skokiaan
African original
amazing how MAGAts still not banned on sight on this site...there is good trolling then there is this..MODs do better..
have i been trolled to Bolivia
have i been trolled to Bolivia
Nancy Pelosi’s husband ATTACKED in their San Francisco home
- Thread starter CreepyMcCreeperson
- Start date
Cryptocurrency Scarface
Coinbased
No Security Guards, No dogs no alarm no fencing 
the 3rd most powerful person in America
I’m surprised CCP sleeper agents didn’t clap her with such lax security after that trip to Taiwan
the 3rd most powerful person in America
I’m surprised CCP sleeper agents didn’t clap her with such lax security after that trip to Taiwan
God Of Art
TheColi's Favorite Artist
30 yrs. He must've been mentally competent
David DePape sentenced to 30 years in attempted Nancy Pelosi kidnapping, hammer attack on husband
The sentencing caps a federal trial that raised chilling questions about the safety of public officials amid heightened political extremism and the proliferation of online platforms that give traction to baseless fanatical conspiracy theories.
www.latimes.com
David DePape sentenced to 30 years in attempted Nancy Pelosi kidnapping, hammer attack on husband
David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for the attempted kidnapping of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the brutal hammer attack on her husband in their Pacific Heights home.
(Michael Short / Associated Press)
By Hannah WileyStaff Writer
May 17, 2024 11:27 AM PT
SAN FRANCISCO —
A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, six months after a jury found him guilty of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and using a hammer to bludgeon her husband in a bloody October 2022 assault.
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley delivered her decision during a hearing at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, reprimanding DePape at length and saying she believed he continued to pose a danger to the public and “all Americans.”
“He broke into the home of that public official, he broke into that private space of home and violently attacked a public official’s spouse,” Scott Corley said. “What that means and why this now is so harmful to everyone in the country and the future, is that when someone is considering now whether they want to go into public service, they have to think not only am I willing to take that risk myself, but am I willing to risk my spouse, my children, my grandchildren.”
DePape, dressed in an orange jail sweatsuit and wearing ankle restraints, his hair pulled back in a low ponytail, did not outwardly react to the sentence.
The sentencing caps a federal trial that captivated the nation and raised chilling questions about the safety of public officials amid heightened political extremism and the proliferation of online venues that give traction to baseless fanatical conspiracy theories.
In letters to the judge that their daughter, Christine Pelosi, read in court, both Nancy and Paul Pelosi asked the judge to impose lengthy sentences.
In her letter, Nancy Pelosi said her husband continues to suffer physically and emotionally from the attack, and that the violent incident “has had a devastating effect on three generations of our family.”
“It is therefore necessary that the guilty party’s sentence be very long as a punishment for the attack and the injuries Paul continues to suffer — and as a deterrent to others considering violence against public officials,” the former speaker wrote.
Paul Pelosi said his life “has been irrevocably changed,” and that he hasn’t fully recovered from his injuries. He noted that a blood stain on the front entryway and the metal plate now embedded in his head serve as enduring reminders of the assault.
Federal prosecutors had requested a 40-year federal prison term with a terrorism enhancement, arguing that DePape has demonstrated no remorse for his crimes and that a tough sentence would serve as a deterrent to other would-be assailants motivated by ideological extremism.
“At a time when extremism has led to attacks on public and elected officials, this case presents a moment to speak to others harboring ideologically motivated violent dreams and plans,” Assistant U.S. Attys. Helen Gilbert and Laura Vartain Horn wrote in a May 10 filing.
DePape faced a combined 50 years in federal prison: 30 years on the assault charge and 20 years for the attempted kidnapping. Scott Corley sentenced him to the maximum term on both counts, but to be served concurrently for a total of 30 years. He will get credit for the roughly 18 months he has spent in state custody.
DePape, 44, was accused of traveling from his Richmond residence to the Pelosis’ Pacific Heights home in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2022, with plans to hold the lawmaker hostage and interrogate her regarding unfounded claims fueled by far-right conspiracy theorists of corruption and human trafficking and child abuse by Democrats and other public figures.
DePape broke into the home, but instead of finding Nancy Pelosi, who was in Washington at the time, he stumbled across the bedroom where her husband was sleeping.
“The door opened and a very large man came in, with a hammer in one hand and some ties in the other hand,” Paul Pelosi testified. “And he said, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ And I think that’s what woke me up.”
He testified he was able to get to his cellphone in the bathroom and dial 911. When the police arrived, the two men were struggling over DePape’s hammer. The prosecutors showed jurors graphic police body-camera video of DePape bludgeoning Paul Pelosi, then 82, fracturing his skull and seriously injuring his right arm and left hand.
CALIFORNIA
Paul Pelosi testifies that he knew he was in ‘serious danger’ before hammer attack
Nov. 13, 2023Still-pending state charges accuse DePape of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and threats to a public official and her family. In contrast, the federal trial centered on whether DePape’s actions that morning were indelibly tied to Speaker Pelosi’s official duties in Congress.
In making their case, federal prosecutors provided jurors a detailed review of DePape’s online purchases and search history to demonstrate how he spent months preparing for the attack. Jurors heard portions of a police interview in which DePape said he considered Speaker Pelosi the Democrats’ “leader of the pack,” and said he would “break her kneecaps” if she didn’t admit to corruption and other claims of human trafficking and child abuse.
DePape’s federal public defenders, Jodi Linker and Angela Chuang, had urged the judge to consider a more lenient 14-year sentence, arguing their client suffers from mental health issues and trauma from an abusive relationship with Gypsy Taub, his former romantic partner and the mother of his children.
Linker and Chuang never disputed that their client committed the violence. They instead tried to convince the jury that DePape was motivated by elaborate conspiracy theories that were nonetheless his deeply held beliefs.
Nov. 14, 2023
They referenced support letters from family and friends describing the crimes as “completely out of character.”
“David was never violent when he was young, and I am sorry that this has happened,” DePape’s stepfather, Gene DePape, wrote in a statement to The Times. “I am very sorry to Paul and Nancy.”
DePape’s attorneys wrote in a May 10 sentencing memo that he has been diagnosed with an undisclosed mental illness and that it would be unjust for him to receive a lengthier prison term than certain Jan. 6 defendants convicted of violently storming the Capitol.
The attorneys based much of their request for leniency on the influence of Taub, a Bay Area nudism activist who recently served time in state prison for trying to abduct a 14-year-old boy in Berkeley. They maintained Taub isolated DePape from his family and “immersed him in a world of extreme beliefs where reality is not reality.”
David DePape with Gypsy Taub at her nude wedding on the steps of San Francisco City Hall in 2013.
(San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
“His long-term relationship with his ex-partner, Gypsy Taub, inflicted immeasurable harm to his mental state and what little support network he had in the form of his family,” DePape’s attorneys wrote.
Chuang reiterated that argument during the sentencing hearing, saying DePape was “gaslit, abused and he was very intentionally cut off from his family,” while Taub watched quietly from a court bench.
In a recorded audio statement she sent The Times this week, Taub dismissed the attorneys’ allegations of abuse, saying: “I love David. I will always love him, regardless of what he does or says.”
“He’s an incredibly beautiful human being. But he’s very broken,” Taub said.
During an interview with The Times before DePape’s trial in her cluttered, eclectic Berkeley home, Taub espoused a number of conspiracy theories, using phrasing nearly identical to what DePape conveyed in his testimony, including her belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were really “an inside job” and that government has been corrupted by satanic cults that prey on children.
At the time, she was adamant DePape had been falsely accused in the Pelosi attack, describing him as sweet and gentle. He was such a nice person, she said, that even after she married another man, she allowed DePape to keep living in her home and supported him financially.
In one video Taub shared from more than a decade ago, she and DePape are nude, discussing his recent experience with psychedelics at a Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
“What is your dream for the planet,” Taub asked.
“I’d really like there to be peace,” he responded.
“And if the whole world could hear you right now, what would be your message to the world,” she asked.
“God is love. God is loving,” he said. “And this is an illusion.”
crashed out attempting to kidnap the 3rd person in line for the U.S presidency. conspiracy nuts
I'm surprised he didnt kill the husband he had him dead to rights...
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
Call me a dummy but I'm still not buying story as it's currently told. 
Call me a dummy but I'm still not buying story as it's currently told.
Aiight, dummy, what scoop do you have on this?OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
An everyday Joe having easy access to one of the most power politician's home don't sit right with me. Personally, I think her husband knows the dude but I'm not implying he's a bussy bandit thought.
Security follows her around, not the hubby..he was home alone.
David DePape found guilty on all charges in state trial for attack on Paul Pelosi
A state jury in San Francisco has found David DePape guilty on all charges related to his home invasion hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
www.cbsnews.com
David DePape found guilty on all charges in state trial for attack on Paul Pelosi
By Dave Pehling
Updated on: June 21, 2024 / 6:06 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO -- A state jury on Friday found David DePape guilty on all charges related to his home invasion hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
DePape was found guilty of the five counts he faced in the state trial, including aggravated kidnapping resulting in bodily harm or death, false imprisonment of an elder or dependent adult, threatening family of public officials, first degree residential burglary and preventing or dissuading a witness by force or threat.
The jury reached a unanimous decision on all five counts, court officials said.
The jury began its deliberations Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco. Court officials said the verdict had been reached Friday afternoon and announced the jury's verdict shortly after 4 p.m. There was no court on Wednesday because of the Juneteenth holiday.
During his closing arguments, San Francisco Public Defender Adam Lipson said DePape had been living a solitary life and had gone "down the rabbit hole of propaganda and conspiracy theories" when he broke into the Pelosis' home on Oct. 28, 2022.
Aaron Bennett, spokesman for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, issued this statement on behalf of the Pelosi family:
"Speaker Pelosi and her family remain in awe of their Pop's bravery, which shone through again on the witness stand in this trial just as it did when he saved his own life on the night of the attack. For nearly 20 grueling months, Mr. Pelosi has demonstrated extraordinary courage and fortitude every day of his recovery. The Pelosi family is grateful for the kind thoughts and prayers they continue to receive. Speaker Pelosi and her family will refrain from further substantive comment until sentencing is complete."
After the verdict was read, outside the courtroom, Lipson questioned the prosecutors' decision to file a kidnapping for ransom charge after several charges were dismissed earlier in the trial.
"Disappointed with the verdict, obviously. I don't believe that this was a kidnapping for ransom. I think that it's really unfortunate it was charged this way," said Lipson. "It was sort of a textbook vindictive prosecution. As soon as they found out that the attempted murder charge was going to be dismissed, they added this charge."
Earlier this month, the judge in the state trial granted a defense motion to dismiss three counts in the case against DePape -- attempted murder, assault of an elder and assault with a deadly weapon -- based on the public defender's argument that the counts fell under double jeopardy.
DePape was sentenced last month to 30 years in federal prison after a jury in November 2023 found him guilty of attempting to hold then-Speaker Pelosi hostage and assaulting her husband at the couple's San Francisco mansion in Pacific Heights.
The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi was captured on police bodycam video after officers responded to his 911 call and found him struggling with DePape who then bludgeoned Pelosi with a hammer. Just days before the 2022 midterm elections, the incident sent shockwaves through the political world and was attributed to the predictable effects of increasingly demonizing political rhetoric.
Opening statements in the state trial began in late May, a day after DePape's federal sentencing was reopened to allow him to speak after a procedural error during his original sentencing.
Lipson also noted that the guilty verdict on all five counts means that following his 30-year federal prison sentence, DePape could be facing spending the rest of his life in a California prison rather than being deported to Canada.
Commit a crime against a high ranking house representative in America and get sentenced to life in American prison, Canadian Crehs
Notice how in this case they hardly ever mentioned he was Canada.
His illegal status was glossed over because the media don't really see him as foreign
Dudley Dooright in Pelican Bay.David DePape found guilty on all charges in state trial for attack on Paul Pelosi
A state jury in San Francisco has found David DePape guilty on all charges related to his home invasion hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
David DePape found guilty on all charges in state trial for attack on Paul Pelosi
By Dave Pehling
Updated on: June 21, 2024 / 6:06 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO -- A state jury on Friday found David DePape guilty on all charges related to his home invasion hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
DePape was found guilty of the five counts he faced in the state trial, including aggravated kidnapping resulting in bodily harm or death, false imprisonment of an elder or dependent adult, threatening family of public officials, first degree residential burglary and preventing or dissuading a witness by force or threat.
The jury reached a unanimous decision on all five counts, court officials said.
The jury began its deliberations Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco. Court officials said the verdict had been reached Friday afternoon and announced the jury's verdict shortly after 4 p.m. There was no court on Wednesday because of the Juneteenth holiday.
During his closing arguments, San Francisco Public Defender Adam Lipson said DePape had been living a solitary life and had gone "down the rabbit hole of propaganda and conspiracy theories" when he broke into the Pelosis' home on Oct. 28, 2022.
Aaron Bennett, spokesman for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, issued this statement on behalf of the Pelosi family:
"Speaker Pelosi and her family remain in awe of their Pop's bravery, which shone through again on the witness stand in this trial just as it did when he saved his own life on the night of the attack. For nearly 20 grueling months, Mr. Pelosi has demonstrated extraordinary courage and fortitude every day of his recovery. The Pelosi family is grateful for the kind thoughts and prayers they continue to receive. Speaker Pelosi and her family will refrain from further substantive comment until sentencing is complete."
After the verdict was read, outside the courtroom, Lipson questioned the prosecutors' decision to file a kidnapping for ransom charge after several charges were dismissed earlier in the trial.
"Disappointed with the verdict, obviously. I don't believe that this was a kidnapping for ransom. I think that it's really unfortunate it was charged this way," said Lipson. "It was sort of a textbook vindictive prosecution. As soon as they found out that the attempted murder charge was going to be dismissed, they added this charge."
Earlier this month, the judge in the state trial granted a defense motion to dismiss three counts in the case against DePape -- attempted murder, assault of an elder and assault with a deadly weapon -- based on the public defender's argument that the counts fell under double jeopardy.
DePape was sentenced last month to 30 years in federal prison after a jury in November 2023 found him guilty of attempting to hold then-Speaker Pelosi hostage and assaulting her husband at the couple's San Francisco mansion in Pacific Heights.
The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi was captured on police bodycam video after officers responded to his 911 call and found him struggling with DePape who then bludgeoned Pelosi with a hammer. Just days before the 2022 midterm elections, the incident sent shockwaves through the political world and was attributed to the predictable effects of increasingly demonizing political rhetoric.
Opening statements in the state trial began in late May, a day after DePape's federal sentencing was reopened to allow him to speak after a procedural error during his original sentencing.
Lipson also noted that the guilty verdict on all five counts means that following his 30-year federal prison sentence, DePape could be facing spending the rest of his life in a California prison rather than being deported to Canada.
