The man accused of breaking into California House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have frequently posted racist and ramblings online. , some of which appeared to question the 2020 election results and defend the former president. The QAnon conspiracy theory has been repeatedly advocated by Donald Trump.
David DePape, 42, grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, and followed his older friend to San Francisco about 20 years ago. Listing his DePape’s street address in the Bay Area’s university town of Berkeley, UPS found his store’s post office box.
DePape was arrested early Friday morning at Pelosi’s residence. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said he plans to charge him with multiple felonies, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and elder abuse.
The suspect lived with them in Canada until he was 14 and was a quiet boy, said his stepfather, Gene DePipe.
“From what I saw, David was never violent or had any problems, but he was very withdrawn and played too many video games,” Jean Depeipe said. Told.
He stated that he had not seen his son-in-law since 2003 and had made numerous attempts to contact him over the years without success.
“In 2007, I tried to contact him, but his girlfriend hung up on me when I asked to talk to him,” Jean Depeipe said.
David DePaap was known in Berkeley as a nude activist who demonstrated naked in protest of local ordinances requiring people to wear clothing in public.
Jean DePape said her son’s girlfriend in California was named Gypsy and they had two children. Her stepfather said DePape also has a child with another woman. A photo published Friday by the San Francisco Chronicle shows Depape frolicking naked with dozens of people outside City Hall at the 2013 wedding of nude activist Gypsy Taub, who married another man. Ta. Mr. Taub did not respond to calls or emails Friday.
A 2013 Chronicle article describes David DePape as a “linen jeweler” who lived with Taub in a Victorian apartment in Berkeley and appeared on local public television on “Uncensored 9 /11,” on which she appeared naked and promoted a conspiracy theory that the 2001 terrorist attack was an “inside job.”
Two of his weblogs, posted online in recent months under the name David DePape, contain blistering rants about technology, aliens, communists, religious minorities, and global elites. Ta.
An Aug. 24 entry titled “Q” shows a collection of scatological memes that include a photo of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and espouse the belief that this country is controlled by a conspiracy. He mentioned QAnon, a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory. A national cabal of child traffickers, diabolical pedophiles, and baby-eating cannibals.
“Big Brother thinks it’s a thought crime to do your own research,” a post that mixes a reference to QAnon with George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.” has been written.
In an Aug. 25 entry titled “Gun Rights,” the poster wrote:
Another website uses Depape’s name Someone posted an illustration of Hillary Clinton as a flesh-eating zombie, repeating false claims about coronavirus vaccines and wearing masks, asking if climate change is real.
Although there appear to be no posts directly about Pelosi, there were posts defending former President Donald Trump and Ye, the former rapper known as Kayne West, who recently made anti-Semitic comments.
In other posts, the author said that Jews helped finance Hitler’s political rise in Germany and suggested that an anti-Semitic conspiracy was involved in Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine.
In a September 27 post, the author said journalists who disputed President Trump’s false claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election “should be dragged straight to the streets and shot.” ” he said.