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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul Pelosi, during Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on June 29, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and attacking her husband with a hammer told Paul Pelosi that his wife and other members of Congress were “crazy and corrupt” and that he needed “to take them out,” a detective testified in court Wednesday.

David DePape also told law enforcement in an interview after the Oct. 28 attack that he believed the high-ranking Democrat and others were “submitting fake evidence to spy on” former president Donald Trump’s campaign. DePape also told officials he planned to target California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Hunter Biden, and actor Tom Hanks, San Francisco police Sgt. Carla Hurley said.

“They go from one crime to another crime to another crime to another crime,” DePape told Hurley, according to an audio recording of an interview played during his preliminary hearing, “and it’s just like the whole fucking four years until they were finally able to steal the election. It’s unacceptable.”

Prosecutors for the San Francisco district attorney’s office on Wednesday questioned Hurley, the detective who investigated the incident, and Officer Kyle Cagney, who responded to the Pelosis’ home with his partner and said he witnessed DePape strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy is expected to rule later Wednesday if there is enough evidence for DePape to face trial. During the hearing, prosecutors also showed body camera footage from Cagney’s partner and surveillance footage that showed DePape breaking into the Pelosis’ home and played recordings of the 911 call Paul Pelosi made, as well as 17 minutes of an interview Hurley conducted with DePape after the attack.