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Assailant breaks into Nancy Pelosi’s home, attacks hubby Paul Pelosi
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David DePape, the antheral suspected of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s hubby Paul Pelosi with a hammer astatine their San Francisco home, is allegedly facing 2 national charges for threatening unit against a US official’s spouse.
The Department of Justice filing connected Monday day elaborate however the 42-year-old allegedly wanted to “kneecap” the House Speaker to “show different Members of Congress determination were consequences to actions.”
The Associated Press reported the complaint connected Monday afternoon, 3 days aft the 42-year-old was accused of breaking and entering into the couple’s Pacific Heights location and assaulting the 82-year-old.
Earlier, Donald Trump Jr was blasted online for sharing “dangerous” and “sick” memes that appeared to marque airy of the attack, portion Fox News seemed to support Twitter‘s caller brag Elon Musk for sharing a baseless conspiracy mentation astir the attack.
Musk wrote successful a tweet, that helium aboriginal deleted, “there is simply a tiny anticipation determination mightiness beryllium much to this communicative than meets the eye”.
He made the station portion sharing an nonfiction that claimed, without evidence, that the House speaker’s hubby met his attacker astatine a cheery bar.
Fox & Friends hosts came to the Tesla founder’s defence, claiming the merits of his station was astir “free speech” portion ignoring the contents of his connection were spreading misinformation.
David DePape reportedly wanted to ‘kneecap’ House Speaker
David DePape reportedly wanted to “kneecap” Nancy Pelosi successful bid to amusement that determination were “consequences to actions”, the Department of Justice filing read.
“Depape besides aboriginal explained that by breaking Nancy’s kneecaps, she would past person to beryllium wheeled into Congress, which would amusement different Members of Congress determination were consequences to actions.”
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 19:05
Trump blames ‘Democrat-run cities’ for onslaught connected Paul Pelosi
Former president Donald Trump has weighed successful connected the convulsive onslaught against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, successful an interrogation with a right-wing Spanish-language network.
Speaking to a big from Americano Media connected Monday, Mr Trump called the onslaught connected Mr Pelosi “a unspeakable thing” but suggested the convulsive battle and location penetration was a reflection of the conditions successful cities wherever voters take to elite Democrats, alternatively than a targeted onslaught connected the idiosyncratic who is 2nd successful the statesmanlike enactment of succession.
“Look astatine what’s happened to San Francisco, mostly — look astatine what is happening successful Chicago,” helium said, describing transgression successful the Windy City arsenic “ acold worse than Afghanistan”.
Andrew Feinberg has much of the details here.
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 19:00
David DePape faces national charges, Associated Press reports
David DePape, the antheral suspected of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s hubby Paul Pelosi with a hammer astatine their San Francisco home, is allegedly facing a complaint for threatening unit against a US official’s spouse.
The Associated Press reported the complaint connected Monday afternoon, 3 days aft the 42-year-old was accused of breaking and entering into the couple’s Pacific Heights location and assaulting the 82-year-old.
The Independent has much present successful this processing report.
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 18:56
Opinion: After the Paul Pelosi attack, there’s been nary soul-searching connected the right
Back successful 2008, the precocious congressman John Lewis — whose skull was erstwhile fractured by constabulary successful Selma, Alabama — warned that John McCain and Sarah Palin’s rhetoric astir then-Democratic nominee Barack Obama connected the run way mirrored that of segregationist Alabama politician George Wallace. That was not a examination that Lewis drew lightly, constitute The Independent’s Eric Garcia.
But implicit the 14 years that person elapsed betwixt Lewis’s informing astir extremist rhetoric and the menace connected Paul Pelosi’s life, the convulsive tenor of nationalist sermon has lone intensified. In 2010, plentifulness of Tea Party candidates alluded to violence; Nevada Senate campaigner Sharron Angle mused publically that “people are truly looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” The pursuing year, Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was changeable successful the head.
Eric Garcia, The Independent
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Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 18:00
What we cognize astir David DePape, the fishy successful the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi
The San Francisco Police Department has arrested 42-year-old David DePape for allegedly breaking into the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her hubby Paul Pelosi successful the aboriginal greeting hours of 28 October.
According to CBS News, the fishy repeatedly shouted “where is Nancy?” erstwhile confronted by Mr Pelosi.
Mr DePape volition beryllium charged with attempted homicide, among different charges, according to police.
Here, The Independent breaks down everything we cognize astir the fishy successful the attack, Mr DePape, truthful far.
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 17:30
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene defends Elon Musk posting conspiracy tweet astir onslaught of Paul Pelosi
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene took to Twitter to support the microblogging site’s caller owner, Elon Musk, aft the Tesla laminitis posted - and deleted - a tweet that supported an unsubstantiated conspiracy mentation astir the onslaught connected Nancy Pelosi‘s hubby Paul past week.
Musk shared a nexus connected Sunday to a quality nonfiction claiming without grounds that Mr Pelosi had met his attacker successful a San Francisco cheery barroom that night.
After deleting his tweet connected Sunday night, the Twitter proprietor posted a screenshot of a New York Times header reporting that helium had shared contented from a website “known to people mendacious news”, with a joking rebuttal: “This is fake – I did not tweet retired a nexus to The New York Times!”
The Georgia Republican took to the aforesaid societal media level connected Monday greeting to support Musk’s actions, penning successful a post: “The aforesaid mainstream media politician activists that sold conspiracy theories for years astir President Trump and Russia are present blaming @elonmusk for ‘internet misinformation’ astir Paul Pelosi’s person attacking him with a hammer.”
“The media is root of misinformation,” added the congresswoman, who herself is known to postulation successful conspiracy theories astir election fraud, QAnon and Covid-19 vaccines.
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 17:00
Donald Trump says Paul Pelosi onslaught was a ‘terrible thing'
Former President Donald Trump said during an interrogation connected Sunday that the onslaught connected Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hubby was a “terrible thing”.
“With Paul Pelosi, that’s a unspeakable thing, with each of them it’s a unspeakable thing,” the one-term president said successful an interrogation with Americano Media, a blimpish Spanish connection outlet.
“Look astatine what’s happened to San Francisco generally. Look astatine what’s happening successful Chicago. It was acold worse than Afghanistan.”
“We person to springiness the constabulary backmost their dignity, their respect. They tin lick the problem. But contiguous if a constabulary serviceman says thing that’s somewhat retired of enactment it’s similar the extremity of his life, the extremity of his pension, the extremity of his family,” helium continued. “We can’t bash that. We person to springiness the constabulary backmost their authorization and their powerfulness and their respect. Because this state is retired of control.”
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Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 16:40
Paul Pelosi’s lad says his dad’s information is improving: ‘They are rebuilding him slowly’
Paul Pelosi’s lad says his begetter appears to beryllium responding to attraction aft helium was brutally assaulted with a hammer during a location invasion.
“They are rebuilding him slowly,” Paul Pelosi Jr told reporters extracurricular the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center connected Sunday evening, according tothe New York Post.
Mr Pelosi Sr, 82, suffered a fractured skull erstwhile a antheral equipped with a hammer broke into the San Francisco location helium shares with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aboriginal connected Friday morning.
Bevan Hurley has much connected this processing story.
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 16:24
Fox News defends Elon Musk conspiracy tweet
Fox & Friends hosts addressed Elon Musk’s tweet, which was aboriginal deleted by the caller proprietor of Twitter, wherever helium appeared to enactment an unsubstantiated conspiracy mentation astir the onslaught connected Nancy Pelosi‘s hubby Paul past week.
Host Ainsley Earhardt defended the Tesla founder’s tweet arsenic “free speech” Mediaite first reported, portion Steve Doocy introduced the communicative by saying how, “Elon Musk has got radical connected the governmental near with their heads exploding”.
“He took down the tweet. San Francisco cops came retired and said it was intelligibly a break-in.”
“But the radical connected the near and the New York Times this greeting are saying ‘Hey, the feline successful complaint of Twitter is spreading disinformation,’” helium added, earlier posing the question to Ms Earhardt: “What volition the aboriginal of Twitter look like, Ainsley?”
“Well, each these celebrities and each of america should promote escaped speech,” she replied, earlier pivoting to marque the communicative astir “Big Tech” and censorship.
“And we shouldn’t promote censorship and power arsenic agelong arsenic it doesn’t pb to violence.”
Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 16:07
Don Jr continues posting ‘dangerous’, ‘homophobic’ memes mocking Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack
Donald Trump Jr took to Instagram and Twitter archetypal happening Monday greeting to proceed deriding Paul Pelosi’s onslaught by sharing respective memes that critics decried arsenic “dangerous” and “homophobic”.
In 1 of the much caller posts shared by the erstwhile president’s son, helium shared an altered South Park screenshot that showed 2 men having a intersexual narration with a hammer beside the bed, with 1 of the men saying successful a connection bubble: “Ah yes, officer, I’m being attacked”.
“Dear information checkers this has thing astatine each to bash with thing going connected successful the quality and simply posting a cartoon of what appears to beryllium an altered South Park scene,” Trump Jr wrote successful the caption.
Online, critics were speedy to decry his assorted memes that made amusive of the onslaught connected Mr Pelosi arsenic some “dangerous” and “homophobic”.
“How agelong person you been homophobic?” responded 1 Twitter idiosyncratic to his post, while different pointedly called the posts “dangerous”.
“Hey @GOPChairwoman & @GOP, archer america again however your enactment ne'er pushes hateful oregon unsafe rhetoric. Divisive, convulsive people,” tweeted different perceiver portion sharing a nexus to an nonfiction astir Mr Trump Jr sharing a meme astir a Halloween costume mocking the attack.
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Johanna Chisholm31 October 2022 15:45
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