Nancy Pelosi Provides First TV Interview Following Husband Paul’s Assault – Hollywood Life

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Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi was emotional as she gave her first tv interview since her husband, Paul Pelosi, was brutally attacked with a hammer of their San Francisco residence on Friday, October 28. Recalling studying concerning the incident, she stated she was at first confused when she heard loud bangs on her residence door in Washington, D.C. “I search for, I see it’s 5, they have to be on the incorrect residence,” she recalled to CNN’s Anderon Cooper. “So I run to the door, and I’m very scared. I see the Capitol Police and so they say, ‘We have now to return in to speak to you.’”

The 82-year-old politician stated she was shocked to study her husband, additionally 82, had been attacked. “I used to be very scared,” she remembered with tears in her eyes. “I’m pondering my youngsters, my grandchildren. I by no means thought it will be Paul as a result of, you realize, I knew he wouldn’t be out and about, let’s say.”

David DePape, 42, was rapidly recognized because the attacker. He meant to abduct Nancy and “break her kneecaps” if she “lied” to him concerning the info he needed from her, based on court docket paperwork obtained by the Day by day Mail. He referred to her because the “‘chief of the pack’ of lies instructed by the Democratic Celebration” when chatting with investigators. He additionally reportedly focused the Democratic chief to “present different Members of Congress there have been penalties to actions.”

As an alternative, David bought maintain of Paul and beat him with a hammer, fracturing his cranium. He was cared for on the Zuckerberg San Francisco Basic Hospital by the intensive care unit and was discharged on Nov. 3, six days after the horrifying assault. David pleaded not responsible to a myriad of expenses referring to the assault, together with tried homicide, housebreaking, and assault, per the Dail Mail, and is being held with out bail.

He’s dealing with as much as 50 years in jail for federal expenses, based on the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Northern District of California. “DePape is charged with one depend of assault of a direct member of the family of a United States official with the intent to retaliate in opposition to the official on account of the efficiency of official duties, which carries a most sentence of 30 years in jail,” the workplace instructed Fox Information in a press release. “DePape can also be charged with one depend of tried kidnapping of a United States official on account of the efficiency of official duties, which carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail.”

Nancy’s interview got here on the eve of the 2022 midterm elections. She revealed that the end result of the election and the horrific assault on her husband will decide if she retires from politics following a decades-long profession.