HEY PAUL PELOSI. Now that you're "on the mend" maybe it's time to RELEASE THE BODY CAM FOOTAGE and 911 call. YOUR FAMILY continues to blame JANUARY SIXTH for the "incident" at your house. MANY do not believe that! Including the alleged attacker's Son, a nice guy! pic.twitter.com/kmsWJSCEba
According to KRON4, we have bodycam footage updates:
David DePape’s case will move forward to trial and the alleged Paul Pelosi attacker will be tried on all charges, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday. DePape, who appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit Wednesday, was arrested on Oct. 28 after allegedly attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer inside their Pacific Heights home.
At today’s preliminary hearing, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to move forward with a trial.
Follow along for updates:
2:22 p.m. — David DePape will be tried on all charges, judge rules
Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy just ruled that the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has enough evidence against David DePape to move the case forward to trial on all charges.
DePape’s defense attorney never disputed that his client was in fact the person who broke into the Pelosi’s home and beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer. DePape made a full confession to police during interrogations and video of the interrogation was played in court.
The most serious charge is premeditated attempted murder.
Defense attorney Adam Lipson tried to argue that the attack was not premeditated, nor attempted murder.
The defense pointed to DePape’s statements to Mr. Pelosi and police, in which he said he was targeting Nancy Pelosi, not Paul Pelosi, and intended to break Nancy’s kneecaps – not kill her.
However, Judge Murphy disagreed with the defense.
The judge said:
“It appears he formed the intent early on to take out anybody who was in his way. Mr. Pelosi got in his way, in particular when he called 911. After the call, (DePape) told (Paul Pelosi) he can take Mr. Pelosi out. He said this not once, but repeatedly. At least 10 times. It’s worth pointing out Mr. DePape’s own statements. He said they are all ‘crazy and we need to take them out.’ He said Mr. Pelosi pushed him in a corner by calling the police. He also said and admitted ‘I have to do something. I have other targets, I can’t be stopped by him. I’m here for the fight. To fight tyranny. If you stop me from going after evil, you will take the punishment instead,’ further confirming his intent. He hit Mr. Pelosi with full force using a substantial weapon. The evidence is sufficient to show Mr. DePape intended to kill Paul Pelosi and did so with premeditation.”
Assistant District Attorney Phoebe Maffei described DePape’s plot as “cold and calculated.”
“We heard the 911 call. In the 911 call we heard Mr. Pelosi trying very cooling to convey to the 911 dispatcher the situation he was in. Throughout that time, the defendant was trying to sway the victim from getting help. We heard about a motive — to wipe out the people who he believes are corrupt. When describing what he was doing, he said “he’s pushing me into a corner where I have to do something. I have other targets. I can’t be stopped by him. If I have to go through him, I will. I didn’t come here to surrender and I told him I will go through him,” Maffei told the judge.
“The manner in which the defendant intended to kill Mr. Pelosi. The court was able to see the size of the hammer and review the medical records. The most stark picture is in the CT scan where you can clearly see a very large indentation in the victim’s skull. The video and the injuries paint the picture. From the video you can see these were wounds he received because he was trying to defend his head. He was unable to stop the blows from a very large hammer … full force,” Maffei said.
Also according to KRON4, here is a transcript of that bodycam footage:
The prosecutor played a 15-second video clip from an officer’s body worn camera. The body camera recorded the front door opening, the hammer attack, and DePape being tackled and arrested. Reporters in the courtroom gallery could only hear (not see) the video because the TV monitor was facing toward the judge.
Officer: Good morning, what’s going on man?
DePape: Everything’s good.
Officer: Drop the hammer!
(Sounds of a struggle are heard as DePape struck Paul Pelosi with the hammer).
Officer: Oh s**!
(The situation turned from calm to chaotic in 2 seconds. One officer charged at DePape and tackled him to the ground. Paul Pelosi was unconscious, facedown on the ground, and in a pool of blood.)
End of body camera video.
Cross-examination by defense attorney Adam Lipson, deputy public defender:
(The cross exam was extremely brief)
Defense: When the door first opened and you saw Mr. Pelosi, he didn’t appear to have any injuries on him correct?
Officer: None sir.
San Francisco Police Department officer Kyle Cagney was excused from the stand.
Second witness called to the witness stand to testify:
San Francisco Police Department Lt. Carla Hurley
Hurley’s division is in charge of investigating threats against public officials and hate crimes.
She interviewed Paul Pelosi at San Francisco General Hospital on October 30, 2022 for one hour.
Prosecutor: How did he first encounter the suspect?
Hurley: He said this man was in his room and woke him up. (At 2:10 a.m.) He asked him, are you Paul Pelosi? He said yes.
Prosecutor: How did Mr. Pelosi feel?
Hurley: He was startled. (DePape) asked him where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy? He said she’s not here. He asked him when she was going to be back. He told him she’s in Washington and will be back in a couple of days.
He asked the man, why do you want to talk to Nancy? He replied, she was second-in-line for the Presidency and they are all corrupt and we need to take them out.
(DePape) was holding a hammer in one hand and plastic zip cords in the other hand. He said he was going to tie Mr. Pelosi up and wait for her to come back.
Mr. Pelosi dialed 911 on speaker so the defendant would know he was calling police.
Mr Pelosi said he was on the phone and the defendant was telling him things like, tell them you’re ok, hang up, he was motioning for him to hang up the phone, don’t tell them anything.
(After the 911 call) Mr. Pelosi suggested to the defendant that they go downstairs. The defendant had told Mr. Pelosi that he left his backpack downstairs. Mr. Pelosi suggested that hey let’s go downstairs.
Prosecutor: Did (DePape) make threats?
Hurley: He told him several times, I can take you out, I can take you out. Mr. Pelosi was very concerned for his safety. He knew the police were probably on their way so he wanted to get him downstairs. The doorbell rang.
Mr. Pelosi went and opened the door. The defendant came around to the right side of Mr. Pelosi with the hammer. (Mr. Pelosi) grabbed the handle of the hammer. The defendant yanked the hammer away and that’s all he could remember. He woke up in a pool of blood.
Lt. Hurley interviewed David DePape on October 28, 2022. The police interrogation tape was played in court.
(DePape was friendly and blunt during the interrogation. DePape said he did not know what his phone number or home address was.)
Hurley: Where do you stay?
DePape: I know how to get there, I don’t know the address. In Richmond.
(Hurley read DePape his Miranda Rights)
Hurley: Do you know why you are in custody?
DePape: Oh absolutely. I’m not trying to get away with it. I know exactly what I did. The lies are insane. People in Washington. It originates with Hillary. Honestly, day in and day out, the person on TV lying every day was (Nancy) Pelosi. It’s f**king insane the crime spree the Democrats have been on, persecuting the rival campaign.
Hurley: Do you mean the Trump campaign?
DePape: Yes Trump. (The Democrats) go from one crime to another crime. It’s a whole f**king four years. It’s unacceptable.
Hurley: What was your intention going there (Pelosi’s house)?
DePape: Well, I was basically going to hold her hostage and talk to her. If she told the truth, I’d let her go. If she told a lie, I’d break her kneecaps.
Hurley: Did you really think that she would tell the truth?
DePape: No.
Hurley: How did you get in?
DePape: It was not easy. There are cameras everywhere. A thousand cameras. I broke through (the glass door with a hammer) and I tried to turn the handle, and of course it’s locked. I body slammed through it. I didn’t feel any pain. I was surprised. All that noise, he did not hear it. He was asleep. I told him I’m looking for Nancy Pelosi. He was like, how can we resolve this? I was like, I don’t know. That’s when he started to do things.
(Paul Pelosi tried to escape in the elevator but was blocked by DePape).
DePape: I told him, I have other targets. I can’t be stopped right now. If I have to go through him, I will.
(Paul Pelosi tried to reassure DePape that the police were not coming.
DePape: I told him I’m not f**king stupid. And you’re not f**king stupid either. There’s no way they got that phone call and are not coming here. I see flashing lights of a police car. The door is open the cops are standing there. (Paul Pelosi) thinks that I’ll just surrender. I told him that I will go through him. I’m there to fight. I threatened him a couple times. I told him I’m here to fight. If you stop me, you will take the punishment instead. I yanked it away from him, I swung at him. I jump into action. They jump into action. They are on top of my instantly.
10:40 a.m. — Prosecutors present hammer allegedly used in attack
A San Francisco police officer testified Wednesday that he witnessed a man attack the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer inside the couple’s home.
DePape, wearing an orange jumpsuit during a preliminary hearing in state court, has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges, including attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse. He remains held without bail.
Prosecutors presented the hammer that was allegedly used in the assault during Wednesday’s proceedings, which were attended by Christine Pelosi, one of the Pelosis’ five adult children.
9:51 a.m. — Prosecutors play 911 call Paul Pelosi made to dispatchers
The prosecutor played the 911 call Paul Pelosi made to dispatchers when David DePape was inside the Pelosi home, asking about Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts and holding Paul Pelosi hostage. Prosecutors said Pelosi did his best to tip off the dispatcher that something was wrong without angering DePape, who was standing nearby and listening.
Here is a transcript of the call:
Dispatcher: Who is this? Do you need help?
Paul Pelosi: There is a gentleman here waiting for my wife to come, waiting for my wife to come back. She’s not going to be here for days so I guess we will have to wait.
Dispatcher: Do you need police or fire?
Paul Pelosi: I don’t think so. Is the Capitol Police around? They are usually here at the house protecting my wife.
Dispatcher: No, this is San Francisco police.
Paul Pelosi: No I understand. OK well, what do you think? I’ve got a problem, but he says everything is good. The gentleman came into the house.
Dispatcher: Do you know who the person is?
Paul Pelosi: No, I don’t know who he is. He told me not to do anything.
Dispatcher (speaking in more urgent tone of voice): What is your address sir? What is your name?
Paul Pelosi: My name is Paul Pelosi.
Dispatcher: What’s the gentleman’s name?
Paul Pelosi: His name is David.
Dispatcher: Who is David?
Paul Pelosi: I don’t know.
David DePape: I’m a friend of theirs.
Dispatcher: I can stay on the phone to make sure everything is OK.
Paul Pelosi: No, he’s telling me to get the hell off the phone.
End of 911 call.
8:48 a.m. — Prosecutors arrive at the courthouse
DePape has been charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, attacking a family member of a public official and elderly abuse. Speaker Pelosi was in Washington D.C. at the time of the attack.
Here’s a reminder of the full case details and how they make NO sense!
The Official Paul Pelosi Makes NO Sense — FULL BREAKDOWN
Who knew we’d end up covering Paul Pelosi just as much, or more, than good old Nancy?
But it’s true.
Until a few months ago, I didn’t even know the guy’s name.
Then we had the infamous DUI arrest and glamshot mugshot:
But now I want to talk about the "official story" they are trying to sell us and why it doesn't seem to make any sense.
Was this another October Surprise False Flag?
As a reminder, I always explain every time we talk about False Flags...it doesn't mean the event didn't happen. It just means the official story and the "official" reason behind it being sold by the MSM is likely not accurate.
So is that what we have here?
Or is this more of an old-fashioned cover up?
A night gone bad?
A private affair turned bad?
I really don't know at this point.
I kind of lean more towards FF, but I'll lay it all out and let you decide.
Here's the official story that they want you to believe:
A far-right MAGA character who spends his time obsessing over far-right conspiracy theories but lives in a "Hippie Commune" with Rainbow flags in San Fransisco, breached all security at Nancy Pelosi's house (the third in line to the Presidency [shudder]), he did so in his underwear, he came in screaming "Where's Nancy?", then he finds Paul Pelosi also in his underwear, a hammer appears, or maybe it's two hammers, that part is unclear, they struggle over the hammer, meanwhile the police show up on the scene allegedly for a "wellfare check" at 2am and not because they were called about the break-in, they arrive during the struggle over the hammer, the police are let into the house by an unknown third party, the police then watch the far-right MAGA guy assault Paul Pelosi with a hammer and then they intervene to break it up and take the far-right MAGA guy to jail.
Listen here as Greg Price breaks it down better than I just did:
Now let's get into the details and I'll show you what I mean...
First, we start with the official MSM story and you can see they're trying to tie this to "all of MAGA" and also to "J6".
How convenient:
There are those who will dismiss the meaning of the assault on Pelosi as the act of a lone, unsettled man. But he was echoing far-right conspiracy theories, legitimated by cynical people for their own purposes. There were many hands on that hammer. https://t.co/Iuf1crZsne
Reportedly Paul Pelosi attacker is David Depape — a Castro supporting nudist transient from Berkeley CA (he’s on the far LEFT literally and figuratively) pic.twitter.com/nR46npzcM6
The media narrative right now is that a nudist Castro protestor who made hemp jewelry for a living in the house with "Black Lives Matter" signs and gay pride flags is somehow "far right."
**NEW**: Police audio of SFPD's 'welfare check' call about Paul Pelosi says that he called "David" a "friend" who seemed "confused."
Context: This was a Berkeley nudist in his underwear struggling with another man in his underwear over a hammer at 2:30 am in San Francisco #fwiwpic.twitter.com/n7nplNMxOA
Kyle Becker joked when the story first broke that someone probably held the door open for the attacker:
So a 46-year-old dude in his underwear wielding a hammer got past security into the speaker's... house & accosted her drunk of a husband but only wanted to deliver an 'anti-government manifesto' just before an election?
What, did security hold open the door? Amazing coincidence!
The joke was a reference to what happened on J6 -- as those doors are magnetically sealed and DO NOT OPEN unless opened from the inside.
Turns out his joke ended up prophetic:
"Officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door and were let inside by an unknown person."
It was JUST A JOKE when I compared the Paul Pelosi break-in to January 6. I said that someone 'must have held the door open' for the intruder. JUST A JOKE.
The one thing we seem to know for sure is none of these details are connecting and making sense.
DeputyMatt points out the attacker is "all over the place" politically...and hardly a far-right MAGA guy:
The whole #pelosiattack is NOT what the left leaning MSM is making it out to be DePape is not a right wing MAGA guy, he's a crazy doper who is all over the place on politics
Paul knew his name & called him a friend in 911 call
Perhaps they took a far-left guy and made him a patsy.
Tried to rebrand him and did a sloppy job of it over the last 2 months.
Read this:
Regarding the Paul Pelosi attack by David Depape, if you look through his entire WordPress, he stopped posting in 2007 and suddenly started again 2 months ago as seemingly an entirely different person? I'm calling BS. He's an SF hippy/progressive. This doesn't smell right. pic.twitter.com/lb8VUtamL9
And why are the police allegedly there on a "well being check"?
Who made that call?
Just a random coincidence they show up during a crime?
Really?
Anyone buying this?
“authorities were dispatched to the Pelosi residence in the city at approximately 2:27 a.m. for “a priority well-being check,” when they found a 42-year-old man — identified as David DePape — and Paul Pelosi “both holding a hammer.” https://t.co/OlyZ6glcvt
One of the biggest questions also brings echoes of J6.
You mean to tell me some 42 year old guy in his underwear snuck past ALL the security at Nancy Pelosi's house (and you know it's heavily guarded)...
Really?
Just snuck in the back door?
Well, I mean he MAY have snuck in the "back door" according to some of these reports -- but not the back door of the house:
OAN hosts claims Paul Pelosi was using hammer as a self defense and says "How did he get into the property without the alarm going off or any cops police or security knowing it. This is Nancy Pelosi's home where her husband a multimillionaire is living." pic.twitter.com/HtT8ENJ2FH
Many continue to echo the idea it was a gay hook-up gone bad...
We are not making any claims one way or the other, just reporting what others are speculating about:
I don’t get it. Cops showed up at the Pelosi residence on a “wellness check,”not about a break-in. And they found Paul in a domestic argument with a grown man in his underwear? And then the hippie grabbed the hammer from Paul and struck him in the presence of the cops? Sounds gay
I hope Paul Pelosi isn't going to publicly deny his gay sex partner & insult the Gay Community? He needs to ride that ownership into Town on a Rainbow 🌈 coloured Unicorn.
— The White Rabbit Podcast 🐰 (@AllBiteNoBark88) October 29, 2022
Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), “underwent successful surgery” for head and body injuries on Friday after an assailant broke into the couple’s home and “violently assaulted” him with a hammer.
Drew Hammill, the Speaker’s spokesperson, said Paul Pelosi, 82, was admitted to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for surgery to “repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands.”
“His doctors expect a full recovery,” Hammill added.
Bill Scott, chief of the San Francisco Police Department, told reporters on Friday that authorities were dispatched to the Pelosi residence in the city at approximately 2:27 a.m. for “a priority well-being check,” when they found a 42-year-old man — identified as David DePape — and Paul Pelosi “both holding a hammer.”
“The suspect pulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it,” Scott said.
Officers tackled the suspect, disarmed him and took him into custody on several charges, including attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary, according to Scott. He will be booked at the San Francisco County jail.
Scott said there will be “several other additional felonies.”
The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer had been living in a school bus weeks before the attack, neighbors said.
Those who know David DePape, 42, told The Post they’ve seen him living in a yellow school bus parked in front of the Berkeley home of his ex, San Francisco pro-nudist activist Gypsy Taub, with whom he shares three children.
“He usually kept to himself,” neighbor Ryan La Coste told The Post. “He would just give us a blank stare when we would walk by. We tried to stay clear of him. … No one knew he was here because he would be on the bus or he just didn’t communicate.”
La Coste said he “wasn’t surprised at all” when he learned his former neighbor was involved in the brazen attack on Pelosi.
“I wasn’t surprised because another crazy story is coming from someone in that house,” La Coste said. “They are always toxic and always up to something. They are always on the news and trying to be ‘activists.’ They always want to be in the spotlight.”
Pelosi’s San Francisco home and beat her 82-year-old husband with a hammer while yelling, “Where’s Nancy?” The House Speaker was in Washington, D.C. at the time.
DePape’s neighbors, Margarita and Julio Gonzalez, said he used to live in the Victorian home with Taub and the children but at some point, began staying off-and-on in the two dilapidated school buses on the property.
“He is homeless … but I never seen him being violent,” Margarita Gonzalez told The Post. “He never had work. In the beginning when he lived with (Taub), he just stayed inside the home and she was the one who did the shopping and everything.”
When she heard about Pelosi’s attack, Margarita said she also was shocked her neighbor had been accused.
“I was surprised because I never saw him aggressive,” Margarita Gonzalez said. “I don’t think [the attack on Pelosi] was something personal. … Maybe there’s a mental problem with him.”
I give you a couple to sum it all up...
First this:
So let's get this straight, a man in his underwear manages to elude security cameras, Scale a wall & elude security guards and dogs,breaks into a home without setting an alarm off but is somehow captured with a hammer because of a wellness check at 2am. Fishy Pelosi Story Right?
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