![]() Mascaro reported from Washington and Dazio reported from Los Angeles. Steve Scalise was seriously injured when a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire on Republicans at a congressional baseball game practice. This summer, a man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland after threatening to kill him. The beating of the speaker’s husband follows other attacks and threats. Chief Tom Manger, who leads the force, has said the threat from lone-wolf attackers has been growing and the most significant threat the force is facing is the historically high number of threats against lawmakers, thousands more than just a few years before. Capitol Police have advised lawmakers to take precautions. With nearly 10,000 threats against members of Congress in the last year, U.S. ![]() Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was among those making light of the attack on Paul Pelosi, tweeting crude jokes about it. Capitol, when rioters trying to overturn Joe Biden’s election defeat of Donald Trump stormed the halls eerily calling “Where’s Nancy?” Some carried zip ties.Įlon Musk over the weekend tweeted, then deleted, a fringe website’s conspiracy theories to his millions of followers, as his purchase of Twitter has raised concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech. The attack was an unsettling echo of the Jan. DePape has lived for the past two years in a garage at a residence in Richmond, California, the complaint said. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.įamily described DePape as estranged, and he was known by some in San Francisco as a pro-nudity activist who appeared to embrace a range of conspiracy theories. Unlike presidents, congressional leaders have security protection for themselves, but not their families.ĭePape is a Canadian citizen who legally entered the United States in 2000 but has stayed long after his visa expired, according to a U.S. Speaker Pelosi, who was in Washington, D.C., at the time of the attack, returned swiftly to California. ![]() And Jenkins said Sunday, “We have nothing to suggest that these two men knew each other prior to this incident,” a statement contradicting vulgar unsupported suggestions on social media.ĭePape told investigators he didn’t leave even though he knew Paul Pelosi had called 911 because “much like the American founding fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender,” the affidavit said. In the ambulance to the hospital, Paul Pelosi told police he had never seen DePape before, the complaint said. She said police body camera footage “shows the attack itself.” Police later found a second hammer, along with rope, tape and a diary in DePape’s backpack. He also faces one count of attempted kidnapping of a United States official because of their official duties. In addition to the state charges, DePape was also charged Monday in federal court with influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal official by threatening or injuring a family member. A record number of security threats are being reported against lawmakers and election officials.Īt a campaign event Monday in Arizona, Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, drew hearty laughs as she joked about security at the Pelosi home. The stark narrative laid out by state and federal prosecutors stands in contrast to the mocking jokes and conspiracy theories circulated by far-right figures and even some leading Republicans just a week before midterm elections. She said he was making “steady progress on what will be a long recovery process.” In a statement late Monday, Speaker Pelosi said her family was “most grateful” for “thousands of messages conveying concern, prayers and warm wishes.” Her husband underwent surgery for a fractured skull and other injuries after the attack. “This was not something that he did at the spur of the moment,” she said. Investigators believe DePape had been researching in advance to target Pelosi, Jenkins said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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