The imprisoned longtime partner of David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, said that mental illness and drug use had caused him to deteriorate so profoundly that he once grew convinced that “he was Jesus for a year,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Pelosi Attacker Thought He Was Jesus
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