Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is horrified that Donald Trump and other Republicans think the savage attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi, is fodder for jokes.
During a Monday appearance on “The View,” the former speaker of the House addressed the traumatic fallout from the assault in October 2022, when a right-wing conspiracy theorist held Pelosi’s husband hostage and brutally beat him with a hammer after breaking into the family’s San Francisco home.
Pelosi told “The View’s” panelists that the attack was devastating, both physically and psychologically, for her family and for the loved ones of any politicians.
“Getting hit on the head three times is a horrible thing. And that was physical,” she said. “But the traumatic effect for him, for us, for the family, but also for other political families as well, to just families in America, violence has no place in any resolution of any discussion you may have.”
The veteran politician also wondered why anyone would make fun of the assault, referring to Trump’s repeated remarks about the incident.
In the last two years, Trump has found multiple ways to mock Paul Pelosi, who was left with a fractured skull and serious injuries to his hands and right arm from the attack.
Just last week, Trump joked about the incident while speaking to the Fraternal Order of Police in the swing state of North Carolina.
“Nancy Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house. Of course, it didn’t help too much with the problems she had, did it?” he said to an audience of law enforcement officers on Friday.
Pelosi refused to utter Trump’s name, but she told the hosts of “The View” that she thought it was “sick” how Republicans continue to make light of the violent attack.
“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 Republican governor making jokes and that. And that’s just horrible. It’s sick. It’s really sick,” she said.
Pelosi’s assailant, David DePape, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in May.
During his trial, DePape testified that he intended to break into the Pelosis’ home to interrogate the speaker emerita and planned to “break her kneecaps” if she lied to him.
The longtime legislator from California was away in Washington D.C. at the time of the attack.
