Charges have been filed. Come back once you've examined the discovery and back up your claims. It will become a matter of public record.
I'm not going to hold my breath.
Yep
- A federal affidavit debunks far-right conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi.
- Twitter's new owner Elon Musk tweeted then deleted a baseless report about a dispute with a male prostitute.
- Pelosi told authorities he had never seen the suspect before, according to the affidavit.
Since Paul Pelosi, 82, was attacked in his home with a hammer on Friday, wild and baseless theories of a homosexual tryst have been making the rounds in conservative forums, even though Pelosi told authorities he had never seen the suspect before,
according to the affidavit. Right-wingers are also raising suspicions about the police account, the
timing of the attack, and the attacker's background with a nudist group.
"It starts out with these weirdos, and then next thing you know, it's Ted Cruz, and then it's Marge Greene and then it's 50 people in Congress saying it by tomorrow," said criminal defense attorney Ron Filipkowski, who tracks extremists on social media. "It's the case with all these conspiracies."
DePape told authorities that he broke in with a hammer through a glass door, according to the affidavit, disproving theories that the glass was broken from the inside. The attacker entered the bedroom where Paul Pelosi was sleeping and said he wanted to talk to "Nancy," according to the affidavit.
DePape told authorities that he was planning to
break "her kneecaps" if she lied, though it's unclear in the affidavit about what.
Elon Musk, in a now-deleted tweet,
said there might be "more to the story" and shared a link to a baseless report in the
conspiracy-peddling Santa Monica Observer with the headline, "The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a controversial Republican of Georgia referred to Pelosi's attacker as his "friend" and backed up Musk,
tweeting that "the media is the source of misinformation."
Musk's message and link had been retweeted more than 30,000 times and liked more than 110,000 times before being deleted less than an hour later, according to
The New York Times.
Filipkowski tweeted on Sunday that Musk's post was being reposted by QAnon and right-wing accounts on multiple social media platforms.
"The owner of Tesla and Twitter posted it. The dark corners of the internet are now mainstreamed," he wrote.
San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins tried to correct the record on Sunday. "We have nothing to suggest that these two men knew each other prior to this incident," Jenkins said
Jenkins also said the attacker was looking for Nancy Pelosi and that reports that a third person was at the home were untrue.
The GQP is the party of qanon, misinformation, lies, (false) conspiracy theories, fake news, and greed.