No sale. As I understand it, when the cops and Pelosi were at the door Pelosi did not try to escape.
Right. That’s the circumstance that many point to, to explain why they think that Pelosi knew the guy and did not feel threatened by him. Otherwise, as soon as the cops arrived, he would have bolted out the door and past the cops, to put the cops between himself and the guy, thereby putting himself out of harm’s way.
I don’t see it that way. IMHO, Pelosi was in an extremely high state of fear and was simply not thinking perfectly well, causing him to fail to run away during that span of a few seconds when he had the opportunity. And, immediately thereafter, he got horrifically bashed by a hammer.