Prosecutors urge 40-year prison sentence for man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband

David Wayne DePape acknowledged his intention was to kidnap Nancy Pelosi, interrogate her and break her kneecaps if she were found to be lying. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Imageshome and clubbed her husband with a hammer should serve 40 years in prison for his conviction on federal offences that amount to a crime of terrorism, prosecutors urged on Friday.

In November, a federal court jury found DePape guilty of attempting to kidnap Pelosi, then speaker of the US House of Representatives, and assaulting her husband, Paul Pelosi, both on account of her official duties as a member of Congress. The House speaker, second in the constitutional line of succession to the presidency, was away in Washington at the time. Paul Pelosi, then 82, was hospitalised for several days with skull fractures and injuries to his hands and right arm.Evidence at trial showed that DePape, a Canadian citizen who had been in the United States illegally for 14 years at the time of the attack, was driven by far right-wing conspiracy theories, embracing the fictions spread by the extremist QAnon movement.

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