The former wife of David DePape, the suspect who allegedly assaulted Paul Pelosi with a hammer last week, revealed that the man has been "mentally ill for a long time."
Oxane Taub, a nudist activist who is currently incarcerated in the Californian Institution for Women after being convicted on abduction charges last year, told ABC7 that DePape suffered from mental health issues.
"Hello this is Gypsy Taub. I am the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children," Oxane Taub told the local news outlet over the weekend. "He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time," Taub also said, adding that the pair had two sons before they split seven years ago.
Taub said that DePape at one point disappeared for about a year. When DePape came back, Taub recalled, he believed he was Jesus Christ.
Taub said that DePape had never been particularly involved in politics, but she described herself as a progressive. However, she said that DePape appeared to share her left-wing views when they were involved.
'Very Radical Activists'
Meanwhile, journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote that we went to the alleged home of DePape in Berkeley, a city located near San Francisco that has long been a hotbed of progressive activism.Neighbors told him that "people come and go from the house and the vehicles, neighbors say, in part to partake in the use of a potent psychedelic drug, ibogaine," he wrote.
A woman, named Trish, told him that people who live at the home are very left-wing—"very radical" even.
“What I know about the family is that they’re very radical activists,” she told him. “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.”
However, mainstream media outlets said that DePape allegedly wrote a blog that attacked Jews, black people, Democrats, COVID-19 vaccines, and media outlets. The Epoch Times could not confirm whether he wrote the blog.
“You know, it’s reported that the same chant was used by this guy they have in custody that was used on Jan. 6 in the attacks on the U.S. Capitol,” he said. “The chant was ‘Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?’ This is despicable,” Biden said.
DePape was arrested at the Pelosi home on early Friday, officials said. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters that she expected to file several felony charges such as attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, and elder abuse.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said the attack was intentional and not random. Authorities said that officers responded to a well-being check at the Pelosi home at 2:27 a.m. on Friday.