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David Depape
Who is David DePape?
... DePape once lived in a public storage unit and he was estranged from his children and partner, according to Linda Schneider. Schneider said DePape helped out with her urban farm ...
“David was excessively shy, and he reported to me that he had a history of not being able to communicate with anybody at all. He was terrified of speaking. He likely a mindless follower of something he saw on social media because I don’t think he had to courage to be part of any political or terrorist group” ...
DePape’s drug use caused Schneider to later distance herself from him. “His drug use began again and he went off his rocker” ...
Suspect had posted about QAnon
... A street address listed for DePape in the Bay Area college town of Berkeley led to a post office box at a UPS Store ...
A 2013 article .. described .. DePape as a “hemp jewelry maker” who lived in a Victorian flat in Berkeley with Taub, who hosted a talk show on local public-access TV .. in which she appeared naked and pushed conspiracy theories that the 2001 terrorist attacks were “an inside job” ...
A pair of web blogs posted in recent months .. under the name David DePape contained rants about technology, aliens, communists, religious minorities, transexuals and global elites ...
On a different site, someone posting under DePape's name repeated false claims about COVID vaccines and wearing masks, questioned whether climate change is real and displayed an illustration of a zombified Hillary Clinton dining on human flesh ...
Who is attacker?
... By 2013 DePape was living with Taub in a Berkeley Victorian flat ...
Taub is now serving prison time after being convicted in 2021 on multiple felonies related to the stalking and the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old boy ...
It is unclear if Taub and DePape have remained in touch. On Friday, a person living at Taub’s house who declined to give his name said DePape had not been in the family picture for years. “I honestly have no clue why he did that,” the man said, reflecting on DePape storming into Pelosi’s and bludgeoning her husband with a hammer, “other than he’s clearly missing a few bolts in the head” ...
Suspect Railed Against Censorship
... a banner on the blog allegedly belonging to Depape read "Welcome to Big Brothers Censorship Hell," and he wrote posts criticizing censorship in the media, government and tech sectors. Titles of the posts included "pedophile normalization" and "facts are racist," according to the Bee ...
What We Know About DePape
... Blog posts under investigation .. senior law enforcement officers familiar with the case told NBC .. take aspects of liberal anti-establishment ideas into more recent posts that take positions typically associated with far-right extremism ...
Inti Gonzalez, 21, identified herself as DePape’s daughter in a phone call Friday. She .. wrote in a blog post that her mother kicked DePape out when she was 13 ...
Gonzalez wrote that she and DePape remained estranged until a few months ago, when she contacted him ...
She said she had read his website but disagreed with all of his views ...
Consumed by darkness
... Gonzalez wrote in the post, which has since been taken down, that her mother met DePape - whom she describes as her father - in Maui when she was pregnant with her ...
Gonzalez wrote that her father's alleged violent attack on Pelosi was 'not much' of a shock 'considering the kind of extreme abuse he had inflicted on me and my brothers' ...
Gonzalez also writes that DePape was a 'quiet' man who was 'never violent, yelled or even swore.'
She .. describes DePape as someone who 'did genuinely try to be a good person' and added that she loves him, but 'the monster in him was always too strong for him to be safe to be around,' adding that he also suffered an abusive childhood ...
Posted conspiracy theories
... Last year, 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. Other posts included transphobic images and linked to websites claiming Covid vaccines were deadly. “The death rates being promoted are what ever ‘THEY’ want to be promoted as the death rate,” one post read ...
Two days after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd, DePape wrote that the trial was “a modern lynching,” falsely indicating that Floyd died of a drug overdose ...
... another blog, also attributed to “daviddepape,” featured antisemitic screeds and content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory ...
CNN was not able to confirm that the two blogs were written by DePape ...
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