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Mother of British jihadi bride says she regrets giving birth to Tania Joya and cut her off many years ago
2022-03-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The mother of a British jihadi bride nicknamed 'the first lady of ISIS' who had an affair with a US congressman has insisted that she has no interest in her life and regrets giving birth to her.
One hopes Mom did a better job rearing her other children, assuming she had others.
Tania Joya, a mother-of-four who grew up in Harrow, Middlesex but now lives in Plano, Texas with her second husband, had a relationship with Representative Van Taylor after meeting him through her work as an ex-jihadist helping to de-radicalise extremists.

Earlier this week, Mr Van Taylor dropped his bid for re-election to Congress on and apologised for having a nine-month affair with the Ms Joya.
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Related:
Tania Joya: 2022-03-02 ‘Disturbing and Entirely Unbecoming': Texas GOP Primary Candidate Rips Rep. Van Taylor for Allegedly Paying ‘ISIS Bride' to Keep Quiet About Affair
Tania Joya: 2019-07-21 Ex-jihadist Tania Joya now fights to 'reprogram' extremists
Tania Joya: 2019-01-13 The former ‘First Lady of ISIS’ now loves Reform Jews, plans to visit Jerusalem
Posted by:badanov

#4  Not to belittle anyone's accomplishments, but this guy collected plenty of credentials. Only thing it actually shows is he "tested well." On the tests of loyalty to his party and president, and to his wife, his credential collecting aptitude let him down. Good that he won't be around to stick it to his constituents and maybe become the next Pence at some point.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-05 10:37  

#3  Saves Texans the trouble to primary him. Those Republican Jan 6ers are an endangered species.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210   2022-03-05 10:32  

#2  An interesting man. According to his House of Representatives page with emendation from Wikipedia, he joined the US Marines after getting a BA in history from Harvard in only three years, then transferred to the Reserves while getting an MBA from the same university, re-upping along the way following 9/11. He eventually worked his way up to major, with a tour in Iraq in 2003. Following his MBA he worked as an investment banker as well, adding election to the Texas legislature in 2010, then stepped away from banking when he was sworn in to the US House of Representatives in 2020. Politically he’s a Tea Partier. But then he voted for the Democrat’s January 6th travesty, and was headed for a primary run-off when he announced he was stepping down.

If this was his first affair, possibly he succumbed because for the first time in his adult life he was only working on two tracks plus his family.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-03-05 09:05  

#1  The more I have read about Taylor, the more it seems he was Kinzinger lite. If I feel sorry for anyone in this story, it's his wife and children. I hope he still faces criminal charges for the payoff, if it came out of his campaign funds.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-05 06:01  

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