Trump’s “terrible thing” among bad election news
David Diffaff, 42, who broke into the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (pictured) in San Francisco on 28 last month and assaulted her husband with a blunt weapon, was charged with assault. attempted murder and attempted kidnapping. he was reported on the 31st of last month. As the culprit’s circumstances turned out to be far-right, there are also remarks that could represent bad news for the Republican Party and former President Donald Trump, who are about to hold mid-term elections on the 8th.
According to the indictment released the same day by the US Attorney’s Office, Diffaff said: “I kidnapped Pelosi as a hostage and tried to interrogate him.” He is said to have called Pelosi a “lying Democratic leader” and said he was “tried to show Pelosi appearing in a wheelchair in Congress”.
The investigative authorities said that Diffaff went to look for President Pelosi, shouting: “Where is Nancy!
In an interview with the Spanish-language media that day, Trump said the attack was “terrible” and that “what happened in San Francisco is much worse than in Afghanistan.” It is interpreted as a political statement that seeks to link the case to the crime city of San Francisco, where a Democrat is the mayor.
On the same day, the first trial in a Manhattan court against former President Trump’s family business, the Trump Group, was held on charges of tax evasion. Two senior officials of the Trump group, including CFO Alan Weisselberg, nicknamed “Trump’s accountant”, have been charged with tax evasion for 15 years.
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