Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer by a man on Friday last week.
San Francisco:
The man accused of attacking the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges when he appeared in a San Francisco court on Tuesday.
David Deppe, 42, was ordered into custody following a counter-allegation in the city where he is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi in an early morning attack at the couple’s luxury home.
The US Justice Department said in a court filing that Deppe, of California, was arrested Friday morning after she allegedly barged into the mansion, intent on tying up the powerful politician and breaking her knees if she attacked the Democratic Party. Didn’t confess to the “lies”.
The Justice Department said Depepp had tape, rope, zip ties and other materials, but found only Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, whom she attacked, hitting him in the head with a hammer.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, DePap dressed in orange gel clothes and spoke only to answer procedural questions during the brief appearance.
Judge Diane Northway signed the order prohibiting Deppe from being in contact with the alleged victim or his wife or from going within 150 yards (meters) of their home.
The story of the attack turned into a political litmus test in an increasingly divided United States.
Liberals demystified the dangerous coarseness of public discourse and the willingness to fabricate lies by mainstream Republicans, which saw Nancy Pelosi as a man of hatred on the right, and as a legitimate target for real-life violence. I saw
Meanwhile, swaths of the conservative media ecosystem questioned the story surrounding the attack, with lewd and unproven suggestions that a sexual encounter was wrong.
New Twitter boss Elon Musk was among those who helped popularize the theory after an outlet with a history of unreliability tweeted a link to a speculative opinion piece.
Speaking outside the courtroom, DePape’s court-appointed attorney Adam Lipson said the defense team would look into the swirling untruths that may have affected his client.
“There has also been a lot of speculation about Mr. Deppe’s sensitivity to misinformation and that’s certainly something we’re going to look into,” he told reporters.
The suspect faces charges at both the state and federal levels.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday that Depep faces charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated misdemeanor, false imprisonment to an elderly man, as well as threatening a public official and his family. .
According to Jenkins, if convicted of the state charges, he would face 13 years in prison.
Federal officials on Monday charged DePape with attempting to kidnap a US officer and assaulting a family member over his actions on the job.
(Except for the title, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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