Nancy Pelosi Breaks Silence After ‘Traumatizing’ Attack That Left Her Husband Paul, 82, Hospitalized

Nancy Pelosi spoke retired aft her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked successful their San Francisco location connected Friday, Oct. 28, causing him to acquisition skull repair surgery. The Speaker of the House took to her Twitter the adjacent time and shared a heartbreaking connection astir however she and her household are dealing with the aftermath of the location invasion, saying they are “traumatized.”

Thank you for your prayers for my hubby and our family. -NP pic.twitter.com/tL8h8W0eUM

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) October 30, 2022

“Yesterday morning, a convulsive antheral broke into our household home, demanded to face maine and brutally attacked my hubby Paul,” she began. “Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening onslaught connected our Pop.” She went connected to accidental Paul is “continuing to recover,” and thanked instrumentality enforcement and exigency services for their speedy response.

“Please cognize that the outpouring of prayers and lukewarm wishes from truthful galore successful the Congress is simply a comfortableness to our household and is helping Paul marque advancement with his recovery,” Nancy continued, earlier referencing a enactment from the Book of Isiah. She past thanked her followers for their prayers and the enactment they bash to “strengthen our Democracy.”

Nancy Pelosi broke her soundlessness connected her hubby Paul Pelosi’s attack. (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Nancy’s connection follows her hubby Paul undergoing “successful country to repair a skull fracture and superior injuries to his close limb and hands,” according to a statement from the California Democrat’s spokesperson. The injuries were sustained erstwhile an attacker illegally entered the Pelosi location aboriginal Friday day and attacked Paul with a hammer.

The fishy — who constabulary identified arsenic 42-year-old David DePape — attacked Paul with the hammer successful beforehand of officers aft they arrived for a “wellbeing check” astatine astir 2:30 americium section time, according to San Francisco Police Chief William Scott. “[DePape] pulled the hammer distant from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it,” Scott said astatine a quality conference. DePape was searching for Nancy herself, arsenic reports assertion helium was shouting, “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?” The person was not location astatine the time.

DePape volition beryllium charged with attempted homicide, battle with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary, and “several different further felonies,” per Scott. The motive for the onslaught is inactive being determined.

President Joe Biden weighed successful connected the onslaught during the Pennsylvania Democratic Party Reception astatine the Pennsylvania Convention Center successful Philadelphia connected Saturday. “This is despicable. There’s nary spot successful America. There’s excessively overmuch violence, governmental violence, excessively overmuch hatred, excessively overmuch vitriol,” Biden said. “Enough is capable is enough! Every idiosyncratic of bully conscience needs to intelligibly and unambiguously basal up against the unit successful our authorities careless what your authorities are.”