David DePape, 42, reportedly broke into the home of Paul and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where he allegedly beat Mr. Pelosi so badly that he needed surgery to repair a skull fracture. The story sounds terrifying enough, in my opinion, but the media reports have already tried to spice things up by deeming it a politically motivated attack. Here’s the thing, police have not released the cause but there’s plenty that the media is not telling you.
I’m sure you have seen by now where DePape’s former ‘life partner’ explained that he is mentally unwell, but according to people who also know DePape, the story doesn’t end there. New York Post managed to speak to several of his neighbors and friends. What they discovered was that DePape is a homeless drug addict and extreme leftist:
Neighbors described DePape as a homeless addict with politics that was, until recently, left-wing, but of secondary importance to his psychotic and paranoid behavior.
“What I know about the family is that they’re very radical activists,” said one of DePape’s neighbors, a woman who only gave her first name, Trish. “They seem very left. They are all about the Black Lives Matter movement. Gay pride. But they’re very detached from reality. They have called the cops on several of the neighbors, including us, claiming that we are plotting against them. It’s really weird to see that they are willing to be so aggressive toward somebody else who is also a lefty.”
Not all of the news media missed DePape’s history of drug use, psychosis, and homelessness. CNN reported that a woman named Laura Hayes, who said she worked with DePape 10 years ago making hemp bracelets, said he had been living in a storage shed. “He talks to angels,” she said, and told her that “there will be a hard time coming.”
Another woman, Linda Schneider, told CNN and Bay Area NBC TV affiliate, KRON4, that she got to know DePape around 2014 and that he was still homeless, living in a storage unit, and using hard drugs. “He [was] likely a mindless follower of something he saw on social media because I don’t think he had the courage to be part of any political or terrorist group,” said Schneider. “His drug use began again and he went off his rocker.”
Democrats and members of the media have already deemed the attacker a member of the elusive ‘alt-right’ and declared the attack political, but the police have made no such determination. In fact, the attack is still under investigation.