The man accused of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, made a disturbing surprise call to the California TV station on Friday, saying he has no regrets about his actions last October. He suggested that he regretted not doing more harm.
David DePape, the man charged with attacking Pelosi, called a KTVU reporter from his cell at the San Francisco County Jail on Friday and only said, “Sorry, I couldn’t hear more.” The Station is a Bay Area Fox affiliate.
His remarks to reporter Amber Lee, in which he said on-air that his remarks sounded scripted, came on the same day a San Francisco court released police body-camera footage showing the frenzied moment of the attack. was broken. The bureau said the call was unexpected, but Lee had been in contact with him since he was arrested last year.
According to body camera footage, when officers approached the couple’s home in San Francisco in the early hours of Oct. 28, they found the assailant and Pelosi standing quietly, each with their hands on sledgehammers. was
After the officer demanded that the hammer be dropped, Mr. DePape took control of the hammer, lifted it above his head, and slammed it into Mr. Pelosi’s skull.
It was an extraordinary depiction of the brutal political violence that stemmed from an attempt to kidnap Mr. Pelosi, who was second only to the president at the time. Pelosi spent six days in a San Francisco hospital undergoing surgery for a skull fracture.
Debap’s tortuous remarks to KTVU further reveal how he was influenced to carry out the attack by right-wing conspiracy theories, such as the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. At the time of the attack, he was estranged from his family and was previously homeless.
At the beginning of the call, which lasted about five minutes, Mr. Dehapp said he wanted to make a statement to Mr. Lee, the station reported.
“Our reporters were not allowed to challenge his statements or ask follow-up questions,” reported KTVU. I said I didn’t want to expose it.”
It was not immediately clear whether the restrictions on follow-up questions were a prerequisite for contact from him. A public defender representing Mr. DePape was not immediately available on Saturday.
“I should have been more prepared” on the day of the attack, Mr Depp told the station. He added that those “killing” freedom “have names and addresses” and called for “heart-to-heart conversations about their bad behavior.”
In an interview with police shortly after the attack, Depapu said he was looking for Pelosi. Pelosi has been demonized and dehumanized by Republicans for decades. See she “boarded into parliament.”
Pelosi was not home the night of the attack.
Depapu told police: i know exactly what i did. “
He faces numerous felonies in state court, including attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He also faces federal indictments for attempted kidnapping of a federal employee and assault on a family member of a federal employee. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
