A woman who made it into the Capitol and was caught on video is trying to pull a fast one, and the judge slapped her down. We all know that Trump is trying to whitewash the insurrection. He’s done all sorts of things to change it. But we know what it was. We watched it in horror. Even my die-hard Trump relative turned it off when they started breaking windows. It wasn’t “patriots” who deserved those pardons from Trump on day 1, the first day of his presidency, and his first executive order was used. Now we’ll skip merrily along to something more interesting. Here comes the judge! Gratitude to Raw Story:
A federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s ongoing effort to “rewrite the history” of the Jan. 6 riot, using a court ruling to cement the facts of the Capitol attack. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper — the Obama-appointed judge who originally sentenced Jennifer “Jenna” Ryan for her role in the riot — issued the ruling Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, denying Ryan’s bid to erase her conviction from the record.
Ryan, a Dallas-area real estate agent, was sentenced in 2021 to 60 days in prison after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for parading inside the Capitol, according to CBS News. Trump pardoned her on Jan. 20, 2025, as part of a blanket clemency covering roughly 1,500 January 6 defendants, local outlets reported.
Hmmm, she did *not* get her record cleared. Awwww. The judge put the hammer down and told Trump, ” Oh, HAIL NO,” this was an insurrection, and nothing he said changes that fact. You can’t change history like that. There are a whole bunch of people who will state they saw the insurrection, from the outside, at least. What happened on the inside, we see through the evidence that convicted so many of these yahoos. If you’ve *broken into the Capitol building*, do NOT post pictures of said adventures because it will come around and chomp on your arse. And it did!
Cooper denied that request to erase her conviction and used the ruling to tear down Trump’s reimagined version of Jan. 6. “Given the historical significance of the events of January 6 and ongoing efforts to rewrite them, the Court will take the opportunity to set the record straight…” Cooper wrote, making clear the ruling was about more than Ryan’s petition. “Numerous members of the mob forced their way inside the Capitol building by breaking windows and assaulting police officers,” Cooper wrote, walking through the facts of that day in the permanent federal court record.
Cooper found that Ryan had been in her hotel room watching the riot on television — and that she had chosen to leave and join the crowd.”The Court observed that Ryan decided to join the action after seeing, on the news, that the rallies at the Capitol had turned violent…. But Ryan also celebrated the riot,” Coomer noted. “She announced on social media that she was going to ‘storm the Capitol.’ Once inside, Ryan was captured on video chanting ‘Fight for Trump!’ while fire alarms blared.
She needs to take another look at what she did. She was part of the insurrection. She was involved in it and was fortunate that Trump did that blanket pardon. She should have done her time in prison and also thought about what she did. She participated in something that was horrifying America.
The judge is calling bullsht on Ryan and the rest of the insurrectionists. The “steal” was wrong. The election was won fair and square by former President Biden. But Trump’s ego could not accept this. He is the almighty, all-powerful Trump. Trump never loses, so someone *must* have cheated. He believes that with all of his mind and soul (whatever is left, heh). It’s completely incomprehensible.
“There is no doubt that Ryan paraded in the Capitol without permission on January 6,” Cooper observed, adding that the consequences of participating in the riot “will not be scrubbed from public memory, even if her conviction is vacated.” “Her involvement in the events of January 6 is clear,” Cooper said in the ruling’s conclusion, before turning to the pardon itself. “The validity of her prosecution and sentencing is unassailable. Fortunately for her, there are some who wish to rewrite the history of that day, and that desire resulted in her pardon,” the judge said, making her case without directly naming the president.
The judge laid the hammer DOWN. Trump is trying to rewrite history. The judge says NOPE. And the judge makes that a permanent thing that (hopefully) cannot be undone. It happened. Thousands of people saw it across the US. While some may have cheered for it, we and many, many others refuse to see it as anything but wretched; this was the most horrible thing to happen in America. It’s still stunning that it *did* happen. Trump could not admit he lost, so he sent hundreds of people into the Capitol to find and stop the official count and formalization of the election. Some people in Congress were helping! It’s one of the reasons your writer detests Josh Hawley. He was involved in “Stop the Steal”! What the hell. There was a scaffold and a hangman’s noose outside the Capitol. If they had found Mike Pence, they would have hanged him, and THAT is bullsht. We have a judge on the side of the law and history. We have a ‘president’ who could not accept losing. We have a country that wanted Trump *out* of office. Stop the Steal. What a bunch of hooey.
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It’s my understanding that accepting a pardon, in legal terms, means also accepting one’s guilt. Another thought is what would they have done if they found Nancy Pelosi? Remember that they were calling for her, as they went through the offices.