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Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has revealed she has been struggling with guilt since a man with a hammer invaded her home and gave her husband a near-fatal beating that was was intended for her before the autumn 2022 elections.
“He was looking for me. Imagine the guilt of all that,” the California Democrat he said in an interview broadcast on CBS News Sunday Morning, which contained some of his most extensive remarks to date about the attack that badly hurt Paul Pelosi. “It’s just a horrible thing.
“I was the target.”
Pelosi was in Washington DC when a man named David DePape broke into her San Francisco home through the back door on October 28, 2022. Less than two weeks before the federal midterm elections that year, DePape planned to kidnap the speaker then. interrogate her and post footage of the alleged interrogation online. DePape was motivated by a far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims that Donald Trump is locked in a secret, deadly fight with a cabal of elite Democratic pedophiles trying to oust the former Republican president.
But instead DePape only met Paul Pelosi — 82 at the time — in his bedroom. Holding a hammer and tie, DePape asked, “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?
Paul Pelosi was able to call the police for help. Before officers arrived, DePape used the hammer to repeatedly beat Paul Pelosi in the head and knock him unconscious.
Pelosi needed surgery for a fractured skull as well as injuries to her arm and hands. In addition to having a metal plate placed in her head, Pelosi has since dealt with dizziness, balance problems and permanent nerve damage in her left hand, according to a letter filed in federal court.
Jurors convicted DePape on state and federal charges related to the violent home invasion. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In her new book, The Art of Power, Pelosi explained how her daughter – documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi – told her: “You have to give up … everything in your public life” after the intrusion
But Pelosi told CBS that her family didn’t blame her as much as “certain elements of the Republican party who have demonized her” for years.
She apparently alluded to a speech Trump gave at the California Republican Party convention last September during which he mockingly asked, “How’s (Pelosi’s) husband doing by the way? Anyone know?”
“The sad thing about my husband’s assault was that they just made a joke — they thought it was funny, and people laughed,” said Pelosi, whose book is scheduled for release Tuesday.
The feelings of guilt that Pelosi described Sunday in her conversation with CBS’s Lesley Stahl are common among people whose loved ones experience a traumatic situation, whether or not they are public figures, he said. experts.
Pelosi, 84, joined Congress in 1987. She served two four-year stints as speaker of the House, beginning in 2007 and 2019.
One of the most influential voices of her party on Capitol Hill, Pelosi played a key role in conveying messages to Joe Biden about the concerns of his fellow Democrats about his ability to keep the Oval Office in November.
The president finally dropped out of his re-election campaign on July 21, leaving his running mate, Kamala Harris, to become the Democratic nominee to face Trump in the November race for the White House.
On Sunday, the polls suggested that the advance that Trump had built against Biden in the vital swing states had disappeared, and he and Harris were locked in a close contest that many thought could decide the future of American democracy.
On Sunday, Pelosi declined to answer when asked if it was true that Biden was furious with her about the impending end of his presidency. She also stated “No, I was not a leader of any pressure” on the campaign for Biden to resign.
“He knows I have a lot,” Pelosi told Stahl. “Let me tell you the things I didn’t do. I didn’t call a single person. I didn’t call a single person. I can always say to him, ‘I never called anyone.’
“What I’m saying is — I had confidence that the president would make the right choice for our country, whatever it was. And I said, ‘Whatever it is, let’s go with it.’
