{"id":1779648,"date":"2022-12-19T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779648"},"modified":"2022-12-19T06:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:18:38","slug":"son-of-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-says-father-wasnt-right-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/son-of-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-says-father-wasnt-right-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Alleged Paul Pelosi Attacker Says Father Wasn&#8217;t Right-Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fson-of-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-says-father-wasnt-right-wing%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=1779648&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>The son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-david-depape\">David DePape<\/a>, the man alleged to have attacked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-paul-pelosi\">Paul Pelosi<\/a>\u2014the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u2014in their home, said that he has \u201cmore questions than answers\u201d about the incident, nearly two months after it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I\u2019m surprised about the whole thing. There is still a lot of info that hasn\u2019t been given to the public. I have no clue what happened or how it happened. There are more questions than answers right now. Do we even know what really happened?\u201d Sky Gonzalez, who lives with his family in Berkeley, California,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11537665\/Son-Paul-Pelosis-alleged-attacker-David-DePape-breaks-silence.html\">told<\/a> the Daily Mail last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe isn\u2019t a danger to society, I don\u2019t even know if he even attacked Mr. Pelosi,\u201d he said, countering claims made by federal officials and the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez also claimed that the attack was not politically motivated, although San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins indicated that it was and that DePape had a list of targets that he wanted to attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father had a lot of political views and told me about a lot of different things, but he didn\u2019t subscribe to either political party, Democrat or Republican,\u201d he said, adding that he believed his father was a member of the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez disputed allegations that DePape was motivated by right-wing political views. DePape\u2019s former partner, nudist activist Oxane \u201cGypsy\u201d Taub, previously told media outlets that DePape had progressive views on a number of issues but was \u201cmentally ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father had progressive views. He believed in human rights, equality, and justice. He was against the war, he was a peace activist, hardly a right-wing conservative, as he has been branded,\u201d he told the tabloid.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gonzalez conceded that it has been several years since he\u2019s seen DePape: \u201c\u2018One day my father got into a fight with my mother, and she kicked him out and then we lost contact with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Charges<\/h2>\n<p>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy last week ruled that prosecutors had shown enough evidence during a preliminary hearing to move forward with a trial on the state charges, including attempted murder. DePape is due back in state court on Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>DePape is accused of breaking\u00a0into the Paul and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) San Francisco home Oct. 28, seeking to kidnap the speaker and instead hit her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, authorities said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4838475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-10-31T135744Z_1_LYNXMPEI9U0J4_RTROPTP_4_USA-PELOSI-HUSBAND-1200x801-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-4838475 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-10-31T135744Z_1_LYNXMPEI9U0J4_RTROPTP_4_USA-PELOSI-HUSBAND-1200x801-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. House Speaker Pelosi&#039;s husband violently assaulted during break-in at their house in San Francisco\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4838475 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-10-31T135744Z_1_LYNXMPEI9U0J4_RTROPTP_4_USA-PELOSI-HUSBAND-1200x801-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. House Speaker Pelosi&#039;s husband violently assaulted during break-in at their house in San Francisco\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A screen grab taken from video shows damage to the home of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after her husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted during a break-in at their house in San Francisco, California, U.S., October 28, 2022. KGO TV via ABC via REUTERS<\/figure>\n<p>Lt. Carla Hurley, who interviewed DePape for an hour the day of the attack, testified Wednesday that the defendant told her of other people he wanted to target, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, actor Tom Hanks, and President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden. Hurley did not say whether police had any evidence of a plot against them, and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said after the hearing she couldn\u2019t comment further.<\/p>\n<p>DePape, who appeared in court wearing orange jail clothes, has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges, including attempted murder, burglary, and elder abuse. He remains held without bail. \u201cThere is evil in Washington, what they did went so far beyond the campaign,\u201d DePape told Hurley, according to a recording of their interview that was played in court.<\/p>\n<p>Hurley said DePape told her that after he saw the lights of a police patrol car, he told Paul Pelosi, \u201cI\u2019m not going to surrender, I am here to fight. If you stop me from going after people, you will take the punishment instead,\u201d according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>However, there have been questions about what unfolded during the incident. An NBC News report about the attack that cited sources claimed DePape opened the door to their San Francisco home in October when police arrived. However, he did not try to escape or alert police to an emergency before walking to the police and back toward DePape.<\/p>\n<p>After that NBC video was published online, it was quickly retracted and the reporter, Miguel Almaguer, was suspended by the network. NBC provided no explanation for why it was pulled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unclear if the 82-year-old was already injured or what his mental state was, say sources,\u201d Almaguer said in the retracted report, which appeared to contradict what federal and local officials alleged about the attack in court papers.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York. He covers breaking news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of David DePape, the man alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi\u2014the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u2014in their home, said that he has \u201cmore questions than answers\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779651,"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":[547],"tags":[4038,8995,5458,6453,5531,3928,3819,10170,8647,4862],"class_list":["post-1779648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-alleged","tag-attacker","tag-bongino","tag-father","tag-paul","tag-pelosi","tag-report","tag-right-wing","tag-son","tag-wasnt"],"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\/1779648","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=1779648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}