Pelosi Claims Republicans Fed the ‘Flame’ That Led to Husband Being Attacked With Their ‘Politics of Personal Destruction’
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) placed partial blame on Republicans for the attack on her husband Paul Pelosi by a home intruder in 2022.
Pelosi joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday to discuss the current presidential race, as well as her new book titled The Art of Power. The book details her time in Congress, including as Speaker of the House under former President Donald Trump. Trump’s most famous book work is The Art of the Deal.
Mitchell at one point asked Pelosi about the 2022 attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi. The former House Speaker was confronted at their San Francisco home by a man wielding a hammer. Authorities have since said the man, David DePape, was consuming conspiracy theory-related content on YouTube before the attack. The man repeatedly asked Paul Pelosi where his wife was. In May, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
“Do you blame the people who targeted you and demonized you?” Mitchell asked Pelosi on Wednesday about the attack.
“I think they take some responsibility for that,” Pelosi said.
She went on to accuse Republicans of engaging in the “politic of personal destruction” all the way back to former President Bill Clinton.
“The Republican Party with cloven feet, head horns — really, actually, they started under Clinton, Hillary [Clinton] and Bill Clinton. The politics of personal destruction and then they transferred that to me,” she said, arguing she was only targeted because she proved “effective.”
Pelosi did not specify what she was referring to with the Clintons, but the former president was impeached after Congress found he’d lied under oath about an affair with staffer Monica Lewinsky.
Pelosi knocked Republicans who have “made a joke” of the attack on her husband and she accused party members of fueling a “flame” that led to the attack.
“When they were doing it they went into a different territory of political debate and it fed a flame, it fueled a flame,” she said.
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