Nancy Pelosi on Saturday night mentioned she was ‘heartbroken and traumatized’ by the pre-dawn assault on her husband Paul inside their San Francisco house, however mentioned his ‘situation continues to enhance’.
Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of the Speaker of the Home, was violently assaulted by a hammer-wielding intruder within the early hours of Friday.
Nancy Pelosi was in Washington DC on the time, and flew to California on Friday to be by his bedside.
On Saturday, she issued a press release thanking well-wishers for his or her assist and praising the primary responders who got here to his support.
‘Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our household house, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul,’ she wrote, in a letter to her colleagues.
Nancy Pelosi is pictured in December 2019 at a dinner together with her husband Paul. Within the early hours of Friday an intruder broke into their house and attacked him with a hammer
‘Our kids, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening assault on our Pop.
‘We’re grateful for the short response of legislation enforcement and emergency providers, and for the life-saving medical care he’s receiving.’
Pelosi mentioned that her husband was grateful for the assist he had obtained from politicians throughout the nation.
‘Please know that the outpouring of prayers and heat needs from so many within the Congress is a consolation to our household and helps Paul make progress along with his restoration. His situation continues to enhance,’ she wrote.
She concluded with a Biblical citation, saying that they had been ‘comforted by the phrases of the E-book of Isaiah: “Don’t concern, for I’m with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I’m your God. I’ll strengthen you and allow you to. I’ll uphold you with my righteous proper hand.”’
Aerial footage confirmed damaged panes and shatter glass on the backdoor of Pelosi’s house
FBI brokers work exterior the house of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi the place her husband Paul Pelosi was ‘violently assaulted’ after a break-in at their home
David DePape, 42, was recognized as the person who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul with a hammer at their San Francisco house within the early hours of Friday morning
Joe Biden on Saturday mentioned that the assault appeared to have been ‘supposed for Nancy.’ He spent Friday night condemning the political rhetoric that whipped up frenzied, disturbed people to take excessive motion.
Biden mentioned Pelosi ‘appears to be doing so much higher’ after surgical procedure.
Pelosi’s attacker, 42-year-old David DePape, faces tried homicide fees. He’s believed to have damaged into the house round 2:30am, yelling: ‘The place’s Nancy?’ – a cry held on January 6 as rioters stormed the Capitol.
Pelosi’s son, Paul Jr, mentioned on Saturday he was optimistic about his father’s possibilities of making a restoration.
‘To date so good, to this point so good,’ he instructed Fox Information Digital exterior Zuckerberg San Francisco Common Hospital.
On Friday, Paul Jr was on the household house in San Francisco, and thanked well-wishers for his or her assist.
Joe Biden, seen on Saturday in Wilmington, Delaware along with his granddaughter Natalie, mentioned that he had heard Paul Pelosi ‘appears to be doing so much higher’ after surgical procedure
Paul Pelosi Jr is seen on Saturday exterior the San Francisco hospital the place his father is recovering
Pelosi is seen on Friday close to his mother and father’ home, and thanked well-wishers for his or her assist
Nancy Pelosi’s spokesman on Friday mentioned he had undergone surgical procedure for his fractured cranium and limbs, and was anticipated to make a full restoration.
‘Earlier this morning, Paul Pelosi was attacked at house by an assailant who acted with power, and threatened his life whereas demanding to see the Speaker,’ mentioned Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Speaker Pelosi.
‘Mr Pelosi was admitted to Zuckerberg San Francisco Common Hospital the place he underwent profitable surgical procedure to restore a cranium fracture and critical accidents to his proper arm and fingers.
‘His docs count on a full restoration.’
Police are but to ascribe a motive for DePape’s assault, however on-line accounts illustrated a highly-disturbed and suicidal particular person with hallucinations and far-Proper fixations.
DePape’s daughter mentioned her father is ‘consumed by darkness’ and sexually abused her and her brothers after they had been youngsters.
Inti Gonzalez blogged about him on Friday, writing within the put up, which has since been taken down, that her mom met DePape – whom she describes as her father – in Maui when she was pregnant together with her. The couple moved to the Bay Space quickly after Gonzalez was born.
Her mom Oxane ‘Gypsy’ Taub, 53, is in jail on 2021 youngster abuse fees.
Oxane ‘Gypsy’ Taub, who as soon as protested bare in entrance of San Francisco Metropolis Corridor (above), was convicted in 2021 for youngster abuse after stalking and harassing a 14-year-old boy
Taub (proper, pictured with Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape in 2013) was accused of sending messages to a former pal of her son, telling the minor that she wished to this point him and attempting to lure him to fulfill together with her secretly
Taub, pictured at a unadorned wedding ceremony ceremony by San Francisco Metropolis Corridor, was arrested in 2019 and convicted of her crimes towards the 14-year-old boy in 2021
The daughter of the person who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul with a hammer early Friday morning says that he is ‘consumed by darkness’ and sexually abused each her and her brothers earlier than their mom left him
Prosecutors mentioned Taub, who as soon as protested bare in entrance of San Francisco Metropolis Corridor, had been stalking a 14-year-old boy, sending him emails and messages and attempting to lure him to secretly meet together with her.
DePape minimize off contact with Taub and her youngsters after he was he was kicked out of their house and dwelling in a automotive, based on his on-line account.
On Saturday, The Washington Put up reported on DePape’s personal weblog, which was stuffed with delusional ideas.
The web site was registered below the identify ‘frenlyfriends.com’ – a time period that’s generally written as an acronym for Far Proper Ethno-Nationalist.
The week earlier than the assault, he wrote that an invisible fairy attacked an acquaintance, and generally appeared to him within the type of a hen.
DePape stuffed the weblog – which has now been taken down – with darkish and disturbing imagery. He revealed a drawing of the Satan kneeling and asking a caricature of a Jewish particular person to show him the humanities of ‘mendacity, deception, dishonest and incitement.’ The Put up reported.
A number of posts contained lifelike photos of rotting human flesh and blood, together with a zombified Invoice Gates and Hillary Clinton.
Others depict headless our bodies towards unsettling landscapes.
DePape wrote about enjoying video video games at a library and spending hours meditating.
He wrote condemnations of transgender folks, and diatribes towards feminists, who he known as ‘feminazis’. DePape mentioned he was being focused by legislation enforcement, and weighed in on the election.
‘No proof of election fraud. Any journalist saying that needs to be dragged straight out into the road and shot,’ he wrote.
In one other put up, he shared a picture of a fantasy miniature salamander he bought on Etsy.
He wrote that he was trying to buy a fairy home on Etsy however was pissed off that the doorways had been painted and so couldn’t be utilized by a fairy.
‘They’ve numerous fairy homes however NONE of them are MADE for fairies,’ he wrote, based on the Put up.
4 days earlier than the assault, he shared photos of a wood birdhouse he mentioned he had bought for an invisible fairy he communicated with.
David DePape, the previous nudist turned unhinged conspiracy theorist, who attacked Paul Pelosi inside his $6 million San Francisco house
DePape is a former nudist from British Columbia who has struggled with medication and posts crazed COVID conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic rants, racist slurs and unhinged screeds about faith on-line.
Cops say had been on the property within the unique Pacific Heights neighborhood after they noticed the suspect grapple with Pelosi, take the hammer after which hit him with it, inflicting extreme head, arm and hand accidents.
After they arrested Depape, they discovered a manifesto that contained anti-government COVID beliefs and a listing of different politicians he deliberate to focus on, KTVU reported.
Pelosi was taken into surgical procedure to restore a cranium fracture after the assault however is predicted to make a full restoration, whereas DePape is in custody and set to be charged with a number of felonies together with tried murder.
President Joe Biden known as the assault ‘horrible’ and Republican and Democrats condemned the violence because the Home Speaker rushed from DC to San Francisco to be at her husband’s aspect.
DePape, proper, is seen at a unadorned wedding ceremony on the steps of Metropolis Corridor in December 2013
DePape would incessantly put up conspiratorial weblog posts on his numerous web site
Pelosi was taken into mind surgical procedure after the assault however is predicted to make a full restoration, whereas DePape is about to be charged with a number of felonies together with tried murder. He’s pictured with Nancy on the Time 100 Gala in 2019
DePape grew up north of the border however moved from British Columbia to California 20 years in the past. He adopted a love curiosity, his stepfather instructed CNN, and members of the family have insisted he was a ‘good child’.
He ended up within the Berkeley space, an ultra-liberal enclave of the town, the place he lived in a three-bedroom Victorian flat with famed nudist activist Gypsy Taub and a bunch who believed 9/11 was an ‘inside job’.
A November 2008 article within the Oakland Tribune reported that he had ‘three babies’ with Russian-born Taub. She was quoted within the article on group meals saying: ‘In Russia, the place I’m from, folks share extra, and I would like my youngsters to develop up figuring out sharing.’
Taub and her fiance Jaymz Smith tapped DePape to be their finest man at their nudist wedding ceremony in 2013, however he stayed dressed and took pictures in the course of the ceremony that attracted an enormous police presence.
An acquaintance of his instructed CNN that DePape was battling onerous medication about eight years in the past however was ‘attempting to create a brand new life for himself.’ She mentioned she minimize off contact with DePape after receiving ‘disturbing’ emails wherein he sounded ‘harmful’ and ‘out of contact with actuality.’
His social media confirmed he posted conspiracy theories in regards to the origins of the covid epidemic, in regards to the validity of the 2020 election, and on the January sixth riot on Capitol Hill.
He first started posting on a weblog titled ‘God Is Loving’ in June 2007 with rambling screeds about faith. He stopped posting for 15 years – then all of a sudden began once more on August 24 this 12 months with racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and crazed entries in regards to the Q-Anon conspiracy principle.
DePape is pictured with the bride, Gypsy Taub, at her wedding ceremony to Jaymz Smith in December 2013
Aerial footage confirmed damaged panes and shatter glass on the backdoor of Pelosi’s house
The Pelosis personal a four-bedroom San Francisco house that sits in the midst of her congressional district and was bought in 2007 for $2.2 million however is regarded as price at the very least $6 million now
He posted obscene variations of Disney songs from YouTube together with one titled: ‘Do you need to **** a snowman?’ He posted a screed containing the n-word, and a put up titled ‘That is what a dumb b***h seems like’. Others had been titled: ‘Noah survived the collapse of Atlantis’, ‘Pedophile normalization’, ‘Info are Racist’, ‘Communist Voodoo science’, ‘I’m not sexist’ and ‘Feminist will get owned’.
On a separate weblog he arrange known as Frenly Frens, he wrote unhinged entries on how ‘Jews hate whites’, and a number of other posts about Donald Trump, together with one which mentioned: ‘Trump you NEEEEEEEED to make Tulsi your VP in 2024.’
He defended former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was discovered responsible of killing George Floyd.
DePape known as Chauvin’s trial ‘a contemporary lynching’ and falsely indicated that Floyd died of a drug overdose.
He additionally posted lengthy screeds about faith, together with claims that ‘Jesus is the anti christ.’ When DePaper broke into the Pelosis’ house, he was shouting ‘The place is Nancy? The place’s Nancy?’