welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. and tonight new horrific details are emerging about the attempted violent attack against house speaker nancy pelosi, the one that ended with the wounding and hospitalization of her husband, paul pelosi. the alleged violent intruder david depape is facing federal charges for breaking into the pelosi s home and beating paul pelosi with a hammer early friday morning. the suspect who trafficked online in far right conspiracy theories about covid and the 2020 election and holocaust denialism, quote, stated that he was going to hold nancy hostage and talk to her. if nancy were to tell depape the truth, he would let her go. and if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. depape also explained, she would then have to be wheeled into congress, which would show other members of congress there were consequences to actions, unquote. several prominent republicans have condemned the attack, including today donald trump. with p
hardly alone. former republican congressman and chairman of the house intelligence committee, devin nunez, who now runs trump s social media company, truth social, shared this halloween image with the words, at least this guy has his clothes on. nunez also reposted this meme using a poster for the gay romantic comedy, bros, twisting it into a smear of paul pelosi. and again, the man who tried to bash pelosi s head in with a hammer. words fail. republican congressman clay higgins of louisiana tweeted, then deleted, this, which was captured by steve her man, a photo of nancy pelosi with quote, the moment you realize that nudist hippy guy was the reason your husband didn t make it to your fund-raiser. i mean, what is wrong with these people? there s more, but you get the point. in addition to being inhuman and