The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and violently assaulting her husband, Paul Pelosi, early Friday in hopes of taking the House speaker hostage, as shown in reports from the 42-year-old Canadian citizen who stayed in the U. S. U. S. citizenship after his death. expired visa used to advertise conspiracy theories and white supremacist ideologies online.
After allegedly breaking into Pelosis’ home, David DePape, who arrested Friday after attacking Paul Pelosi, shouted “Where is Nancy?”, echoing the chants of rioters on January 6, who stormed the construction of the Capitol and stormed the president’s workplace, before looking. tying up and violently beating her husband.
DePape planned to potentially tear up the House speaker’s “knee pads” to make her an example for other members of Congress who are telling the “truth,” according to the Justice Department, which on Monday accused DePape of assaulting the soon-to-be family. federal public servant and attempted kidnapping of a federal public servant, subject to maximum sentences of 30 and 20 years respectively.
DePape pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, forced confinement of an elderly man and threats against a public official.
DePape allegedly maintained several blogs where he spread conspiracy theories and white supremacist ideologies supported through QAnon, the unfounded theory that the United States is controlled by a cabal of sex traffickers and Democratic cannibals, according to his daughter, Inti Gonzalez, who spoke to Los Tiempos de Angeles.
His posts, which have since been deleted, included headlines like “It’s OK to be white” and “Holohoax,” such as a “Q” headline, in which he wrote that the anonymous head of QAnon is Trump or the “deep state moles. “”in Trump’s inner circle.
DePape, 42, also posted violent, racist and anti-Semitic messages, adding one that said “the more Ukrainians die UNNECESSARILY (in the war with Russia), the less costly it will be to buy land for Jews,” and arguing with bloodhounds that they deny Trump’s baselessness. the allegation of voter fraud in the 2020 election “should be dragged straight into the streets and torn down,” the Associated Press reported.
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not be able to do so. The U. S. had dropped off a detainee in DePape, a Canadian citizen who has been in the U. S. He was in the U. S. for more than two decades on an expired visa, opening the door to deportation. After one thief case ends, several reported.
Paul Pelosi, 82, is making “steady progress in what will be a long recovery process,” the president’s office said Monday, after undergoing surgery Friday afternoon to repair his arm, hands and skull, which he fractured when he was hit. with a hammer inside his house.
In the past, DePape was known as a “father figure” among some in Berkeley, California, where he made hemp jewelry and belonged to a small pro-nudity group, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He was also a member of the Left Green Party.
While lawmakers from both parties condemned the attack, several senior Republicans took the opportunity to criticize immigration policies as too lenient. On Tuesday, Republican Ohio Senate candidate J. D. It would be the deportation of “violent illegal aliens. ” Earlier Tuesday, former President Donald Trump weighed in, saying on a Chris Stigall radio show that the stage was “very sad” and “crazy,” while spreading the theory, without evidence, that the DePape glass door used for the entrance was damaged from the inside.
DePape told police he was seeking to take the House speaker hostage “to lure another person” whom the federal government has not identified. According to an FBI affidavit, police also found a hammer, duct tape, rope and two additional pairs of gloves in DePape’s backpack, while searching for more hammers and a sword in the garage where DePape lived in Richmond, California.
“The more indifferent you are to the network establishments that unite us, it’s dancing on the other side, because they distrust establishments and processes,” Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino. he told the San Francisco Chronicle.
A motive has not been determined, although San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said Friday that “it was not a random act” but rather an “intentional” and “wrong” act of violence. Lawmakers condemned the attack Friday night, along with President Joe Biden. calling it “despicable” a speech at a Pennsylvania Democratic Party independence dinner. This comes amid a backlog of violent threats against elected officials from both parties, following an attack on the home of Sen. Susan Collin (R-Maine), an incident that involved a guy stalking Rep. Alexandria. Ocasio-Cortez (D-N. Y. ) outside her office, and another from a guy waiting outside the Seattle home of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash) with a semi-automatic pistol. Intimidation and violence against lawmakers reached a national calm after the January 6 uprising, when MAGA rioters stormed the Capitol, seeking evidence of the unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and figuring out what Pelosi and former Vice President Mike Pence faced with the results.
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