Nancy Pelosi opens up about traumatic attack on her husband, and her advice for Kamala Harris on running against Trump
Until now, Nancy Pelosi has not discussed the trauma of October 28, 2022, when a man broke into her house in San Francisco and hit her husband, Paul Pelosi, then 82, in the head at least three times with a hammer. Surgeons had to remove part of his skull to save his life.
“My husband and I have never talked about this,” Pelosi said. “The doctors have supported that, because they don’t want him to revisit it.”
The assailant was targeting Nancy Pelosi. “He was looking for me,” she said. “Imagine the guilt of all of that – it’s just a horrible thing.”
She describes the horror in her new book, “The Art of Power.” In it, she quotes her daughter, documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, who tells her, “You have to give it up – the Speakership, Congress, everything in your public life.”
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Asked whether her daughter blamed her, Nancy Pelosi said, “Well, I blame me. I mean, not blame me. I was the target. My family, frankly, blames certain elements of the Republican Party who had been demonizing me for about 20 years, every election and the rest – cloven feet, horns on the head, a horrible person, in flames, a devil, and all of that. The sad thing about my husband’s assault was that they just made a joke of it. They thought it was funny. And people laughed. So, [Trump] was an instigator of violence and then made light of it.”
Nancy Pelosi on “The Art of Power”
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