Paul Pelosi attack: David DePape says he wanted to hurt others - The Washington Post

On Friday, Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU received a telephone from the San Francisco jail, according to newsman Amber Lee. She said it was DePape.

“What I did was truly bad,” the antheral says successful the audio. “I’m truthful atrocious I didn’t get much of them. … I should’ve travel amended prepared.”

DePape spoke astir his perceived enemies uninterrupted arsenic if helium were speechmaking a script, Lee said during an interview with her station.

At the commencement of the astir six-minute call, Lee said, she was told that she could grounds it but that she was not allowed to situation DePape’s statements oregon inquire follow-up questions due to the fact that helium didn’t privation the telephone to impact his ineligible case.

The telephone telephone came hours aft authorities released grounds including the constabulary body-camera footage from the nighttime of the onslaught astatine the Pelosis’ location successful the posh Pacific Heights neighborhood. DePape told Lee that helium saw the video.

In the footage, Paul Pelosi, 82, and DePape tin beryllium seen struggling for power of a hammer. DePape wrests the limb from Paul Pelosi and strikes him successful the head, earlier officers tackle him to the ground.

Pelosi suffered a skull fracture and superior injuries to his close limb and his hands. He spent six days astatine a infirmary and was expected to marque a full recovery.

The onslaught connected Pelosi, which took spot a fewer days earlier the midterm election that would pb to Democrats losing power of the House, is wide considered an enactment of governmental violence. The attacker has said helium had intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi (D), who astatine the clip was talker of the House but has since stepped speech from enactment leadership.

In a nationalist connection Friday, DePape’s nationalist defender, Adam Lipson, said releasing the body-camera footage is disrespectful to Paul Pelosi and could spark unfounded theories astir the case, jeopardizing DePape’s quality to get a just trial.

Lipson did not instantly respond to The Washington Post’s petition for remark Sunday morning.

Lee had tried to interaction DePape aft his arrest, but the telephone telephone Friday was unexpected, she said connected KTVU. Lee and KTVU did not instantly respond to The Post’s petition for remark Sunday morning.

DePape told Lee that state and liberty successful the United States were “being killed systematically and deliberatively,” and that helium recovered “names and addresses” of those helium deemed responsible. He wanted to “have a heart-to-heart chat astir their atrocious behavior.”

A blog filled with baseless claims and screeds against Jews, Black people, the media and transgender radical was written nether DePape’s sanction and registered to his erstwhile code past August, The Post confirmed. The blog besides included pro-Trump and anti-Democratic posts.

After DePape was arrested, helium told the authorities that his volition was to “detain and injure Speaker Pelosi,” according to a national tribunal filing. He told investigators that she was “the ‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party.” He had brought zip ties, a rotation of tape, rope, a diary and the hammer to the Pelosi residence. Pelosi was not astatine location erstwhile DePape entered.

DePape, a Canadian national who was successful the United States illegally, faces possible deportation erstwhile his transgression cases are resolved. His relatives told Canadian media that DePape grew up successful British Columbia and it is unclear however helium ended up successful Northern California.

He is charged successful authorities and national courts with counts that see attempted kidnapping of a national serviceman and battle connected a household subordinate of a national official. If convicted, helium could look beingness imprisonment.

Reis Thebault, Danielle Paquette, Justine McDaniel and Maria Sacchetti contributed to this report.