Does an image show Nancy Pelosi’s house surrounded by wall? Fact Check

A photo of a large house along with the caption that it is the home of Nancy Pelosi is spreading across social media. The house in the photo is surrounded by a large wall.

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The image has circulated across sites like Facebook to the backdrop of an on-going battle between Nancy Pelosi and Democrats against Republicans concerning the rights of undocumented migrants and workers in the United States and the US-Mexican border wall. An image of the same house with the same false attribution was also retweeted by President Trump himself in December 2019 shortly after he was impeached by the US House of Representatives.

An example of the image can be seen below.

FYI: Nancy Pelosi’s home….. notice the wall!

This is the mega millionaire Nancy Pelosi’s mansion on San Francisco bay. This elitist snob called a thousand dollars “crumbs”, that was given out in bonuses by employers after Trump’s tax cuts. What an entitled pig she is. (Notice she’s surrounded, and protected by a wall)

However the photo isn’t accurate. The house does not belong to – nor ever has belonged to – Nancy Pelosi.

In reality the house was the former abode of former Pacific Stock Exchange chairman Doug Engmann at 2724 Pacific, who sold it in March 2015 to an unknown buyer for around $25 million. There is nothing to suggest that that it was Nancy Pelosi who purchased the property. Incidentally, the house was the most expensive house in San Francisco in 2013.

This rumour typically resurfaces online whenever there is any developing or breaking news concerning the border wall on the Southern border between the United States and Mexico that President Trump claimed Mexico would pay for which was one of his primary campaign pledges.