No. DePape was wearing shorts or pants, as a photo showed. I no longer have a link to the photo, but when it appeared I found it shocking, after all the "underwear" "gay tryst" furor. Pelosi had been in bed when DePape broke in, so it was appropriate for him to be wearing underwear.
After the arrest, no evidence appeared confirming that DePape was a male prostitute. With the international publicity this case generated, DePape's alleged work as a prostitute must have been thoroughly, if fruitlessly, investigated. These days the odds look superb that DePape was not a male prostitute and that Paul Pelosi had not been cruising for male prostitutes. Those were just partisan lies, exactly the sort of thing that media leftists do all the time. We're supposed to be better than that.
30 years may be an excessive sentence, but DePape was guilty as charged, and Paul Pelosi deserves some apologies.
Note to self: Never answer a Grindr invite from Paul Pelosi.
At the 40 second mark the attacker and Pelosi are at the front door with the police and grappling some for the hammer, the attack happens and the attacker is clothed as he was when he broke in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTL1s_eJkA
This 2 minute video shows DePape bringing in all his hostage and break-in gear to the back door and breaking in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLbJveUgvs
The 911 call is also available, he was in trouble.
Then it was not an excessive sentence. Violent criminals should be locked away for the rest of their lives.
The only problem I have is that such prosecutions are only taken against criminals who assault a member of our nomenklatura. When the victims are ordinary people, the criminal gets out of jail on a "no-bail" release before the victim gets out of the hospital.
...and Paul Pelosi deserves some apologies.
Nope. Pelosi should have been jailed for his DUI. He is a privileged member of the elites and gets protection not offered to the lesser peasants.
But I do hope his assailant is put away for that 30 years.