Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) teared up when asked about the conspiracy theorist convicted of brutally clobbering her husband.
The former House Speaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, has been trying to bounce back physically, but it's his mental that could remain permanently unfixable after David DePape beat him with a hammer in October 2022, just before the midterm elections.
"I'd be remiss if I didn't ask the person whose name I shall not say was convicted of the attack on your husband; how is Mr. Pelosi doing," asked CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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Pelosi took a nearly eight-second beat, cast her eyes downward and started to sob. She then collected herself enough to render an answer.
"He's OK, I mean, he's making progress. He's about 80% there physically; traumatically it's terrible," she said.
The lawmaker said that she and her husband "pray about it" because she fears future reprisals could be unleashed, not just upon her family, but also other public servants no matter their political stripe.
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"We're always worried about other people and how the incitement of these people — for what the things that they say, the lies that they tell — to what incites somebody to come into my home and that ... and I just worry about other elected officials, whatever their point of view is, whatever side of the aisle they're on — that they not be subjected to that."
She feels that way "because that undermines our democracy in such a very serious way."
The 44-year-old DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison, despite federal prosecutors' 40-year preference for fracturing Paul Pelosi's skull.
Last week, the man was also convicted of five additional charges in a California court.
DePape testified during his trial that he broke into the couple's San Francisco home intending to hold the then-speaker hostage and "break her kneecaps" if she lied to him, and he admitted to bludgeoning her husband with the hammer after police arrived.
One thing that really shook her was the chorus of hate speak and mockery she suffered after her family was assaulted.
"What was awful about it what was... that they made jokes about it," she said.
She pointed to former President Donald Trump specifically saying "ridiculous things" that were "very hurtful to us, to our children, to our grandchildren."
Trump made light of Paul Pelosi's violent intrusion with the bloodthirsty DePape.
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” Trump blabbed to a group of California Republicans at a state party convention. “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.”
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