David DePape told cops he ‘went to fight tyranny’ before Paul Pelosi attacked with a hammer

Paul Pelosi’s attacker told police he beat the politician’s husband with a hammer in an attempt to fight “tyranny”, bizarrely comparing himself to the “founding father” and ranting about a “stolen election” in a police interview released Friday.

“It’s like the founding fathers, they fought the British. They fought tyranny; they didn’t just turn into him,” David DePape told a San Francisco police officer during an interview following his arrest in October.

“And when I left home, I went to fight tyranny, I didn’t leave to give up,” he said. “I’m not going to give up – I’m here to fight.”

DePape, 42, said he wrenched the hammer from Pelosi and hit him repeatedly in the head because the 82-year-old stood in the way of his delusional mission to save America from a corrupt Democrat-led conspiracy.

“If you stop me from going after evil, you will take punishment instead,” he said.

Early in the interview, DePape admitted to assaulting the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling an officer, “I’m not trying to get away with it. I know exactly what I did.”

He said he broke into the Pelosi residence by slamming through the lower level glass door to tie up Nancy Pelosi, take her “hostage” and force her to “tell the truth” about President Joe Biden’s “stolen election”, but that her husband was never part of the plot.

“He wasn’t my target, I even told him so,” DePape said, adding that he eventually wanted to leave him and take a nap.

“[Paul Pelosi] asked me… “So what do you want to do?” I thought: “Can I tie you up? I just want to go to sleep.”

But the break-in stopped after the police arrived and the men began wrestling for the hammer, leading to DePape quickly hitting Pelosi in the head with all his strength, according to police body camera footage released Friday.

The incident, which unfolded in seconds, left Pelosi unconscious with a fractured skull in a pool of his own blood.

Asked during an interview why he intended to target Nancy Pelosi, DePape said she offended “the entire American public” by “providing false evidence to spy on [Trump’s] competitive campaign.

“It comes from Hillary [Clinton] but, like, Pelosi lied,” he said. “[Democrats] go from one crime to another … until they finally managed to steal the election results.

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He called the imaginary scandal worse than Watergate and said he wanted Pelosi to admit it.

“Basically, I was going to hold her hostage and I was going to talk to her in the basement,” he said. “If she had told the truth, I would have let her go without punishment.”

He said most interactions with Paul Pelosi were quiet, including the time they spent in the couple’s bedroom and bathroom until he called 911.

“He puts me in a corner where I have to do something,” he said of the police call. “[I] explain to him, like, you know that I have other goals, and he cannot stop me, ”he said. “If I have to go through it, I will.”

During the interview, DePape was also asked why he didn’t leave the house after seeing Pelosi calling 911.

“It’s like I didn’t come here to give up,” he said.