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.....
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We can know some things though, and many of the most inflammatory lies are pure internet lies as we see posted on FR every day as many here swallow whatever their bloggers feed them.
We see the break-in, we see that they are dressed as one would expect, and we can listen to the 9/11 call about the stranger and the break-in and the fear in the 82-year-old man’s voice as he is being held hostage by the psycho and is trying to slip information to the operator.
Here is the 2 minute 9/11 call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDaB9ii0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jDaB9ii0w
More Alinksy rules style projecting, from the left?
Who is this guy’s “legal” defense? Hildebeast & Co?
“””””- the alarm didn’t go off, yet you claim de Pape broke in”””””
I claim? that 2 minutes of video in post 28 doesn’t look like a break-in to you?
More like a coverup
there was actually a big controversy about it at the time, the “US Speaker’s house” is supposed to be under watch by constant security and it wasn’t, etc.
so we still haven’t got any explanation of why the alarm didn’t go off ...
faulty? or turned off?
Nancy Pelosi, is that youuuuuuu????? You bought the MSM narrative. What a sucker.
LOL, a staged break-in? Are you one of those who has been telling people for over a year that Pelosi simply opened the front door and let his friend in?
Where was Nancy’s private security firm protecting the property? Why didn’t the alarm go off? Why were they both in their underwear? Why was Paul Pelosi drinking scotch with his attacker at 2-3am if he was in distress? Who opened the door?
If you are interested in things I’m not posting about, go look them up, don’t bother me with them.
Given that both the perp's hands and Pelosi's hands were in plain view when the door opened, it appears there may have been a third person who opened the door. Can't say for sure. Pelosi's right hand is holding onto the head of the hammer which is in the perp's right hand, and the perp's left hand is also there holding onto Pelosi's right hand. Pelosi's left hand is holding a glass. I've watched it several times and there doesn't appear to be enough time for one of them to have opened it and then to get into the position they were in with their hands where they're were as the door swung open.
i mean who opened the door for the COP!
looking at the video, you can see all four hands are occupied wi the hammer/each other, so who opened the door?
Thanks for sharing that video.
The guy shows up with a big backpack and takes something out and starts banging away at the door/window.
That differs from what we heard about him being let in
HOW MANY HOURS OF ATTORNEY FEES WERE ACCUMULATED TO COME UP WITH THIS FAIRY TALE.??????
EVERY WORD IN THIS “TRIAL” IS A WELL CRAFTED PLAN TO COVER UP FOR NANCY PELOSI.
Unless these super-rich people in their 80s have arthritis problems and had the common handicap push button to open the front door installed.
I think it is a heavy door and Mr Pelosi started to pull it and stepped back (you can see him slightly still moving back as the door opened) the momentum of the door kept it moving.
I don't know any more than you about the whole thing. Just my observation.
Except that as he's exposed by the opening door, you can clearly see the glass in his left hand and the as it opens farther his right hand is occupied holding the hammer head. I guess he could have a lever handle that could have been pressed down with his left hand while still holding the glass and not a knob that had to be turned.
Paul wouldn’t want his “we were having gay sex” story publicly aired, for fear it would embarrass Nancy, who is the source of his insider trading tips. So Paul’s attorney or other messenger told Depape to come up with a different defense, or he might just get Arkancided.
Oops. This is a conspiracy theory. Bad. Bad. Bad.
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