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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Given those concerns about the direction of the federal government, Baldassare said it’s perhaps unsurprising that Californians are more enthusiastic than usual about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060682/california-at-forefront-as-democrats-tap-doctors-for-high-stakes-house-races\">2026 midterm elections\u003c/a>, particularly the battle for control of the House of Representatives. About 6 in 10 voters say they want to see Democrats regain control of Congress, and more than 60% said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063016/how-prop-50s-win-reshapes-californias-2026-elections\">passing Proposition 50\u003c/a> was “mostly a good thing” for California, with more than half saying it was worth the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked this question in other special elections and didn’t get a similar response,” Baldassare said. “We’re seeing fairly positive ratings for the direction of the state overall and both Governor Newsom and the Legislature. And that’s pretty remarkable given how doom and gloom people are about the economy and democracy in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said, however, that voters list different concerns when they are asked about the biggest problems facing the U.S. and the state. When asked about the most important problem facing the U.S. today, the largest segment — one-third of voters — cited political extremism and threats to democracy. For California, poll respondents cite the cost of living and economic conditions as the most important issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see very few people saying that they’re satisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S.,” Baldassare said. “For me, most alarming in this poll was the increase that we saw in the number of people who thought that there’s going to be more political violence in the future. … Overall, Californians are feeling that, yeah, the economy is a problem, but what we’re seeing coming out of Washington right now really bothers us in terms of where democracy is headed, both for the president and the Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey of more than 1,600 Californians was conducted between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The 20- and 30-year sentences he received for each crime were ordered to be served simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is so harmful to everyone in this country,” U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said just before ordering the 30-year sentence, noting that those considering going into public service must now consider the risk not only to themselves but to their spouse, children and grandchildren. “We will never know everything we have lost because of this crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In letters to the judge, Nancy and Paul Pelosi described the October 2022 attack’s lasting effects on their lives, physical and otherwise, as they asked for the longest possible sentence. 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He said, “Nope,” and then struck Pelosi repeatedly on the head, also severely injuring Pelosi’s left hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account was part of significant evidence presented to the federal jury of DePape’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967247/david-depape-on-witness-stand-details-grand-plan-to-violently-interrogate-nancy-pelosi\">plot to kidnap Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>, among others, and his ultimate assault of Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time of the attack, described ongoing pain, sensitivity to bright lights, dizzy spells and nerve damage. 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Without using former President Donald Trump’s name, she appeared to call out times that he has referenced the brutal assault on her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the attack is a source of sick humor — especially to people in high places — it adds to the pain, the fear and the threat to those who might consider public office,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"david-depape\"]Prosecutors had argued that DePape \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985847/federal-prosecutors-request-40-year-sentence-for-david-depape-who-attacked-pelosis-husband-with-a-hammer\">should be sentenced to 40 years in prison\u003c/a> because of his violent plot to kidnap the then-speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986566/prosecutors-push-for-terrorism-enhancement-in-sentencing-of-david-depape-who-bludgeoned-paul-pelosi-in-2022\">act of domestic terrorism\u003c/a>,” a federal prosecutor argued during the sentencing hearing on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She referenced a January 2023 call DePape \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/depape-in-bizarre-phone-call-to-ktvu-says-he-should-have-been-more-prepared\">made from a jail cell to a KTVU reporter\u003c/a>. “He claimed to be a patriot. He wishes he’d gotten more of them. This is no patriot. This is a domestic terrorist, and it is a lone wolf domestic terrorist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Corley also referenced DePape’s statement during the call that he was sorry he didn’t “get more of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like he’s taunting his victims,” Corley said from the bench. “He’s taunting America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said she believes DePape continues to pose a danger to the public. Despite several chances to change course that night in the Pelosi home, he continued with “completely gratuitous” violence, Corley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Angela Chuang argued that a 14-year sentence was more appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DePape was at a very low point in his life” in the months leading up to the attack, she said in court on Friday. “His living situation was bad. 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DePape’s attorneys are seeking a 14-year sentence, arguing that his mental illness left him susceptible to the extremist conspiracy theories that fueled his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when extremism has led to attacks on public and elected officials, this case presents a moment to speak to others harboring ideologically motivated violent dreams and plans,” the government argued in a May 10 sentencing memorandum. “The defendant planned a violent hostage-taking of the Speaker Emerita and then nearly killed her husband.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rory Little, a law professor at UC Law San Francisco, said federal prosecutors are trying to make a point about the gravity of DePape’s crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying this is a really serious attack on an important federal official, and you need to take it seriously,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape, 44, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">was convicted\u003c/a> by a federal jury in November of one count of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and one count of assault on the immediate family member of a federal official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys argue that applying the terrorism enhancement would be an illegal overreach because neither of the crimes he was convicted of fit within the legal definition of a “federal crime of terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His entire adult life was indelibly shaped and distorted by an abusive, long-term relationship,” DePape’s attorneys argue in their sentencing memorandum. 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But after an officer told DePape to drop the hammer, he responded, “Nope,” and abruptly turned to Pelosi, striking him violently on the head with the tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"david-depape\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]DePape later told police that if he had found Nancy Pelosi and she had lied, he would have broken her kneecaps, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He also told Mr. Pelosi that Speaker Emerita Pelosi was ‘the leader of the pack’ and that the defendant ‘had to take her out,’” the government’s sentencing memo reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurking in the background of this is the idea that this guy is dangerous because he appears to have a mentally unbalanced view of the world, and he doesn’t appear to have retreated from that mental imbalance,” said Little, the law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his own testimony during his trial, DePape planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume while livestreaming his questioning of Pelosi, but she wasn’t his ultimate target. Rather, he hoped to lure feminist theorist and cultural anthropologist at the University of Michigan Gayle Rubin, whose identity is sealed in federal court behind the pseudonym “Target 1.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Target 1” is among those subpoenaed for the sentencing hearing on Friday, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys argue that previously undiagnosed mental health issues made him vulnerable to “manipulation and unusual beliefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. DePape’s beliefs did not come out of nowhere,” a sentencing memo said, adding that a redacted mental health condition “made him ‘especially vulnerable to believing QAnon conspiracy theories, and to being especially psychologically affected by their content.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“QAnon adherents rarely self-identity as such, and Mr. DePape is no different. But his beliefs are consistent with QAnon theories,” attorneys wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argues that DePape’s isolation and consumption of YouTube videos “do not excuse the instant offense, nor give a reason for leniency given the violent extremism that the defendant unleashed in October 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys said his actions were also heavily influenced by his relationship with the pro-nudity activist Gypsy Taub, with whom DePape shares three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His long-term relationship with his ex-partner, Gypsy Taub, inflicted immeasurable harm to his mental state and what little support network he had in the form of his family,” they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argue DePape hasn’t accepted responsibility for his crimes and is proud of what he did, pointing to his jail-house January 2023 phone call to a KTVU reporter, during which he apologized to the American people, saying he should have come “better prepared” to the Pelosis’ home on the night of the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re welcome,” he told the TV station. “The tree of liberty isn’t dying. 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Ramsey went on to thank the jury and wish Paul Pelosi a full recovery.[aside label=\"More DePape trial coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]“Speaker Pelosi and her family are deeply grateful for the outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for Mr. Pelosi from so many across the country during this difficult time,” a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement released shortly after the jury read its verdict. “The Pelosi family is very proud of their Pop, who demonstrated extraordinary composure and courage on the night of the attack a year ago and in the courtroom this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966865/defense-focuses-on-conspiracy-theories-in-first-day-of-trial-over-attempted-nancy-pelosi-kidnapping\">DePape’s defense\u003c/a> was a mystery leading into the trial, in part because of overwhelming evidence against him, captured on video and audio recordings that had already reached the public. He also admitted his plans to kidnap Nancy Pelosi to a San Francisco police lieutenant shortly after his arrest. He later called a KTVU reporter from jail and apologized for failing in his plans and “not getting more” of his targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps most blatantly, video footage shows DePape savagely attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, in the head with a hammer at least three times in front of two San Francisco police officers, shortly after the officers arrived at the Pelosi’s San Francisco home in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2022. The officers’ body cameras recorded the assault, after which they immediately tackled DePape and arrested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense strategy, led by Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker, quickly emerged as the trial unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker and her defense team argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967427/depapes-motivation-for-trying-to-kidnap-nancy-pelosi-is-key-defense-says-in-closing-argument\">federal charges were inappropriate\u003c/a> because those charges required DePape to have been motivated by Pelosi’s “official duties” in Congress. DePape said on the witness stand that he was instead motivated by extremist conspiracy theories that also led him to target Tom Hanks, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic Rep. 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And he described how he convinced DePape to move to the first floor, hoping police would arrive there soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the witness stand on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967247/david-depape-on-witness-stand-details-grand-plan-to-violently-interrogate-nancy-pelosi\">DePape revealed never-before-heard details of his plan\u003c/a>, including his intention to wear an inflatable unicorn costume while interrogating Nancy Pelosi on video about “Russiagate,” a conspiracy theory about purported pornographic tapes of President Donald Trump. DePape testified that if she had lied during his planned interrogation, he would have broken her kneecaps and wheeled her before Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape intended to force his various targets to confess their crimes and then “unify” the country by forgiving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the grand end of my plan, to get Joe Biden to pardon all the criminals for all their criminal conduct,” DePape said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing phase of the case will come next, with an initial hearing set for Dec. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape also still faces state charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, residential burglary, false imprisonment and threatening the life or serious bodily harm to a public official, which collectively could carry a sentence of life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Speaker Pelosi and her family are deeply grateful for the outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for Mr. Pelosi from so many across the country during this difficult time,” a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement released shortly after the jury read its verdict. “The Pelosi family is very proud of their Pop, who demonstrated extraordinary composure and courage on the night of the attack a year ago and in the courtroom this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966865/defense-focuses-on-conspiracy-theories-in-first-day-of-trial-over-attempted-nancy-pelosi-kidnapping\">DePape’s defense\u003c/a> was a mystery leading into the trial, in part because of overwhelming evidence against him, captured on video and audio recordings that had already reached the public. He also admitted his plans to kidnap Nancy Pelosi to a San Francisco police lieutenant shortly after his arrest. He later called a KTVU reporter from jail and apologized for failing in his plans and “not getting more” of his targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps most blatantly, video footage shows DePape savagely attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, in the head with a hammer at least three times in front of two San Francisco police officers, shortly after the officers arrived at the Pelosi’s San Francisco home in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2022. The officers’ body cameras recorded the assault, after which they immediately tackled DePape and arrested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense strategy, led by Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker, quickly emerged as the trial unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker and her defense team argued that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967427/depapes-motivation-for-trying-to-kidnap-nancy-pelosi-is-key-defense-says-in-closing-argument\">federal charges were inappropriate\u003c/a> because those charges required DePape to have been motivated by Pelosi’s “official duties” in Congress. DePape said on the witness stand that he was instead motivated by extremist conspiracy theories that also led him to target Tom Hanks, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, and gender theory academic Gayle Rubin, among other well-known figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console.jpeg\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch of two women standing up and consoling a large man who is seated, as a judge and court reporter sit in the background. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967737\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/console-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal public defenders Angela Chuang (left) and Jodi Linker console defendant David DePape (seated) after hearing the jury’s guilty verdict in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paul Pelosi, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967180/tremendous-shock-paul-pelosi-testifies-in-trial-of-his-attacker-david-depape\">who testified on Monday\u003c/a>, described the “tremendous shock” of being awoken in his third-floor bedroom by a “very large man with a hammer in one hand and some [zip] ties in the other” who demanded, “Where’s Nancy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Paul Pelosi told DePape that his wife was in Washington, D.C., and wouldn’t be home for several days, DePape said he would “tie me up and wait for her,” Pelosi testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi told the court about the cryptic 911 call he made while DePape watched. And he described how he convinced DePape to move to the first floor, hoping police would arrive there soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the witness stand on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967247/david-depape-on-witness-stand-details-grand-plan-to-violently-interrogate-nancy-pelosi\">DePape revealed never-before-heard details of his plan\u003c/a>, including his intention to wear an inflatable unicorn costume while interrogating Nancy Pelosi on video about “Russiagate,” a conspiracy theory about purported pornographic tapes of President Donald Trump. DePape testified that if she had lied during his planned interrogation, he would have broken her kneecaps and wheeled her before Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of David DePape, the man facing life in prison for attempting to kidnap former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her husband, Paul Pelosi, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury began deliberating late Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-day trial in a San Francisco courtroom focused on DePape’s failed plan to kidnap Nancy Pelosi by breaking into her San Francisco home early in the morning on Oct. 28, 2022. He found the former speaker of the House was not home, which he said was not part of his plan. He held Paul Pelosi hostage until police officers arrived, then bludgeoned him in the head with a hammer in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very well-thought-out plan,” DePape’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Angela Chuang, told the jury in her closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense attorneys do not dispute that he hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer or that he planned to capture Nancy Pelosi. Rather, the defense argued that he was motivated by outlandish conspiracy theories, not Pelosi’s official position at the time as House speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a key distinction in considering both federal charges against DePape, which require that the suspect had the “intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere” with a federal official’s duties or “on account of” those duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy echoes ones used by attorneys defending Jan. 6, 2021 insurrectionists earlier this year, including arguments that focused on defendants’ conspiratorial leanings and portrayed them as unaware of the “official duties” of their targets. Those tactics have \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/15/paul-pelosi-jan-6-riot-00127267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/15/paul-pelosi-jan-6-riot-00127267\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">reportedly largely been unsuccessful\u003c/a>, although at least one Jan. 6 defendant \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/13/judge-finds-jan-6-defendant-who-breached-senate-chamber-not-guilty-of-obstruction-00077971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/13/judge-finds-jan-6-defendant-who-breached-senate-chamber-not-guilty-of-obstruction-00077971\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">did face lesser charges\u003c/a> after making such an argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2.jpg\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch of a woman standing at a lectern in a courtroom, speaking to a faceless jury, with a judge observing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/closing-arguments-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Displaying a photo of Paul Pelosi lying in a pool of his own blood, Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Gilbert delivers the prosecution’s closing argument to the jury in the case against David DePape on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The ‘why’ matters here,” Chuang said. “This case isn’t about whether they proved beyond a reasonable doubt if Mr. DePape went to the Pelosi’s home that night and hit Mr. Pelosi on the head with a hammer. Of course, he did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the case — including during DePape’s testimony on Tuesday — the defense attempted to demonstrate that he targeted Nancy Pelosi for her politics, not for her congressional duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during the prosecution’s closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Gilbert dismissed that argument as a “made-up distinction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors spent much of the trial breaking down the savage hammer attack that, in real-time, lasted only moments. Police witnesses, photographs, slow-motion video, and testimony from Paul Pelosi himself highlighted the brazenness of DePape’s entry into the Pelosi home, in which he struck a glass door with his hammer more than a dozen times, and emphasized the shocking way in which he ultimately wielded that hammer to fracture Paul Pelosi’s skull.[aside label=\"More DePape trial coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]The images of Paul Pelosi’s injuries were particularly horrific. The front half of his skull appeared flattened in one photo, and in another, his face and hands were bathed in blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chuang, the federal defender, on Wednesday, urged the jury not to be distracted by those images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was awful and horrible,” she said, but “the government wants you to be so appalled by what happened that you will be swayed on this case. They want you to be so moved by the blood and the violence, and you won’t think about the charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shocking the jurors, however, wasn’t the prosecution’s only strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also highlighted DePape’s “grand plan,” as he called it, in great detail. The jury saw photographs of the small Richmond garage he called home, summaries of the research he conducted into accessing the Pelosi residence and the homes of other targets in his web history, a catalog of those targets’ addresses on his hard drive, and surveillance footage of his late-night, two-and-a-half hour BART and Muni trips that brought him to the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution highlighted how DePape, in a recorded interview with police after his arrest, infamously called Nancy Pelosi the “leader of the pack” among those telling Democratic lies, and how he kept his research on Pelosi in a folder on his computer labeled “favorite politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert, the U.S. attorney, told jurors that it was telling when DePape admitted to police investigators that his plan involved donning an inflatable unicorn costume, interrogating Nancy Pelosi on video, then breaking her kneecaps and wheeling her out onto the floor of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t say he’d wheel her out to the [Democratic National Committee],” she said. “No, he said ‘Congress.’ We didn’t put those words in his mouth. He said that on the day he did this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jacquline Scott Corley indicated in hearings on Tuesday, while the jury was not present that there are various scenarios in which the federal charges against DePape would not apply. One hypothetical she raised involved someone assaulting a federal official in a fit of road rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution agreed that the charges against DePape would “absolutely not” be appropriate in that example. But in her closing argument on Wednesday, Gilbert said the charges absolutely apply in this case because of DePape’s own statements about his intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the center of the ‘evil’ and of the lies and corruption the defendant is talking about,” Gilbert argued. “He tells you: It’s Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert relied heavily on DePape’s statements to speak for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was “right in front of cops, too,” DePape said to a paramedic on a recording from the night of the attack that Gilbert played for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cops watched me do it. You guys need evidence? There’s no denying what I did. 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He held Paul Pelosi hostage until police officers arrived, then bludgeoned him in the head with a hammer in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very well-thought-out plan,” DePape’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Angela Chuang, told the jury in her closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense attorneys do not dispute that he hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer or that he planned to capture Nancy Pelosi. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just over a year ago, David DePape of Richmond broke into the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with plans to don an inflatable unicorn costume, interrogate her in her own home on camera about a right-wing conspiracy concerning President Donald Trump called “Russiagate,” then break her kneecaps, and have her wheeled into Congress to expose what he called “lies” told by the “ruling class,” a “cabal” of politicians, academics, celebrities and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the “grand plan” DePape, 43, revealed to a jury on the third day of the federal trial against him in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, over the course of more than an hour’s worth of questioning from his federal public defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David DePape\"]‘That was the grand end of my plan, to get Joe Biden to pardon all the criminals for all their criminal conduct.’[/pullquote]DePape, accused of bludgeoning Paul Pelosi and attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, faces life in prison for charges of attempting to kidnap a federal officer and assaulting a family member of a federal official. He has pleaded not guilty. Court proceedings began on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape occasionally broke into tears, blew his nose and held the bridge of his nose as if in pain during various parts of his testimony, including recalling when he used to have “strong anti-Trump vibes,” views that changed after he began a steady diet of far-right-wing media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape told jurors on Tuesday that his plan included luring one of his highest targets, a sexuality and gender academic named Gayle Rubin, known to the court as “Target 1,” to Pelosi’s home using the speaker’s celebrity as a draw, then continuing on to target Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Paul Pelosi testified Monday afternoon in the federal criminal trial of David DePape, who is charged with assaulting him during a home invasion last year and attempting to kidnap his wife, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi told the court he had been asleep in his third-floor bedroom early in the morning of Oct. 28, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The door opened, and a very large man came in,” Pelosi testified in the San Francisco courtroom, pausing to take a deep breath, “with a hammer in one hand and some ties in the other hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he says, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ I think that woke me up,” he continued. “It was a tremendous shock to recognize someone had broken into the house. I recognized I was in serious danger.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]Pelosi’s testimony comes on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966865/defense-focuses-on-conspiracy-theories-in-first-day-of-trial-over-attempted-nancy-pelosi-kidnapping\">second day of the highly anticipated trial\u003c/a>, in which DePape faces life in prison for charges of attempting to kidnap a federal officer and assaulting a family member of a federal official. Court proceedings began on Thursday when a jury heard opening statements and testimony from several key witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Pelosi’s appearance in the courtroom Monday, jurors had been shown several graphic videos from the incident, including slow-motion footage of DePape striking the then 82-year-old multiple times in the head with a hammer and a subsequent clip of Pelosi laying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. Other footage showed Pelosi breathing nasally, which one police officer identified as “agonal breathing,” referring to when someone is gasping for air and not receiving enough oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage taken by emergency personnel showed Pelosi being lifted into a gurney wearing only the boxers he had been sleeping in, his face and hands covered in blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi testified that early in the interaction, he had tried to get into an elevator near his bedroom, but DePape blocked the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was going to tie me up and wait for her,” Pelosi said, recounting how he then managed to walk into the bathroom where his cell phone was charging and called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said he chose his words carefully during that call, the audio of which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">released to the public in January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to convey information without aggravating him,” Pelosi testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said he had intended to lead DePape downstairs and described convincing him to move to the first floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only shot was, if we go down the stairs, it would be easier for them to arrest him. God knows what he would’ve done if we were up on the third floor and the police were banging on the door downstairs,” he testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi recalled how DePape, likely suspecting police were on the way, then told him something like, “It’s over for me. 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He vaguely remembers being carried into the ambulance, speaking to paramedics and arriving at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the attack, Pelosi testified, he tried to put the incident even further out of his mind. He didn’t initially talk about it with his family and avoided viewing any of the footage from that night or listening to his 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve made the best effort I possibly can to not relive this,” Pelosi said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Pelosi\"]‘And he says, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ I think that woke me up. It was a tremendous shock to recognize someone had broken into the house. I recognized I was in serious danger.’[/pullquote]But Pelosi described how, for many months after the attack, he would frequently suffer from headaches and dizziness due to his head injuries. Doctors, he added, told him to avoid bright lights or loud sounds and not to watch news on TV — but said sports were OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, Pelosi said he also couldn’t grow hair on the parts of his head where he had been struck, so he wore “beanies and hats” for more than eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can still feel dents and lumps,” said Pelosi, whose hair was combed across the right side of his forehead in court on Monday. He lifted his hand and ran it from the front to the back of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not as sensitive to the touch, so it’s getting better,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Monday, jurors heard testimony from a special agent with the FBI, who described surveillance footage documenting DePape’s overnight journey from his East Bay home in Richmond to the Pelosi home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, which he reached around 2 a.m. Other witnesses for the prosecution on Monday laid out DePape’s internet search history as he sought addresses for Nancy Pelosi and a host of other targets, including actor Tom Hanks, U.S. Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few witnesses remain on the prosecution’s witness list, including a neurosurgeon at San Francisco General Hospital, who is expected to testify Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David DePape, the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, allegedly paid for a subscription service to find details about public figures he intended to target and saved personal information about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who he variously referred to as evil, a liar and “the leader of the pack” — in a folder labeled “favorite politicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ominous electronic trail is among the steps DePape took in the week before he rode BART from the East Bay, boarded a San Francisco Muni bus, and arrived at the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2022, federal prosecutor Laura Vartain Horn told the jury in her opening statement Thursday in a San Francisco courtroom.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jodi Linker, federal public defender\"]‘This is not a whodunnit. But what the government fails to acknowledge is the why-dunnit. And the why matters. The why is what makes this a federal case.’[/pullquote]DePape, she said, would go on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939421/sf-court-releases-911-call-and-sfpd-body-cam-recordings-of-paul-pelosi-attack\">break into the home\u003c/a> and, when he discovered Nancy Pelosi wasn’t there, hold her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, hostage before striking him in the head with a hammer in front of two San Francisco police officers, who captured the attack on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you stop me from going after people, you will take the punishment instead,” was one of the threats DePape made to Paul Pelosi, Horn told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The defendant unleashed his plan of violence on the next closest thing to the speaker, her husband, Paul,” Horn said as she displayed photos of Paul Pelosi lying in a pool of his own blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution’s case, Horn said, would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that DePape intended to retaliate against Nancy Pelosi “because of her job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conspiracy theory as defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But DePape, who faces life in prison for two felony counts, including attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official, does not dispute anything about what happened that night, said Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker, the suspect’s attorney, in her opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a whodunnit,” Linker told the jury. “But what the government fails to acknowledge is the why-dunnit. And the why matters. The why is what makes this a federal case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966971\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg\" alt=\"a watercolor sketch showing a judge behind a bench and various people seated while a standing person speaks\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/LinkerOpening-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Public Defender Jodi Linker (pointing), David DePape’s attorney, gives her opening statement in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The defense strategy has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966378/federal-trial-set-to-start-for-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband-with-a-hammer\">largely been a mystery in the weeks leading up to the start of the trial\u003c/a>. That strategy, Linker’s initial arguments suggest, is to convince the jury that DePape’s beliefs are “wholly unrelated to Nancy Pelosi’s official duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker began her statement by reciting a litany of DePape’s extremist conspiracy theories: accusing actor Tom Hanks of raping a child, nodding to George Soros’ perceived control of mainstream media, calling out Gov. Gavin Newsom for “trampling on all our constitutional rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hunter Biden is so blatantly corrupt, there is simply no end to what he will do,” Linker said, listing more of DePape’s baseless theories. “Adam Schiff abuses children.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]It was revealed in court Thursday that Schiff, the U.S. Democratic congressman from Burbank, was among those DePape planned to attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nancy Pelosi is a culture warrior, the face of the Democratic Party,” Linker added to her recitation. “Her army is the Democratic National Committee and her weapon is the mainstream media. … That is tyranny. That is corruption. That is killing the tree of liberty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Members of the jury, many of us do not believe any of that,” Linker concluded. “You may think it’s bogus. You may think they’re harmful lies, lies you think are destroying the country. But the evidence in the trial will show Mr. DePape believes these things. He believes them with every ounce of his being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape developed these beliefs via a steady diet of video games, “listening to podcast after podcast and watching YouTube video after YouTube video … that fed him lies and prompted him to reveal the truth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the charges against DePape presume he was motivated by Pelosi’s official position, not by the outlandish conspiracy theories that drove his actions, Linker argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pelosi home was only the first stop on DePape’s intended journey, Linker added, and had he not been arrested there, he would have then tried to track down Tom Hanks, Hunter Biden, George Soros, and gender-theory academic Gayle Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubin, who will likely testify in the trial next week, had until now only been identified in court filings as DePape’s “Target 1” — the person he could get to by first kidnapping Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why? Because of her writings,” Linker said. “Because he believes she is promoting child molestation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linker said the jury will hear from Target 1, “and she is going to say this is all completely false, that she believes no such things. But David believes it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will also note this is not a very well thought out plan,” Linker added, underscoring that DePape didn’t make it very far down his target list.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In DePape’s own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Testimony on the first day of the trial, which stretched into the afternoon, included video and audio of DePape explaining his motivations and admitting to his plan to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and then go after more politicians and academics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point on video captured by a police body camera, DePape even expressed remorse for hitting Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really want to hurt him, but, you know, this was a suicide mission,” DePape said. “The shit going on in Washington, D.C. — it’s so fucking sick. I’m not just going to stand here and do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no denying what I did. 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DePape could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jury selection in the trial starts this week, with opening statements scheduled for Nov. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But arguments during the trial may go beyond the straightforward legal debate of whether DePape is guilty of bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer in his San Francisco home last year as part of a plot to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and other left-leaning public figures.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rachel Goldwasser, Southern Poverty Law Center\"]‘I think the biggest fear is that people who are following it with a conspiratorial view become angrier and even more hostile toward Nancy Pelosi, her family and other politicians as well.’[/pullquote]DePape’s alleged act of political violence last year followed a steady drumbeat of villainization against Pelosi in national right-wing media, and there are concerns that the suspect, who appears to have been motivated by his belief in far-right conspiracy theories, could turn the witness stand into a pulpit to evangelize his beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys, who are federal public defenders, have attempted to keep their courtroom strategy a secret. However, according to pretrial motions, they do not intend to argue insanity. There’s even a chance DePape may take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damning evidence against DePape includes surveillance video of him breaking into the Pelosi home and police body-camera video of him attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. After his arrest, DePape told officers he intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, the first among the several public figures he planned to target. Police found zip ties, a roll of duct tape, rope and gloves in his backpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Message of extremism’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But DePape and his legal team may not care about winning a not-guilty verdict, Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His greatest goal may be to spread his message of extremism,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial comes at a potential cost to at least one secret witness, another of DePape’s alleged targets whose safety could be at risk if asked to testify, the witness’s attorney has argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled recently that an unnamed person, referred to in court documents as “Target 1,” could be compelled to testify. Target 1 is identified in a federal indictment as a high priority on DePape’s list of targets — the person whom he allegedly sought to lure by first taking Nancy Pelosi hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Superior Court last year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-nancy-pelosi-government-and-politics-3a0ec4302ee4f11c612678038997c0d7\">a San Francisco police lieutenant said\u003c/a> DePape’s target list included Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hunter Biden (President Joe Biden’s son), actor Tom Hanks and sex and gender-theory academic Gayle Rubin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corley also permitted federal prosecutors to use audio of a Jan. 27 phone call DePape made from his jail cell to a local TV news reporter. During the call, DePape apologized for failing in his alleged plans to target government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tree of liberty needs watering,” he said. “We need men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message has a receptive audience in an ever-growing community of conspiracy theorists, said Rachel Goldwasser, an analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center. DePape’s trial, she said, could galvanize people already sympathetic to QAnon and similar anti-government perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest fear is that people who are following it with a conspiratorial view become angrier and even more hostile toward Nancy Pelosi, her family and other politicians as well,” Goldwasser said. “The threats have gone up quite a lot in the last few years, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to reduce any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Radicalized in recent years\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape didn’t always traffic in conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His one-time girlfriend, the nudist Gypsy Taub, who recently served time for attempting to abduct a minor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ex-girlfriend-of-suspect-in-paul-pelosi-attack-17545968.php\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that DePape “didn’t know anything about politics” when they met in Hawaii in 2000. Only later did a combination of mental illness and drug use cause him to lose grip on reality, she said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paul-pelosi\"]Years later, DePape, a Canadian-born carpenter living in the East Bay city of Richmond, published blog posts trafficking in QAnon conspiracy theories, railing against space aliens, communists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930523/conspiracy-theories-and-qanon-posts-shed-light-on-suspect-in-assault-at-pelosi-home\">religious minorities and transgender people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to police after he was arrested, DePape characterized Nancy Pelosi as the “leader of the pack” telling Democratic Party lies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape is accused of breaking into the Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home in San Francisco at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2022. The federal indictment recounts key events: He smashed through their glass side door with a hammer, woke Paul Pelosi from bed and told him he was looking for Nancy Pelosi. Paul Pelosi got hold of a cell phone in his bathroom and managed to signal for help by calling 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2:31 a.m., a pair of police officers arrived, their body cameras recording as they knocked on the door. Paul Pelosi and DePape answered the door, both of them with one hand on a hammer. When an officer ordered DePape to “drop the hammer,” he said, “Um nope,” pulled his hammer back and swung at Pelosi’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Pelosi underwent surgery to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930397/nancy-pelosis-husband-assaulted-in-san-francisco-break-in\">repair a skull fracture\u003c/a> along with medical treatment for severe injuries to his hand when he tried to block the hammer blow. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964329/nancy-pelosi-on-israel-and-the-house-speaker-fight\">Nancy Pelosi told KQED\u003c/a> during a live interview last month that her husband is still recovering, and he may be fully healed by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Judge considers allowing key evidence\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors and defense attorneys have sparred in pretrial motions over what evidence will be shown to the jury, including a January in-custody phone call from DePape to KTVU reporter Amber Lee and photos and video showing a bloodied Paul Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/depape-in-bizarre-phone-call-to-ktvu-says-he-should-have-been-more-prepared\">In that call\u003c/a>, DePape said, “I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault. No one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “Liberty isn’t dying, it’s being systematically killed,” and that “people killing it have names and addresses, so I got their names and addresses, so I could pay them a little visit and have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.” He called for “men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe defense argued in a pretrial motion that the call did not touch on Nancy or Paul Pelosi “or prove any of the necessary elements of the offenses charged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that the call would be inflammatory to a jury and unduly sway them through emotion instead of evidence. Corley ultimately ruled that federal prosecutors could present excerpts from the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg said the phone call is particularly damning for DePape and a gift to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was that gold wrapped as a present to the U.S. government? Was it the government’s birthday? Was it July Fourth?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys have also sought to limit how much video footage of the hammer attack prosecutors are allowed to show the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Vartain Horn told Judge Corley late last month that the video shows Paul Pelosi lying on the floor “in his own blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows a different angle. You hear Mr. Pelosi’s breathing, which is difficult,” Horn said, and it shows emergency personnel attempting to stop his blood flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal public defender Angela Chuang argued the video is shocking and would wrongly sway the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is prejudicial. There’s no question about that. That’s just the nature of what happened,” Corley said in response. “A picture is worth a thousand words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mysterious Target 1 to take witness stand\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Corley cleared the courtroom when DePape’s attorneys argued at a hearing late last month that subpoenaing the unnamed witness identified in the federal indictment as Target 1 was crucial to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corley ruled after the closed-door hearing that Target 1 would testify, a ruling that came over the objections of Target 1’s attorney, Ed Swanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swanson said DePape’s “call to arms” in his phone call to KTVU endangered his client. He said that since she was named as one of DePape’s targets, she was forced to make “fundamental changes” in her family life and professional life to guarantee their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people out there who are particularly worrisome to my client and her employer, who have gone to great lengths to do everything possible to make my client safe,” Swanson argued. “This will make my client less safe.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Laurie Levenson, Loyola Law School professor\"]‘Cases that look easy, you have to be careful because jurors will have high expectations,” she said. “In high profile cases, unusual things can happen.’[/pullquote]Corley apologized to Swanson and his client but said the worry right now is a “generalized concern” instead of a specific one and erred on the side of honoring DePape’s right to a fair trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get threats just being a judge in a video game case,” Corley said. “It’s a crazy, terrible world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court is aiming to keep Target 1’s name under wraps, though those in attendance will be able to see the person’s face. Corley has said Target 1’s testimony is expected to be public. That could change as further hearings on Target 1 are expected this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, of Loyola Law School, said there may be good reasons to keep Target 1’s identity hidden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be that DePape is out of commission, but the court has to worry whether he has followers out there who will take up the mantle, the mission for him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal defense remains a mystery\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys have noted in an October court filing that they’re trying to avoid “prematurely revealing details of defense trial strategy and theory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that strategy remains a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg, from Stanford Law School, said it makes sense that DePape doesn’t plan to argue insanity as a defense as it’s an “incredibly hard” legal bar to clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to prove that because of your incapacity, you had no ability to even know what you were doing was wrong,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense’s witness list is brief: one redacted name who may be Target 1, Pelosi’s chief of staff, Daniel Bernal, Elizabeth Yates, \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/yates-testifies-on-extremist-threat-to-americans-and-democracy/\">an extremism and antisemitism researcher\u003c/a>, federal public defender Catherine Goulet and DePape himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors’ witness list, in contrast, is two pages long, sporting 15 names, most of whom are police officers, federal agents and various emergency responders. Paul Pelosi is also named as a potential witness. Nancy Pelosi is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an October pretrial hearing, Corley shot down the defense bid to ask jurors for their voting histories, calling the move “invasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will reduce faith in our system. I’m just not going to allow it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson, from Loyola Law School, said finding even one juror who finds conspiracy theories plausible could be key for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All they frankly need is one sympathizer, one person who says, ‘I don’t like DePape, but his message is one that I relate to,’” Levenson said. “If that happens, then you might not get the unanimous verdict that the prosecution has to get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levenson cautioned against assuming the case will be an easy win for prosecutors, even in light of what she called “strong evidence” showing DePape’s attack, demonstrating his motivations and communicating his desire to continue his mission even after his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cases that look easy, you have to be careful because jurors will have high expectations,” she said. “In high profile cases, unusual things can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction (Nov. 8): An earlier version of this story listed David DePape’s age as 42 years old. 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