The Right’s Already Lying About the Motives of Paul Pelosi’s Attacker.

They just can’t help themselves.

Just days ago, news that Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul was brutally attacked by a home intruder who was looking for his wife began to dominate the headlines. There has never been a more clear indication of just how dangerous the political climate here has become, and people continue to grapple with the fact that not only was this unsurprising, it’s likely just the beginning.

Of course, the right wing is already beginning to spread lies about what occurred.

Julianne McShane with NBC News reports:

“Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, tweeted and deleted an unfounded anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory Sunday morning about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband from a website that has a history of publishing false information.

Musk responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she tweeted out a Los Angeles Times story about how David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi, had spread far-right conspiracy theories…

…Musk wrote to Clinton at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, linking to a story published on a right-wing website called the Santa Monica Observer that questioned the circumstances of the attack on Pelosi, according to an…