Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at their home in San Francisco on Friday, but he may have been looking for her.
At the time of the attack, the speaker was in Washington, DC, but threats against her and other members of Congress are on the rise.
The data from Capitol Police shows that threats to Congressional lawmakers increased. More than 2,000 threats were made to Congress members in the first three months of the year.
Pelosi, as the top Democrat in the House who has often sparred with Republicans, has been the target of several violent threats, including some that resulted in criminal charges.
The man who called Pelosi's office told her staff that he would behead her and that he would come a long way to rattle her head with bullets.
We're coming to get you and you need to sleep with one eye open. All-out war is what America is tired of. He said in one of the calls that a bunch of people were going to die.
According to court records, the man, identified as Paul Vernon Hoeffer, threatened and used racist slurs against the Cook County, Illinois District Attorney, as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Hoeffer was charged with three counts of interstate transmission of threats to kidnap or harm for his threats to Pelosi and other people. He was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty.
CBS news reported that in March 2020 a man was accused of posting on Facebook and ordering his followers to remove Democratic lawmakers, including Pelosi.
According to the criminal complaint, Pelosi was accused of being part of a satanic cult.
Nancy Pelosi is a member of a satanic cult, and so are the people who work with her. The post said that the Dems of the establishment would be removed by death.
Don't hesitate to shoot to kill. According to the complaint, this is a revolution.
After he said he owned the account, the FBI arrested him. He was found not guilty after being accused of sending a threatening communication.
On New Years Day of 2021, vandals painted Pelosi's house with the words "$2k canCEL RENT!" We want everything
They put fake blood on her driveway.
The home of Pelosi was being vandalized.
Congressional Republicans had blocked from being increased from $600 to $2,000 the COVID-19Stimulus checks, which were graffitied in reference to. There was graffiti at the home of Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell.
"Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society," McConnell said in 2011.
Some rioters said they were looking for Pelosi when a pro-Trump mob broke into the US Capitol.
According to a video recording cited during one rioter's case, a rioter threatened to kill Nancy.
David Antonio Ticas asked where Nancy Pelosi was during the attack.
The man who was going to be at the Capitol on January 6 had an assault rifle, a handgun, and multiple rounds of bullets in his car.
His mother turned him in to the FBI after he was found in his hotel room a mile from the Capitol. Prosecutors said that a relative told her of a text that he sent in which he made a threat. He was sentenced to almost three years in prison.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University expert on Extremism, told Insider's Charles Davis that the threatening calls to Pelosi during January 6 were similar to the ones the man attacked her husband.
Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House and third in line for the Presidential succession, was a main target of the rebels. Nancy Pelosi was likely the target of the attacker who injured Paul Pelosi.
Less than two weeks after the Capitol attack, a man called Pelosi's office and said he was going to kill her. He told Pelosi that she's dead.
The DOJ said in a statement that the man had been approached by the FBI before for making threatening calls.
The man was sentenced to 21 months in prison for communicating an interstate threat to kill or harm.
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