Why are people saying paul pelosi is gay

• CTG Global Analyst
• Nov 3, 2022
• 2 min read

Neima Izadi, Counter Threat Strategic Communications (CTSC) Team

Chloe Bissett, Editor

Week of Monday, October 31, 2022

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Claim: In a now deleted tweet Elon Musk propagates an article from the Santa Monica Observer that claimed that Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, brought home a male prostitute from a Gay bar.[2] “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” read Musk’s tweet, along with a link to the Santa Monica Observer article.[3]

Facts:

• Musk tweeted the fake news story within days of his purchase of social media platform Twitter, sharing the story with his 113 million followers.[4]

• At 0230 on October 28, 2022, Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer in his home in San Francisco,[5] where he sustained a fracture to his skull and hand injuries. The attacker has been identified as David DePape, who allegedly shouted “Where is Nancy,” during the attack. [6] Nancy Pelosi was in Washington at the time of the incident.

• There is no evidence that the attacker who ente

  David DePape: Paul Pelosi hammer suspect was into conspiracies

  Brandon Drenon

  BBC News, Washington

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  The man accused of breaking into US politician Nancy Pelosi's home and attacking her husband with a hammer was motivated by conspiracy theories, his lawyer has said as his trial begins.

  David DePape believed Mrs Pelosi was part of a plot to "manipulate the country" and "steal votes from Donald Trump", a court in San Francisco heard.

  He faces two federal charges, including attempted kidnapping of a federal official.

  Mr DePape, 43, has pleaded not guilty.

  If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison for the attempted kidnapping charge and 30 years in prison for assault on a federal official's family member.

  After the attack, Paul Pelosi spent six days in hospital with a fractured skull.

  During opening arguments on Thursday, Mr DePape's defence conceded that their client attacked Mr Pelosi in his quest to identify the California congresswoman.

  But they said his interest in Mrs Pelosi was not due to her political status.

  "The reason he acted had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi [and her] official du
  

  Paul Pelosi: Examining the phony claims about the ambush on Nancy Pelosi's husband

  Shayan Sardarizadeh

  BBC Monitoring

  EPA

  Paul Pelosi, the husband of US Residence of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder at the couple's San Francisco home in the adv hours of Friday.

  Within hours of the attack, a series of unsubstantiated claims began circulating in fringe far-right circles that contradicted the official police account of how the charge unfolded.

  Those misleading claims possess since gone viral after being amplified by modern Twitter chief Elon Musk and a number of conservative influencers.

  BBC News examines some of the claims about the attack.

  False same-sex affair claims

  One of the most viral fake claims about the invade suggests that Mr Pelosi, 82, and his attacker David DePape, 42, were in a same-sex connection and had a drunken quarrel.

  A series of baseless assumptions that carry out not match official accounts of the incident hold been used to back the narrative.

  These claims started to trend in the US after Elon Musk tweeted an article from a website featuring similar claims to his 112 million fo
  
  

  Federal agents have charged David DePape, 42, whom local police had identified as the intruder, with assault of an immediate family member of a U.S. official with the intent to retaliate against the official on account of the performance of official duties, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, and attempted kidnapping of a U.S. official on account of the production of official duties, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, according to the Department of Justice.

  But false claims and innuendos about the attack have flooded social media, adding to a deepening well of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

  Elon Musk, for example, tweeted and then deleted a link to a story on a dubious website that baselessly suggested DePape was a prostitute. The claim then trended on Twitter, according to Ben Collins, who covers disinformation and extremism for NBC.

  Donald Trump Jr. also promoted the completely unfounded claim. He posted — and later deleted — a sexually explicit cartoon image on Instagram and included a message that said: “Dear fact checkers this has nothing at all to do with anything going on in the news and simply posting a cartoon of what

  EXCLUSIVE: Former partner of accused Paul Pelosi attacker DePape reveals new details about suspect

  SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The former partner of the man accused of violently attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband at their San Francisco home on Friday is revealing fresh details about the suspect.

  "Hello this is Gypsy Taub. I am the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children," said Oxane Taub, calling from the Californian Institution For Women in Corona, California.

  Taub -- better known as "Gypsy" -- is a well-known nudist activist who spoke with ABC7 in 2013 at a protest in San Francisco.

  "We just wanted to test the waters to see how much the police department regarded our first amendment rights," said Taub in 2013. Now she's revealing a longtime relationship with David DePape.

  "He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a elongated time," said Taub, who last year was create guilty on 20 counts, including the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old young man near his Berkeley steep school.

  RELATED: Who's David DePape? What we know about suspect in attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband at SF home

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