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The former US vice-president, a potential Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, says 42-year-old David Depape "should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" after allegedly assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer in his California home.

US house speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has been attacked during a break-in at the couple's San Francisco home, AP reports. Paul Pelosi, 82, was expected to make a full recovery according to his wife's spokesman. However, sources told AP that Paul Pelosi had been treated by doctors for blunt force…

Paul Pelosi was severely beaten with a hammer

SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked early Friday by an intruder who broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and fractured his skull with a hammer in what a law enforcement source said appeared to be a targeted assault.

MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio deflected questions Friday about the extremist past of a Republican canvasser who was heavily beaten and sent to the hospital, as questions remain about whether the attack was politically motivated.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was “violently” attacked early Friday, when an intruder broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and fractured his skull with a hammer, in what a law enforcement source said appeared to be a targeted attack.

The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories

The alleged online history of the man charged with violently assaulting the House speaker’s husband reveals QAnon links and a path to radicalisation