Paul Pelosi attack – update: David DePape facing federal charges as filing says he wanted to ‘kidnap’ Nancy

David DePape reportedly wanted to “bring Nancy Pelosi to her knees” to show that “actions had consequences,” the Justice Department filing read.

“Depape later also explained that breaking Nancy’s knee would have to go into Congress, which would show the other Members of Congress that there were consequences for your actions.”

Former president Donald Trump has weighed in on the violent attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, in an interview with a right-wing Spanish network.

Speaking to an Americano Media host on Monday, Mr Trump called the attack on Ms Pelosi “a terrible thing” but suggested the violent attack and home invasion were a reflection of conditions in cities in which voters choose to elect Democrats, rather than targeted. an attack on the person who is second in the line of presidential succession.

“Look at what happened to San Francisco, in general – look at what’s happening in Chicago,” he said, describing crime in the Windy City as “much worse than Afghanistan.”

Andrew Feinberg has more details here.

David DePape, the man suspected of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi with a hammer at their home in San Francisco, is allegedly facing charges of threatening violence against the spouse of a US official.

The Associated Press reported the charge Monday evening, three days after the 42-year-old was accused of breaking and entering the couple’s Pacific Heights home and assaulting the 82-year-old.

The Independent there’s more here in this development report.

Back in 2008, the late congressman John Lewis – whose skull was once crushed by police in Selma, Alabama – warned that John McCain and Sarah Palin’s rhetoric about then-Democratic nominee Barack Obama on the campaign trail was in line with the speech and rhetoric of the segregationist governor of Alabama, George Wallace. That was not a comparison Lewis drew lightly, he wrote The Independents Eric Garcia.

Continue reading Eric Garcia’s latest opinion piece here.

David DePape, 42 years old, has been arrested by the San Francisco Police Department for allegedly breaking into Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s home and assaulting her husband Paul Pelosi in the early morning of October 28th.

Mr. DePape will be charged with attempted murder, among other charges, according to police.

Here, The Independent breaks down everything we know about the suspect in the attack, Mr. DePape, so far.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter to defend the microblogging site’s new owner, Elon Musk, after the Tesla founder posted — and deleted — a tweet that supported a baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul last week. last.

Musk shared a link Sunday to a news article claiming without evidence that Ms. Pelosi met her attacker in a gay bar in San Francisco that night.

After deleting his tweet on Sunday night, the Twitter owner posted a screenshot of his New York Times reported a headline that he had shared content from a website “called publishing fake news”, with a retort joking: “This is fake – I didn’t tweet a link to The New York Times!”

The Georgia Republican took to the same social media platform on Monday morning to defend Musk’s actions, writing in a post: “The same mainstream media democrats who have peddled conspiracy theories for years about President Trump and Russia are blaming on @elonmusk due to internet misinformation. ‘ about Paul Pelosi’s friend attacking him with a hammer.”

Former President Donald Trump said during an interview on Sunday that the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was a “terrible thing.”

“With Paul Pelosi, that’s a terrible thing, and all of them it’s a terrible thing,” the one-term president said in an interview with American mediaconservative Spanish language outlet.

“Look at what’s happened to San Francisco in general. See what’s happening in Chicago. It was much worse than Afghanistan.”

“We have to give the police back their dignity and respect. They can solve the problem. But today if a policeman says something slightly out of line it will be like the end of his life, the end of his pension, the end of his family,” he continued. “We can’t do that. We need to give the police back their authority and their power and their respect. Because this country is out of control.”

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Paul Pelosi’s son says his father appears to be responding to treatment after being brutally attacked with a hammer during a home invasion.

“They’re slowly rebuilding,” Paul Pelosi Jr. told reporters outside Zuckerberg General Hospital and San Francisco Trauma Center on Sunday afternoon, according tothe New York Post.

Mr. Pelosi Sr., 82, suffered a fractured skull when a man armed with a hammer broke into the San Francisco home he shares with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi early Friday morning.

Bevan Hurley has more on this developing story.

Fox & Friends the hosts addressed Elon Musk’s tweet, which was later deleted by the new owner of Twitter, where he appeared to support a baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul last week.

Host Ainsley Earhardt defends Tesla founder’s tweet as “free speech” Mediaite first reported, and Steve Doocy joined the story saying how, “Elon Musk has people on the political left and their heads are exploding”.

“He took down the tweet. The San Francisco police came out and clearly said it was a break-in.”

“But the people on the left and the New York Times this morning saying ‘Hey, the guy in charge of Twitter is spreading misinformation,’” he said, before asking Miss Earhardt the question: “What’s the future of Twitter going to look like, Ainsley?”

“Well, all these celebrities and all of us should be encouraging free speech,” she replied, before pivoting to the story of “Big Tech” and censorship.

“And we shouldn’t encourage censorship and control as long as it doesn’t lead to violence.”

Donald Trump Jr. took to Instagram and Twitter on Monday morning to continue mocking Paul Pelosi’s attack by sharing several memes that critics described as “dangerous” and “homophobic.”

In one of the latest posts shared by the former president’s son, he shared a change South Park a screenshot showing two men having sex with a hammer next to the bed, with one of the men saying in a speech bubble: “Ah yes, officer, I’m being assaulted”.

“Dear checkers, this has nothing to do with anything going on in the news and simply posting a cartoon of a changed South Park scene,” Trump Jr wrote in the caption.

Online, critics were quick to dismiss his various memes which mocked the attack on Ms Pelosi as “dangerous” and “homophobic”.

“How long have you been homophobic?” one Twitter user responded to his job, while another pointedly said the jobs were “dangerous”.

“Hey @GOPChairwoman & @GOP, tell us again that your party never pushes hateful or dangerous rhetoric. Violent separatists,” another viewer tweeted while sharing a link to an article about Mr Trump Jr sharing a Halloween costume meme mocking the attack.

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