A racist and frequently rambling online poster who is accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and brutally beating her husband with a hammer also appears to have echoed QAnon conspiracy theories, questioned the validity of the results of the 2020 election, and posted defences of the late President Donald Trump.
David DePape, 42, was born and raised in Powell River, British Columbia, but left around 20 years ago to move to San Francisco with an older partner.
Berkeley, a college town in the Bay Area, had a street address for DePape that directed to a post office box at a UPS Store.
Early on Friday, DePape was detained at the Pelosi residence. Brooke Jenkins, the district attorney for San Francisco, stated that she planned to bring several felony charges, including ones for burglary, elder abuse, attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon.
Stepfather Gene DePape said the suspect had lived with him in Canada until he was 14 and had been a quiet boy.
David, despite his extreme reclusiveness and excessive video game playing, never used violence and never got into problems “explained Gene DePape.
He claimed he hasn’t seen his stepson since 2003 and has made numerous unsuccessful attempts to get in touch with him over the years.
When I called him in 2007 and wanted to speak with him, his fiancée hung up on me “said Gene DePape.
In Berkeley, David DePape was well-known as a pro-nudity activist who picketed bare during demonstrations against municipal laws forcing people to wear clothing in public.
According to Gene DePape, his son’s girlfriend who he accompanied to California was named Gypsy, and the two of them were parents to two kids. According to his stepfather, DePape also has a child from a previous relationship.
At the 2013 wedding of pro-nudity campaigner Gypsy Taub, who was marrying another guy, DePape was seen frolicking naked outside city hall with dozens of other guests, according to photos released by The San Francisco Chronicle on Friday. Emails and phone calls to Taub went unanswered.
According to a 2013 article in The Chronicle, David DePape was a “hemp jewellery maker” who shared a Victorian apartment in Berkeley with Taub. Taub was the host of the talk show “Uncensored 9/11” on local public access TV, where she appeared naked and promoted theories that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “an inside job.”
Recent entries on two websites published under the name David DePape included rants about transgender persons, technology, aliens, communists, religious minorities, and world elites.
A post titled “Q” from August 24 featured a scatological collection of memes, pictures of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and references to QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that claims the government is controlled by a deep-state cabal made up of baby-eating cannibals, satanic paedophiles, and people who traffic in children for sex.
A message that seemed to combine parallels to QAnon and George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” read, “Big Brother has classed doing your own research as a thought crime.”
You no longer have rights, the poster stated in a post titled “Gun Rights” on August 25. Your fundamental human rights make it more difficult for Big Brother to completely enslave and control you.
One of the websites was taken down by WordPress on Saturday afternoon for breaking its terms of service.
A user posting using DePape’s name on another website reiterated untrue statements about the COVID vaccination and wearing masks, cast doubt on the reality of climate change, and showed an image of a zombie Hillary Clinton gorging on human flesh.
There didn’t seem to be any posts specifically regarding Pelosi, but there were defences of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kayne West, and previous president Donald Trump.
Suspect in the Pelosi home attack had written on QAnon
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