The judge allows a Texas florist charged with rioting at the Capitol to travel to Mexico to withdraw.

A Texas florist accused of participating in the Capitol riot last month may travel to Mexico later this month, a federal judge ruled Friday. Jenny Louise Cudd had gone viral earlier this week when some news reports incorrectly said she had been allowed to visit Riviera Maya, Mexico for a retreat. However, at the time, she had only submitted a request for travel authorization. On Friday, Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted her request to participate in the “work-related bonding retreat.”

In approving the request, McFadden said Cudd has no criminal history and no one had suggested she was a flight risk, nor that she could pose a danger to others. McFadden also pointed out that prosecutors had not objected to Cudd’s request to travel. The judge ordered Cudd to “provide her itinerary to its supervising Pretrial Services Officer and to follow all other instructions from Pretrial Services.”

There is no doubt that Cudd, a flower shop owner who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Midland, Texas in 2019, was in the Capitol at the time of the riot. She streamed a live video of herself in the Capitol saying she “ accused the Capitol of being patriots today. ” In the video, she said that “we broke down Nancy Pelosi’s office door” and seemed happy to have participated in the uprising. “Hell, yes, I am proud of my actions,” she said in the video.

Cudd also talked about her involvement with local media. “I personally haven’t broken anything,” Cudd told the Odessa American shortly after the riot. ‘I didn’t break any doors. I have not done anything violent. Nobody I saw had any kind of weapons. In a televised interview, Cudd expressed no regrets, but said she ‘would do it again.’ In the interview with the Odessa American, Cudd said she was not concerned about the consequences of her actions, ‘because I know that I did not break the law. “Prosecutors apparently disagree with Cudd. Initially she was charged with two felonies, but later charged additional charges. A grand jury has charged Cudd on five counts.