{"id":1719522,"date":"2022-11-01T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719522"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:18:19","slug":"paul-pelosi-attack-suspect-wanted-to-hold-speaker-hostage-break-her-kneecaps-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-pelosi-attack-suspect-wanted-to-hold-speaker-hostage-break-her-kneecaps-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pelosi Attack Suspect Wanted To Hold Speaker Hostage, Break Her \u2018Kneecaps,\u2019 Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpaul-pelosi-attack-suspect-wanted-to-hold-speaker-hostage-break-her-kneecaps-police-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The suspect in the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband Paul Pelosi said he wanted to hold the Speaker herself hostage and break her kneecaps, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Monday, officials held a press conference revealing details of the altercation and, in a federal complaint said the suspect, David DePape, had zip ties, rope, and tape in a backpack. DePape, a 42-year-old male, allegedly broke into Pelosi\u2019s San Francisco home early Friday, found Paul Pelosi sleeping upstairs, and insisted on speaking with \u201cNancy,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/twitter-inc-san-francisco-conspiracy-theories-nancy-pelosi-congress-e2d8fc90553c24b5e5162e02e6378321\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The complaint also claims that DePape viewed Speaker Pelosi as the \u201cleader of the pack of lies told by the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf she were to tell DePape the \u2018truth,\u2019 he would let her go and if she \u2018lied,\u2019 he was going to break her kneecaps,\u201d the complaint notes. \u201cBy breaking Nancy\u2019s kneecaps, she would then have to be wheeled into Congress, which would show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions,\u201d it alleges DePape told authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul Pelosi attempted to escape the situation by accessing an elevator that contained a phone, but DePape did not let him. Pelosi then requested to go to the restroom and used his cell phone to call law enforcement. Once DePape understood that Pelosi had dialed 911, he took him to the front entry of the house. When law enforcement arrived on the scene, DePape had a hammer in his hand and \u201cviolently struck him [Pelosi] at the top of his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis house and the speaker herself were specifically targets,\u201d San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYes, it appears based on his statements and comments that were made in that house during his encounter with Mr. Pelosi that this was politically motivated,\u201d Jenkins also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nancy-paul-pelosi-targeted-in-politically-motivated-attack-sf-da-2022-10\">said<\/a>, adding that there was \u201can attempt to murder her husband at the time that the police arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She also pressed citizens to \u201cwatch the words that we say and to turn down the volume of our political rhetoric.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s very sad to see that we are once again at a point in history where people believe that it\u2019s okay to express their political sentiments through violence,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. We have to decide that we\u2019re going to be more respectful as an American society, that it\u2019s okay to disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jenkins told the AP that investigators believe DePape had carried out research ahead of time to go after Pelosi. \u201cThis was not something that he did at the spur of the moment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice filed federal kidnapping and assault charges against DePape. He was also charged by the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s Office with attempted murder, elder abuse, and other offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect in the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband Paul Pelosi said he wanted to hold the Speaker herself hostage and break her kneecaps, according to authorities.\u00a0 On Monday, officials held a press conference revealing details of the altercation and, in a federal complaint said the suspect, David DePape, had zip ties, rope, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1719525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}