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DAVID DEPAPE, PAUL PELOSI SUSPECT: 5 FAST FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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Getty David Depape is the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi. Photographed
here are Nancy and Paul Pelosi

David Depape is the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer in the couple’s home on October
28, leaving Paul with serious blunt-force trauma.



Police confirmed the suspect’s name. Depape is a Berkeley, California, resident.
What are Depape’s politics and was he on social media? On a blog and website, he
was fixated on censorship and made antisemitic comments. In one post, he ranted
about government attempts to control information, calling for the arrest of
journalists from prominent news organizations. He also posted COVID and election
conspiracy theories online and made posts about QAnon. Online records give
Depape’s age as 42.

An older picture of Depape, a Canadian-born resident of Berkeley with a history
of drug use, showed him alongside a prominent Berkeley nudist activist with whom
he helped raise children. This photo also emerged of the suspect:




After receiving a 011 call from Paul Pelosi and being dispatched on an
“A-priority wellbeing check” in the early morning hours of October 28, 2022, San
Francisco police officers encountered an “adult male and [Nancy] Pelosi’s
husband, Paul” in the Pelosi home, Chief Bill Scott said in a news conference.

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Chief Scott said in a later news conference that when officers arrived and
knocked on the door of the Pelosi home, the door was opened “by someone inside.”
Officers observed Pelosi and Depape inside the entryway of the home. The
officers remained outside of the home;s threshhold. They observed both men, each
“with one hand on a single hammer.” Officers gave commands to both men to drop
the hammer. Depape pulled the hammer away from Pelosi and “violently attacked
him with the hammer,” Scott said. Pelosi was struck at least one time. Officers
entered and tackled the suspect and took him into custody. He said that Depape
“forced entry” through a rear door of the Pelosi home.

“This was not a random act. This was intentional. And it’s wrong,” Scott said,
noting that elected officials’ families “don’t sign up for this… Everybody
should be disgusted about what happened this morning.” He praised a dispatcher
as a hero for sensing more was going on than Paul Pelosi said in the 911 call;
he was talking in “code,” CNN reported.





The motive is still being determined, according to police. Both men were
transported to a hospital for treatment, Scott said. Depape is being booked on
attempted homicide, elderly abuse, burglary and other charges, Scott said.

On a WordPress blog, Depape ranted about censorship by the “elites” and “ruling
class.” He also appears to have a website that reads “da Jews.” Sixteen hours
ago, he posted the headline, “Why Colleges are becoming Cults.” He ranted about
movies, writing, “The critics are f****** commie gate keepers. They love the
sh******* movies ever as long as those movies are sh**** because they where…”
You can read more about the suspect’s writings later in this article.

Some of his posts referred to former President Donald Trump. “Either Q is Trump
himself or Q is the deepstate moles within Trumps inner circle. So Q/Trump
sabotaged their child trafficking operations. #2 self inflicted wound. Trumps
covert id or a Deep state mole? Was Q refering to this? Did Q do this? another
video,” he wrote, referring to QAnon. Some videos on his website show Pelosi.

In another post, he wrote, “The more Ukrainians die NEEDLESSLY the cheaper the
land will be for Jews to buy up.” His website has posts on pedophiles, aliens,
COVID, Communism, Kanye West, Derek Chauvin, what he called “climate hysteria”
and more. It is filled with conspiracy theories and other ramblings. He also had
a Facebook page, but it was taken down.

His name was also given as David DePape, with different capitalization. Dramatic
accounts emerged indicating that the suspect was specifically looking for Nancy
Pelosi when he encountered her husband in the couple’s home.

“Suspect who authorities say attacked Paul Pelosi shouted ‘Where is Nancy? Where
is Nancy?’ before the ‘violent assault,'” according to CNN anchor Victor
Blackwell. The suspect specifically targeted the Pelosi house, the Associated
Press confirmed.



KTVU-TV initially reported that Depape was in his underwear when arrested but
then removed the detail and added a correction saying they misstated what he was
wearing. He had a list of other politicians he wanted to target, the television
station reported.

Here’s what you need to know:

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1. DAVID DEPAPE, DESCRIBED AS ‘VERY ODD,’ IS A ‘FORMER CASTRO NUDIST PROTESTER’
& HEMP ‘JEWELRY MAKER’ WHO ONCE LIVED IN A BERKELEY STORAGE SHED, REPORTS SAY



Joe Eskenazi, of Mission Local, tweeted, “My sources also name the suspect in
this morning’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of
Berkeley. He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester. Things appear
set to be bizarre for a while.”

The Castro is a well-known neighborhood in San Francisco. The term in this
context does not refer to the Cuban dictator.

A 2013 article in the San Francisco Chronicle mentions Depape, although his name
is spelled wrong. It describes him as a “hemp jewelry maker.” That article
reported that Depape was the best man at the naked wedding of a well-known
pro-nudity activist named Gypsy Taub.



Linda Schneider, who has known Depape for years, told CNN that he once lived in
a storage unit and had done hard drugs. She later received “really disturbing”
emails where Depape sounded like a “megalomaniac and so out of touch with
reality,” she told the cable news network. She stopped communicating with him
“because it seemed so dangerous,” adding to CNN that he used “Biblical
justification to do harm.”



Laura Hayes worked with Depape making hemp bracelets years ago.

“He was very odd. He didn’t make eye contact very well,” Hayes said to CNN,
adding that he told her “he talks to angels and there will be a hard time
coming.”

The statement by Drew Hammill, spokesman for Nancy Pelosi, calls the attack a
“violent assault.” According to the Associated Press, Pelosi, 82, “suffered
blunt force trauma to his head and body,” that left him with “bruising, severe
swelling and other injuries.”

Nancy Pelosi was not at the home when the attack occurred.

KTVU-TV reported, “UPDATE: @SpeakerPelosi was w/her protective detail in DC when
husband Paul Pelosi, 82, was assaulted during 2:30 a.m. break-in at their home
in SF’s Pacific Heights.” The television station reported that Capitol Police
are working with the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department.

TMZ obtained dispatch audio of the police response to the Pelosi home. “He
states there is a male in the home and that he is going to wait for his wife. He
stated that he doesn’t know who the male is but that his name is David and that
he is a friend. He sounded somewhat confused,” the dispatcher told an officer.

Pelosi spoke in code and said: “What’s going on? Why are you here? What are you
doing to me?” alerting the dispatcher that something was wrong, according to
TMZ, which published the audio here.

The suspect threatened to tie Pelosi up, CNN reported.

According to Politico, Pelosi made the secret 911 call after telling Depape he
needed to use the bathroom. His phone was charging in the bathroom.

According to CNN, threats against lawmakers and their family are on the rise.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2. DEPAPE HAS HELPED RAISE THREE CHILDREN WITH TAUB, A RUSSIAN-BORN ACTIVIST WHO
IS NOW A HOMELESS YOUTH DIRECTOR, OLD NEWSPAPER ARTICLES REVEAL





A 2008 article in the Oakland Tribune, accessed via Newspapers.com, reported
that David Depape and Gypsy Taub have three children together. Instead of
cooking Thanksgiving dinner in their Berkeley home, they “chose to join 350
others at the Two Star Market for a community meal,” the article stated.

However, it’s not clear the biological relationship between Depape and the
children, if any, as elsewhere Depape is referred to as a father figure.

“We like to meet our neighbors,” Taub, a pro nudity activist, told the
newspaper.

Despite her naked wedding to someone else, the Daily Beast reported that Depape
still lived with Taub. The site reported that he also posted COVID conspiracy
theories on YouTube.

Taub’s Facebook page says she is from Moscow, Russia, and is “the homeless youth
director at Jerry Garcia Family Healing Clinic.” There is no indication that
Taub has any connection to the Paul Pelosi attack; the inclusion of her name in
this story is meant to flesh out the bio of Depape. Taub has told the media she
believes 9/11 was an inside job, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

In 2013, in an article on Indy Bay.org, Taub mentioned Depape as a photographer
at a nudity ban protest in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


3. DAVID DEPAPE WROTE A BLOG CALLED ‘WELCOME TO BIG BROTHERS CENSORSHIP HELL’ &
POSTED ABOUT TRUMP & KANYE WEST ON A WEBSITE



David Depape BlogDepape blog



On a WordPress blog, Depape ranted about censorship. “Welcome to Big Brothers
Censorship hell,” it reads.



The blog says:

> The reason we have a first amendment is because censorship only applies to
> you. The elites/ruling class never censor themselves. You can still turn on
> any mainstream news channel to hear day and night the narrative put forth by
> the people who rule you. The founding father built in protection against
> censorship coming from the goverment because they never imagined a day when
> Tech giants and private industry would be so powerful they could single
> handedly silence the people.

The blog contains numerous black graphics with the word “censorship” stamped in
them.

He also posted about what the government “disinformation board,” although he
misspelled the word.

“3:32 They intervene when the disinfo becomes a THREAT to national security. I
would say that the steele dosier was disinfo that was a threat to national
security. Why didn’t they arrest the staff of cnn, new york times, washington
post and msnbc for their DANGEROUS disniformation?” his website post reads,
filled with typos.

“Instead they actually PASSED a bill to SPEND millions of tax payer dollars
FUNDING the disinfomation.”

In a few posts on his website, Depape mentioned Trump. Depape wrote on his
website, “I guess this is as good a time as any. Trump you NEEEEEEEED to make
Tulsi your VP in 2024. Of the ENTIRE democrat presidential candidates in 2020.
She was th only democrat candidate who WASN’T running on a platform of being an
insane mentally unwell demagogue…Having Tulsy as your vp bridges the insane
partisan divide.”

He also posted about Kanye West, writing, “Ya I remeber the backlash and insults
when you came out in support of Trump.”



Depape websiteA post on Depape’s website





He wrote, “Trump ‘Just drink Bleach’ So first off this was an extremely
manipulate way of spinning what he actually Trump said ‘drink bleach.’ This
isn’t an isolate incident either.”

Depape also weighed in on George Floyd, writing, “Lets get into George Floyd
before I forget. What’s the difference between justice and a lynching. Justice
is based upon evidence. While lynchings are based upon optics.” He claimed that
Floyd was not killed by Police Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee, writing, “The
autopsy showed a FATAL level of fentynal in his system and that he had died of a
heart attack consistent with the symptoms he was exhibiting prior to being
placed on the ground.”

He added: “The only person who is owed damages is Derek Chauvin.” Searches of
the website for Pelosi, Clinton and Obama did not turn up results.

Depape also had a Facebook page where he posted conspiracy theories, but it was
taken down.

According to CNN, David Depape “posted links on his Facebook page to multiple
videos produced by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell falsely alleging that the 2020
election was stolen.”

He also posted “transphobic images and linked to websites claiming Covid-19
vaccines were deadly.”

One of his Facebook posts read: “The death rates being promoted are what ever
‘THEY’ want to be promoted as the death rate,” CNN reported.

DePape also posted links to YouTube videos called “Democrat FARCE Commission to
Investigate January 6th Capitol Riot COLLAPSES in Congress!!!” and “Global
Elites Plan To Take Control Of YOUR Money! (Revealed),” reported CNN.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


4. DEPAPE, WHO WAS BORN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, IS ACCUSED OF ENTERING THE PELOSI
HOME THROUGH A SLIDING GLASS DOOR, LOOKING FOR NANCY PELOSI, REPORTS SAY, BUT HE
WASN’T IN THREAT DATABASES




Depape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, CNN reported. He moved to
California 20 years ago “to pursue a relationship,” the network reported.

“I really don’t know what to think,” the suspect’s uncle, Mark DePape, said to
CNN of the Pelosi allegations. “Hopefully it’s a scam. I don’t want to hear
something like that.”

CNN reported that Depape was not on authorities’ radar; he was not in threat
databases or known to Capitol Police.

According to ABC’s Terry Moran, “The suspect allegedly entered the house through
a sliding glass door, carrying a hammer, and was apparently looking for the
House Speaker herself.” Paul Pelosi’s injuries were described as “significant”
by Moran.

San Francisco police tweeted, “On 10/28/22, at 2:27 am, SFPD responded to the
2600 block of Broadway for a home break-in. During the incident an 82 y/o male
was attacked. The suspect was taken into custody. The victim was transported to
a local hospital. SFPD Chief Scott will address the media at police HQ.”

“Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San
Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi. The assailant is in custody and
the motivation for the attack is under investigation,” it reads.



The Speaker’s spokesman first revealed the assault in a Friday morning
statement. According to Pelosi’s office, Paul Pelosi “underwent successful
surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and
hands. His doctors expect a full recovery.”

The motive, including whether the assault was politically related, is not yet
clear. But authorities emphasized again that the attack was not random.





In a statement, the U.S. Capitol Police wrote:

> The United States Capitol Police (USCP) is assisting the Federal Bureau of
> Investigation (FBI) and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation
> into a break-in at the California home of the Speaker of the House of
> Representatives.
> 
> The Speaker was in Washington, D.C. with her protective detail at the time of
> the overnight, break-in.
> 
> During the California break-in, the Speaker’s husband was assaulted, but he is
> now recovering.
> 
> The San Francisco Police Department has the suspect in custody. The motivation
> for the attack is still under investigation.
> 
> Special Agents with the USCP’s California Field Office quickly arrived on
> scene, while a team of investigators from the Department’s Threat Assessment
> Section was simultaneously dispatched from the East Coast to assist the FBI
> and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


5. PAUL PELOSI WAS ‘TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL’ BUT IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER



GettySpeaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and her
husband Paul Pelosi.



According to the statement, Paul Pelosi is expected to recover, but he was
hospitalized due to the attack.

“Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical
are and is expected to make a full recovery. The Speaker was not in San
Francisco at the time.”



The statement added: “The Speaker and her family are grateful to the first
responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this
time.”

News of the attack broke in the early morning of October 28, 2022.

According to CNN, there is not government security at the Pelosi residence when
she is not there.



GettyPaul Pelosi



Paul Pelosi is a successful businessman with a very high net worth.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Paul Pelosi “has a net worth of $120 million.”

The site says that Pelosi “is best known for owning and operating the San
Francisco-based real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm
Financial Leasing Services.”

He once owned a United Football League team. He “sits on many corporate and
philanthropic boards and owns large stakes in companies like Facebook, Apple,
Comcast and Disney,” Celebrity Net Worth reported.

According to his IMDb profile, Paul Pelosi was born on April 15, 1940, in San
Francisco, California.

“He has been married to Nancy Pelosi since September 7, 1963,” the site reports.

Paul Pelosi has been in the news recently because of a drunken driving arrest.

According to the Associated Press, the Speaker’s husband pleaded guilty in
August 2022 “to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges related to a May
crash in California’s wine country.”



He received a five-day jail term and probation, AP reported.

According to AP, authorities “found Pelosi in the driver’s seat of a 2021
Porsche Carrera and the other driver standing outside a sport utility vehicle.”

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