MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has reproached certain members of the Republican Party for joking with the assault on Paul Pelosi — husband of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi — and has called for a firm condemnation of the assault.
Biden has put on the table the seriousness of the matter, since the assailant had Nancy Pelosi herself as the main objective, second in the line of US succession after the vice president, Kamala Harris. “And look at the response from the Republicans, making jokes about it,” he lamented.
Likewise, the tenant of the White House has recognized that, despite the fact that individual voices from the Republican Party have denounced what happened, they have missed that any Republican leader has stepped forward to stop the jokes and show his firm condemnation of the assault on Pelosi.
The assault on the private residence of the Pelosi in San Francisco has provoked the ridicule of some Republican figures, or related to the party, 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.
Along the same lines, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, joked during a campaign rally that the Pelosi’s residence “does not have much security.”
For his part, former President Donald Trump, although he did denounce the “terrible” attack on Paul Pelosi, has joined the conspiracy theories that question the police version of the assault. “Strange things have been happening in that home in the last few weeks,” he has said.
“All this is crazy (…), but the window was broken and it was strange that the police were there practically from the moment everything happened,” Trump continued, not without first acknowledging that while “he is not a fan of Nancy Pelosi,” acknowledges that what happened is “very sad.”
Since it became known last Friday that the Pelosi residence was raided and that the House Speaker’s husband was beaten, the right-wing media has questioned the Police version and has launched its own conjectures, such as that Paul Pelosi and the intruder were lovers who had fallen out.
