Nearly two years after an intruder broke into former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her husband Paul, former President Donald Trump brought up the incident.
“Nancy Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house,” he said Friday during a Fraternal Order of Police event in Charlotte, N.C. “Of course, it didn’t help too much with the problem she had, did it?”
Trump has mocked Pelosi and her family before, according to POLTICO.
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco – how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” he said to a crowd of California Republicans at a state party convention around a year ago. He mentioned the alleged wall then as well: “And she’s against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house – which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”
During the attack, now 44-year-old David DePape hit Paul Pelosi, now 84, multiple times on the head with a hammer. In May, DePape was sentenced to 360 months in prison, per the U.S. Justice Department.
Audacy reported last year on the release of graphic body cam footage of the attack. It showed that DePape brazenly attacked the older man even after police told him to put the hammer down. Paul Pelosi suffered a skull fracture as well as injuries to his right arm and hands, but survived.
Rep. Pelosi said that her husband is now doing “okay,” and “coming along,” after the attack she joined ABC’s The View for an interview this week. She also addressed Trump’s comments.
“It was horrible when it happened, it was horrible. We didn’t even know if he was alive when we first found out,” she said. “Before you could even say anything – your friend who shall remain nameless – he was on there making a joke of it, and people were laughing, and his family was making a joke and a republican governor was making a joke. And that’s just horrible,” Pelosi said. Echoing one of the show’s hosts, she added: “It’s sick. It’s really sick.”
Additionally, Pelosi refuted Trump’s claims that the family has a wall around their home.
“He’s always projecting. He probably has a wall around his house,” she said.
In his Friday speech, Trump, 78, also brought up the assassination attempt on his own life this summer. Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet when he decided to turn his head and look at a chart, narrowly avoiding death. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was eventually killed by the authorities, but only after he killed a bystander and injured others.
“I love that chart,” the GOP presidential candidate told the North Carolina crowd.
Trump’s wife, former First Lady Melania Melania Trump, shared a video on social media in which she questioned law enforcement’s role in the assassination attempt on her husband.
“Now the silence around it feels heavy. I can’t help but wonder why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech. There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth,” she said.
Rep. Pelosi, who has condemned the assassination attempt, told the hosts of The View that the continued comments about her husband’s attack add to their family’s trauma.
“Violence doesn’t have any place in any resolution of any discussion that you may have,” she said.