[csusbpeace] Elon Musk Finally Apologizes For Creepy Conspiracy Theory About Paul Pelosi Attack
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Elon Musk Finally Apologizes For Creepy Conspiracy Theory About Paul Pelosi
Attack
Sun, January 29, 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk <https://www.huffpost.com/topic/elon-musk> finally
apologized for promoting a baseless conspiracy theory to his 126 million
social media followers about the vicious hammer attack on Paul Pelosi
<https://www.huffpost.com/topic/paul-pelosi> inside his home last October.
“I apologize
<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1619415871902056449?s=20&t=WCvfqFulfU0JMALJj-Sd9Q>,”
Musk said after a chorus of calls for him to do so Friday when the gruesome
video footage
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-body-cam-video-paul-pelosi_n_63d4056de4b01e92886a9aed>
captured by the body cams of police arriving on the scene of the assault was
released.
Yet Musk pointedly did not denounce or discredit the conspiracy theory that
the attack was part of some kind of spat with a male escort. In fact, he
indicated in a tweet he still believed it could be true.
After the vicious assault, a number of right-wing Republicans — including
Sen. Ted Cruz
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/27/paul-pelosi-attack-video/>
(R-Texas) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
<https://www.businessinsider.com/pelosi-attack-suspect-tells-police-motivated-by-right-wing-views-2023-1>
(R-Ga.) — made light of the crime that fractured the skull of the husband of
former speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/nancy-pelosi> (D-Calif.)
Paul Pelosi was rushed to a hospital, where he underwent surgery for the
skull fracture and to repair serious hand and arm injuries. Former President
Donald Trump expressed skepticism
<https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=660170295817868> about the attack.
Others, like Musk, amplified the conspiracy theory that the ugly attack was
committed by a man the 82-year-old Pelosi had picked up at a gay bar
<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1619471548406190082> in San Francisco
rather than by a home invader. Their baseless “proof” was that Pelosi
appeared to be in his underwear. In fact, he was in his pajamas, in bed, when
his home was invaded.
David DePape
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-jail-call_n_63d68c3ee4b0c2b49add17aa>
is currently in prison awaiting trial on several charges in the attack,
including attempted murder and elder abuse. In a call from prison Friday to a
San Francisco TV station, he reportedly said he regretted that he “didn’t get
more of them
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-jail-call_n_63d68c3ee4b0c2b49add17aa>,”
apparently referring to Democratic lawmakers. Investigators said he was
after Nancy Pelosi when he broke into the couple’s San Francisco home.
Immediately after the violence, Musk linked to an article in the Santa Monica
Observer <https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1619471548406190082> claiming
the attack occurred as a drunk Pelosi was arguing with a male escort. None of
that was true. Yet Musk wrote: “There is a tiny possibility there might be
more to this story than meets the eye.”
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