David DePape weeps on stand, apologizes to Paul Pelosi for hammer attack

The man accused of brutally attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer apologized in court Tuesday, while describing conspiracy theories about why he went to the couple's San Francisco home to end what he viewed as government corruption. 

In remarks that lasted more than an hour, a tearful David DePape explained how he switched from the political left to right after reading a comment on a YouTube video about former President Donald Trump. 

"When he was on the ground breathing, I was really scared for his life," DePape said in federal court in San Francisco FOX San Francisco reported. "And later in the hospital, I felt really bad for him because we had a really good rapport and things were going good until the last second."