David DePape trial: Defense lays out right-wing conspiracy theories leading to Paul Pelosi attack

Nov 09, 2023 View Original Article
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    98% Negative

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"ALSO READ: Gov. Gavin Newsom accuses Fox News of creating a culture that led to attack on Paul PelosiProsecution's caseBefore Linker's statements, prosecutors began their opening statements by laying out some of the video and photographic evidence of the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, including a graphic image of his head injuries as he lay in a pool of blood on the floor."
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-8% Liberal
"At the end of this trial, you will know that the reason he acted had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi [and her] official duties as a member of Congress, said Linker."
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-12% Liberal
"Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, DC at the time of the attack."
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-16% Liberal
"Prosecutors say DePape plaed to kidnap Nancy Pelosi to get to Target 1, now identified as Bay Area scholar Dr. Gayle Rubin, a leading academic in feminist theory and queer studies."
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-24% Liberal
"Federal prosecutor Laura Vartain Horn said the government would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that DePape intended to kidnap and hold Nancy Pelosi hostage and attacked Paul Pelosi after warning him you stop me from going after evil, you will take the punishment instead."
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-28% Liberal
"Opening statements began Thursday in the federal trial of David DePape, accused in the October 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, with the defense attorney laying out the outlandish conspiracy theories that drove DePape to seek out then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the couple's Pacific Heights home in San Francisco."
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-34% Liberal
"Bizarre, misguided and unthoughtfulLinker's opening remarks referenced a litany of right-wing and QAnon-inspired beliefs about a sinister cabal of government officials and elites - Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff, George Soros, Hunter Biden, Tom Hanks, Gov. Gavin Newsom - using wealth and power to spread lies and send the country into ruin."
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-44% Liberal
"Bizarre, misguided and unthoughtfulLinker's opening remarks referenced a litany of right-wing and QAnon-inspired beliefs about a sinister cabal of government officials and elites - Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff, George Soros, Hunter Biden, Tom Hanks, Gov. Gavin Newsom - using wealth and power to spread lies and send the country into ruin."
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-44% Liberal
"Police arrived at the home after Paul Pelosi managed to call 911 during the encounter with DePape, who appeared in his bedroom and woke him up, asking Where's Nancy?Investigators said DePape told them he plaed to break her kneecaps if Nancy Pelosi lied to him about the whereabouts of other people he was targeting."
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-44% Liberal
"Police arrived at the home after Paul Pelosi managed to call 911 during the encounter with DePape, who appeared in his bedroom and woke him up, asking Where's Nancy?Investigators said DePape told them he plaed to break her kneecaps if Nancy Pelosi lied to him about the whereabouts of other people he was targeting."
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-44% Liberal

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