The suspect allegedly had zip ties with him when he broke into the couple's San Francisco home - and was calling out 'Where's Nancy?', echoing scenes from the January 6 Capitol riot.
DePape on Monday was charged with assault and attempted kidnapping by the Department of Justice.
The suspect, who is now in custody, is expected to appear in court this week on separate state charges. San Francisco police said DePape would be arraigned on charges of attempted homicide, first-degree burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with serious bodily injury, elder abuse, threatening a public official, or family member, among others.
Fox News reports that DePape had been living in the U.S. illegally as a 'longtime' visa overstay.
Paul Pelosi, one of two people home at the time of the incident, called the police who arrived two minutes later to find the 82-year-old and DePape, 42, struggling over a hammer, according to a Department of Justice press release.
Officers told the men to drop the hammer. DePape then gained control of it and swung at Pelosi's head, before he was arrested as Pelosi lay unconscious on the ground, San Francisco FBI special agent Stephanie Minor wrote in a request for a federal criminal complaint and arrest warrant.
Pelosi had been asleep when DePape entered his bedroom and demanded to talk to 'Nancy.'
'Where's Nancy?' he asked.
Pelosi told the intruder his wife was not there and would not be there for several days, and DePape said he would wait. Pelosi was somehow able to get into the bathroom while he called 911.
DePape was listening in on the phone call, and knew police were going to arrive, according to FBI interrogators, but 'explained that he did not leave after Pelosi’s call to 9-1-1 because, much like the American founding fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender.'
DePape told investigators he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi captive and talk to her. He said that if the speaker told 'the truth' he would let her go, and if she 'lied' he would 'break her kneecaps.'
'She would then have to be wheeled into Congress, which would show other Members of Congress there were consequences to actions,' he explained.
DePape also explained that he broke into the house through a glass door using the hammer.
During the Capitol riot, those swarming the buildings trying to overturn Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump roamed the halls also shouted menacingly, 'Where´s Nancy?'
Pelosi now remains in the intensive care unit surrounded by family members.
The SFPD officers on the scene and the dispatcher certainly gave a different accounting. Once the feds decided it was their case, the story changes hourly.
Someone forgot to set the alarm before bed. No way someone so close to Presidency in a 6 mil house doesn’t have any security systems.
Initially, there was a third person at the house.
Then there wasn't.
Now there is.
The story moves around like greased gerbil.
It actually WAS January 6th all over again, only in - SURPRISE - October.
And it was TOTALLY NOT AN OLD DRUNK DEMOCRAT PERVE PLAYING "HIDE THE SALAMI" WITH A WHACKO SAN FRANCISCO RENT BOY, plucked out of the nearest gay bar for Village People fun-and-games at the Pelosi Manse.
TOTALLY not that, nosirree.
Well, that version will satisfy the left. No buggering going on.
He should have waited til N got home.
they are laying it on thick
Why does your copy and paste of the Daily Mail article in post #3 above read “Paul Pelosi, ONE OF TWO PEOPLE AT HOME at the time of the incident, called the police who arrived two minutes later....”
When the actual Daily Mail article reads “Paul Pelosi, who was THE ONLY ONE HOME when DePape broke in, called the police who arrived two minutes later...”
Did you change how the article reads or was the article changed by the Daily Mail after you posted?
Paul Pelosi, one of two people home at the time of the incident...
Debunked by the DA ?
So who's the other one ??
Third in line to the Presidency and the guy could just waltz into this house?
Seems very unlikely
Sounds like the guy that made up the idiotic Golden Showers story also made up this story.
Zip ties like the Kavanagh assassin?
That is quite a story. Has the screenplay been opted yet?