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Strangeness Abound in the Ongoing Saga of Paul Pelosi’s Attack: Evidence of an Information War?

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Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco was allegedly broken into early Friday morning, where her husband, Paul Pelosi, was violently assaulted. The attack is still under investigation, but the story has already been muddied by establishment figures rushing to shape the narrative.

Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, said in a press release:

“Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi. The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation. Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery. The Speaker was not in San Francisco at the time… The Speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time.”

In the days following the attack, more harrowing information began to trickle out. 

The Western Journal added:

The motive behind the attack is “still being determined,” Scott said, adding that San Francisco police were leading the investigation in conjunction with the FBI, the U.S. attorney’s office, the U.S. Capitol Police and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who was with him at the briefing.

The police chief said DePape would be booked on charges of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary “and several other additional felonies.”

 

The 911 Call

During the 911 call made by Paul Pelosi, he referred to his attacker as a “friend,” The Daily Mail reported.

As the story goes, Pelosi was supposedly talking in code to the 911 operator so as to not agitate his attacker, David DePape, but the operator knew something was amiss when Pelosi said to his attacker “What’s going on? Why are you here? What are you doing to me?”

The operator is then heard contacting the police and saying 

“’He states there is a male in the home and that he is going to wait for his wife. He stated that he doesn’t know who the male is but that his name is David and that he is a friend. He sounded somewhat confused.”

“It was thanks to Mr. Pelosi having the ability to make that call” and the “instincts of that dispatcher to realize something was wrong” that police were able to get to the scene quickly, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said to CNN. “They got there within two minutes to respond to this situation.”

The police didn’t share how David DePape entered the house in their first press conference.  They did mention that they charged him with burglary but that was it. In the second San Francisco Police Department press conference on the matter on Friday, the police provided more information.  The police shared:

“I can confirm that Mr. DePape forced entry into a rear door at the rear of the Pelosi home.”

But elements of the story do not add up.

As per the Gateway Pundit:

For one, if an individual broke into the home of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, there surely is a surveillance system that would tell the police and numerous entities that the house had been broken into.  There’s no doubt that the Pelosis’ home has a security system.  This system likely includes motion detectors as well.  Any movement near the house or broken glass would immediately be registered at the surveillance company.  They in turn would notify the police of the encounter.  Also, there are likely police cars circling the neighborhood where the Pelosis live.  But the police reported that Paul Pelosi made the call to the police.  Paul Pelosi never shared that the home was broken into.

There are also questions about this event being a burglary.  DePape reportedly forced entry into a rear door.  But a video from yesterday shows that there was glass on the outside of the home on the stairs behind the house.  If the window was broken from the outside, wouldn’t the glass be on the floor on the inside of the house?

A video on Friday reportedly showed the house with broken glass outside on the stairs behind the house.

If the glass window was broken from inside the house wouldn’t the glass be on the outside of the house?

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Additionally, it’s been reported that DePape was in his underwear when the police arrived.  This means that he most probably took off his clothes inside the house.  This is because anyone walking around in that neighborhood in their underwear would immediately be arrested.  This is not something that someone could do in that neighborhood.  Also, why did Paul Pelosi refer to him as a friend on the phone?

Also, if it was a burglary, what did Depape steal?  Is there any evidence that he had things in his possession that he was stealing when the police arrived?  Not that we know of.  Was he hiding something in his underwear?

It also sounds like someone else let the police into the home.  Who was this?  Why did this person not call the police when the house was supposedly broken into?  Was there more than one other person in the home?

Finally, what injuries did DePape incur?  He too was sent to the hospital and in the first press release the police mentioned that they worked on his injuries before sending him to the hospital along with Paul Pelosi.

The one thing the police can do to clear this all up is release the police and surveillance camera videos.  This would likely answer most of these questions. 

Greg Price appeared on Bannon’s War Room Saturday morning to elaborate on the strangeness surrounding the narrative:

 

The Spin

Immediately, and predictably, the figureheads of the corrupt American political establishment set to doing what they do best, blaming MAGA republicans.

President Joe Biden on Friday appeared to insinuate without substantiation that DePape was motivated by the same anger that fueled the mob that flooded into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

During the suspect’s intrusion into the Pelosi home, he is said to have yelled, “Where’s Nancy?” according to press accounts attributed to an unnamed law enforcement source. The scenario is eerily similar to AOC’s odd recount of Jan. 6th.

The suspect’s reported demand to know the House Speaker’s whereabouts prompted President Biden to float an unsubstantiated link between Friday’s home break-in/hammer assault to the unruly crowd breach of the Capitol almost two years ago to protest suspected electoral meddling.

“It’s reported that the same chant used by this guy they have in custody was used on January 6th in the attacks on the U.S. Capitol,” Biden said Friday at a Democratic fundraiser in Philadelphia, the Washington Times reported. “This is reported. I can’t guarantee it. We can tell you what’s being reported.”

Biden wasn’t the only one pushing the idea that the attacker was somehow connected to the right, Hillary Clinton also wasted no time pouncing on the unfortunate event.

Hillary shared an LA Times piece that aimed to paint Paul Pelosi’s “attacker” David DePape as a far-right conspiracy theorist.

Elon Musk weighed in, suggesting to Hillary Clinton that “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”

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The original link to the article was scrubbed from Google but here’s a quote from the archived version of the article:

As SF’s gay bars closed at 2 am, two gay men met in a bar and went home together. Happens every night in the City by the Bay. Except one of these two men, was married to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

It’s been a rumor for years in SF that Paul Pelosi is gay. David Depape is said to be a Castro Nudist. “The lunatic who allegedly assaulted Paul Pelosi is a Berkeley resident and a ‘Former Castro Nudist Protester’.

It is uncertain if this article was taken down due to inaccuracy or pressure.

Additionally, the mainstream media attributed two websites to David DePape, trying to frame him as a conservative. Reports appear to be conflicting, stating that DePape was a “homeless and a drug addict” while also somehow managing two conservative websites. 

FOX News reported on the websites reportedly connected to DePape:

Facebook disabled DePape’s profile early Friday and declined to answer questions. At least two online blogs under DePape’s name are stocked with posts from the years of 2007 and 2022 speaking of “censorship,” “Big Brother,” and pedophiles. One contained calls for violence and antisemitic content. It was not immediately clear that he was responsible for the posts, and San Francisco police did not immediately respond to questions about DePape’s online presence.

The LA Times also reported as well on the websites.

In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Friday morning, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate, according to a Times review of his online accounts.

In a personal blog that DePape maintained, posts include such topics as “Manipulation of History,” “Holohoax” and “It’s OK to be white.” He mentioned 4chan, a favorite message board of the far right. He posted videos about conspiracies involving COVID-19 vaccines and the war in Ukraine being a ploy for Jewish people to buy land.

DePape’s screeds included posts about QAnon, an unfounded theory that former President Trump is at war with a cabal of Satan-worshipping elites who run a child sex ring and control the world. In an Aug. 23 entry titled “Q,” DePape wrote: “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deepstate moles within Trumps inner circle.”

The problem with this narrative is that the websites cited by the mainstream media that were supposedly aligned with DePape were created on Friday and they are no longer active today, Saturday.

The site Godisloving.wordpress.com was opened on Friday and shut down on Saturday.

If you try to link to it now, you will find it has been shut down.

The other site listed, www.frenlyfrens.com/blog is no longer active as well.  It too was created on Friday and shut down on Saturday.  The only activity on this site as well was in the last two days.

Despite the persistent insinuation that the attack is somehow directly linked to the widely contested 2020 election, former President Donald Trump shared his reaction to the assault in a new interview on Saturday.

Americano Media asked Trump if he thought the Pelosi attack was a reflection of rising criminal activity happening in the U.S.

Trump said in the interview:

“These people are crazy. They’re going to release stone cold killers out of the jails. Nobody knows why. I mean, they need room or something. Yeah, with Paul Pelosi, that’s a terrible thing; with all of them, it’s a terrible thing. Look at what’s happened to San Francisco, generally, look at what is happening in Chicago. It was far worse than Afghanistan,”.

 

The Culprit

The FBI has since widened the investigation into an attack. According to reports on Saturday, agents have visited a home that neighbors refer to as a “hippie collective” in Berkeley, Calif.

“FBI visits Berkeley home tied to Pelosi beating suspect,” NBC Bay Area investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken noted on Twitter Friday in a post that included a photo of the home. “The Victorian is dubbed a ‘hippie collective’ by neighbors.”

A sign in one of the windows says, “Berkeley Stands United Against Hate,” while another looks to be a handwritten “Black Lives Matter” sign. Across from the home, there appears to be an LGBTQ banner adorned with marijuana leaves resembling an American flag.

As per Just the News:

“The composite portrait of DePape emerging from Bay Area accounts depicts a tortured soul — a hemp jewelry maker and hard drug user who lived for a time in a Berkeley storage unit, former member of the Green Party, and best man at the wedding of San Francisco public nudity activist Gypsy Traub. In posts on a since-removed Facebook account and personal blog, DePape railed disjointedly against election fraud, COVID tyranny and globalist subversion, according to press accounts.”

Gypsy Taub, the former partner of David DePape, claims DePape is “mentally ill” and once came home after an extended disappearance thinking he was Jesus. Taub called local outlet ABC7 from the California Institution For Women in Corona, and said she was “the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children.” 

Taub, who was found guilty last year on 20 counts including a kidnapping attempt, has apologized to the Pelosis, saying that she is “super progressive” and that she “admires” Nancy Pelosi.

 

Narrative Criticism

Below we’ve compiled a compilation of tweets from prominent figures in regard to the high strangeness surrounding the attack.

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec shared footage of an interview with one of Pelosi’s neighbors.

Dinesh Desouza made no bones about expressing his take on the matter in a response tweet to Musk and Clinton.

Award-winning investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald had a few questions

 

Rand Paul expressed his condolences.

We will provide updates here as more information becomes available.

GOP’s Lead in Bid to Recapture Congress Widens According to Rassmussen

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It seems as though the US Congress is moving towards the GOP in the most recent Rasmussen polling.

According to their latest poll, the 2022 midterm elections are now just 11 days away, and Republicans have a seven-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.

If the elections for Congress were held today, 49% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 42% would vote for the Democrat. Just four percent (4%) would vote for some other candidate, but another five percent (5%) are not sure.

The GOP lead has increased by three points from last week when they led 47% to 43%. Republicans have led the Generic Congressional Ballot all year, although their lead has narrowed since mid-July when they led by as much as 10 points.

n October 2018, before voters handed Democrats their first House majority in eight years, Democrats held a three-point advantage (47% to 44%) in the generic ballot question. The margin was still a statistical dead heat – Republicans 46%, Democrats 45% – in the final poll before Democrats won a slim House majority while Republicans gained Senate seats to maintain control of that chamber.

The results of the polling are shown below:

 

Paul Pelosi Assaulted in His Home Friday Morning

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Paul Pelosi was “violently assaulted” at their residence in San Francisco early Friday morning after an assailant broke in, according to a statement from the Speaker’s office.

According to her spokesman Drew Hammill, Nancy Pelosi was away from San Francisco at the time of the attack. U.S. Capitol Police said she was in Washington, D.C. with her protective detail.

Paul Pelosi, 82, was taken to a hospital and is expected to make a “full recovery,” according to Hammill.

Capitol Police said the San Francisco Police Department took the suspect into custody.

“Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi. The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation,” Hammill said.

Special Agents from Capitol Police’s California Field Office were sent to the scene, and a team of investigators from the department’s Threat Assessment Section was dispatched to help authorities.

While much is unknown about the attack, it is certain to raise new worries about violence targeting political figures and their families.

Over the summer a man armed with a pistol was arrested near Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.) Seattle home after yelling threats at the congresswoman, who was home with her husband at the time.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) was separately attacked by a man at a campaign event in New York in June during his gubernatorial race. And earlier this month, the congressman said two people were shot outside his Long Island home. He and his family, however, remained unharmed.

Additionally, in 2021 Capitol Police opened 9,625 cases involving direct threats and concerning statements or actions, and the year before that, 8,613.

Breaking update: Sources are telling many reporters that the attacker allegedly was screaming “Where is Nancy!” when Paul Pelosi was confronted and attacked in the couple’s San Francisco home). Nancy Pelosi was in DC according to her office. The assailant reportedly was trying to tie up Paul Pelosi “until Nancy got home.”

CNN reports on the claim of tying up Paul Pelosi:

Jim Jordan Foreshadows “Big Moments” For GOP Influence and Biden Family Investigations

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Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan claims that there’s been a seismic shift regarding the ongoing federal investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

In an interview, the Ohio Republican suggested “something is up” with the probe because of a new interest in the story by many of the same media outlets that initially dismissed reports of corruption evidence stemming from materials and emails obtained from a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a computer repair store in Delaware in 2019.

“You mentioned those two stories from the Washington Post 10 days ago. I understand they were four minutes apart. One was at 11:00. One was at 11:04. So two eight-page-long stories four minutes apart from the news organization that said 18 months ago there was no story here, this was Russian disinformation,” Jordan said.

“Remember, it started off as, ‘Oh, it wasn’t his laptop.’ Then it was, ‘Well, it was his laptop, but it was Russian disinformation.’ Now it’s, ‘No, it wasn’t Russian disinformation, but Joe had nothing to do with it.’ And now, finally, it is, ‘Well, Joe had something to do with it, but he really didn’t do anything wrong.’ In fact, that’s what his chief of staff, Ron Klain, told us last Sunday on the Sunday shows,” he added.

“It sure looks like Joe Biden was involved,” Jordan continued.  “So, my, how this story has changed. And now, we find out these text messages and emails that link the entire family, not just Hunter and Joe and — but also uncle, the — Joe’s brother, James Biden, is involved in this as well.”

A report from Politico notes how Republicans are in a strong position to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives, which will give Jordan extreme power.

Politico reported:

The eight-term Ohio Republican is on the brink of leadership-blessed power in a Republican majority, set to wield the Judiciary Committee’s powerful mallet should the GOP flip the House in November, as is likely. Jordan’s ascension will mark a new pinnacle not only for himself but for the pro-Trump Freedom Caucus — empowering its last original co-founder still in Congress to handle impeachments, immigration, and more.

That perch will give him new chances to wage bare-knuckle political combat against Democrats, with the Biden White House already preparing aggressive pushback to nascent House Republican investigations. But it will also give Jordan an opening to embrace his old-school Freedom Caucus self by choosing issues where his cachet with conservative and younger members paired with an off-the-Hill influence can help him move the party in his more Trumpian direction.

And that influence is real: Interviews with nearly a dozen lawmakers underscore that while other House GOP leaders may run afoul of the party’s base, Jordan continues to wield unparalleled sway within it. His cred within the Trump world and conservative media gives him tools to — when and if he wants — undercut the leadership colleagues who’ve elevated him as he backed them from the minority.

In an interview with Politico, Jordan spoke about “four big moments” in 2023 that he thinks a GOP-controlled House will focus on — the debt ceiling, surveillance reform, funding the government, and the farm bill.

“The old line is, the guy who takes you to the Super Bowl gets to coach the game,” Jordan said. “So I think if we win, I think [Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy] is going to be the speaker. Then it’s important we do what we said we were gonna do, and do what the American people elected us to do.”

The Politico report added: “That approach has left Democrats all but ready to throw salt over their shoulder when Jordan draws near, viewing him as the quintessential Donald Trump acolyte. Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked him from the Jan. 6 committee, and Democrats have contrasted his treatment of Trump probes with his actions during the Benghazi probe to allege that he spreads misinformation.”

“Democrats see Jordan’s remarks at CPAC earlier this year — where he said that GOP investigations would help frame up the 2024 race and that Republicans need to make sure that [Trump] wins another term — as indicative of how he would run the committee,” the report added.

Desantis and Trump Have a Very Public Disagreement Over Colorado Senate Candidate

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This isn’t the first public display of a major rift forming between the two top contenders for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, but it might be the most severe disagreement to date.

On Sunday, Ron DeSantis endorsed Joe O’Dea, an openly anti-Trump Republican Senate candidate who has managed to close the gap in a historically blue state.

It wasn’t long before Donald Trump expressed his opinion on Truth Social, calling the move a “BIG MISTAKE!”

The Washington Examiner recently reported that DeSantis would be recording a robocall for O’Dea, who’s trailing Democrat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet by 7.5 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average, although the gap has been narrowing in what was expected to be an easy Democratic win.

Desantis in the robocall said:

“Hello this is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. America needs strong leadership desperately. That’s why I’m endorsing Joe O’Dea for U.S. Senate. Colorado, please vote for Joe O’Dea,”

“I’ve watched Joe from a distance. And I’m impressed.”

The Flordia Governor goes on to say that O’Dea, a 60-year-old businessman, “isn’t a career politician. He’s a contractor. He’s built a company from nothing. He’s a leader who knows how to fight and get results. Michael Bennet votes with Joe Biden 98 percent of the time. The results have been a disaster for the American people,”

“Colorado needs new leadership.”

“Joe’s focused on building the wall and cracking down on crime,” DeSantis noted. “He’ll stand up to the big spending politicians in both parties and cut red tape. Vote Joe O’Dea and let’s turn Colorado red!”

Some see this robocall as a “pointed rejection” of Donald Trump, as O’Dea has been vocal on CNN about his intention to distance himself and his campaign from the former president.

O’Dea recently appeared on CNN, where he promised to work against any attempt by Trump to secure the Republican nomination for the third time.

“I don’t think Donald Trump should run again,” O’Dea said. “I’m going to actively campaign against Donald Trump and make sure that we have got four or five really great Republicans right now.

“Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, they could run and serve for eight years,” he added. “I’m going to do my job as a U.S. senator to make sure that they have good campaigns in the primary here, so we have a good selection of candidates for 2024.”

Trump took to Truth Social the following day to denounce O’Dea.

“There’s this RINO character in the Great State of Colorado, Joe O’Dea, that is running against the incumbent Democrat for the United States Senate, who is having a good old time saying that he wants to ‘distance’ himself from President Trump, and other slightly nasty things,” Trump wrote.

“He should look at the Economy, Inflation, Energy Independence, defeating ISIS, the Strongest EVER Border, Great Trade Deals, & much more, before he speaks. MAGA doesn’t Vote for stupid people with big mouths. Good luck Joe!”

Given that, DeSantis‘ “BIG MISTAKE” endorsement represents the most public break between the two biggest names competing for the 2024 GOP nod.

There have been more private signs of a break, with Trump (now a Florida resident) not endorsing DeSantis in his 2022 re-election bid and DeSantis not particularly eager for the former president’s help on the campaign trail.

A Trump adviser told The Washington Post last month that while DeSantis and Trump used to talk regularly, “those days are gone”