Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was “violently assaulted” after a break-in on the couple’s California house early on Friday, her workplace stated in an announcement.
“The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation,” the assertion stated. “Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery.”
The Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who’s second in line to the presidency, was not at house on the time of the early morning assault.
A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson and a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi weren’t instantly obtainable for remark.
The circumstances of the assault had been unclear, together with how the intruder acquired into the house.
The assault comes lower than two weeks earlier than midterm elections through which management of the House and the Senate is at stake.
Paul Pelosi, 82, who owns a San Francisco-based actual property and enterprise capital agency, was convicted of a misdemeanor cost of driving inebriated after turning into concerned in an auto accident in May. He was sentenced to 5 days in jail in Napa County, California.