David DePape, who is accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, had faced mental illness and drug abuse and 'deteriorated' into far-right extremism, according to people who knew him.
DePape has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their family.
DePape’s screeds included posts about QAnon, an unfounded theory that former President Trump is at war with a cabal of Satan-worshiping Democratic elites who run a child sex ring and control the world. In an Aug. 23 entry titled “Q,” DePape wrote: “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deep state moles within Trumps inner circle.”, a bogus conspiracy theory that posited that children were trapped in a sexual abuse ring in a Washington, D.C., pizzeria run by Hillary Clinton and a chief aide.
“It speaks to one of my largest takeaways of the whole thing is that people can live next to someone in the same house, or next door, and let them go down,” he said. “To go down ... in decline mentally, or even physically, and not do anything about it.”“He described some of the people around him getting into fights when he was growing up,” Molnar said. “And then he had dislocated his shoulders in some kind of a fight or he was throwing something down or something like that ...
She told the Chronicle that while DePape “didn’t know anything about politics” when they first met, he backed former President Obama, opposed the war in Iraq and supported her various causes. Taub is a well-known nudist activist in Berkeley who“In our 15 years together, we never once had a disagreement about politics because we were aligned in our views,” she said.
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