Last week's reports of the alleged attack on Paul Pelosi at his home in San Francisco, by far-left nudist David DePape, have left many skeptics wondering why the initial police and media accounts appear incomplete and contradictory. The 82-year-old husband of United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was allegedly violently assaulted with a hammer and is recovering from injuries sustained during the incident.
FOX News host Tucker Carlson on his show Monday night, said that while DePape who is in police custody, has admitted he assaulted Pelosi, "there was much in the story that remains muddy."
The popular TV host said in part:
How, for example, did DePape get inside the Pelosi home? That's the first question. Last year, ABC News reported what you already guessed, which is that Pelosi has round the clock protection at her houses. "She has her own security. She has the Capitol Police. They fly all the way out here from Washington, D.C. with her." And yet in this case, San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins says that there was no security present at the Pelosi home on Friday night. And that's pretty strange because according to multiple accounts, even when Pelosi isn't at home, her houses are well-guarded. Again, as you would expect.
Our friend [defense attorney] Harmeet Dhillon told us that when her firm recently tried to serve a lawsuit against Paul Pelosi at various properties he owns, all of them were guarded by "multiple law enforcement officers on the perimeter." So how did DePape, get past security that apparently wasn't there? And why wasn't it there if, in fact, it wasn't? We know he got inside and once he was inside, what exactly happened next? Well, accounts of that are changing.
At the first press conference on Friday, San Francisco police suggested there was a third person in the home when police arrived and Politico dutifully reported that, "officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door and were led inside by an unknown person." In other words, by a person who was not David DePape or Paul Pelosi. Now, Politico never formally corrected this claim. Instead, just two days later, Politico, the same publication, attacked anyone who repeated its own reporting as a crazed conspiracy monger: "Pro-Trump commentators weighed in online to raise questions about the investigation based on unfounded and false claims. Among those baseless claims that a third person answered the door when police arrived at the Pelosi home."
Three separate adjectives, knocking down that idea, but the question remains, was there a third person at the home? We don't know, but it's not crazy to assume there was. Here's how today's charging documents describe the scene inside the house: "When the door was opened, Pelosi and DePape were both holding a hammer with one hand and DePape had his other hand holding on to Pelosi's forearm. Pelosi greeted the officers. The officers asked them what was going on. DePape responded, everything was good."
It's an awful scene in some ways, but here's the critical clause: "when the door was opened." Well, opened by whom? Common sense suggests it probably couldn't have been Pelosi or Pappy who opened it. They were locked in a life-or-death drama, a struggle, over a hammer. The documents filed today assert that Paul Pelosi had never seen David DePape before yet in Pelosi's 911 call he knew DePape's first name and apparently referred to him as a friend. Here's the audio. This is from a dispatcher relaying Paul Pelosi's call.
WATCH Tucker Carlson report on the attack on Paul Pelosi