A 34 year-old day laborer from the Bronx.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-found-shawn-brooks-the-guy-behind-the-viral-drunk-pelosi-video
at least hes not Russian!
:-)
On a more serious note, the Cover has 2 or 3 people who rotinely post "fake news" as conspiracies even though this stuff circulates as A MONEY MAKING OPERATIOn (i.e., the people creating it are making moey off of clicks etc). Well . . .from the article:
"In the first hint at a possible motive for the Pelosi smear, Brooks volunteered that the video brought in nearly $1,000 in shared ad revenue.
That number would have been higher, he said, except that Facebook cut off any future earnings when the company’s fact-check partners ruled the clip a hoax about 36 hours after its Politics WatchDog debut. “It makes money for Facebook too,” he groused. “I'm sure that's their motive for not taking it down."