QAnon supporter who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband sentenced to 30 years in prison

The man convicted in 2022 of assaulting the husband of then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was resentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday. The original sentence was not changed after the case was reopened so he could speak during his sentencing hearing, local news reported.

David DePape was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison on May 17 for forcibly entering Pelosi’s San Francisco home on October 28, 2022, and hitting her husband Paul on the head with a hammer in a politically motivated attack.

When the original sentencing was announced, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley did not give DePape the opportunity to address the court. This was a “clear error” under federal court rules, the judge wrote in a court document the next day.

She also scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to resolve the matter and allowed DePape to speak on his own behalf. He did so and apologized for the attack before Corley re-sentenced him to 30 years in prison, reported ABC7, a local ABC affiliate in San Francisco.

In November, a jury found DePape guilty of kidnapping a federal agent and assaulting a close family member of a federal agent. Prosecutors said the 44-year-old was driven by the far-right conspiracy theories known as QAnon.

Paul Pelosi, 82, suffered skull fractures and other injuries that still affect him, according to a letter filed in court. In addition to dizziness and a metal plate still lodged in his head, Pelosi said he has balance problems and permanent nerve damage in his left hand.

Pelosi, who was the Democratic Speaker of the House at the time of the attack, was in Washington at the time of the attack.

DePape still faces separate federal charges, including attempted murder, for the break-in and attack on Pelosi. Those charges carry a possible sentence of 13 years to life in prison. He has pleaded not guilty.