Frenzied internet history gives window into Pelosi assault suspect - SFGATE

Long earlier becoming a fishy successful Pelosi’s assault, DePape had a reputation successful the Bay Area for fringe beliefs. He erstwhile lived successful Berkeley with Gypsy Taub, a nude activistic who was known for espousing 9/11 conspiracy theories and is present successful jailhouse for stalking a teen boy. According to Taub and others who cognize DePape, he hasn’t lived with her for immoderate time.

David DePape, center, records Gypsy Taub being led distant by constabulary aft her nude wedding extracurricular City Hall connected Dec. 19, 2013, successful San Francisco. DePape is accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's location and severely beating her hubby with a hammer. 

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DePape’s WordPress blog and Facebook page, some taken down since Friday, were filled with contented fashionable connected far-right media and propaganda outlets. One of the WordPress posts was an representation attempting to link assorted conspiracies astir kid enactment trafficking, an obsession among QAnon adherents; the representation shows the logo of furnishings institution Wayfair, which immoderate Q believers deliberation sells children connected its tract nether the guise of costly furniture. DePape besides posted astir Pizzagate, a conspiracy that imagines wide politicians are trafficking children retired of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant. 

“My friends would beryllium similar pizza gross was debunked their is NO specified happening arsenic elite pedophile enactment rings and I’m similar HELLO Epstein what satellite are you on?” the station reads.

Some posts usage radical slurs, and others amusement a fixation with the thought that achromatic men are persecuted successful America. “Hate code is ONLY allowed that targets WHITE oregon MEN,” reads 1 meme DePape posted. In another, helium referred to “diversity” arsenic a “dog whistle for the genocide of the achromatic race.” He besides posted contented questioning the Holocaust. One WordPress station is titled “Hitlery did thing wrong.”

DePape’s girl confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the blog belonged to her father.

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According to CNN, DePape posted links connected his Facebook leafage claiming the 2020 predetermination was stolen and mendacious claims that radical are dying due to the fact that of the COVID-19 vaccine. He besides reportedly posted repeatedly astir the Great Reset, a conspiracy mentation that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and utilized by the planetary elite to reorder society. The Great Reset is invoked perpetually by Alex Jones, who was precocious ordered to wage much than $1 cardinal successful damages for spreading lies astir the Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting.

Extremism researchers are uncovering modern new-age beliefs are much and much commonly intersecting with far-right conspiracy theories. They already stock immoderate beliefs, similar absorption to modern medicine and distrust of accepted authorization figures, and staunch anti-vaccination stances tin pb immoderate down the way to much extremist beliefs. 

DePape, who was calved successful Canada, is being held successful a San Francisco County Jail connected charges of attempted murder, battery, burglary and threatening a household subordinate of a nationalist official, among different crimes. He is expected to beryllium arraigned connected Tuesday.