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Paul Pelosi’s attacker David DePape introduced two unicorn costumes to his sufferer’s mansion earlier than bludgeoning him with a hammer, a courtroom heard.
David DePape, a former nudist from Canada, entered the Pelosi’s San Francisco mansion by a again door within the early hours of October 28, 2022, and bludgeoned former Home Speaker Nancy’s 82 year-old husband Paul.
The assault – which DePape’s protection lawyer has conceded he carried out – put Paul Pelosi in hospital with a fractured cranium.
At courtroom in San Francisco Monday, authorities shared information of DePape’s purchases from Amazon within the months earlier than the assaults, a laundry checklist of things he reportedly took with him to the crime scene.
They included every part from a tenting backpack, laptop cables, physique cameras, crayons and, bizarrely, two Spooktacular unicorn costumes.
The prosecution performed a recording of a name DePage later positioned to a information reporter stating: ‘I’ve an essential message for everybody in America. You’re welcome.’
David DePape (left) listens whereas Jason Matthes, who works for Spokeo exhibits a search that DePape did earlier than the assault
David DePape did not flinch whereas watching physique digicam footage of himself with Paul Pelosi on the Pelosi’s San Francisco residence
He then talked in regards to the want for extra patriots, and provided an apology that ‘I didn’t get extra of them.’
On Monday, he watched with out flinching as prosecutors performed the police physique digicam footage of the assault.
DePape calmly sat with two protection legal professionals at desk on left, as prosecutors known as witnesses laying out the case.
He sat again in brown leather-based chair, crossed arms, observing the testimony. He wore a blue sweater over blue button down, clear shaven, hair pulled again right into a pony tail.
Prosecutors offered the graphic footage of the hammer assault, displaying an officer shining a flashlight confronting DePape with Pelosi within the doorway.
As the 2 battle, DePape hoists his hammer and smashed Pelosi over the top, putting him thrice to the bottom.
One other video confirmed blood gushing from Pelosi’s head, along with his arms soaked pink, as paramedics tended to him.
Audible gasps may very well be heard within the courtroom, however DePape appeared unperturbed. He blinked just a few occasions however stored silent, hunched over as he watched the video performed on the laptop computer laptop in entrance of him.
A courtroom sketch exhibits DePape listening to an official from Spokeo, a individuals search web site, testify about his search historical past.
Jason Matthes, who works for Spokeo, testified briefly that he looked for Pelosi’s residence in addition to different websites in Hollywood and Sacramento earlier than the assault.
Stephanie Minor, FBI particular agent, testified they reviewed a sequence of internet exercise discovered on DePape’s exhausting drive, together with a sequence of Nancy Pelosi-related searches within the days main as much as the assault.
He repeatedly searched Spokeo to seek out her residence deal with in San Francisco, looked for data on her biography, and in addition researched some previous information tales about different individuals who’ve focused her residence.
Minor famous one search of DailyMail.com for a narrative a few YouTuber who filmed himself defecating on the Pelosi driveway, and different google searches on ‘Pelosi Pig Blood,’ about her property being vandalized with a pig’s head and pretend blood.
Photos of Pelosi’s storage, proven in protection of that incident, had been discovered saved on DePape’s exhausting drive.
Minor testified that there have been about 50 video surveillance cameras capturing DePape’s chilling journey to hold out the hammer assault.
He’s seen hauling two backpacks and the sleeping bag, later recovered by authorities.
One exhibits a number of digicam angles of him going by the turnstile on the Bay Space Fast Transit station at El Cerrito Plaza. A number of the time stamps are off, in some instances, as a result of the surveillance cameras weren’t up to date to sunlight financial savings.
Different footage exhibits DePape, sporting an extended sleeve high and cargo shorts, boarding a prepare on the station earlier than it sped off, then sitting inside along with his ft propped on his bag.
He’s then seen standing on a platform at MacArthur Station ready for a switch, boarding one other prepare to Civic Middle/UN Plaza, taking the trip, arriving on the station.
DePape’s attorneys argue that he’s not responsible of the costs as a result of he was not after Nancy Pelosi to attempt to cease her from participating in her official duties
Police physique digicam footage captured the second DePape bludgeoned Paul Pelosi (proper) which fractured his cranium and put him within the hospital for every week
He’s then seen boarding a San Francisco Muni bus, and later exiting at North Level Road and Van Ness Avenue.
U.S. Capitol police video footage exhibits DePape, showing as a shadowy determine, strolling briskly on a sidewalk towards the Pelosi residence, then in clearer view getting into by a gate and stepping round again to the rear patio.
He’s then seen utilizing an object to repeatedly bash a glass window to interrupt into the property.
Paul Pelosi is scheduled to testify within the trial and can recount the evening the person broke into his San Francisco residence and fractured his cranium.
Prosecutors stated DePape beforehand admitted to breaking into the residence with the intention of getting the senior Democrat to acknowledge her social gathering’s ‘lies’ or he would smash her kneecaps.
When he discovered solely her then-82-year-old husband at residence, he engaged in what he instructed officers was a ‘fairly amicable’ trade, throughout which Paul Pelosi managed to name for assist.
DePape has pleaded not responsible to breaking and getting into and tried homicide fees, and a federal trial is underway.
He has struggled with medicine and posts crazed COVID conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic rants, racist slurs and unhinged screeds about faith on-line.
In opening statements, protection lawyer Jodi Linker stated she will not dispute that her shopper attacked Paul Pelosi, an encounter caught on police physique digicam video.
Within the footage, DePape can apparently be seen bludgeoning Pelosi with a hammer earlier than officers rush at him and take the weapon away.
Pelosi was knocked unconscious and spent virtually every week in hospital, the place he underwent surgical procedure to restore a cranium fracture.
As an alternative, his lawyer will argue that he believed ‘with each ounce of his being’ that he was taking motion to cease authorities corruption and the abuse of kids by politicians and actors.
Linker’s argument is that DePape just isn’t responsible of the costs as a result of he was not after Nancy Pelosi to attempt to cease her from participating in her official duties.
DePape was sporting a light-weight blue shirt and a darkish blue sweater throughout jury choice
A screenshot of safety footage exhibits DePape outdoors the Pelosi residence in the course of the early hours of October 28, 2022
Paul Pelosi was hit a number of occasions with the hammer leaving him unconscious because the officers rushed in and arrested DePape
Aerial footage confirmed damaged panes and shattered glass on the backdoor of Pelosi’s residence
‘These beliefs matter as a result of each fees require that the federal government show that Mr. DePape acted due to her efficiency of her official duties as a member of Congress,’ Linker stated.
She stated DePape’s beliefs are ‘wholly unrelated to Nancy Pelosi’s official duties.’
When police arrested DePape, they discovered a manifesto that contained antigovernmental beliefs and an inventory of different politicians he deliberate to focus on.
He has posted rants on a weblog and a web-based discussion board about aliens, communists, non secular minorities and international elites.
He questioned the outcomes of the 2020 election and echoed the baseless, right-wing QAnon conspiracy concept that claims the U.S. authorities is run by a cabal of devil-worshipping pedophiles. The web sites had been taken down shortly after his arrest.
He additionally has pleaded not responsible to fees in state courtroom of tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon, elder abuse, residential housebreaking and different felonies.
A state trial has not been scheduled.
