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Suspect in assault at Pelosi home posted about QAnon
WASHINGTON: The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former president Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.
David DePape, 42, grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, before leaving about 20 years ago to follow an older girlfriend to San Francisco. A street address listed for DePape in the Bay Area college town of Berkeley
led to a post office box at a UPS Store.
DePape was arrested at the Pelosi home early on Friday. San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins said she expected to file multiple felony charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and elder abuse.
Biden denounces attack
President Joe Biden denounced the attack on the husband of Nancy Pelosi blaming it on extremist rhetoric and urging Americans to reject “political violence”. “This is despicable. There’s no place in America. There’s too much violence, political violence. Too much hatred. Too much vitriol.”
The 82-year-old House speaker herself, a Democrat who is second in the constitutional line of succession to the US presidency, was in Washington
with her protective detail at the time of the assault.
She flew to San Francisco to be with her husband.
Paul Pelosi underwent a successful operation to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his right arm and hands, Drew Hammill, the speaker’s spokesman said on Friday in a statement. “His doctors expect a full recovery,” Hammill added.