Comment Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), made his first public appearance Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors since the violent attack at the couple’s San Francisco home in October. The 82-year-old business executive was greeted with thunderous applause as he accompanied his wife to the historic event at the Kennedy Center Opera House. At the event honoring Americans who have made significant contributions to the arts, Paul Pelosi was seen sitting next to his wife on the balcony of the performing arts center’s Opera House, wearing a hat as he applauded the honorees. He had a black glove on one hand. In October, an intruder broke into the couple’s home in the exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood at night through a glass door, looking for the speaker, who was out of town at the time, and yelling, “Where’s Nancy?” Paul Pelosi recovers as attack renews focus on toxic politics Pelosi suffered such severe injuries from a hammer that the business executive was required to undergo surgery to repair a fractured skull. Pelosi also suffered “serious injuries to his right arm and hands,” according to the speaker’s office. David Wayne DePape faces multiple state and federal charges related to the attack, including attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. According to court documents, the 42-year-old told police he was on a “suicide mission” and was targeting a number of state and federal politicians to combat “lies” coming out of Washington. Last month, the speaker said her decision not to seek leadership in the Democratic Party during the next session of Congress was partly due to the attack. She said she felt guilty for being the focus of the attacker, yet her husband endured the attacks. In her speech last month announcing her decision to step down as leader, Pelosi thanked her husband, calling him “my pillar of support” and said she was grateful for “all the prayers and good wishes as he continues his recovery ». The congresswoman told reporters last month that her husband was “doing well” but faced a long recovery. The emotional trauma of the incident had left deep scars on the entire family, Pelosi said. “If he had fallen or slipped on the ice or had an accident and hurt his head, it would have been horrible, but for him to have been attacked because they were looking for me is really — they call it ‘survivor’s guilt’ or something,” she said in more detail. her comments after the incident. “But the traumatic effect on him, it happened in our home.” “He made our home a crime scene,” Pelosi added. While some GOP lawmakers and noted figures expressed concern for the pair after the incident, Pelosis quickly became the target of conspiracy theories from political opponents and jabs from those on the right in the days after the attack, which the speaker sharply criticized. “If your husband was in a situation where other people were making fun of it, taking it as a joke, raising bail money for the perpetrator, coming up with a conspiracy theory about what was going on — it’s so horrible to think that the Republican Party has come to that, and no real pushback from anyone in the party,” he said. “It’s so sad for our country.”
