The conspiracy theories about the October attack on Paul Pelosi never made sense. And now the public can see that a whole bunch of these false claims have been definitively disproven by audio and video evidence.
Prominent right-wing figures – including former President Donald Trump and some Republican members of Congress – spread a variety of inaccurate assertions and baseless innuendo in the wake of the brutal hammer assault on the husband of Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by an intruder who broke into their California home looking for her.
Local and federal law enforcement were always clear that the incident was an act of violence perpetrated by an assailant unknown to Paul Pelosi, not some sort of salacious consensual encounter gone wrong. The trove of recordings released by a court last week confirms that the authorities were right.
One of the people who promoted the false claims, billionaire businessman and Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk, tweeted a brief apology this past weekend after the evidence emerged. On Wednesday, CNN reached out to the other individuals whose debunked statements we mention in this article to ask if they wanted to express any regret about what they had said. None of them responded except for a representative of One America News, the far-right entity that spread some of the wildest false claims about the incident. They provided a statement acknowledging it is now “clear that an unwanted intruder with evil intent broke into the Pelosi home.”
Below is a list of six false claims about the incident that the newly released evidence proves are untrue.
Echoing claims that had circulated among right-wing social media accounts, Trump claimed in a radio interview that aired in early November: “But the glass, it seems, was broken from the inside to the out – and you know, that was – so it wasn’t a…
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