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Home Front: Politix
‘Disturbing and Entirely Unbecoming': Texas GOP Primary Candidate Rips Rep. Van Taylor for Allegedly Paying ‘ISIS Bride' to Keep Quiet About Affair
2022-03-02
The affair is seedy, but when political opponents talk to reporters about it, that’s traditional dirty politics. And the lady has been working hard and publicly to demonstrate that she has turned her back on ISIS.
[Breitbart] Texas district-three Republican primary candidate Suzanne Harp ripped Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX)
...proud Iraqi War veteran...
for allegedly paying ‘ISIS Bride’ Tania Joya
...Bangladeshi-British former wife of the senior Westerner in ISIS, she was known as Joya Choudhury Tania before she and the kiddies left ISIS (and Islam) to settle with her former husband's parents in Dallas, spilling all she knew to the authorities. There she remarried, baptized her children as Christians, and celebrated the Jewish holidays with her dear friends at the local Reform synagogue, followed by working to reeducate other ISIS wives and kiddies...
to keep quiet about a raunchy affair that Breitbart News first reported Monday.

“These allegations against congressman Van Taylor are disturbing and entirely unbecoming of a sitting U.S. Representative,” Suzanne Harp wrote in a press release, citing Breitbart News’ Monday reporting.

“We cannot afford to dismiss these allegations outright; if they prove true, it not only could be highly embarrassing for Texas’s third district, but also dangerous to have compromised and corrupt representation in Washington,” she continued.

As Breitbart News reported, according to documents ‘ISIS bride’ Tania Joya shared with Breitbart News, Taylor was engaged in a sexual scandal with Joya that allegedly lasted from November 2020 to June 2021 — during which time she says Taylor paid her $5,000.
Being a politician’s mistress isn’t nearly as lucrative as I expected, assuming her tale is true.
The payment, she claims, was paid in cash given to her by the congressman. Joya showed Breitbart News banking records that demonstrate she made a $5,000 deposit into her account when she says the affair occurred.

Taylor is married with three children and was first elected to Congress in 2019 as a Republican. Taylor voted in favor of enacting the January 6 Committee. Breitbart News reported:

Joya told Breitbart News her affair with Taylor began in October 2020, and they became intimate in November 2020.

“He considered me his girlfriend. He labeled me his girlfriend, his mistress,” Tania told Breitbart News. “I told him that I found him attractive. After that for an entire month, every day during October 2020, he wouldn’t stop messaging me like crazy. It was just so distracting. He was going crazy for it.”

“He said he wanted me to be his loyal, faithful, and permanent mistress,” she claimed.

Joya is originally from the U.K. but moved to Syria in 2013 after she met John Thomas Georgelas, an American-born convert to Islam, jihadist, and supporter of the Islamic State.
Mr. Georgelas took the Muslim name Yahya al-Bahrumi, and was also known as Yahya Abu Hassan. After a stint in American prison for plotting to hack the AIPAC website, he took his family to Morsi’s Egypt, leaving for ISIS in Syria only after the Muslim Brotherhood government was overthrown. After Tania Joya left him, he became the right-hand man of ISIS chief strategist Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. Georgelas was killed in 2017 in northern Syria, fighting for ISIS...
After being treated badly by Georgelas, she fled and worked with American authorities “so we could drone him,” she said of Georgelas to Breitbart News.

Joya now lives in America and met Taylor a few years ago.

Taylor is seeking reelection in the third district of Texas in a tough five-way primary race. Taylor needs to win at least 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#13  When will they put "None of the above" as an option on ballots.

This is the key to fixing the Uni-party. If None Of The Above wins, the election is a do-over, but with new candidates. We're getting tired of the "lesser of two grifters" thing.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-03-02 21:01  

#12  As usual, its not the "crime", its the coverup that get 'em.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-03-02 20:56  

#11  When will they put "None of the above" as an option on ballots. What would be the remedy for such an outcome?
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-03-02 20:56  

#10  Taylor's sex life, so what? But he lied about it. That's disqualifying.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-03-02 20:20  

#9  Taylor just withdrew from the primary. Judge Self is the Candidate now.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-03-02 20:11  

#8  Establishment Republicans beat every one of my preferred candidates in the primary yesterday.
Posted by: Glenmore   2022-03-02 13:22  

#7  I'll just vote for my Self.

Self (R) 16,959 26.5
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-03-02 10:56  

#6  Yes. Larry Craig's "wide stance" as opposed to Katie Hill's salmagundi approach.

At this point I'm pretty jaded about it and I'd imagine so are most other people. Still, as long as one politician thinks they can use that sort of accusation against another, it will remain part of the game...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-02 09:30  

#5  After generation of the Left trying to shame the rest because of our pols' 'open zipper' behaviors and not caring about their own, they've taught us not to care.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-02 09:25  

#4  Taylor will be in a run-off, but looks pretty safe. Harp came in a distant third:

Taylor (R) 31,168 48.7
Self (R) 16,959 26.5
Harp (R) 13,319 20.8
Williams (R) 1,721 2.7
Ivanovskis (R) 814 1.3
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-02 08:31  

#3  I did go look a picture of her up. Definitely not worth seeing. Not worth wrecking a political career over. Not worth paying for the dubious privilege.

Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-02 07:33  

#2  Story is useless without pictures.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2022-03-02 07:28  

#1  If it's an affair, what's wrong with it? He didn't coerce her. And it's best to set the bar low these days when speaking of what's 'becoming of a sitting U.S. Representative.'
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-03-02 04:54  

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