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David DePape, 42, was arrested within the early hours of Friday morning on the Pelosi’s San Francisco residence. He “violently assaulted” Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, with a hammer, in accordance with police.
Police stated they're nonetheless investigating DePape’s motive for attacking Mr. Pelosi. However on-line screeds revealed on a private weblog could provide some perception into DePape’s mindset.
DePape’s weblog posts are full of a grab-bag of memes and movies advocating for right-wing causes. The weblog—which took its identify from a slang time period for the phrase “associates” well-liked on the anarchic nameless web site 4chan—featured DePape’s ideas on conspiracy theories a few international cabal.
DePape posted memes in regards to the “Nice Reset,” a perception well-liked with pro-Trump media figures that holds that world elites plan to destroy the financial system and enslave humanity.
In one other put up, DePape advocated for the ridiculous perception, well-liked amongst supporters of the QAnon conspiracy idea, that Hillary Clinton sexually abuses kids in Satanic rituals and murders her political foes. DePape crammed his weblog with antisemitic and racist references, together with a put up denying the Holocaust passed off.
Elsewhere, the weblog reads like a jumble of concepts well-liked on the broader right-wing web in 2022. The weblog options posts claiming that academics who talk about LGBT points in school rooms are sexual-predator “groomers.” DePape posted hyperlinks to movies made by right-wing web persona James Lindsay attacking drag queen occasions and different supposed “groomers.” DePape seems to have believed that progressive “wokism” was ruining the comic-book motion pictures, complaining in a latest evaluate of the film Black Adam that “wokism destroys motion pictures.”
“David has all the time had an opinion,” Teresa DePape, David’s step-mother, instructed The Every day Beast on Friday.
“I’m certainly one of these individuals who thinks everyone has an opinion, and I used to be raised when sticks and stones would break your bones, however phrases won't ever damage you,” she stated. “However hammers should not phrases.”
On the weblog, which was began in August 2022, DePape weighed in on well-liked right-wing speaking factors from the final 12 months. He authored a put up claiming George Floyd was a “deadbeat” who died of an overdose, and arguing that police officer Derek Chauvin was “owed damages.”
In a number of posts, he accused Amber Heard of “fabricating” proof towards Johnny Depp of their extremely publicized trial. He shared a video arguing that Ukraine had provoked Russia into going to struggle, and rejected affords of peace. DePape repeatedly shared COVID disinformation, together with hyperlinks to tales about vaccine harm cover-ups, and mocking individuals who “purchased into covid” as “masks tards.”
DePape’s weblog makes no point out of Nancy Pelosi. In a single put up he describes Tulsi Gabbard as “solely democrat candidate who WASN'T operating on a platform of being an insane mentally unwell demagogue,” and inspired Donald Trump to run with Gabbard as his vice-president in 2024.
Elsewhere, his views strayed in excessive misogyny. In a single put up DePape wrote, “girl [sic] are very problematic and will most likely be banned from society,” and in one other argued that, “Youngsters ought to be take [sic] away from moms given to fathers and the moms ought to be pressured to pay little one help.”
Alongside these political screeds, DePape additionally shared intimate particulars of his private life. He railed towards his former accomplice, Gypsy Taub, who he accused of being “psychotic.” He additionally linked to YouTube movies he had filmed of birds and squirrels he described on his weblog as “spirit” animals.
Taub is a widely known Bay Space nudist activist, who made headlines in 2017 when she stripped bare at a Berkeley Metropolis Council assembly. DePape and Taub lived collectively for a while in a home in Berkeley together with Taub’s three kids, in accordance with studies within the Oakland Tribune and SFGate. Taub is at present serving time at California Establishment for Girls, a jail in Chino, California, in accordance with inmate information.
DePape was charged late Friday with tried homicide, housebreaking, assault with a lethal weapon, inflicting harm on an elder, and threatening the member of the family of a public official, amongst different expenses, in accordance with San Francisco jail information.