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Posted: 2023-11-16T19:22:19Z | Updated: 2023-11-16T19:32:29Z

David DePape, the man who attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with a hammer, was found guilty Thursday on two federal charges.

DePape was found guilty by a jury of assault on an immediate family member of a federal official and of attempted kidnapping of a federal official for the October 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi. The jury deliberated over the course of two days. DePape will be sentenced at a later date.

A spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi issued a statement shortly after the verdict was read.

Speaker Pelosi and her family are deeply grateful for the outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for Mr. Pelosi from so many across the country during this difficult time, the statement reads . The Pelosi family is very proud of their Pop, who demonstrated extraordinary composure and courage on the night of the attack a year ago and in the courtroom this week. Thankfully, Mr. Pelosi continues to make progress in his recovery.

DePape had plans to kidnap and violently interrogate Nancy Pelosi the night he broke into the couples San Francisco home, prosecutors and DePape himself acknowledged during the trial, which lasted a week. In his testimony, DePape said he was influenced by far-right conspiracies to kidnap the lawmaker.

Instead, 42-year-old DePape confronted her husband, 82-year-old Paul Pelosi, who was home alone the night of the assault.

In his testimony on Monday, Paul Pelosi told jurors that DePape walked through his front door carrying a hammer and zip ties.

It was a tremendous sense of shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house and looking at him and looking at the hammer and the ties, I recognized that I was in serious danger, so I tried to stay as calm as possible, Paul Pelosi told jurors.