Pelosi Assassination Attempt: At Some Point, an Assassin Will Succeed

The details from the criminal complaint concerning the attack on Paul Pelosi are horrific. The complaint reveals that Paul was woken up in the middle of the night by a hammer-wielding lunatic who said he was willing to wait days for House speaker Nancy Pelosi to return home so he could break her kneecaps and thus she would serve as an example to other members of Congress.

Ultimately, however, the public dodged yet another potential high-level political assassination, as Nancy Pelosi was not in the house and Paul Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery from the assault. But the incident reveals once again that unfortunately, outside of a few figures, such as the president and vice president, it really wouldn’t be extraordinarily difficult to get to a lot of very prominent public officials.

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The details from the criminal complaint concerning the attack on Paul Pelosi are horrific. The complaint reveals that Paul was woken up in the middle of the night by a hammer-wielding lunatic who said he was willing to wait days for House speaker Nancy Pelosi to return home so he could break her kneecaps and thus she would serve as an example to other members of Congress.

Ultimately, however, the public dodged yet another potential high-level political assassination, as Nancy Pelosi was not in the house and Paul Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery from the assault. But the incident reveals once again that unfortunately, outside of a few figures, such as the president and vice president, it really wouldn’t be extraordinarily difficult to get to a lot of very prominent public officials.