and even liberals were mad when DJT was elected, but we didn’t storm the Capitol, we found every legal avenue to resist deleterious policy changes. These people want to start a war against their own countrymen and are just itching for an excuse to do it.
Mr. Stadnick
Karma is a bitch when you have behaved like a C**t.
Kangol2
Wow, she tried to play the race card–“white skin”–and it blew up in her right-wing treasonous MAGA face. The sentence is a bit too light for trying to overthrow a legitimate US federal election, though. Lock her up, lock her up. And put racist psycho traitor Don the Con in the cell next to hers!
GrizzleyMichael
Bitch pleased you are white trailer trash and you should be thrown in a white trailer trash jail
Ginger Tom
In truth she wasn’t being that unrealistic to suppose that she had a get out of jail free card in her hand due to her race. She got a very short sentence. Did she plead for the “white skin and blonde hair tariff” in the end? Maybe Ivanka should try to work out a deal for that.
Jim
60 days for trying to over throw the government !!!
She’ll probably be penning her Graphic Essay version of Mein Kampf
Man About Town
“LOL. 60 days in prison.” Only a nitwit would find a prison sentence amusing.
gorpalm
She tweeted from home. She’s getting 60 days. For taking part in an insurrection of her own country. For being part of a mob that included people intent on kidnapping and executing elected representatives of the country. She attacked the symbol of representative power of the United States. At ANY point she could have said No. Ignorance is no excuse. Incitement might have been used in defence, but that would mean spotlighting the inciters, and Trump is seemingly Untouchable. Again, she got 60 days for this. That’s like, a co-conspirator of 911 getting 60 days. This isn’t funny because she had to eat her words, it’s terrifying because the takeaway lesson here isn’t, don’t try to overturn democracy. The lesson is, More people and More violence next time.
bsg1967
Joke sentence and will probably out far sooner if she goes in at all
Cam
The Justice Department seems to be doing all it can to help out these people. 45 days for trying to overthrow the government??
rawbeartop
YES IT WAS A JOKE SENTENCE. I ALSO THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A BIGGER SENTENCE LIKE 10 YEARS!!