Suspect in assault at Pelosi home had posted about QAnon - The Associated Press

The antheral accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California location and severely beating her hubby with a hammer appears to person made racist and often rambling posts online, including immoderate that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended erstwhile President Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.

David DePape, 42, grew up successful Powell River, British Columbia, earlier leaving astir 20 years agone to travel an older woman to San Francisco. A thoroughfare code listed for DePape successful the Bay Area assemblage municipality of Berkeley led to a station bureau container astatine a UPS Store.

DePape was arrested astatine the Pelosi location aboriginal Friday. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she expected to record aggregate felony charges, including attempted murder, battle with a deadly weapon, burglary and elder abuse.

Stepfather Gene DePape said the fishy had lived with him successful Canada until helium was 14 and had been a quiescent boy.

“David was ne'er convulsive that I seen and was ne'er successful immoderate occupation though helium was precise reclusive and played excessively overmuch video games,” Gene DePape said.

He said helium hasn’t seen his stepson since 2003 and tried to get successful interaction with him respective times implicit the years without success.

“In 2007, I tried to get successful interaction but his woman hung up connected maine erstwhile I asked to speech to him,“ Gene DePape said.

David DePape was known successful Berkeley arsenic a pro-nudity activistic who had picketed bare astatine protests against section ordinances requiring radical to beryllium clothed successful public.

Gene DePape said the woman whom his lad followed to California was named Gypsy and they had 2 children together. DePape besides has a kid with a antithetic woman, his stepfather said.

Photographs published by The San Francisco Chronicle connected Friday identified DePape frolicking nude extracurricular metropolis hallway with dozens of others astatine the 2013 wedding of pro-nudity activistic Gypsy Taub, who was marrying different man. Taub did not respond Friday to calls oregon emails.

A 2013 nonfiction successful The Chronicle described David DePape arsenic a “hemp jewelry maker” who lived successful a Victorian level successful Berkeley with Taub, who hosted a speech amusement connected section public-access TV called “Uncensored 9/11,” successful which she appeared bare and pushed conspiracy theories that the 2001 violent attacks were “an wrong job.”

A brace of web blogs posted successful caller months online nether the sanction David DePape contained rants astir technology, aliens, communists, spiritual minorities, transexuals and planetary elites.

An Aug. 24 introduction titled “Q,” displayed a scatological postulation of memes that included photos of the deceased enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein and made notation to QAnon, the baseless pro-Trump conspiracy mentation that espouses the content that the state is tally by a heavy authorities cabal of kid enactment traffickers, satanic pedophiles and baby-eating cannibals.

“Big Brother has deemed doing your ain probe arsenic a thought crime,” work a station that appeared to blend references to QAnon with George Orwell’s dystopian caller “1984.”

In an Aug. 25 introduction titled “Gun Rights,” the poster wrote: “You nary longer person rights. Your basal quality rights hinder Big Brothers quality to enslave and power you successful a implicit and totalizing way.”

The web hosting work WordPress removed 1 of the sites Friday day for violating its presumption of service.

On a antithetic site, idiosyncratic posting nether DePape’s sanction repeated mendacious claims astir COVID vaccines and wearing masks, questioned whether clime alteration is existent and displayed an illustration of a zombified Hillary Clinton eating connected quality flesh.

There appeared to beryllium nary nonstop posts astir Pelosi, but determination were entries defending erstwhile President Donald Trump and Ye, the rapper formally known arsenic Kayne West who precocious made antisemitic comments.

In different posts, the writer said Jews helped concern Hitler’s governmental emergence successful Germany and suggested an antisemitic crippled was progressive successful Russia’s caller penetration of Ukraine.

“The much Ukrainians dice NEEDLESSLY the cheaper the onshore volition beryllium for Jews to bargain up,” the station said.

In a Sept. 27 post, the writer said immoderate journalists who denied Trump’s mendacious claims of wide elector fraud successful the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination “should beryllium dragged consecutive retired into the thoroughfare and shot.”

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AP Global Investigative Reporter Michael Biesecker reported from Washington and Breaking News Investigative Reporter Bernard Condon from New York. Reporters Stefanie Dazio successful Los Angeles, Olga Rodriguez successful San Francisco and quality researcher Jennifer Farrar successful New York contributed.