Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi With Hammer Apologizes At Resentencing Hearing
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“I should have never hurt him,” David DePape said of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's husband before he was sentenced again in California.
The man convicted of attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with a hammer apologized to his victim during a resentencing hearing Tuesday.
“I’m sorry for what I did, especially what I did to Paul Pelosi,” David DePape reportedly told the court in San Francisco. “I should have never hurt him.”
A year after his October 2022 attack, DePape was found guilty of assault on an immediate family member of a federal official and of attempted kidnapping of a federal official.
On the night he broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home, DePape, armed with a hammer and cable ties, had plans to kidnap and violently interrogate Nancy Pelosi, according to his own testimony. Instead, he confronted then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi and was captured on video swinging his hammer at the venture capitalist when officers arrived at the scene.
DePape, who’s said that he was influenced by far-right conspiracy theories to carry out the attempted kidnapping, was sentenced to 30 years in prison earlier this month. But U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley had forgotten to give DePape an opportunity to address the court before his sentencing, leading to this week’s hearing.
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