“Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi,” the Democratic leader’s spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.

“The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation. Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery.”

It was not immediately clear if the attack was politically motivated. The Speaker, who is second in line to the Presidency, was not in San Francisco at the time.

The attack caps a tumultuous year for her 82-year-old venture capitalist husband, who was convicted of drink driving after an accident in May and sentenced to five days in jail.

“The speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time,” Hammill said.

The Democrat made jabs at Trump during an event at Cambridge University on Thursday, September 16, when talking about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

“I reference him from time to time as ‘What’s-his-name,'” Pelosi said. “If he wants to run again, he’ll be the first president who was impeached twice and defeated twice.”

Her statement was met with applause from the crowd. 

Trump, meanwhile has teased the idea of him running but has not announced another bid for the White House.

“This president had acted in a way that was in violation of the Constitution, undermined our national security, and jeopardized the integrity of our elections — and that was just the first time,” Pelosi said, referring to the first impeachment fight related to Ukraine.

Pelosi then delivered a message to Republicans.

“I’d say to my Republican friends — and I do have some — take back your party. You’re the Grand Old Party of America. You’ve done wonderful things for our country,” Pelosi said.

“You’re now being hijacked by a cult. That’s just not good for our country.”

 Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House in December 2019 and a second time earlier this year in connection to the Capitol riot. Both times he was acquitted by the GOP-led Senate. In the history of the US, Trump is the only president to be impeached twice.

In a private meeting on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer offered a motion to affirm that it is preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Then in a dramatic turn of events, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt of Missouri voted with House Republican Leader, Kevin McCarthy to block the motion, a move that prevented the inaugural committee from publicly accepting that the January 20 inauguration will be for Joe Biden.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hoyer voting in favour of recognizing Joe Biden as the president-elect.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have repeatedly refused to recognize that the next President of the United States will be Biden and Hoyer told reporters he could not speculate why Republicans voted against the motion.

Republican Roy Blunt responded to criticism that Republicans would not approve Hoyer’s motion to recognize Biden as the President-elect.  Blunt said in a statement “It is not the job of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to get ahead of the electoral process and decide who we are inaugurating. The JCCIC is facing the challenge of planning safe Inaugural Ceremonies during a global pandemic. I would hope that going forward, the members of the JCCIC would adhere to the committee’s long-standing tradition of bipartisan cooperation and focus on the task at hand”

Trump’s comments in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo came after Pelosi last week formed a committee that would allow the 25th Amendment to be invoked if a president was deemed mentally unfit.

Trump told Fox News “I don’t think she could pass basic aptitude tests, personally. I really don’t. I don’t believe it”

The US President is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center undergoing treatment for COVID-19 after being moved there Friday, October 2.

In a news conference Sunday, Trump’s doctors said that even though the President has had at least two concerning drops in oxygen levels, they are hoping he could be discharged as early as Monday.

Pelosi said Sunday that the doctors treating Trump must provide trustworthy information to the American public.

She said “We have to have confidence in the judgment of the doctors who are treating him, that not only do they give a presentation — notice, when they give a presentation to the press, it has to be approved by the President, that’s not very scientific. We’re getting our information the way everyone else is -in the media. But in terms of the succession, that’s an ongoing process. Sadly at this time, it comes to the forefront”

In comments made by the Pelosi on Sunday in an ABC News interview,  she said she was open to using impeachment to stop the Republicans’ push for supreme court confirmation.

Trump in response tweeted that pushing his supreme court nominee would be fulfilling a “constitutional obligation.”

He tweeted “Crazy Nancy Pelosi wants to Impeach me if I fulfil my Constitutional Obligation to put forth a Nominee for the vacated seat on the United States Supreme Court. This would be a FIRST, even crazier than being Impeached for making a PERFECT phone call to Ukrainian Pres”

The move would be an unprecedented one for Ms Pelosi and Democrats, as Republicans try to install a 6-3 conservative majority on the highest court in the land while Democrats scramble to try delaying a vote until after Election Day or next year.

If Republicans have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme court, it will go a long way in deciding cases on Obamacare, Mexico border wall funding, Dreamers act, Immigration, and even post-election court cases.

She said “We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss, but the fact is, we have a big challenge in our country. This president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election with statements that he and his henchmen have made. So right now, our main goal … would be to protect the integrity of the election as we protect the American people from the coronavirus. We have a responsibility, we take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” she said. “We have a responsibility to meet the needs of the American people. When we weigh the equities of protecting our democracy, [it] requires us to use every arrow in our quiver,.”

Pelosi said “Don’t tell anyone I told you this but I don’t think there should be any debates. I don’t think there should be any debates. I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States.’ Now, I know that the Biden campaign thinks in a different way about this What he did in 2016 was disgraceful, stalking Hillary Clinton like that. … He will probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency. He does that every day. I think he will also belittle what the debates are supposed to be about. They’re not to be about skullduggery on the part of somebody who has no respect for the office he holds — much less the democratic process. Why else would he try to undermine the elections in the manner that he is doing? I don’t think that he should dignify that conversation with Donald Trump”

Trump revealed on Monday that he had been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxylchloroquine to prevent him from contracting Coronavirus, going against the Food and Drug Administration’s warnings that the drug was untested and unproven against Covid-19.

Pelosi on hearing Trump’s comments said on Tuesday that the president shouldn’t be taking such a drug as the drug could cause heart problems since he is ‘morbidly obese’ leading the president to say she had mental problems.

Pelosi has now fired back at Trump, saying he likes to talk about other people’s body weights and shapes but can’t take being talked to about his own weight.

She said “I didn’t know that he would be so sensitive. He’s always talking about other people’s avoirdupois, their weight, their pounds. I think he should recognize that his words weigh a ton. Instead of telling people to put Lysol into their lungs or taking a medication that has not been approved except under certain circumstances, he should be saying what your previous guest mentioned — things that would help people”.

The speaker’s office demanded that Facebook remove the video posted online by President Donald Trump, which was edited to make it appear like she ripped the speech even as Trump saluted a Tuskegee airman in the audience.

The video, labelled “Powerful American stories ripped to shreds by Nancy Pelosi,” was posted on both Trump’s Facebook and Twitter before 6 p.m. Thursday. Trump has more than 72 million followers.

Facebook and Twitter in response, refused to delete the videos, citing different reasons. A Facebook spokesman, Andy Stone, said: “I can confirm for you that the video doesn’t violate our policies.”

Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, then posted a link to a criticism of the video Friday afternoon, writing “The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders’ interests than the public’s interests.”