Paul Pelosi Attacker’s Defense: QAnon Made Me Do It

The Washington Post reports:

A key element of both the assault and attempted kidnapping charges is that the alleged crimes were in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi’s work in the House. Opening statements made clear that the defense strategy will be to try to undercut that part of the prosecution’s case by showing that it was instead Daviud DePape’s belief in QAnon-style extremist ideology that motivated him.

Defense attorney Jodi Linker told jurors that DePape thought a cabal of corrupt Hollywood and political elites was prostituting children and lying to Americans. DePape believed Tom Hanks, George Soros, Gavin Newsom, Adam B. Schiff, and Hunter Biden were among the culprits. A primary target of DePape’s plan to stop what he saw as a ruling-class conspiracy, she said, was a professor of anthropology and women and queer studies.

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An attorney for the man accused of breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s house and striking her husband in the head with a hammer admitted Thursday that he committed a criminal assault, but denied it was related to the former House speaker’s job. https://t.co/tGjI0DpXMS

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