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Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, appeared connected Fox News connected Monday nighttime with a acquainted complaint: The media was trying to soundlessness her, she told big Tucker Carlson, this clip for joking astir the convulsive onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, the hubby of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
“Nancy Pelosi, well, she’s got extortion erstwhile she’s successful D.C. — seemingly her location doesn’t person a batch of protection,” Lake said astatine a run event earlier that day, drafting laughter from the interviewer and immoderate successful the assemblage for her notation to an incidental successful which a hammer-wielding assailant broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco location past week. Paul Pelosi, 82, is continuing to retrieve from a fractured skull and different wounds helium sustained successful the attack.
On Monday night, though, Lake lamented to Carlson that she was the 1 being attacked, implicit disapproval she had received for mocking the Pelosis.
“We can’t speech astir each these issues due to the fact that the media has told america they’re prohibited,” Lake said. “You know, you can’t speech astir vaccines. You can’t speech astir elections. You can’t speech astir Paul Pelosi — present you can’t speech astir Nancy Pelosi. And you can’t speech astir the elections and you can’t speech astir covid and I’m talking astir each those things due to the fact that I inactive judge we person a small spot of the First Amendment near — ”
“That’s right,” Carlson chimed in.
“ — but I’m unsafe to radical similar [Wyoming GOP Rep.] Liz Cheney and the folks that she hangs retired with, and they privation to halt radical similar me,” Lake added.
Most Republican leaders person condemned the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi — though galore were besides speedy to mates those denunciations with blame connected “both sides” for the emergence successful governmental violence. But Lake’s quip astatine her run lawsuit was conscionable the latest lawsuit of immoderate Republicans turning a brutal onslaught connected the House speaker’s octogenarian hubby into a punchline.
On the aforesaid time quality of the onslaught broke, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) made airy of it astatine a run rally successful Stafford, Va., for GOP legislature campaigner Yesli Vega.
“There’s nary country for unit anywhere, but we’re going to nonstop [Nancy Pelosi] backmost to beryllium with him successful California,” Youngkin told the crowd.
Youngkin, too, was swiftly criticized for a “disgusting, vile, and crass” gag and called connected to apologize, though helium did not.
Police successful San Francisco connected Oct. 28 said they arrested David DePape, 42, arsenic a fishy successful an onslaught connected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. (Video: The Washington Post)
Though some Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) person powerfully condemned the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, they person remained quiescent astir their enactment members joking astir oregon belittling the incident.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) retweeted a thread from far-right activistic Matt Walsh challenging the conception that the alleged assailant was a militant right-winger, contempt his blog successful which helium appears to person been profoundly drawn into election falsehoods and governmental conspiracy theories.
Cruz quoted the thread dismissing DePape arsenic “a hippie nudist from Berkeley” with 1 word: “truth.”
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) tweeted and deleted a station Sunday that pushed a conspiracy mentation mocking the attack. And the evening of the attack, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) retweeted a photograph of respective men carrying hammers extracurricular a location with a “United Against Hate” motion and a cheery pridefulness flag.
“LOL,” the freshman congresswoman added.
Republicans spoke Oct. 30 astir the onslaught of Paul Pelosi, the hubby of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). (Video: The Washington Post)
Pelosi, who has vehemently denounced governmental unit successful the past, including the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol, has truthful acold not linked authorities to the onslaught connected her husband.
In a “Dear Colleague” missive to members of Congress precocious Saturday night, Pelosi confirmed that “a convulsive antheral broke into our household home, demanded to face maine and brutally attacked my hubby Paul.”
“Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening onslaught connected our Pop,” she wrote.
At a run lawsuit past week, President Biden called connected the crowd to “clearly and unambiguously” basal up against governmental violence, portion suggesting that Pelosi’s alleged attacker was influenced by Republicans’ inflammatory rhetoric.
“What makes america deliberation 1 enactment tin speech astir stolen elections, covid being a hoax, [that it’s] each a clump of lies, and it not impact radical who whitethorn not beryllium truthful good balanced?” Biden said then. “What makes america deliberation that it’s not going to change the governmental climate? Enough is capable is enough.”
Federal authorities connected Monday filed attempted kidnapping and battle charges against David Wayne DePape, 42, the alleged location invader. According to charging documents, DePape told authorities aft his apprehension that helium had planned to “hold Nancy hostage” and interruption her kneecaps to nonstop a connection to different Democrats.
The Washington Post confirmed that a blog written nether DePape’s sanction was filled with antisemitic writings and baseless claims arsenic good arsenic pro-Trump and anti-Democratic posts. It was registered to a location successful Richmond, Calif., wherever DePape lives, according to neighbors.
But that has not stopped DePape’s apprehension from becoming the halfway of more right-wing misinformation and conspiracy theories promoted by allies of erstwhile president Donald Trump and adjacent Elon Musk, the caller proprietor of Twitter. Trump himself called the onslaught “a unspeakable thing” in an interrogation Sunday.
Trump’s eldest lad has made respective societal media posts making airy of the incident, including retweeting a representation of a hammer atop a brace of underwear with the message, “Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready.”
“The net remains undefeated,” Donald Trump Jr. added.
Devlin Barrett, Eugene Scott, Holly Bailey and Laurie McGinley contributed to this report.
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