Armed with twist ties, rope, tape and the hammer reportedly used to break through the home’s sliding glass door, a suspect — whomauthorities later identified as David DePape— allegedly tried restraining the House speaker’s husband, Paul Pelosi, so that they could wait for Nancy to return. However,Paul escapedto the bathroom with a phone to dial 911.
In an interview on CNN’sAnderson Cooper360that aired Monday, Nancy, 82, revealed how she found out about the incident.
“I was sleeping in Washington, D.C. I had just gotten in the night before from San Francisco,” Nancy told host Anderson Cooper in her first sit-down interview since the attack.
Taking a pause, she then shared, “And the — I hear the doorbell ring, and it’s 5-something… [I think] it must be the wrong apartment. It rings again, and then bang, bang, bang, bang on the door. So I run to the door. And I’m very [scared].”
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She said she saw Capitol Police outside of her door, and they told her they needed to speak with her.
“I’m thinking my children, my grandchildren,” she said. “I never thought it would be Paul because I knew he wouldn’t be out and about.”
She continued, “They came in, at that time we didn’t even know where he was or what his condition was. We just knew there was an assault on him in our home, and now they were taking him to a hospital, which turned out to be [Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital]. … It wasn’t the closest but it was the right place to go for that.”
She was later told that the assailant hit Paul, 82, in the head twice with the hammer. “That’s pretty awful,” she said.
As Nancy rushed to the hospital to see him, Paul was already out of surgery. According to her son Paul Pelosi Jr., her husband said, “Oh, your mother’s going to be very happy because the Ravens won last night.”
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“[We have a] Baltimore connection,” Nancy said, adding that her husband’s comment reassured her that he would be okay.
Police reported thatthe assailant said he planned on attacking Nancy; however, she was not home.
Reacting to PresidentJoe Bidencomparingthe Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol— when rioters were searching for Nancy — to the attack inside of her home, Nancy said she “absolutely” believes there’s a connection.
“There’s no question. It’s the same thing,” she told Cooper.
She added that after the Jan. 6 attack and the incident inside of her home, the country should look towards healing. Still, she addressed the reality that history could repeat itself.
“You would think that there would be some level of responsibility, but you see what the reaction is on the other side — to make a joke of it — and really that is traumatizing, too. But nonetheless, forgetting them, there has to be some healing process,” she said. “Democrats and Republicans, members of Congress, anybody can be a target.”
She explained, “In our democracy, there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election, feeding that flame and mocking any violence that happens. That has to stop.”
Nancy went on to address those like former PresidentDonald TrumpandElon Muskwho have “[cast] doubt” on attacks that have occurred.
“There has to be some adult supervision on the Republican side in order to say, ‘Enough. Enough,’ " she added.
Calling her “an animal,” he added, “They’ll say, ‘What a horrible thing he said about Nancy.’ She impeached me twice for nothing.”
source: people.com
