Texas congressman apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid

[Macallik86]

WASHINGTON — Rep. Van Taylor apologized Wednesday for an affair with an ex-jihadist dubbed the “ISIS bride” by British tabloids and abruptly dropped his bid for a third term, conceding the GOP runoff to rival Keith Self, a former Collin County judge.

“About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world. I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life,” he said in an email to supporters.

The infidelity surfaced just before Tuesday’s primary with help from a third candidate, Suzanne Harp.

A Plano resident named Tania Joya — widow of the most infamous American to join the Islamic State — contacted Harp last Thursday, hoping she would confront Taylor privately and persuade him to drop out and resign from Congress.


Instead, Harp sent a supporter to interview Joya, who has been profiled in the The Atlantic and tabloid fodder for years in her native Britain.

On Sunday afternoon, two days before the primary, a right-wing website, National File, posted audio of that 35-minute interview full of salacious details about the nine-month affair. The next day, the conservative site Breitbart posted a similar story that it labeled “exclusive.”


Conservatives gleefully spread the stories on social media.

Although Taylor has enjoyed stellar ratings from the NRA, Heritage and other conservative groups, he was one of five Texas Republicans who voted to certify President Joe Biden’s victory in every state. Self and Harp had made that vote central to the campaign.

Former President Donald Trump snubbed four of those five, including Taylor, as he bestowed endorsements on 16 other Texas congressional incumbents.

Under Texas election law, Self will become the nominee as long as Taylor withdraws in writing to the state Republican Party chair. The deadline is the third day after the deadline for canvassing the results. “If he withdraws by 5 p.m. on March 16, then the other candidate is declared the nominee and the runoff election is canceled,” said Sam Taylor, spokesman for the Texas secretary of state.
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Full article: Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid

 

[Macallik86]

This is a classic case of a woman scorned/sleeping with someone unstable. Listening to the interview on another website, she was in a struggling marriage as well but she went very left and became bitter once he said he wasn't going to leave his wife for her and that it wouldn't work out.

She was tryina get a hookup for a mortgage when she got in trouble financially and then she started saying that she was going to off herself and tried to convince him to adopt her son after she offed herself because he had all daughters. Eventually, she contacted the wife nonstop and blew everything up before she went to the press as well.
This story is so scandalous, it almost seems too low brow for HL

Spoiler: Congressman attempts to lower unemployment #s via rimjob solicitation

 

[Wild self]

Expect more stories like this in the coming months, especially after Russia got their dark money exposed.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

but but but the democrats are unpatriotic

 

[Wepa Man]

Naw fukk that cac

 

[Professor Emeritus]

In our bizzarro world, Republicans are celebrating that a Republican got caught having an affair because he wasn't loyal enough to the Republican President/Demigod they worship....who is famous for having and bragging about his serial affairs.

 

[88m3]

she must've had some serious childhood traumas

 

[88m3]

 

[Brosef]

 

[The G.O.D II]

What a fukking moron. Why would he even has an unstable nut job side piece with 4 fukking kids?

 

[Geek Nasty]

Expect more stories like this in the coming months, especially after Russia got their dark money exposed.

Agreed I think the reason a lot of these Republicans are hardcore Russian supporters is Putin has kompromat on them, including on Trump.

Can't remember the news analyst, some ex CIA type guy. He predicted after the election a lot of these stories would start leaking once those people were out of power.

 

[88m3]

What a fukking moron. Why would he even has an unstable nut job side piece with 4 fukking kids?

One would say she was his personal Jihad

 

[wire28]

Be a dumbass, political brehs

 

[Paper Boi]

this reminds me of that Eric Swalwell story where some spy was trying to get with him