Texas realtor Jenna Ryan releases statement after 60-day prison sentence

Texas realtor Jenna Ryan, who served a 60-day prison sentence for participating in the January 6 Capitol riots, has said she ‘ate bologna sandwiches and watched a lot of TV’ in jail.

Ryan, 50, made the comments in a Twitter video posted on Sunday in which she said she was ‘excited to be free’ after she pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of parading on Capitol grounds. 

‘I served 60 days in prison. I did not get beat up. I ate a lot of bologna sandwiches, I didn’t lose a ton of weight.’ Ryan said. 

‘I was really really blessed because I met really great people. I prayed every day, I read the Bible, got close to God, watched a lot of TV, read a lot of books.’

The realtor also told her 21,000 Twitter followers that she plans to start a YouTube channel following her release in which she will talk about ‘God, freedom and individual rights.’ 

Ryan previously told her followers that she was ‘too white and blonde’ to go to prison, before announcing she had planned a weight loss, yoga and alcohol detox regiment for her 60 days behind bars after entering a plea deal.

Texas realtor Jenna Ryan, who served a 60-day prison sentence for participating in the January 6 Capitol riots, has said she ‘ate bologna sandwiches and watched a lot of TV’ in jail. Ryan, 50, made the comments in a Twitter video posted on Sunday (pictured) in which she said she was ‘excited to be free’ after she pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of parading on Capitol grounds

Ryan, who was seen in photos and video at the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, was released from her 60-day prison sentence on February 17

The now viral realtor was seen posing for photographs outside the Capitol building before entering onto the White House grounds when the rally turned into a riot

Court documents allege she also posted a 21-minute Facebook Live during the insurrection in which she was seen entering the Capitol rotunda. The video was later deleted deleted but was described in an affidavit for her arrest – and grabs were shared by the FBI in an attempt to identify her

Ryan took a private jet ‘on a whim’ to attend the rallies outside the Capitol building on January 6 2021 in support of then-president Donald Trump. 

The now viral realtor was seen posing for photographs outside the Capitol building before entering onto the White House grounds when the rally turned into a riot. 

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

Two days after the riot, the FBI identified her as a person of interest and shared grabs of the livestream she filmed, pressuring Ryan to hand herself in.   

She ultimately plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building and received a 60 day prison sentence and $1,500 fine.

Her sentence began mid-December and she was released on February 17. 

The realtor’s video was met with incredulity on social media alongside a previous series of tweets in which she alleged she had been ‘tortured’ in prison. She did not specify what kind of torture she was subject to while in prison, but said she intends to release a video about her ordeal later this week

In her Twitter video posted on Sunday, Ryan declared she was ‘proud of the fact’ she attended the rally and did not regret being involved in the mob which illegally trespassed on Capitol grounds. 

She did not disclose the facility where she served the 60-day sentence in her video, though in a December interview with Insider said that it was a minimum security prison in northern Texas.

Ryan signed off her video by encouraging her followers to submit questions about anything related to her prison sentence and said ‘I’m ready to sell houses and my life is beautiful and getting better every day. I hope everyone has a blessed evening.’ 

The realtor’s video was met with incredulity on social media alongside a previous series of tweets in which she alleged she had been ‘tortured’ in prison.

She did not specify what kind of torture she was subject to while in prison, but said she intends to release a video about her ordeal later this week.

Ryan also tweeted separately: ‘[Prison staff] are using COVID to sadistically abuse all the inmates and deny basic human needs like sunshine, phone, food. No human deserves what they’re doing in Federal Prison to every inmate.’

Ryan, who took a private plane to Washington D.C. on the day of the riot, was seen posing for photographs outside the Capitol building before entering onto the White House grounds

A few months after the attack, as she prepared to go to trial in Washington DC, Ryan bragged that she’d be spared a prison sentence because of her hair color and ethnicity, before declaring she intended to undergo a 60-day yoga detox upon entering a plea deal

Ryan shared an interview with NBC News prior to her jail sentence in which she said she was being made a ‘scapegoat just like they did to the Jews in [Nazi] Germany’

Prior to being incarcerated, Ryan shared an interview with NBC news in which she compared her persecution and the criticism she received on social media 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.

‘And so, that is the epitome of a scapegoat. Just like they did that to the Jews in Germany. Those were scapegoats.

‘And I believe that people who are Caucasian are being turned into evil in front of the media.’

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.