![]() ![]() ![]() She said she stopped communicating with him "because it seemed so dangerous," adding that she recalled him "using Biblical justification to do harm." Schneider later received "really disturbing" emails from DePape in which he sounded like a "megalomaniac and so out of touch with reality," she said. When they met, she said, DePape was living in a storage unit in the Berkeley area and told her he had been struggling with hard drugs but was "trying to create a new life for himself." Linda Schneider said she got to know DePape roughly eight years ago and that he occasionally housesat for her. Two former acquaintances of DePape's in California told CNN he exhibited concerning behavior over the years. In earlier years, DePape also posted long screeds about religion, including claims that "Jesus is the anti christ." None of the public posts appeared to mention Pelosi. Most of the public posts on DePape's Facebook page were from 2021. And he complained that politicians making promises to try to win votes "are offering you bribes in exchange for your further enslavement." He also posted content about the "Great Reset"- the sprawling conspiracy theory that global elites are using coronavirus to usher in a new world order in which they gain more power and oppress the masses. 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. "The death rates being promoted are what ever 'THEY' want to be promoted as the death rate," one post read.ĭePape also posted links to YouTube videos with titles like "Democrat FARCE Commission to Investigate January 6th Capitol Riot COLLAPSES in Congress!!!" and "Global Elites Plan To Take Control Of YOUR Money! (Revealed)" Other posts included transphobic images and linked to websites claiming Covid vaccines were deadly. 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. I don't want to hear something like that." "I really don't know what to think," the suspect's uncle, Mark DePape, said of his nephew's alleged attack on Pelosi. His stepfather, Gene DePape, said David DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, and left Canada about 20 years ago to pursue a relationship that brought him to California. Two of DePape's relatives told CNN that DePape is estranged from his family, and confirmed that the Facebook account - which was taken down by the social media company on Friday - belonged to him. SAN FRANCISCO - The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about COVID vaccines, the 2020 election and the Januattack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he seemed "out of touch with reality."ĭavid DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker's San Francisco home. David DePape is accused in a hammer assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, at their San Francisco home. ![]()
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