US Capitol rioter asks Donald Trump for pardon after arrest: ‘I feel wronged’

Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president ‘asked us to do’ and that she had been ‘displaying my patriotism’ in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. ‘I’m facing a prison sentence,’ she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. ‘I do not deserve that’

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