Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi With a Hammer Identified — And Charged With Attempted Homicide
Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker was identified by the San Francisco Police Department as David DePape, a 42-year-old whose online presence reportedly includes defenses of Adolf Hitler and conspiracy theories on the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 riot, and “transhumanism.”
Police announced DePape is being charged with attempted homicide, elder abuse, and other felonies after allegedly attacking 82-year-old Pelosi inside his San Francisco residence. Police arrived at the scene and found both men holding a hammer. Once Pelosi let go, his attacker “violently assaulted him”, according to police.
It has been reported by multiple outlets that DePape was looking for Pelosi’s wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) while in the house, but police say the motive is still “being determined.”
CNN reached out to two family members of Depape, who both said he is estranged from his family, CNN’s Whitney Wild reported. Depape posted conspiracy theories about Covid, the 2020 presidential election, and more, according to the relatives.
MSNBC’s Ben Collins reported after combing through past Depape postings that he believed in “transhumanism.” Collins dubbed the alleged attacker an “OG conspiracy theorist.”
The reporter said Depape posted “Pizza-gate style things” and declared, “it’s pretty clear where this is leaning so far.” Depape’s postings, however, are frantic in nature and bounce wildly around from topic to topic. On one blog, he posted about colleges becoming “cults.”
On one of multiple blogs allegedly run by Depape was also identified. Past posts carry titled such as “Hitler did nothing wrong” and “pedophile normalization.”
A blog run by David Depape, the Berkley man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, has articles titled ‘Hitler did nothing wrong,’ ‘Black pilled,’ and ‘Pedophile normalization.’ pic.twitter.com/BNkfV46CyC
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) October 28, 2022
Describing his WordPress blog, the alleged attacker ranted about “elites” and censorship from the government and Big Tech.
“The founding father built in protection against censorship coming from the government because they never imagined a day when Tech giants and private industry would be so powerful they could single handedly silence people,” the site reads. Many of the posts from this blog read “censored for your protection” or do not appear at all.
A more coherent message from Depape in one posting included him mentioning former President Donald Trump as the possible “Q” of conspiracy theories QAnon movement.
“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.
In another post, he suggested dissolving the state of Palestine and giving it to “da Jews.” He also posted anti-Covid vaccine memes and appeared enthusiastic about a 2024 presidential ticket that included Trump and Tulsi Gabbard as his vice president.
“Trump you NEEEEEEEED to make Tulsi your VP in 2024,” the post reads. “Of the ENTIRE democrat presidential candidates in 2020. She was the only democrat candidate who WASN’T running on a platform of being an insane mentally unwell demagogue.”
