Crime Accused Pelosi hammer attacker David DePape tearfully testifies of bizarre plot - GAMERGATE

A man accused of a hammer attack on ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has testified how he hatched a plan to end US corruption after becoming absorbed in conspiracy theories.

David DePape, 43, has pleaded not guilty to two charges including attempted kidnap of a federal official.

He cried as he testified how he hatched a bizarre plot that included wearing a unicorn costume while interrogating Ms Pelosi and posting the video online.

If convicted, he faces life in prison.

Closing arguments in the trial are expected on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, in sometimes tearful testimony, Mr DePape told the court he used to have left-wing political beliefs before a political transformation that started when he was living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games for hours at a time.

Giving evidence for more than an hour, he said that in the course of looking up information about video games he became interested in Gamergate, an anti-feminist campaign that targeted prominent women in the gaming world and became a huge online trend starting in 2014.

He began listening to right-wing podcasters and watching political YouTube videos.

"At that time, I was biased against Trump," Mr DePape said, "but there's, like, truth there. So if there's truth out there that I don't know, I want to know it."

He said he formulated a "grand plan" that involved luring "targets" to the Pelosi home.

Inflatable unicorn costume​

The names on his list included University of Michigan academic Gayle Rubin, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Tom Hanks, congressman Adam Schiff, former Vice-President Mike Pence, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Senator Bernie Sanders and liberal mega-donor George Soros.

Ultimately, Mr DePape said, he wanted to confront President Joe Biden's son Hunter, and after he got his targets to admit to corruption, he planned to ask the president to pardon everyone he considered a "criminal".

"It's just easier giving them a pardon so we can move forward as a country," he said, crying on the stand.

Mr DePape said he went to the Pelosi home in the early hours of 28 October last year, hoping to talk to Mrs Pelosi about what he thought were false theories of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

He said he planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. He was arrested with zip ties and duct tape in his possession.

When asked why he hit Mr Pelosi, he responded: "I reacted because my plan was basically ruined."

"He was never my target and I'm sorry that he got hurt," he said.

Mr Pelosi, 83, testified on Monday of his alarm upon waking up to find Mr DePape "standing in the doorway".

Mr Pelosi spent six days in hospital with a fractured skull and injuries to his arm and hand.

Defence lawyers are not denying that Mr DePape struck Mr Pelosi, but they are arguing he was motivated by his belief in conspiracy theories rather than Mrs Pelosi's status as Speaker of the House.

Because the charges involve assault on a federal official, prosecutors must prove that Mr DePape's actions were motivated by Mrs Pelosi's elected position.

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[Oligarca Caballero]

Glowniggers used to make believable psyops.

 

[RollingRock2]

He used to be a peace loving liberal, but then he spent a month without showering, without seeing the sun, without touching a single blade of grass, and he emergined from his cocoon of filth... a gamer.

And yeah this is obviously fed slop.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

There is nutters on both sides of the political spectrum.

My takeaway? You are not immune to propaganda.

 

[A_right_horrorshow]

Glowniggers used to make believable psyops.

Budget cuts. ChatGPT just needs more practice.

 

[ChromaQuack]

Trump is gonna bring up Gamer Gate and Sargon will chalk up another Win over Metokur. I can feel it in my scrotum bone.

Bros please hold me, I am very scared, Drumf tweeting gamergate is going to break the last seal on the merge and Sargon will literally become an ancient Akkadian ruler.

 

[Gravemind]

I'm sick of this timeline.

 

[whatever I feel like]

He looks fucking retarded, doesn't he?

He certainly sounds fucking retarded.

 

[lispy0nline]

Stick it to those bitches by raping politicians, If more chuds and incels kidnap and butt rape politicians those damn women feminists would be really, really pissed off.

tbf, if politicians were under the threat of being mass-buttraped they would probably be constantly afraid.

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."
-me, after a failed politician buttraping

 

[Flea Man Marbles]

This guy looks like every tard-brained redneck/downie I've ever met rolled into one person. The perfect patsy

 

[WelperHelper99]

Gamergate was in 2014. we are almost in 2024

I don't think the gay pot smoking faggot californian stewed his plan for 10 fucking years.

Fucking hell...
I remember talking about Fallout 4 on my ride home from middle school with my friend back then. Bethesda is still shitty, GG hasn't died, we're in a fucking loop, aren't we?

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

This shit glows. They see the return of evil orange Hitler and they prepare the masses for the old gamer gate boogieman.

 

[Sheogorath]

I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games. And I normally just shrug and say "It's a hobby.", but that's a lie. Because when I'm in game, I'm at home. From the flames of cataclysm to the icy mountains of Tamriel, anywhere I venture, is a place I love and know. My entire life people preach that I could be anything that I wanted to be. But when I told them I wanted to be the captain of a ship, a spaceship, THE spaceship that saves humanity. That I wanted to be Commander Shepard they told me I need to get a grip on reality. And to them to them a grip on a reality means the American dream, working nine to five crammed up in a tiny cubicle having two-point-five kids, a two story suburban house and a white picket fence. I divorce once, and I'd have debt into my early thirties because I took some bullshit university degree that's suppose to help me in the end.

This isn't reality, this is just a dull outlook on it. Now I understand it's human nature to achieve greatness, but I can do this as Commander Shepard, I don't need a degree. And if I want to go on an adventure I don't ever have to leave the comfort of my home. Yet, people spend an entire salary to travel and I can't help but laugh. I've single-handedly stopped a reign of ancient wyverns from destroying a nation, but before I could do that do I had to:

Learn their language. Become a master in Swordsmanship, Smithing, Archery, Defense, Magic, Speech, Hunting and Thieving!

Not to mention I had to take down an entire fleet of assassins along with a brigade of smugglers before I could even START my lessons in Dragon's Speak. I've always enjoyed an adventure, but I hated pawning my limbs to afford an eighteen-hour car ride. And aside from being told that I can enjoy a white-picket fence at the end of my career, all my years as a student was balance between Fractal Formulas and believing I never be able to love which is literal INSANITY. I've saved Princess Peach. I wanted to be the guy, and I became the guy. I saved Bandage Girl. And I've been Link for generations just to save Princess Zelda. But yet, I'm the eternal virgin, I'm the guy that's never going to love.

And sometimes this shit doesn't make sense to me, why people assume that I need to be out doing something and away from home to have fun when I have my own reality grasped between my hands. I have my own world at my fingertips, if I screw something up I can rewind time. I can't do that in real life, but when I'm in game I'm free to what I please, when I plEEEase, I'm free to enjoy things the way I want to. I can build my own Kingdom and lead my people to freedom because I'm the mind behind the game. I'm the one who enjoys these games.

I am a gamer. And I always will be.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

>this might actually make Trump Xeet (Formerly Tweet)/ Truth Social post about Gamer Gate

The most depressing thing is that Sargon might Smuckle.

 

[Mecha-King Ghidorah]

If this man was indeed a GamerGator he missed a kek opportunity to change his last name to DePepe.

 

[Cnaiur urs Skiotha]

An inflatable uniform costume?? Furry inflation fetishist or do you think he was trying to set up a joke about inflation? Either way I'm sad we missed what would have been a horrifying ordeal inflicted on an old woman who regardless of her politics or cunt personality is still a human being a fucking hilarious livestream honestly. A schizocow in a unicorn costume asking incoherent questions about Russia and Trump to a tied-up, terrified, ancient ghoul politician?? Holy fuck dude

Also think it's very funny how many of ya'll inevitably jumped in to post that this whole thing is a glowop psynigger deepflag falsefake. I'd like to just remind everyone on this lolcow forum that mentally unstable retards do exist, they do get made worse by dumbshit internet political slapfights in fucking Youtube comments sections, and they do sometimes throw their lives away doing stupid shit like this. Same as the doofuses who throughout the years and various presidencies will occasionally try to ram the gates/vehicle barriers around the White House. Whether it's for five minutes of infamy, some dumb point they're trying to make, or pure untreated mental illness.

Is the libshit media sphere having a field day with him? For sure. Is their coverage of this both biased toward the left and just mindlessly feeding the same culture war that caused this? Fuck yes. I can see how he looks like he's "straight out of central casting" but let's be real, how much would the feds have to pay you to throw your whole life away like this? What's really more likely, that shadowy factions pay losers that kind of money to do stupid shit like this and then expect them to stay quiet about the conspiracy for the rest of their lives? Just to make the right look bad for a moment in a frantic, already mud-slinging news cycle? Or is it more likely that he's just a mindbroken internet loser, a 43 year old Kekistani dumbass who was trying to do it for the lulz?

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Sound the horns my sister's and brother's! The day we have long prepared for has arrived at last! We will have our vengeance for the Last of Us 2. We will not go quietly into the night this time! The she-demon Sark dies tonight! (Metaphorically of course) This is the dawn of Gamer Gate 2: Electricer Boogalooest Again, the Sequel!

 

[ThatsMyDog]

It all goes back to Gamergate.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

You know the story is bullshit when he says he changed his beliefs. Convincing a leftist of basic facts in front of their face they don't want to be true or even getting them to listen to you voluntarily is a tall order after 2014

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Also think it's very funny how many of ya'll inevitably jumped in to post that this whole thing is a glowop psynigger deepflag falsefake. I'd like to just remind everyone on this lolcow forum that mentally unstable retards do exist, they do get made worse by dumbshit internet political slapfights in fucking Youtube comments sections, and they do sometimes throw their lives away doing stupid shit like this. Same as the doofuses who throughout the years and various presidencies will occasionally try to ram the gates/vehicle barriers around the White House. Whether it's for five minutes of infamy, some dumb point they're trying to make, or pure untreated mental illness.

Is the libshit media sphere having a field day with him? For sure. Is their coverage of this both biased toward the left and just mindlessly feeding the same culture war that caused this? Fuck yes. I can see how he looks like he's "straight out of central casting" but let's be real, how much would the feds have to pay you to throw your whole life away like this? What's really more likely, that shadowy factions pay losers that kind of money to do stupid shit like this and then expect them to stay quiet about the conspiracy for the rest of their lives? Just to make the right look bad for a moment in a frantic, already mud-slinging news cycle? Or is it more likely that he's just a mindbroken internet loser, a 43 year old Kekistani dumbass who was trying to do it for the lulz?

Come on, you can do better damage control than this.

 

[cerulean hydra]

they don't even need to try anymore, do they? they know their main audience is incapable of reading past a headline anyway, so nobody is really going to comb through the words to find all the glowing green flags.

"Right wing podcasts made me do it, your honor. We need to censor the internet, now!"