Donald Trump has joined conspiratorial voices questioning the official version that the assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was part of a break-in at his residence last weekend.
«Strange things are happening in that home over the last few weeks. You know, probably, it’s better that you and I don’t talk about that,» she said Tuesday in during an interview with conservative radio host Chris Stigall.
Trump has repeated one of the theories that some conservative media and commentators have been spreading that the window «was broken from the inside out,» so it would not have been a burglary, but «a leak.»
«This is all crazy (…), but the window was broken and it was strange that the police were there practically from the moment it all happened,» Trump continued, but not before acknowledging that while he is «not a fan of Nancy Pelosi», he recognizes that what happened is «very sad».
Since it became known last Friday that the Pelosi residence suffered a break-in and that the husband of the president of the House was beaten, the media right has questioned the version of the police and has launched its own conjectures, such as that Paul Pelosi and the intruder were lovers who had quarreled.
«There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Pelosi knew this man. In fact the evidence indicates the exact opposite,» San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told CNN in an interview.
The former president of the United States is not the only one who has taken the assault as a joke, the eldest of his offspring, Donald Trump Jr, shared on his Twitter profile an image of boxer shorts and a hammer with the caption ‘I have ready for Halloween my Paul Pelosi costume’.
It is not the first time that Trump listens to this type of conspiracy theories when he is not the one spreading them, such as those that the 2020 presidential elections were stolen from him, an argument that served for thousands of his followers to go to the Capitol in Washington to prevent the transfer of power to the president, Joe Biden.
Others to which he has given rise sound far-fetched, such as that of QAnon that places him as a sort of crusader against a pedophile network led by Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, or that the father of Republican Senator Ted Cruz may have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
