To go along with the current discussion:
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Rarely has the Reddit-ification of today’s conservative movement been in such stark relief as after the attack on Paul Pelosi. Various conspiracy theories have been
lodged by prominent conservatives based on, at best, sheer innuendo and, at worst, falsehoods — and then (mostly) discarded when they proved just as baseless as they initially seemed.
As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump notes, it’s a case in point when it comes to just
how little compunction certain figures in the movement have about departing from facts and good taste, and how little the Republican Party as a whole cares to police its most extreme and conspiratorially minded voices.
There’s never been any real reason to doubt that someone broke into the Pelosis’ home, but certain people were very invested in casting it as some grand conspiracy that didn’t involve a man violently targeting a prominent Democrat.
Trump
picked up the ball and ran with it during a radio interview Tuesday.
“It’s weird things going on in that household in the last couple of weeks,” Trump said, adding: “But the glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out. So it wasn’t a break-in; it was a breakout. I don’t know. You hear the same things I do.”
In fact, this had already been explained. And we have gotten straight answers — answers that are even clearer now.
Not only have the police been unequivocal that this was a break-in, but charging documents released Monday — before both Watters’s show and Trump’s comments — state that suspect David DePape himself confirmed as much.
“DEPAPE stated that he broke into the house through a glass door, which was a difficult task that required the use of a hammer,” the
criminal complaint said.
But in case statements by law enforcement and the complaint weren’t enough, The Post is now reporting that no less than video footage from the Capitol Police
confirms that a man broke into the house:
The officer in D.C. quickly pulled up additional camera angles from around Pelosi’s home and began to backtrack, watching recordings from the minutes before San Francisco police arrived. There, on camera, was a man with a hammer, breaking a glass panel and entering the speaker’s home, according to three people familiar with how Capitol Police learned of the break-in and who have been briefed on or viewed the video themselves.
