WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held back tears speaking Monday for the first time about being awakened by pounding on the door as Capitol Police rushed to tell her about the assault on her husband at the family’s home in San Francisco.
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“I was very scared,” Pelosi told CNN in an interview. “I’m thinking my children, my grandchildren. I never thought it would be Paul.”
On the eve of the midterm elections, the Democratic leader is opening up about the brutal attack, as her party is struggling against a surge of Republican enthusiasm to keep control of Congress at a time of rising threats of violence against lawmakers and concerns over the U.S. election.
Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was bludgeoned with a hammer 11 days before the election by an intruder authorities said broke into the family’s San Francisco and was looking for the speaker before striking the 82-year-old in the head at least once. The intruder told police he wanted to talk to Speaker Pelosi and would “break her kneecaps” as a lesson to other Democrats. Paul Pelosi suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in what authorities said was a intentional political attack.
Pelosi said she was sleeping at her apartment in Washington, having just returned from San Francisco, when there was a “bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,” on her door. It was about 5 a.m. on the morning of Oct. 28.
“We didn’t even know where he was or what his condition was,” Pelosi said, in excerpts of the interview that is scheduled to air later Monday. “We just knew there was an assault on him in our home.”
David DePape, 42, is being held without bail in San Francisco after entering a not guilty plea to attempted murder and other charges in San Francisco. He also faces federal charges of attempted kidnapping of an elected official.
The fringe activist who followed conspiracy theories broke into the Pelosi home, woke up Paul Pelosi and demanded to talk to “Nancy,” authorities said. When Paul Pelosi told the intruder his wife was out of town, DePape said he would wait. After Paul Pelosi called 911, officers arrived to see the two men struggling over a hammer before DePape struck Paul Pelosi at least once in the head with the hammer.
DePape later told police he wanted to kidnap the speaker and threatened to injure her “to show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions.”
The authorities’ stark narrative laid out in court filings in the case comes in contrast to the jokes and innuendo that conservatives and some Republican officials have spread about the Pelosis in the aftermath of the attack.
Pelosi has said little since the attack on her husband, cutting short her campaign appearances but spoke in a virtual call to grassroots activists late last week after Paul Pelosi was released from the hospital.
“People say to me, ‘What can I do to make you feel better?’ I say: ‘Vote!’” Pelosi told those on the call.
Her voice cracked at times as she said of her husband’s recovery, “It’s going to be a long haul.”
Was she as scared as Justice Kavanaugh was when some lunatic attempted to shoot him?
Was she as scared as Rand Paul when a mob of leftist lunatics attacked him and his wife after leaving the Capitol?
And lastly… Was she as scared as AOC was on January 6th when she was at least half a mile away from any alleged terrorists?
Liberalism is an incurable disease.
Now she knows how the rest of the people in crime ridden San Francisco feel.
She ripped a president sotu address in public; I have no sympathy for her.
Imagine how scared all the people from January 9th are who you and your Democrat cronies falsely accused of crimes of sedition. Your ruined their lives and their families’ lives, you put them through cruel torture and many are serving long sentences for totally fictitious reasons. It is time you felt the fear which you put so many innocent people through. Your gehinom can never be long or horrible enough
If only he had been in prison where he belonged, instead he got off because he is her husband.
Fractured skull and out of the hospital in 1 week?! A miracle!
No sympathy for you !
Wow. Amazing. The last time she had anxiety attack like that was when she was cowering under her desk in her office on January 6th, which she claims was worse than what happened on Sep. 11th. Poor Mrs. Pelosi has suffered so much trauma this year. She needs a good government paid vacation with the love of her life, Paul Pelosi. I agree with Nancy. It’s time to start rounding up all 70+ million Republicans and throw them in prison.
AP=American Pravda
Such propaganda and silly lies, trying to help get Democrats elected rather than just reporting news.
“On the eve of the midterm elections, the Democratic leader is opening up about the brutal attack, as her party is struggling against a surge of Republican enthusiasm to keep control of Congress at a time of rising threats of violence against lawmakers and concerns over the U.S. election.”
The AP makes it sound as if there is a general threat against law-makers and against her in particular.
She has Capitol Police protecting her wherever she goes, including at her house. There is no way that the guy with the BLM flag, who was found in the house with her husband, would have been able to get anywhere near her.
So, just like 1/6, we would ask where were the security forces who should have been there to prevent anything from happening before it happened?
The answer for 1/6 is that she and the other woman in charge both refused President Trump’s request for National Guard on 1/6. But this one is bizarre.
She was ” so scared” that the lies she is manufacturing and the crocodile tears she is crying will be found out.
For the good of the country, I think it’s time for Nancy to take one on the chin.