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On Friday, interview tapes, the 911 call, surveillance footage, and police bodycam recordings of David DePape,43 were released to the public by court order. 

The recording of DePape’s interrogation by a San Francisco police sergeant took place hours after he attacked Paul Pelosi, 82.

In the early-morning hours of Oct. 28, 2022,  DePape broke into Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco. And severely wounded her husband before he was taken into custody.  

The 82-year-old speaker, second in line to the presidency, has an official security detail around the clock. But her home and husband don’t get protection benefits.

David DePape appears on surveillance footage

DePape was a former pro-nude activist in the LGBTQ circle. He was a familiar face in the San Francisco scene.

The bizarre conspiracy theorist was previously accused of sexually abusing his sons and stepdaughter as children.

Recently he has been living in a rented garage in Richmond.

He can be seen on camera going around the residence looking for a way to break in. Although cameras were installed around the Democratic leader's home more than eight years ago, they were not being actively monitored by the Capital police.

In his interview, DePape describes breaking into the Pelosi home in upscale Pacific Heights. Outdoor surveillance video shows it took him less than a minute to get inside.

 He smashed the glass back patio door. And claimed “That is like special glass. I was actually getting pretty winded at that point.”

He began wandering through the house until he came upon a sleeping Paul Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi was in Washington at the time of her husband’s attack.

Bizarre kidnapping attempt

After the intruder woke up Paul Pelosi, he attempted to tie him up with zip ties.

David DePape was planning to hold Nancy Pelosi “hostage” and talk to her. “If she told the truth I’d let her go scot-free,” he said. “If she (expletive) lied, I was going to break her kneecaps. DePape said he knew “without a doubt” she would lie.

“I kind of told him, ‘I’m looking for Nancy Pelosi.’ 

He said, ‘She’s not here.’ … He was like, ‘How can we resolve this?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know,’” DePape said. “I’m like, ‘Honestly, can I tie you up? I just want to (expletive) go to sleep.”

Bizarre 911 call

Pelosi was able to briefly escape and make his way into a bathroom to call 911. A transcript of the call, also released Friday, suggests Pelosi was on the phone for about 45 seconds before DePape starts knocking, and his voice comes onto the call.

DePape told the officer that by calling 911, Paul Pelosi was “pushing me into a corner where I have to do something.”

After the three-minute call, Paul Pelosi was sitting on a bed. “I tell him really frankly … I have other targets and I can’t be stopped by him, and if I have to go through him I will.”

When the police knocked the door was opened by both men who were holding the hammer with their right hands.  

David DePape attacks Paul Pelosi 

“I think he grabs the hammer so that I don’t hit him in retaliation (for the police showing up),” DePape told the sergeant.

“He thinks that I’ll just surrender. I didn’t come there to surrender. And I told (Paul Pelosi) that I will go through him. So, I basically yanked it away from him and hit him. I’m there for the fight. If you stop me from going after evil, you will take the punishment instead.”

The body-cam video shows that DePape pulled the hammer from Pelosi and hit him “full force.”

Pelosi received multiple skull fractures. He required surgery and was hospitalized for a week.

David DePape was charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and false imprisonment. His state case hearing is set for Feb. 23.

There are also federal charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault of an immediate family member of a federal official. A status conference for the federal case in U.S. District Court in San Francisco is scheduled for Feb. 8.