Posted on 11/10/2023 3:26:27 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The man on trial for bludgeoning Paul Pelosi in his San Francisco home with a hammer truly believed he was trying to save the world from a secret cabal of high-profile pedophiles, his defense attorney told a San Francisco court Thursday.
At the opening of the federal trial against David DePape his legal team said they won’t dispute that he hit Pelosi — an incident caught on police bodycam — but they would explain he was motivated by internet conspiracy theories that the “liberal ruling class” spread lies and abused children.
Defense attorney Jodi Linker told jurors: “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.”
DePape faces two charges; attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official in retaliation for performance of their duties.
Linker said the defense will show DePape’s decision to break into the Pelosi home had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi’s top position in Congress at the time, but was instead part of a larger plan to attack a list of people for reasons based on baseless conspiracies he had read.
Giving examples of easily disproved falsehoods DePape apparently believed after reading them on the fringes of the internet, Linker explained: “Tom Hanks, the actor, raped a 13-year-old girl. [Calif. rep] Adam Schiff abuses children.”
She also detailed how DePape felt “Nancy Pelosi is a culture warrior, the face of the Democratic Party. Her armory is the Democratic National Committee and her weapon is the mainstream media.
“Members of the jury, many of us do not believe any of that.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I still want to know who opened the door...
I think it was a Snap-On dead blow hammer.
I am curious as to why defense attorney Jodi Linker would think this advantageous to her client? Seems more advantageous to Nancy Pelosi.
Is Jodi a quack lawyer in the National Lawyer’s Guild?
“Well instead of just ranting about this on internet forums, he
took action.”
If there was actual solid evidence of this, the hangings would commence forthwith.
Interesting.... both sides essentially making the same allegations about each other, but only one side is conspiracy theory.
OK.Got it.
Schiff... abuses children? I thought Schiff’s claim to fame was just being pals with Democrat donor Ed Buck or whatever his name was, who had homeless adult male prostitutes overdose in his apartment two different times.
I see the “never let a good crisis go to waste” rule is in effect.
Let’s present this guy as a conspiracy-believing crackpot so than anyone else who makes the same claims about the evil elite will fall into the nutcase department.....clever.
You are correct!
“”””so why did Paul Pelosi willingly let de Pape into his home?””””
Don’t you people ever look into things? The security video shows the attacker casing the house outside and then fetching his backpack with the break-in tools and using his hammer to smash out the patio doors to get in.
Here are 2 minutes of the break-in, and look up the desperate 911 call when Pe;losi is being held hostage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLbJveUgvs
Yeah. This guy might have the goods. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. Somebody ought to ask Schiff directly: Do you diddle kids, Adam?
The defense is free present the theory that Pelosi invited the defendant into his home and it was all consensual.
Poisoning the well so that they can use the *conspiracy theorist* argument against anyone they so choose to discredit and condemn them.
Why didn’t the alarm go off?
You learn that you were totally ignorant of the break-in and were spreading the fake story that the attacker was casually let in, and your reaction is to move to something else?
Do you even recognize how wrong you have been about this story for more than a year?
So Trump’s fault.
I still want to know how they both ended up in their underpants.
I bet DePape knew him from some gay bar he visits.
Just trying to make sense of it all ...
- the alarm didn’t go off, yet you claim de Pape broke in
- the Police were called by Paul Pelosi, not the alarm company
- de Pape was in underwear when the Police arrived
- the attack only happened after the Police were there (because it was recorded on the Police camera)
does that make any sense?
something’s going on ...
Baloney.
“””””- de Pape was in underwear when the Police arrived””””
Seriously, don’t you guys care even a tiny bit about facts and truth?
Here is 80 seconds of the police at the front door and the attacker is wearing the same clothes he was wearing when he was smashing in the doors during the break-in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTL1s_eJkA
I don't like the Pelosi's any more than the rest of us but we don't need to look like fools repeating wrong information.
I do believe DePape broke in. I don’t particularly believe the reports of what happened after that. And just who are we going to believe is truthful? Those on the left with power or some schmuck off the street?
I also have very little respect for any courts when leftists, and very political leftists, are involved.
You will buy anything. Doesn’t matter anyway, does it?
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