{"id":1717873,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717873"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:55:26","slug":"michael-shellenberger-pelosi-attack-suspect-david-depape-was-a-psychotic-homeless-addict-estranged-from-his-pedophile-lover-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-shellenberger-pelosi-attack-suspect-david-depape-was-a-psychotic-homeless-addict-estranged-from-his-pedophile-lover-their-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shellenberger: Pelosi Attack Suspect David DePape Was a Psychotic Homeless Addict Estranged From His Pedophile Lover &#038; Their Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-shellenberger-pelosi-attack-suspect-david-depape-was-a-psychotic-homeless-addict-estranged-from-his-pedophile-lover-their-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Leading politicians blamed the political right for the brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/intruder-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-identified-as-david-depape\/\">attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband Paul<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is despicable,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/biden-slams-political-violence-attack-against-paul-pelosi\/\">said President Biden<\/a>. He noted that the alleged attacker, David DePape, 42, shouted the same line, \u201cWhere\u2019s Nancy?\u201d as the supporters of Donald Trump, who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. \u201cAnd what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-calls-paul-pelosi-attack-despicable-enough-is-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said Biden<\/a>. \u201cCOVID being a hoax? It\u2019s all a bunch of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California political leaders agreed. \u201cThis heinous assault is yet another example of the dangerous consequences of the divisive and hateful rhetoric that is putting lives at risk and undermining our very democracy and democratic institutions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/10\/28\/governor-newsom-statement-on-violent-assault-on-paul-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said California Gov. Gavin Newsom. <\/a>\u201cThis attack,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjTtY3WtoT7AhXSIn0KHYBxCCUQvOMEKAB6BAgQEAE&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacbee.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Fcapitol-alert%2Farticle267987157.html&#038;usg=AOvVaw30L5KXRsF2pJlpLxs3EJ-O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said San Francisco\u2019s state Sen. Scott Weiner<\/a>, \u201cis terrifying and the direct result of toxic right-wing rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalists,\u00a0<em>en masse<\/em>, agreed with their assessment. DePape \u201cappears to have made racist and often <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/paul-pelosi-hammer-attack-suspect-david-depape-linked-to-conspiracy-blogs\/\">rambling posts online<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-donald-trump-san-francisco-47c103cfe696df9faf0e57e1c7dd4f10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted AP<\/a>, in a report that encapsulated the media narrative, \u201cincluding some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former President Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But DePape\u2019s politics have little rhyme or reason. In past years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/blog-bearing-paul-pelosi-attackers-name-pulled-offline\/article_37a0e58a-56f4-11ed-a6bf-8bc45f2d31c9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DePape\u00a0shared a post <\/a>about Stephen Colbert\u2019s 2006 roast of President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents dinner; linked to videos of Disney films altered to make it look like the characters were swearing; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/28\/politics\/pelosi-attack-suspect-conspiracy-theories-invs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a>, \u201cJesus is the anti-Christ\u201d \u2014 not exactly a litany of right-wing tropes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/david-depape-5.jpg\" alt=\"David DePape allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#039;s San Francisco home and brutally attacked her husband Paul.\" class=\"wp-image-24454819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>David DePape allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s San Francisco home and brutally attacked her husband Paul.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">San Francisco Chronicle via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-02.jpg\" alt=\"Police outside of Pelosi&#039;s home after the attack.\" class=\"wp-image-24454828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Police outside of Pelosi\u2019s home after the attack.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">David G. McIntyre for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And, as I soon discovered, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-lived-in-a-school-bus\/\">DePape lived with a notorious local nudist in a Berkeley home<\/a>, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a tree. A closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment, or what Europeans call \u201can open drug scene.\u201d In the driveway, there is a broken-down camper van. On the street is a yellow school bus, which neighbors said DePape occasionally stayed in. Both are filled with garbage typical of such structures in homeless encampments. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I know about the family is that they\u2019re very radical activists,\u201d said one of DePape\u2019s neighbors, a woman who only gave her first name, Trish. \u201cThey seem very left. They are all about the Black Lives Matter movement. Gay pride. But they\u2019re very detached from reality. They have called the cops on several of the neighbors, including us, claiming that we are plotting against them. It\u2019s really weird to see that they are willing to be so aggressive toward somebody else who is also a lefty.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/david-depape-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Berkeley home where DePape lived with a local nudist and others.\" class=\"wp-image-24454839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Berkeley home where DePape lived with a local nudist and others.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">David G. McIntyre for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/pelosi-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pelosi-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Biden and other leaders have blamed the political right for the assault targeting Speaker Pelosi.\" class=\"wp-image-24454865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/pelosi-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/pelosi-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/pelosi-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Biden and other leaders have blamed the political right for the assault targeting Speaker Pelosi.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Paul Morigi\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not all of the news media missed DePape\u2019s history of drug use, psychosis, and homelessness.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/28\/politics\/pelosi-attack-suspect-conspiracy-theories-invs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/28\/politics\/pelosi-attack-suspect-conspiracy-theories-invs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r<\/a>eported\u00a0that 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. \u201cHe talks to angels,\u201d she said, and told her that \u201cthere will be a hard time coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cHe [was] likely a mindless follower of something he saw on social media because I don\u2019t think he had the courage to be part of any political or terrorist group,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/who-is-david-depape-pelosi-attack-suspect-reveled-in-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said Schneider.<\/a> \u201cHis drug use began again and he went off his rocker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But much of the rest of the news media, particularly local journalists who could have interviewed DePape\u2019s neighbors, were swept up in the narrative that DePape was more like John Wilkes Booth, the fanatical but sane assassin of Abraham Lincoln, than John Hinkley, Jr., the mentally ill man who shot Ronald Reagan. DePape is much more like one of the hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-bRC79AAI0&#038;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">psychotic homeless people<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019ve interviewed in recent years than the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelshellenberger.substack.com\/p\/fanaticism-of-the-apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fanatical climate<\/a>\u00a0ideologues who I\u2019ve been writing about in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-01.jpg\" alt=\"Broken windows at Pelosi&#039;s home after DePape allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi.\" class=\"wp-image-24454856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/paul-pelosi-attack-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Broken windows at Pelosi\u2019s home after DePape allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ABC7<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wrapped up in their own obsession with Trump Republicans, most journalists have missed the real story. David DePape is not a microcosm of the political psychosis gripping America in general. Rather, he\u2019s a microcosm of the drug-induced psychosis gripping the West Coast in particular.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Drugs, Paranoia, and Pedophilia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I visited the Berkeley house where DePape had lived with his former lover, Oxane \u201cGypsy\u201d Taub, 53, a charismatic Russian immigrant 11 years David\u2019s senior. DePape appears to have fallen under the spell of Taub around 2003, when DePape was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-donald-trump-san-francisco-47c103cfe696df9faf0e57e1c7dd4f10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quiet, video game-obsessed<\/a>\u00a021-year-old in Powell River, a town of 14,000 people that is a four-hour drive up the coast of British Columbia from Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>A Nov. 27, 2008, article in the\u00a0Oakland Tribune\u00a0said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-sexually-abused-his-kids-stepdaughter\/\">Taub and DePape were married with three children<\/a>. But DePape\u2019s stepfather, Gene,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-donald-trump-san-francisco-47c103cfe696df9faf0e57e1c7dd4f10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told AP<\/a>\u00a0yesterday that Taub was his stepson\u2019s girlfriend, not wife; that David and Taub had two, not three, children together; and that David\u2019s third child was with another woman.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbors described DePape as a drug addict with left-wing politics.\" class=\"wp-image-24454892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1620 1620w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1215 1215w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=810 810w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=405 405w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Neighbors described DePape as a drug addict with left-wing politics.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Eric Risberg\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The<em>\u00a0<\/em>article, which carried the headline, \u201cNeed is great on Thanksgiving Day in the East Bay,\u201d described Taub, Pape, and their three children eating Thanksgiving dinner with the homeless. Taub told the reporter that they were there for the community, not because they couldn\u2019t afford to eat at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Naked-truth-behind-Gypsy-Taub-s-nude-nuptials-5070034.php#photo-5608313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taub was in the news<\/a>\u00a0again five years later when she, then 44, married a 20-year-old man, Jamyz Smith, naked, at City Hall in San Francisco. A photo in the December 16, 2013, edition of\u00a0The San Francisco Chronicle\u00a0shows DePape, Taub, Smith, and the three children huddled under a blanket watching television together. The caption describes DePape as \u201ca family friend.\u201d As in\u00a0The<em> <\/em>Oakland Tribune\u00a0article, the focus was on Taub, with no quotes from DePape.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__header\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--prev inline-slideshow__nav--disabled\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span>1<\/span> of <span>3<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--next\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"DePape filming Gypsy Taub at her City Hall wedding in San Francisco on December 19, 2013.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDePape filming Gypsy Taub at her City Hall wedding in San Francisco on Dec. 19, 2013.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Michael Short \/ San Francisco Chronicle \/ Polaris<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"DePape and Taub have two children together.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDePape and Taub have two children together.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">San Francisco Chronicle \/ Polaris<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"Taub married 20-year-old Jamyz Smith while naked.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/david-depape-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaub married 20-year-old Jamyz Smith while naked.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">San Francisco Chronicle \/ Polaris<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ryan La Coste, who lives in an apartment directly behind the Taub-DePape house, said that the day after Taub\u2019s wedding to Smith, \u201cThere was a huge fight. The guy [Smith] that she married got locked up. And so Taub married somebody else. My understanding was that David [DePape] was the best man to her husband at the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episode was typical of the chaos that swirled around DePape during the years leading up to his alleged attack on Paul Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Shellenberger is the best-selling author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/San-Fransicko-Progressives-Ruin-Cities\/dp\/0063093626?tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/pelosi-attacker-david-depape-was-psychotic-addict-estranged-from-pedophile-lover-kids\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities<\/a>.\u201d His original reporting can be read at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelshellenberger.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>MichaelShellenberger.S<\/em>ubstack.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading politicians blamed the political right for the brutal attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband Paul. \u201cThis is despicable,\u201d\u00a0said President Biden. 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