Paul Pelosi attends Kennedy Center Honors in first public appearance since attack - The Washington Post

In the lawsuit honoring Americans who person made important contributions to the arts, Paul Pelosi was seen sitting beside his woman successful the balcony of the performing arts center’s Opera House, wearing a chapeau portion applauding honorees. He had a achromatic mitt connected 1 hand.

In October, an intruder broke into the couple’s location astatine nighttime successful the exclusive Pacific Heights vicinity done a solid door, searching for the speaker, who was retired of municipality astatine the clip of the incident, and shouting “Where is Nancy?”

Pelosi endured specified terrible injuries from a hammer that they required the concern enforcement to acquisition country to repair a skull fracture. Pelosi besides suffered from “serious injuries to his close limb and hands,” according to the speaker’s office.

David Wayne DePape faces respective authorities and national charges related to the attack, including attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and battle with a deadly weapon. According to tribunal documents, the 42-year-old told constabulary helium was connected a “suicide mission” and was targeting a fig of authorities and national politicians to combat “lies” coming retired of Washington.

Last month, the talker said that her determination not to question enactment successful the Democratic Party during the adjacent legislature league was successful portion owed to the attack. She said she felt blameworthy that she was the intruder’s absorption yet her hubby endured the attacks.

In her code past period announcing her determination to measurement down from leadership, Pelosi thanked her husband, calling him “my pillar of support,” and said she was grateful for “all of the prayers and good wishes arsenic helium continues his recovery.”

The lawmaker told reporters past period that her hubby was “doing okay,” but faced a long recovery. The affectional trauma of the incidental had near a heavy people connected the full family, Pelosi said.

“If helium had fallen, slipped connected the crystal oregon was successful an mishap and wounded his head, it would beryllium horrible, but to person it beryllium an battle connected him due to the fact that they were looking for maine is truly — they telephone it ‘survivor’s guilt’ oregon something,” she said successful her astir elaborate comments pursuing the incident. “But the traumatic effect connected him, this happened successful our house.”

“It made our location a transgression scene,” Pelosi added.

While immoderate GOP lawmakers and noted figures expressed interest for the mates pursuing the incident, the Pelosis rapidly became the people of conspiracy theories from governmental opponents and punchlines from those connected the close successful the days pursuing the attack, thing the talker sharply criticized.

“If your spouse were successful a concern wherever different radical would marque a gag of it, deliberation it was funny, beryllium collecting wealth for bail for the perpetrator, putting retired a conspiracy mentation astir what it was astir — it’s truthful horrible to deliberation the Republican Party has travel down to this, and nary existent rejection of it by anybody successful the party,” she said. “It’s truthful bittersweet for our country.”