Decent People Apologize

After mocking the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi and blaming the victim with conspiracies, conservatives are silent after the video footage they demanded to see shows it was even worse than reported.

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What one Republican Representative described as a “nudist hippie male prostitute” was actually a man who had been radicalized by their lies into an attempted murder of the then Speaker of the House’s husband.

Republicans, including leader of the GOP Donald Trump, suggested the attack was staged. They did so publicly, some even mocked the 80-year-old victim who was in surgery due to a fractured skull and wrist.

Other elected Republicans and media echoed that all of the facts weren’t being disclosed. They suggested Mr. Pelosi knew DePape. They suggested Pelosi was in a gay affair with DePape.

The horrific police cam footage showed the radicalized-by-conservative-lies David DePape hitting Paul Pelosi over the head with a hammer with such force that one Reddit viewer reacted by saying it was the “clearest evi…