Paul Pelosi, husband of the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was hospitalized with a skull fracture on Friday after he was attacked at the couple’s home in California with a hammer by an assailant who was reported to have shouted “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?”

Paul Pelosi, 82, underwent “successful surgery” to repair a skull fracture and other “serious injuries” sustained during the assault and is expected to make a full recovery”, according to Nancy Pelosi’s longtime spokesperson, Drew Hammill.

t was reported by CNN that the suspect intended to tie the victim up “until Nancy got home” and that he had posted rightwing and conspiracy theories online, including content promoting the lie that Donald Trump was deprived of victory in the 2020 election because of voter fraud.

In a statement to CNN, an acquaintance of DePape’s said he appeared to be “out of touch with reality”. Two of the suspect’s relatives also told the network that DePape, who grew up in British Columbia, Canada, was estranged from his family.

In addition to multiple conspiracy posts on his Facebook account, which was reviewed by CNN and later taken down by Meta on Friday, DePape is also believed to have managed a blog to which he regularly posted screeds concerning the “ruling class”. The blog, which the San Francisco Chronicle reviewed and was later taken down, had a banner that said “Welcome to Big Brothers Censorship Hell”, along with numerous conspiracy posts about the government, media outlets and tech companies.

Lonestar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:17 pm He is likely very mentall ill, and I doubt this attack has any significance beyond that.

More recently, Gene DePape and Mark DePape said, David maintained a Facebook account containing multiple conspiracy-laden posts.

The account, which was taken down by Facebook’s owner Meta on Friday, included links to videos produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell which falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Republican incumbent Donald Trump in favor of his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Other posts mentioned videos falsely proclaiming that the congressional committee investigating the US Capitol attack staged by Trump supporters on January 6 had collapsed, and another was titled: “Global Elites Plan To Take Control Of YOUR Money! (Revealed)”.

Random Dude wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:26 pm

Lonestar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:19 pm Wow, Now it is coming to light that Paul told police that the man was a friend...and there are rumors there was some sort of sexual relationship between them. I would take all of the information with a huge grain of salt...but this is getting interesting. Maybe Paul Pelosi had a secret life?

Do you have a source for that?

IraHayes wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:50 pm

Random Dude wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:26 pm

Lonestar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:19 pm Wow, Now it is coming to light that Paul told police that the man was a friend...and there are rumors there was some sort of sexual relationship between them. I would take all of the information with a huge grain of salt...but this is getting interesting. Maybe Paul Pelosi had a secret life?

Do you have a source for that?

Greg Price, from MSNBC posted a video clip of the audio on Twitter.