On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally requested a sentence of 40 years in prison for the man who was convicted in the assault of Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
According to Axios, the demand was made by federal prosecutors in a 20-page sentencing memo, which specifically stated that the goal was for the steep sentence to serve as a warning to others who may try to carry out political violence.
In October of 2022, David DePape broke into the Pelosis’ residence in San Francisco late in the evening and assaulted Paul with a hammer just as police were arriving. The former Speaker was not home at the time. DePape allegedly said that he wanted to assault Nancy Pelosi herself in order to “show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions.”
“The defendant planned a violent hostage-taking of the Speaker Emerita, and then nearly killed her husband,” said prosecutors in the memo. “The defendant planned and unleashed violence and has stayed true to his belief that his actions were necessary.”
The memo was signed by U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Helen Gilbert and Laura Horn, who said that “sentencing factors compel the statutory maximums recommended here.”
Despite the mainstream media’s rush to label DePape as right-wing in order to weaponize the incident against conservatives, details about DePape’s life soon emerged confirming that he was politically on the Left rather than the Right. Among other details, he previously lived with a roommate who was a gay nudist activist, and their house was decorated with pro-LGBT flags and Black Lives Matter flags.
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