Texas realtor who took a private jet to Capitol riots compares treatment to Jews in Nazi Germany 

A Texas realtor notorious for flying to the Capitol riot on a private jet as part of a date with a man she had met online, and who bragged that she was ‘too white and blonde’ to go to prison has now compared her treatment over the last year to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Jennifer ‘Jenna’ Ryan, 50 – who pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge of parading on Capitol grounds – was jailed for 60 days behind bars. She was scheduled to begin her sentence on December 21, and moaned about what she claims is her unfair treatment in an interview with NBC News conducted days before her incarceration, which was published on Tuesday. 

While she was inside the Capitol, she used Facebook Live to broadcast while she was in the building for two minutes.

In an interview with NBC broadcast on Tuesday, Ryan said that she felt her treatment was akin to those who had to deal with the wrath of Hitler during World War II.

‘They’re making fun of my skin color. They’re calling me an ‘insurrection Barbie,’ Ryan said as she spoke of her critics. 

‘They have no idea who I am as a person, what my beliefs are, what I’ve been through, who I am.

‘They see me as a one-dimensional caricature. They don’t see me as a human,’ Ellis, who sells real estate in Frisco, Texas, complained.

‘And so, that is the epitome of a scapegoat. Just like they did that to the Jews in Germany. Those were scapegoats,’ Ryan declared. ‘And I believe that people who are Caucasian are being turned into evil in front of the media.’

Ryan said that she had heard other people make similar comparison and ‘definitely’ feels as though she is being persecuted. 

Asked on whether she was comparing her own situation to the Holocaust, Ryan suddenly withdrew. 

‘You know what’s so sad? That I’m afraid to answer your question because I will be attacked for saying that.’ 

At one stage during the livestream while inside the Capitol, Ryan appeared to tout her own business to viewers:

‘You guys, will you believe this? I am not messing around. When I come to sell your house, this is what I will do. I will f***ing sell your house.’   

Ryan previously said she went to the riot on a whim on what was essentially a date after receiving a Facebook message from a handsome stranger looking for people to join him at a rally then-President Donald Trump was holding at the White House on January 6.  

‘He was adorable,’ said the single realtor, said last year adding that she loves Trump, firmly believes his unfounded claims of voter fraud and has always wanted to attend one of his rallies.

‘So I said: ‘Heck yeah, let’s go.’ I mean, who wouldn’t go and get on a private jet?’ she added.

After agreeing she asked her friend Brian to come with her as a ‘bodyguard’, and once inside the cabin Ryan shared several photos of the group getting to know each other while drinking and bonding over their mutual love for Trump.

But unfortunately for Ryan, the pairing wasn’t meant to be.

Ryan added: ‘There was another adorable girl there, too, and they ended up getting together, darn it.’

Last month, Ryan told how she was preparing for prison life by planning a weight loss, yoga and alcohol detox regiment for her 60 days in jail. 

‘I have to report to prison, and the only thing that I can see that’s good about having to go to prison is that I’m going to be able to work out a lot and do a lot of yoga and detox,’ she told her followers, as she stood in front of a mirror in athletic wear.

‘I’m thinking that I can get down to, you know, 140, so 30 pounds in two months. If I do that, then it will be worth going to prison for 60 days.’

Ryan said she won’t be eating during her prison stint because ‘the food is awful, and there’s just no food’. She claimed inmates are served foods ‘you don’t want to eat, like, green baloney’. But notes she’s hopeful the facility may have protein bars or shakes. 

The real estate agent also told her fans she’s staying positive about her situation and asked for their support.

‘You have to look at the bright side of everything you do, and that’s what I’m trying to do,’ she said. ‘So wish me luck!’  

The now viral TikToker was seen posing for photographs outside the Capitol building before entering illegally during the riot, which left five people dead. 

Court documents allege she posted a 21-minute Facebook Live during the insurrection in which she was seen entering the Capitol rotunda. The video has since been deleted but was described in an affidavit for her arrest. 

Two days later, the FBI identified her as a person of interest and shared grabs of the livestream she filmed.

Ryan turned herself in to authorities before the end of January for her role in the Capitol siege and has consistently maintained that she did nothing wrong and has no regrets even describing the experience as ‘one of the best days of my life.’ 

A few months after the attack, as she prepared to go to trial in Washington DC, Ryan bragged that she’d be spared a custodial sentence because of her hair color and ethnicity.  

‘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,’ she tweeted in March. 

However, she was proven wrong in November when US District Judge Christopher Cooper handed her a 60 day term. 

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‘You’re not being singled out for your political views or anything like that. It’s how and where you decided to express them,’ Cooper said when announcing her conviction. 

The judge said that despite playing a ‘lesser role in the criminal conduct that took place’ than many others, she acted as a ‘cheerleader’ during the chaos. 

‘You were a cheerleader, you cheered it on,’ he stated. ‘But that does not mean that you don’t have any culpability in what happened that day.’  

Before her sentencing, she wrote a four-page letter to the judge apologizing for her actions on January 6 and said her tweet about not being sentenced had been taken out of context. 

Ryan claimed she didn’t mean that she ‘was above prison’ when she wrote it and argued that she ‘just shouldn’t tweet.’

‘I just felt that it would be unlikely since I was pleading to entering the Capitol for two minutes and eight seconds. Now I realize that was a false notion but having a false notion does not automatically mean I deserve incarceration,’ she wrote in the letter.

‘A tweet of me taking up for myself against a bully who is harassing me does not indicate that I feel above-the-law,’ she added. 

To date, at least 702 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection.

Ryan, who had faced four charges and ultimately pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor account, previously said she fears that her involvement in the riots could ruin her real estate career.

The Texas Real Estate Commission has faced numerous complaints demanding that her license be revoked. 

Ryan responded by issuing a statement saying she was ‘truly heartbroken’ over the lives lost during the assault.

‘Unfortunately, what I believed to be a peaceful political march turned into a violent protest,’ she wrote on Twitter.

She also tweeted that she lost a publishing deal for a book related to her work.

‘This has taken my company. This has taken my business,’ she tweeted.

Since the rally she said she has received thousands of death threats and people attacking her business. Despite this, she has said she would do it all over again.

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