GUILTY CA - Paul Pelosi, the speaker’s husband, violently attacked after assailant broke into their SF home, Oct 2022 *arrest*

[MrsWatson]

DePape testified today.

Paul Pelosi attack suspect surprisingly takes the stand to testify in his own defense

"We kinda had a good rapport going," Davie DePape testified. "He was an amiable gentleman."

www.nbcnews.com

The defense said DePape never intended to harm either Nancy or Paul Pelosi. After breaking into the home and jarring Paul Pelosi out of bed, DePape said he felt comfortable around him.

The defense has said DePape's plans were to use Nancy and Paul Pelosi to lure a person the government has labeled "Target 1."

That person has been identified by local prosecutors and the defense, for which she testified Tuesday, as Bay Area scholar and University of Michigan professor Gayle Rubin, a leading academic in feminist theory and queer studies.

DePape rattled off a long list of grievances — many of which regularly echo through far right circles — that led to the night he broke into the Pelosi home.

He said that before his arrest, he spent six hours a day looking for political commentary on YouTube.

"Everything was a lie coming from the press," said DePape, wearing a zip up blue-gray cardigan and tan khakis.

 

[MrsWatson]

Pelosi attacker planned to wear unicorn costume and post interrogation online

David DePape, accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a home invasion last year, testified for an hour on Tuesday

www.theguardian.com

In emotional testimony that lasted for more than an hour, DePape offered detailed insight into his motivations that evening in October, which he described as part of a bigger plan to end corruption in the United States.


He wanted to speak to Pelosi about Russian involvement in the 2016 election, he said, and planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. Instead, in the early hours of 28 October 2022, he found 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and bludgeoned him, prosecutors say.

 

[LinasK]

Pelosi attacker planned to wear unicorn costume and post interrogation online

David DePape, accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a home invasion last year, testified for an hour on Tuesday

www.theguardian.com

In emotional testimony that lasted for more than an hour, DePape offered detailed insight into his motivations that evening in October, which he described as part of a bigger plan to end corruption in the United States.


He wanted to speak to Pelosi about Russian involvement in the 2016 election, he said, and planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. Instead, in the early hours of 28 October 2022, he found 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and bludgeoned him, prosecutors say.

From this article: The 43-year-old allegedly told a San Francisco detective after his arrest that he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage. So since he's admitted that Nancy was his target how can his defense claim that he wasn't going after her in her official capacity??? He told Paul that she was the leader of the pack.

 

[LinasK]

Prosecutors grapple with alternate reality defense in Paul Pelosi trial

The trial has become something of a test of what happens when certain far-out strains of digital-age American radicalism collide with the criminal justice system.

www.politico.com

 

[LinasK]

‘I’m going to have to take you out’: Paul Pelosi delivers chilling testimony in DePape trial

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Paul Pelosi said he realized he was in “serious danger” when a stranger broke into the Pacific Heights home he shares with his wife, former Speaker Nancy Pe…

www.kron4.com

 

[sds71]

David DEPAPE is guilty on both counts for attempting ot kidnap Speaker Pelosi and assaulting her husband Paul.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1725233133253956016?s=20

 

[LinasK]

David DEPAPE is guilty on both counts for attempting ot kidnap Speaker Pelosi and assaulting her husband Paul.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1725233133253956016?s=20

I was just coming here to post that. I guess the jury didn't buy that he wasn't targeting Nancy in her official role. Onto the state trial next....

 

[LinasK]

From the above article: Closing arguments are slated for Wednesday and the deliberations are expected to begin later that day.
DePape wasn't out to kidnap Nancy Pelosi or do harm to Paul Pelosi, the defense maintains, but to use them to reach a person the prosecution calls “Target 1.” That person has been identified as Bay Area scholar and University of Michigan professor Gayle Rubin, a leading academic in feminist theory and queer studies.

That was another non-believable argument. If Gayle Rubin is your intended target, why go to the Pelosi's house rather than her Bay Area residence???

 

[LinasK]

I was just coming here to post that. I guess the jury didn't buy that he wasn't targeting Nancy in her official role. Onto the state trial next....

Did we ever get word on what happened to his state trial?