U.S. President Joe Biden has rebuked certain members of the Republican Party for joking about the assault on Paul Pelosi–husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi–and called for strong condemnation of the assault.
Biden has put the seriousness of the matter on the table, as the assailant’s primary target was Nancy Pelosi herself, second in the U.S. line of succession behind Vice Speaker Kamala Harris. «And look at the response of the Republicans, making jokes about it,» he lamented.
Likewise, the tenant of the White House has recognized that, although individual voices of the Republican Party have denounced what happened, he has missed that some Republican leader has stepped forward to stop the jokes and show their firm condemnation of the assault on Pelosi.
The assault on the Pelosi’s private residence in San Francisco has provoked the mockery of some Republican figures, or party supporters, such as Donald Trump Jr., son of the former president, who published on the eve of Halloween a photo in underwear and a hammer accompanied by a text that read: «I have my Paul Pelosi costume ready.
In the same vein, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake joked during a campaign rally that the Pelosi residence «doesn’t have much security.»
For his part, former President Donald Trump, while he did denounce the «terrible» attack on Paul Pelosi, has joined conspiracy theories questioning the police version of the assault. «Strange things are happening in that home in recent weeks,» he has said.
«This is all crazy (…), but the window was broken and it was strange that the police officers were there practically from the moment it all happened,» Trump has continued 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.
