Not quite two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, the threat of political violence would come for Nancy Pelosi's husband at their home.
FILE - Rep. Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., left, and her husband, Paul, watch during Game 4 in the first round of the NBA basketball playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco, April 23, 2023. and violence in American public life serves as the opening and closing message of Pelosi’s new book, “The Art of Power, My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House.
She twice won the speakers gavel, worked alongside seven presidents and, more recently, played a pivotal role in quietly convincing President “I can handle it,” she protested, telling U.S. Capitol Police she wanted to stay and finish the work as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.After being whisked away to safety at Fort McNair, she writes about huddling with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the three of them desperately calling the Pentagon to send National Guard troops to restore order at the Capitol.
Later, surveying the wreckage of broken glass and splintered wood, she was told of blood outside the Speaker’s Lobby. In some places, including her office, the mob had “literally defecated on the floors and rugs,” she wrote. “What was left behind was pure destruction.” Not quite two years later, she was awakened in the middle of the night by the “Knock. Knock. Knock. Pound, Pound. Pound,” of the Capitol Police security detail at her door in Washington.Pelosi recounts the dizzying hours, frantic family phone calls and flight back to San Francisco, the hospital, the surgeries and the long recovery for her husband. Their youngest daughter said he looked like a bandaged-up Frankenstein.
But the “true horror” she writes was the dehumanizing jokes by Republicans from Trump on down, including the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who posted a Paul Pelosi Halloween costume to social media, and the way the crowds would “laugh, cheer, and applaud” their cruel remarks.
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