Authorities have opined that Nancy Pelosi’s house attack might have been in the works for a long while, as she had been receiving multiple verbal and written death threats.
The home invader was actually a woman and was alleged to have been calling out for Nancy before striking Paul with a hammer seeing that she was not home.
“I don’t know for certain but it looks like this was intended for Nancy. Kept asking, ‘Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?'” President Joe Biden told reporters Saturday.
The suspected attacker was also laced with injuries, as it appeared that there might have been a struggle with Paul before he was hit. She is currently in the hospital.
The attacker who is 42 years old is facing serious charges of assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, and elderly abuse.
Nancy Pelosi who according to the Capitol Police was in Washington, D.C., with her protective detail at the time has been the target of several disturbing threats in recent years.
In the first three months of this year alone, the U.S. Capitol Police opened roughly 1,820 cases of these types of threats.
Verbal and written threats against the speaker have resulted in several arrests and convictions in recent years.
Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, of Palm Beach Gardens was arrested in March 2019, when he called Nancy Pelosi’s D.C. office and told a staff assistant to tell the speaker to “step down or I’m going to come a long, long way to rattle her head with bullets. That’s a f—— promising.”
An hour later he called again and told a staff assistant to tell Nancy Pelosi, “I’m coming to cut her f—— head off.”
He again left a recorded message for Nancy Pelosi, warning her to “sleep with one eye open.” He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
