Adam Johnson reports live on Patrick Shrugs' 90-day sentence for a brutal road rage stabbing, contrasting it with Johnson's own seven months in federal prison for moving a Capitol lectern. He critiques the lenient plea deal secured by Shrugs despite video evidence of brutality, while promoting his self-published book "Taking a Stand" and his campaign for Manatee County Commission District 1. Johnson emphasizes his grassroots funding strategy and focus on local zoning and tax issues, highlighting the disparity in justice between the two men. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Lectern Theft Plea Deal00:03:42
Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs, a blast from the past that has come back to the present.
Lectern guy Adam Johnson reporting live from the Pinellas Courthouse about a man you may or may not know about.
Behold.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I am leaving the Pinellas County Courthouse where my initial prosecutor, Patrick Shrugs, just entered a plea agreement with the state.
If you don't know who Patrick Shrugs is, he is my initial prosecutor from January 6th.
He was caught on camera a couple of years ago breaking the window of a motorist vehicle and stabbing him repeatedly over and over again in front of a dozen witnesses.
The plea deal was entered today.
It was accepted by the judge.
And the plea deal is as such he will only serve 90 days in county jail.
90 days.
For three felonies that would have or could have resulted in a life sentence had he gone before a jury of his peers.
So he just obfuscated the whole system.
On top of this, it's five years of probation.
But here's the kicker he gets to keep his law license at the end of all of this.
He'll go back to practice prosecuting people and putting them in prison for the same things that he did.
I guarantee they won't get the same deals that he did.
I went to prison for 75 days for misdemeanor trespassing, and this guy's going to serve 15 more for stabbing someone over and over again.
Make it make sense.
One cannot make that which does not make sense make sense.
Mr. Lectern, man, who's going to be coming on in a second.
I need to refresh everybody's memory.
I know all of you watching live now on Rumble know who Adam Johnson, the Lectern guy, is, but some of you watching this as a clip later on on the interwebs may not recall just who.
Adam Johnson, the lectern guy.
He was America's most wanted for a brief moment in time.
Look at this demon.
Sir, on January 6th, he broke into the Capitol, and I'm joking, and he stole a lectern, and I'm joking.
And this picture went viral on January 6th, 2021, as the face of laughing at the government, the face of mocking those who shall not be mocked, who think that they are God when they are not.
They are just merely the government.
And Adam Johnson was.
Persecuted is an understatement.
We're going to let him refresh everybody's memory as to what he endured, what he went through.
And I remember watching him.
I remember learning who he was.
I remember what happened to him.
He was on travel restriction, couldn't leave Central Florida or Southern.
It was like a band in Florida that he couldn't leave.
And I finally had him on the channel way back in the day.
And we have since become actually good friends, which is one of the beautiful things of this journey through the interwebs from Canada to the free state of Florida.
I've met a number of people that I got to know online and we've actually become close family friends.
Adam, I'm bringing you in.
Sir, let me see if I can do this here.
No, I don't like it like that.
I like it like this.
Sir, we have been described as the men with the most beautiful, lavish hair on the interwebs.
For those who don't know who you are, tell them who you are, and we need to go back to the classics from the past in order to understand the outrage of the injustice of the present.
Well, hi, everyone.
My name is Adam Johnson.
I have been named via Getty, the podium guy, the lectern guy, lectern leader on Twitter.
I am a husband of 15 years celebrating this month.
I'm a father of five.
And I went to federal prison for misdemeanor trespassing.
This was on January 6th, where you, like many others, descended to the Capitol to listen to Donald Trump speak.
You went into the Capitol building.
It was called the Rotunda, is where that photograph was taken.
Yes, that is correct.
And you got to refresh everybody's memory.
There was no violence whatsoever where you were.
You engaged in zero violence, full stop.
Solitary Confinement and Regret00:09:22
What charges did you face again?
It was, oh, it's been a minute, violent entry, which is a misdemeanor.
That was disproven because there's video of me just walking through open doors.
I was charged with trespassing, misdemeanor as well, and then also felony theft for moving furniture 20 yards.
And now this is the one that's stuck in the, I don't want to say the zeitgeist of the internet, but rather in the framework of fake news media where they literally believe that you stole the lectern.
They believe that you pleaded guilty to stealing the lectern.
I'll preface this.
You didn't steal the lectern.
You never had the intention of stealing the lectern.
It is not something susceptible of theft.
You literally carried it.
Posed for a picture, moved it 20 yards, give or take, in the rotunda, put it back down after having pretended to give a speech.
But you were charged with that.
What did you end up pleading to in the context of your, I'm going to call it a persecution?
Well, after paying my attorneys $100,000, best money we ever spent, I pled guilty to misdemeanor trespassing.
The original plea agreement we had with the DOJ, the prosecutor at North, they were not seeking prison time.
But a few weeks before sentencing came, they decided I should go to prison for 90 days.
So, I ended up serving 75 days in federal prison, my full sentence.
18 of those were in solitary confinement.
The first four days that I served in Pinellas County, the same jail that, you know, this guy we're going to talk about is staying in, those were also in solitary confinement as well.
I know I've asked you this before, but I do want to ask you again.
18 days in solitary confinement.
Can you explain to the world what that consists of?
That means you cannot contact your family, your friends.
You cannot tell them if you are okay, how you're being treated, whether you're being malnourished.
I was.
Rejected and denied the ability to contact my lawyers for any type of advice.
The food is scarce.
The environment's terrible.
Just, you know, not a great time.
Don't recommend it.
And now, was this under the pretext of you being a risk or under the pretext of COVID and they had to keep you there for two weeks to make sure that you weren't a vector for disease?
In Pinellas County, it was because I was perceived as a risk.
They said I was on suicide watch, even though I had no desire to commit suicide.
I am happily married, have a Five kids, and they kept me in solitary for the entire time I was there.
In federal prison, it was because I was unvaccinated.
What is, I know I asked you this, but I do want you to refresh everybody's memory.
What is solitary like?
I mean, is it 23 hours a day and you get out to go to the bathroom?
Is there a bathroom in your stall?
How do you take a shower?
Who do you see?
What do you have to read?
In Pinellas County, it is 23 hours a day in isolation, an hour of rec time, they call it.
We can shower in Individual unit, but there's no shower curtain or anything, so it's exposed to the world.
And you're supposed to be able to call your attorneys.
In Pinellas County, I did not get that until Sunday.
There was a very polite, very kind correctional officer who came to my cell and said, Okay, it's time to have rec time.
And I said, I have no idea what that is.
And he said, They've not let you out yet.
And I said, No, I've been in here since Friday.
In federal prison, it was a unit that is isolated amongst everyone else's.
So you're just By yourself in a bunk, just waiting to be released into general population and assigned to a different unit.
And can you?
I mean, it's going to sound stupid.
Can you shout at people?
Can you talk to people through the walls?
Do they give you a pen and paper?
How do you not?
I mean, people are going to say it's only two weeks.
First of all, I try to spend one day in solitary.
How do you not go crazy?
You don't go crazy by reading and having hope.
And my hope was I would be restored at one point.
I would be back with my family.
And this was a A time I just had to go through.
And, you know, I couldn't lose her.
I was false inside.
Now I know you, and I know it didn't happen.
You didn't, I mean, do you suffer any lingering waking up in the middle of the night thinking you're in solitary in any of these Pinella or federal prisons?
No, it's not that.
I definitely do live in the type of space where I do know that if I'm ever rested again for anything, whether I actually did something or not, they'll want to keep me.
So there's always that lingering feeling of, you know, I have to mind my P's and Q's.
As far as PTSD goes, I mean, I have a very difficult time talking about what my wife and kids went through.
It's not something I talk about openly on any podcast because it just, it's, I can't talk about it.
So you did, you spent 75 days, two weeks in solitary.
That was before any plea deal, before any conviction, correct?
I mean, say conviction, before any plea deal, correct?
I'm sorry.
No.
So in Pinellas, it was four days.
And then after the sentencing, it was solitary at federal.
After the sentencing, after the plea deal, which you then agreed to plead to, what did you end up pleading to?
Misdemeanor trespassing.
Misdemeanor trespassing.
And they put you in jail for it, it would have been 70, was it like 60, 75 days, and they gave you credit for time for credit?
They gave me credit for four days for Pinellas County, and I served 71 days in federal prison.
What's interesting is a lot of people with notoriety were given credit for time served for their sentences.
I did get credit for the four days in Pinellas, but I was supposed to be released two weeks before I was actually released from federal prison, but they botched the paperwork, is what they said.
So I ended up serving my entire sentence.
It's a flipping outrage.
I want to just play this while we talk because it's almost comedic if it wasn't so tragic.
Is this the video?
This is the one where you put the podium in the middle, pretend to speak for a bit?
Is this not the right one?
That's the right one.
There it is right there.
This is it.
Let's go back.
We'll let it play for a bit.
Just to show the theft, which is you walking through it.
Now, this is you in the middle, I think.
It's very pixelated.
This one, you put the podium down, you pretend to give a speech.
Solitary, did you read the Bible?
Was that a source of?
Some form of comfort, solace while you're in there?
I did.
I actually did read the Bible, gosh, all day, every day.
It is one of the only few books they allow you to have in solitary confinement.
I'm going to ask a stupid question.
I don't think I've ever asked this before.
Do you get to keep the Bible that you had when you were in jail or do they keep it there?
It's a rule of thumb.
Any books you get coming into prison, you leave for the prisoners.
During COVID, they shut down all of the libraries.
So prisoners had no access to any reading material whatsoever.
So we actually had.
I think we had over 100 books sent in while I was in prison.
It got to the point where the correctional officers were upset because they had to deliver mail every single day and they said they actually limited my packages.
So we got a handful of other BOP numbers, that's the Bureau of Prisons prisoner numbers, and we actually had books sent to them instead.
So I think we left over 100 books in the prison system.
You ended up pleading guilty to misdemeanor trespass.
75 days they put you in there, they gave you credit for four.
This is what we see you did right here.
People think you stole.
The lectern, the podium.
People think you pleaded guilty to theft of the lectern.
People have no effing idea, yet it stays as part of the consciousness of fake news and scum of the earth.
But now you got to get into who your prosecutor was.
In the time between, this is, dude, people, we're not redoing the original interview.
Go back and check our first interview.
And I, you know, Adam and I have hung out now.
And I, dude, even I say that you.
Have healed from this in a way that a lot of people might harbor a great deal of rage, resentments, and I don't know if you do in your heart of hearts.
I don't think you do because if you do, you're very good at hiding it.
It's amazing.
I don't know if you look back on it with any sort of what's the word I'm looking for?
Like it has contributed to you being who you are today.
You wouldn't change the past for the, you know, would you avoid all of that?
Would you avoid all that if there was a way to go back in time and not go through what you went through?
I think if you asked me a few years ago, the answer would be yes, absolutely.
I look at where I am now and, you know, God is good.
I have no other explanation.
I think God is good.
Did you just read that at the same time that I read that when you said it?
I thought you were reading the chat.
No, no, it's just what I believe.
Through all of this, I mean, there have been so many experiences that I've had.
There have been so many people that I've met.
You, you among the top of them.
I mean, I don't know if I ever would have met you through all of this.
I've met Brandon Herrera, who's running for Congress out in Texas, who's winning his seat.
I've met multiple people, James O'Keefe, the list goes long.
If you've seen him on Twitter doing work, I've got to share, break bread with them.
And, you know, out of all of this, we believe that restoration is here.
We believe that we are building something where, you know, where the mass is meant to throw stones and crumble our towers.
Stabbing McGee and Hearsay00:14:35
We were taking those same stones and building towers out of them.
So if you're asking me today, the answer is I would do it again because of what my life has turned out because of it.
Amazing.
And now you got to get into looping this into the story of the day, which is a story that you've been following.
You get arrested, I forget exactly within what.
Time frame proximity of the event itself.
Explain that and explain who takes charge of the prosecution against you.
So, within 48 hours, I was arrested.
We worked it out to where I can get dropped off at the police station instead of being perp walked out of my home.
We had a dozen news stations parked outside of our house for two days.
I had actually called the Department of Justice, the AUSA, before I left DC because they had my picture everywhere, they had my name.
And I told them, listen, I'm not running, I'm not trying to hide.
You obviously have my picture.
This is a big misunderstanding.
I didn't steal anything, it didn't hurt anyone.
I actually left them a voicemail.
And within 48 hours, I had hired attorneys, David Bigny and Dan Eckhart.
And they said, listen, they're bringing charges against you.
The DOJ actually called the attorneys on Friday night, two hours before I was taken to the sheriff's office, and they asked him if I still had the lectern.
What's crazy about this is they had video evidence that I never took it.
Nancy Pelosi had used it that morning to give a speech.
So they knew I did not have this in my possession.
So we were forthcoming from day one about all these things.
And people who are like too far out of January 6th are not going to remember.
By the evening of that day, this was headline news.
Democracy was collapsing in America.
And there were pictures of the gallows.
There were pictures of smoke, people getting shot, pepper spray, yada, yada.
And your face was the face of January 6th, even though you had zero to do with that.
I mean, I remember asking this when you get home and then you see what's going on in the news, you're like, Holy shit, that picture, that picture of a goof smiling, which is the thumbnail today, became the face of the January 6th insurrection.
So you were under the heat right away.
You turn yourself in.
And how does that work after that?
And who takes carriage of the prosecution?
The prosecution, my initial prosecutor was out of Tampa.
His name is Patrick Scruggs.
I did four days in solitary.
I was brought to court on Monday morning.
The, oh, what is the department?
It's, It's not important.
Anyway, so I'm brought to court, and Patrick Scruggs is there.
He said, There's actually a quote you can find on the internet.
I think I posted it earlier.
He said that these are very serious charges.
And because of what they did on January 6th, they should all be prosecuted for their terrible crimes.
And Patrick Scruggs was there in a nice suit representing the DOJ in the state of Florida.
And they gave me an ankle monitor.
They said I couldn't leave the middle district of Florida.
They told me I had a nightly curfew.
I had to take random drug tests, even though this was not a crime that involved drugs.
There was just, they told me I was a threat to my community and they sold it to the rest of the world as such.
So this is wild.
We're going to get to Patrick Scruggs in a second.
Ankle monitor.
And I remember you couldn't travel out of the middle district.
What's the geographic boundary of central middle district of Florida?
If you were to draw a 45 degree line from, let's say, Jacksonville down to deep Sarasota, like Venice area, that's the middle district of Florida.
Let's see if I'm going to bring up a map.
I'm just going to give everybody the idea.
It's a nice area, but to be stuck there for how long were you not able to?
It's like roughly, what do I say?
It's like somewhere about where the cursor is, right?
Like here?
Yeah, it's so big.
So if you take from Jacksonville down to where it says Florida?
Yep.
It's there.
So you get, well, I mean, you'd stay out of Jacksonville anyhow, but at least you can get some of the spring waters.
You can't get to Okeechobee down over here.
You couldn't go to Miami.
Dude, that is so effing wild.
So, ankle monitor, what was your curfew?
What time did you have to be at home for?
It was 10 p.m. from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m.
So, God forbid I have to take my trash cans out in the morning.
I'm going to leave my house.
It's funny, only in retrospect.
Okay.
And so, Patrick Scruggs, the man who's going to make his way back into this story now, is the DOJ prosecutor.
At the time, this is before he went stabbing McGee.
Like, I cannot help but look at someone who had such a fit of frothing, violent rage and think they were ever not like that.
On a day to day basis, you dealt with him over what period of time?
How many times a day?
How many times a week?
How many times a month?
I dealt with him exactly two times.
It was during my prosecution, and then there was some paperwork afterwards.
My attorneys, again, were fantastic.
I think it was within three weeks we had the ankle monitor removed because it was just a ridiculous thing to give me.
I'm a father of five.
My last prior was 20 years ago for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
I love it.
You're saying not that you ever wanted to be back in Fox News, but this is you're back in Fox News.
Florida man charged in January 6th.
This is from back in the day, right?
Slams double standards as ex prosecutor makes bail in road rage stabbing.
This is your prosecutor, and they're recycling the infamous picture heard around the world.
So you met him twice in person.
I thought you might have had more interactions with him as a human than that.
Well, I mean, I definitely was at every single hearing that he had after he went stabbing McGee.
So we definitely.
Now, not to say that anyone could have seen this coming in either of your two incidents.
Like, did he just come off as a standard government employee prosecutor, or did he look like he had seething, hidden rage in his soul?
Oh, definitely the latter.
This man, you know, he definitely had the vibe, the energy of, I am better than you.
And because I am who I am, I'm allowed to say the things and do the things that I do.
And throughout the entire court case, I mean, we'll get into it, but this man had zero remorse.
Every single time he showed up for a hearing, the accusations that he levied to the victim, the accusations he levied against the courts are all very telling of who he was.
Well, we're going to get into it now.
The day comes.
I'm going to play the video real quick, like, and just to give everyone an idea of the context and the timeframe.
Where is it here?
Johnny Midnight?
Is this the one?
Yeah, this is it here.
This is from the Fox News report.
So hold on, hold on.
I got to bring it in.
Don't play it first here.
Let's add it to the scene.
Let me go back to the Actual video right now.
Let me not enhance it, but open it and put the volume on.
And might be a Capitol riot defendants, but tonight he's a defendant himself.
One of the most infamous Capitol riot defendants, but tonight he's a defendant himself.
State troopers say former federal prosecutor Patrick Scruggs stabbed someone on the Howard Franklin Bridge.
And this happened after a series of crashes on the bridge Tuesday morning.
What a scene here.
Scruggs worked as a prosecutor in Florida's middle district for more than 10 years.
Fox 13's Evan Axelman reports tonight on the chaos that led to that violent incident.
It all started with a driver passed out in the middle of the highway on the Howard Franklin Bridge and ended with a former federal prosecutor allegedly stabbing the man.
Pictures taken by Tara.
I just got to say, man, allegedly.
Like, we don't have eyes, but okay, okay, sorry.
Skeesh.
Drugs standing outside of a car in a free car pileup.
Someone else's bloody hands are sticking out of a window.
He had a lot of blood on his arms and cuts on his arms.
And I was trying to figure out what had caused that.
Troopers say Scruggs had bashed through that window and stabbed the man multiple times.
Just before that, the man had been passed out while behind the wheel.
I think we could probably stop it here because we're going to get into most of this when we go through the story.
I remember the story breaking.
The only reason I sort of knew what was going on was because I think it was your initial reaction to this.
You don't get inside news from anybody, you just see this in the news and you're like, holy shit, that's my prosecutor.
Yes, that's exactly what happened.
I'm like, oh, I know that guy.
I gotta say, like, what does that feel like?
Because you're like, this is like reliving a demon from your past who tried to ruin your life, tried to destroy you, tried to lock you up, and you all but forget about it as you're sort of going back to normalcy.
I don't know, this was in 2023, so maybe not quite yet.
But you see this guy in the news, and it's like, oh my goodness, he's actually gone stabbing McGee.
Yeah, I think initially I was told to be thankful.
That I was not being held in prison while awaiting sentencing and a trial.
I mean, you know, Patrick Scruggs was the man who, you know, was generous and merciful and allowed me to go home with an ankle monitor and not be able to leave my house between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Like they do this thing to you where they make you believe, you know, we're handling you a lot less harsh than we could because the person you are is absolutely terrible.
Did you see what you did?
You walked into a building and refurniture.
And then I see this video and I'm thinking to myself, how many people.
That work for the Department of Justice, how many prosecutors believe and act like this on a daily basis?
Maybe not stabbing people, you know, as Stabby Mickey did, but how many people believe they're above the law and then exercise their power to get away with these things?
In the clip, it said he was a former federal prosecutor.
Do you have any idea what his timeline was as to why he was no longer a federal prosecutor when he went the way of the knife?
I saw a guy making jokes about it because it's the only way to get past this.
Do you know why he was no longer a federal prosecutor at that time?
I believe he worked for the DOJ as a federal prosecutor for the AOSA for almost a decade.
And I think he stepped away from the prosecution of the DOJ and went into private defense because there's more money in it.
All right.
Now, getting into the events of the day that led to the trial that you were following quite closely for clearly personal and other reasons, there was some confusion as to what happened on the highway.
We don't need to get into the details of it.
I think it's going to come out throughout the trial.
There was something of a medical emergency.
A man had a medical emergency, which is how it was initially reported.
And then apparently, he either crashed into the car in front of him on the bridge and then tried to back up, but was boxed in because it's a bridge with a lot of traffic and he's not going anywhere, certainly not to the sides.
And people don't know what's going on.
And then Scruggs gets out of his car and goes to the window where he sees the man coming to from his medical emergency, which might have been drug induced, but we'll get to that also.
And then the story is that he orders the man to not flee or not move and breaks the window and starts stabbing him with a pocket knife that he had in his car.
Yes.
So that's very close.
The victim was experiencing a medical emergency.
That's been verified in courts.
There's no evidence either on a medical side of it or anything administered on the scene that he was under the influence of anything.
His name is Blake Sharp.
Patrick left his vehicle with a knife in hand, and that shows intent in every single court in the land.
If you exit your vehicle, Break into someone else's vehicle.
That's their domicile.
It's an extension of a castle in the state of Florida.
He broke the window out and stabbed this man.
And then he told him, don't go anywhere.
Now, this man, Blake Sharp, actually had not come to.
He woke up to someone breaking his window and then he proceeded to stab him six times.
Another passenger came up to help and say, hey, stop stabbing this guy.
And Patrick Scruggs proceeded to threaten him with a knife and say, I'll stab you too.
Then he went back to the car and stabbed Blake again.
Do we know what kind of knife it was?
Was it like a foldable Swiss Army or was it a fixed blade?
It's a foldable pocket knife.
That in and of itself, like not to show some neuroses, that's crazy in and of itself because those blades are not, unless it has a locking mechanism, those things fold and can cut your own finger when you're using it to do something violent like that.
So the medical emergency of Blake Sharp.
Now, we're going to get to Blake Sharp being in jail because he was his own, he was, I say, a criminal on his own and he was on probation that he apparently violated.
The medical emergency at one point, I remember in the trial, was being floated as drug induced, which would explain Scrugg's violent reaction.
Is it definitively proven that it was not a drug induced medical emergency?
There is no evidence of it.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's on evidence, there's not a claim to be made.
It's hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
Now, the way that Patrick Scrugg's defense team went after this is because Blake had a history.
With substance abuse, that it's obvious that he was under the influence during the time.
You know, God forbid someone's just tired and falls asleep at the car.
Blake had gotten his life together.
He was on his way to work.
He was working, you know, 14 hour days.
We don't really know definitively what happened, but we cannot definitively say he was under the influence.
And there is no evidence to suggest that he was.
And another question is Is there evidence to suggest that Scruggs knew of Blake's criminal past the moment he approached the vehicle?
Because he's not on duty, he's not running plays, he's not checking.
Priors.
He's not checking for warrants.
So even if the guy has a history of drugs or whatever, I presume there's no evidence that showed that Scruggs knew that when he approached the vehicle.
That's a very astute point to know.
So, again, Scruggs worked on federal cases, and all of the cases against Blake were state level.
So these two had never interacted before.
So he goes to the car.
The guy has whatever medical emergency is.
There's zero risk of flight because literally, I said it at the time, there's cars in front, cars behind.
The only way this guy's going anywhere is jumping off a bridge, which is not, not to be glib, not going to hurt anybody but himself unless he lands on a boat.
Self Defense and Video Evidence00:15:57
He stabs him with this, I don't know, maybe I presume it's like a two inch pocket knife blade in the arm.
He was, how badly injured was Blake Sharp?
I was there for all the hearings and I saw the photographs, the videos.
I mean, he severed a major artery from Blake Sharp.
He could have bled out that day.
God had his hand on Blake.
There was an officer that was in traffic that was there.
EMS was called.
He had his wounds tended to.
Blake could have died in his car, bled out very, very easily.
The amount of blood that was on this scene, I mean, it looked like someone was field dressing an animal.
The entire car door was covered in blood.
There were pools of blood on the ground.
It looked like something out of a horror movie.
This is another thing people don't fully appreciate until they watch a video of someone trying to punch a hole through a window and severing their brachial artery.
A one inch blade, it'll do serious damage, and you've got arteries all over your arm.
And it sounds funny, ha ha, he pulled out a pocket knife, but it's flipping serious.
So stabs the guy.
What happens the day of?
Does he get arrested on the scene?
Yes.
So after stabbing him seven times, I guess he has a moment of clarity and he waits for the police to come.
He surrenders the knife and he is arrested on the scene.
Okay.
Now he's arrested on the scene.
I know the answer to this question.
He gets taken into custody.
How quickly is it before he, a man who violently stabbed another man during a medical emergency, gets out of jail compared to your four days of solitary in Pinellas County?
Less than 24 hours with zero restrictions outside if he can't have weapons.
All right.
How quickly, after you find out that this is your prosecutor, did you take a personal interest and start following this case?
I believe it was within 24 hours.
I wrote an article for The Federalist, did a couple of podcasts for it, a couple of news channels, I think OAN and Newsmax.
But I talked about it initially, and my thought was always this I wished I would have been granted the same type of mercy, the same type of justice we're all supposed to have where innocent until proven guilty, even though there was a video.
Of him doing it, you know, and I told everyone that the same time is like, listen, I'm not going to sit here and speculate what caused this.
We need to hear all of the evidence and the facts, but at the end of the day, we need to make sure that justice is consistent and justice is preserved through this case.
So while I may have an axe to grind with this guy, you know, I'm not going to let it get into the way of my personal feelings of how justice should be carried out.
I believe the system was on the mend that the corruption that we That we had saw would be rooted out.
And, you know, I just, I was patient and I watched.
And then explain to us what you followed as you followed this trial through.
He gets out, bonded out within 24 hours.
So he lived as a free man up until the plea deal of yesterday.
Yes, over two years.
The incident was in 2023.
So for two years, this man lived and worked and roamed as a free man in society.
What was he doing for work in those two years?
I believe he was fired from the law firm that he was working with.
And I'm pretty sure he started up his own defense firm.
Okay.
Okay.
And everybody should appreciate he's walking free, no ankle monitor, no travel restrictions after what he did compared to what he did to you based on what you did, which is absolutely nothing and put you through the hell that he put you through.
So let's get into the whole trial that you were following meticulously.
And you'd come on, I think, a couple of times, but you'd call me up every time you go down to Pinella to say, I'm there today and I'll give you the update.
Tell us what happened in the context of his prosecution or the prosecution of Scruggs.
Well, it started off where he had no restrictions after he was initially prosecuted.
The hearings followed where they were starting out with Blake Sharp as I was intoxicated.
They reached out to the hospital, tried to have multiple doctors say that they didn't administer drug tests and they should have done these things, but he was the victim of a crime.
They had no reason to do those things.
Following this, he then went with the defense of self defense for the court, the judge, Keith Meyer.
The Honorable Keith Meyer, we'll get into that, then said that he wrote a 12 page response to it, saying that in no way is this self defense.
You left your car with the weapon, you broke the window, entered someone's domicile, stabbed him, left, tried to stab someone else, went back and stabbed him again.
So it's not self defense.
After this, they appealed the case.
They appealed the case to the Florida 6th District Appeals Court.
Just to clarify for the crowd, the they is the Scruggs.
Scruggs loses his self defense.
He appeals the decision from Meyer, which is.
I mean, I made the joke to you the day it happened.
He's going to say, I had to stab him in self defense to make sure that he didn't start using his car as a weapon, sarcastically almost.
And he ended up literally making that defense.
Yes.
And he loses on that motion and then appeals Judge Keith Meyer's decision, which should piss people off in any event, but it's litigation.
So those are the rules.
And the way he appealed the case, his stance was that the court was being unfair, the judge was being unfair, that he was being unjustly prosecuted.
That there were so many eyes on this story, there's no way he can have a fair trial, which was comical to me because, hey, how does it feel, buddy?
No, the only reason there were eyes on that trial is because the man who was the defendant is the one who persecuted the people that had the eyes of the world on them and the ire of America on them, or at least half of America.
So, what ended up happening with that motion?
That motion got dismissed as well, I presume, or the appeal got dismissed?
It did.
So, it went back to Justice Keith Meyer, and Keith Meyer set a trial date in May.
It was supposed to be next week.
A week long trial.
So they scheduled a week long trial.
This is after his appeal of Keith Myers, judge, rejecting his defense.
I don't understand that.
You know, as a matter of law, I appreciate procedures different, but let him, I guess it's a matter of law as to whether or not it's self defense to be submitted the factual elements to a jury.
And they say that the judges are the triers of law and the jury are the triers of fact.
And so, as a matter of law, he doesn't get to present that argument because it's not available to him.
So now go.
You know, defend yourself without being able to make evidence to self defense.
The dude would get smoked by a jury.
The question is going to be like smoked.
It's, it's, and I, the meme from The Simpsons, you know, the fat guy in the jury when Homer got kicked out of the, he's like, that could have been me.
Like, there's nobody sitting there saying that could have been me, a victim of road rage because Florida is bad for traffic and it's hot and people, you know, that could have been anybody and he would have gotten smoked by a jury, you know, convicted wise.
So after the court of appeal dismisses, are there any other Interim motions before Judge Keith Meyer?
There were a dozen hearings.
They were trying to find different types of ways to go about this, different evidence, different witnesses.
But I mean, they were, it's not a better word for it, they were screwed.
I saw the video.
I heard witness testimony.
They had video evidence from both angles.
I mean, this guy did exactly what he was prosecuted for.
And it was captured on video with multiple witnesses saying, yes, he did this.
I witnessed it.
Here is the video.
Now, there's an interesting quirk in all of this.
In the interim, Blake Sharp ends up back in jail to serve his two year suspended sentence.
I think it was for battery, if it wasn't some form of assault.
Do you have the details on that?
Because that's one thing where, like, you know, okay, fine.
He's back in jail, he's serving his two years.
And then they come to him and say, Are you going to accept the plea deal from this guy?
And then the question I have is whether or not they said accept his plea deal and we'll let you out early, or whether or not there was some quid pro quo with him.
But how did Blake Sharp end up back in jail?
Well, I believe he was on probation for battery, not violating.
I think he violated because he failed a drug test, which is what I'm, this is again, I'll get you in contact with Blake, but this is what I know as far as what I've read and what I've seen.
And the drug test came a few weeks after, or a couple of weeks after the accident.
So, we definitely think that it was more than likely, you know, nudged along.
Take a look at this guy, help us out.
You know, when you're a federal prosecutor, you have a lot of resources, a lot of favors to call.
And I'm convinced, and, you know, I'm not sure if this is liable or not, but I'm just going to say it.
I think they threw him back in jail to sweat him.
He was supposed to be facing seven months for violating probation, instead, he got a two year sentence.
So, while the person who committed these crimes, Patrick Scrubs, is walking free, With no restrictions on him whatsoever.
The victim in this case spent two years in the Department of Corrections.
Two years in the Department of Corrections.
During a lot of the hearings, the Defense for Projects Rugs actually was vying the court to be able to go speak to the victim, Blake Sharp, while he was in jail.
And I can only assume that eventually happened because what I see from the fallout of this is they sweated Blake until Blake was broke, destitute.
He has a family of his own, and he signed a deal that allowed him to, you know, get a sweetheart deal for Patrick Scruggs and, you know, the 90 days.
And Blake got a payout at the end of it.
I'm happy for him.
I think it should have been a lot more.
But I think they sweated this guy until he was able to or forced to say, fine, we'll sign a plea.
I can deal with my life.
I'm trying to look because, first of all, there's a number of things that are interesting.
If they sentenced him to the two years for the battery because he failed a drug test, And he failed the drug test after the violent incident.
First of all, that's enough to drive people to drugs, let alone to drive them back to drugs if they had an issue in the first place.
And then to say, so a detail to be confirmed, but that sounds like what it looks like.
It wasn't a recidivism of any charges or subsequent violence, but a violation of parole.
So they locked this guy up.
This guy's in jail now himself for the two years that Scruggs is defending himself.
And ultimately, It's a sweetheart plea deal, and Florida is known for them or notoriously known for them.
The sweetheart plea deal that Scruggs had a judge, this is the judge Keith Meyer, sign off on yesterday, is 90 days in Pinellas County jail system.
What is it?
Two years probation.
And what else is there?
He has to pay $100,000 in restitution to Blake Sharp.
I think there's another condition in there that I forgot.
It's five years of probation.
The first two are supposed to be, I don't know the word for it.
It's basically supervised release where 11 anchor monitor for the first two years.
During the plea deal that was accepted, the judge and the defense said we're probably going to be, you know, vying the court to get that ankle monitor off within the first year and end suspension of or end probation before five years as long as his penalty is paid.
So he will probably more than likely not serve any of this time.
Along with this plea deal, the largest charge they brought against him, which was.
Armed burglary, that was amended to a lesser charge.
So, where he was facing life and potentially life in prison if he went for a jury, he is no longer facing life in prison should he violate parole.
Now, the maximum is 25 years.
Who's the prosecutor prosecuting Scruggs in this?
Oh, I don't recall his name.
It's a Florida state prosecutor.
It's not a federal prosecutor because people are, I say jokingly, and I'm not going to name any names.
People are saying, Viva, how could this be a DO?
How could there be any?
You know, federal level corruption or DOJ corruption to call in a favor for one of their former prosecutors when this was a state level prosecution, as if people ignore the ecosystem of call it corruption or call it politics, the ecosystem that exists within these members of the bar protecting the members of the bar.
The question I have is how the hell does the judge sign off on this?
Like, how does that happen?
This is what's so confusing to me.
The judge, when he was giving his, you know, two cents on the plea deal, He said, I saw the evidence.
I will not forget this.
I saw the video.
I heard witness testimony.
And, you know, should you violate probation, you know, you will be serving a very lengthy sentence.
I won't forget about this.
So the judge was cognizant of everything that had happened leading up to this point.
It's been two and a half years now.
He told Patrick that you're a prosecutor.
You should know better.
And he's absolutely correct.
You should know the law and how it works.
You should be a defender of the law, not a breaker of it.
Given all of this, he still signed off on the plea deal.
And what's interesting is there are actually.
Two cases that I found the same judge presided over, one back in, I believe it was 2013, and one in 2014.
Both of these cases, there was a plea agreement that was reached between the prosecution and the defense, and the victim in both cases were okay with it.
They said they signed off on this.
The same judge revoked those plea agreements and sentenced them to more time than what the agreed upon situation was between the prosecution and defense.
I'll bring it up here.
I believe it's Robert Lee Burton.
Stabbed his ex girlfriend 32 times in a brutal domestic attack.
Meyer rejected a lighter plea offer sentence, life in prison without parole.
The victim forgave him publicly, but the judge imposed the maximum sentence based on the severity, just in case our faces are covering that.
I mean, I'm going to ask the obvious question because I can't view it any other way.
Does it feel like the judge got a call and said, You're going to, you're, it doesn't have to be a threat.
It's just like, Hey, please accept it.
Like, we don't, this doesn't need to be any more embarrassing than it is.
He's learned his lesson.
And we don't want one of our former Federal prosecutors of the Jan Sixers becoming a source of embarrassment for the DOJ, which I'm sure has changed oodles since the January 6th persecution.
Hashtag sarcasm, it hasn't until anybody goes to jail for what they did for the last five years.
Did it feel like the judge got a call or there was some sort of 180 volt of fast by the judge?
I think that's the simplest explanation.
It's Occam's razor.
The only other type of evidence I have towards this is the system does love to break the system.
And federal judges, prosecutioners, they.
They work in the same fields.
They go to the same bars.
They go to the same restaurants.
They convey over the same things.
So I definitely believe there was some type of professional courtesy that was extended towards Patrick Scruggs.
It's mind blowing because there is a big difference between disruptive protest, disruptive, call it disruptive misdemeanor criminality, and violence against a person of the most brutal nature.
There's not any calculated stabbing.
Any one of those stab wounds could have proven fatal.
Any one of them.
One of them actually was potentially a fatal stab wound.
He severed an artery.
He was bleeding out on the scene.
If he had not had emergency medical assistance, Help immediately from an officer who called it in and administered aid, he would have been dead.
He would have bled out on the scene.
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So the prosecution agrees to the plea deal.
The judge signs off on the plea deal, and it's a sweetheart plea deal of sweetheart plea deals.
I mean, I don't know what else to say after all that.
I mean, to ask the obvious question to you, how sick does this make you sick?
I'm not going to ask you, does it make you sick?
On a scale of one to 10, how sick to your stomach does this make you?
Five years ago would have made me terribly sick, but there comes a point where.
You see these things happen so often with these justices just acting outside of the norm, sentencing differently, you know, gross disparities amongst offenders.
And at this point, it feels like the status quo.
It feels like the norm.
You know, I'm obviously upset about these things.
I'm obviously frustrated with these things.
But what else will we expect when we look at everything else that's going on right now in the world, especially in America?
Well, did I miss any details about this story?
I think we got everything, but you know it more in.
Internally and inside out, than I do.
We got everything that's relevant to this.
I think that's about covers it.
Well, unfortunately, your adventure now following this trial has come to an abrupt end.
What are you doing?
First of all, Adam, okay.
Do you have a copy of your book?
Is it out yet?
It is.
Yes.
I did write a book.
It's called Taking a Stand.
You can purchase a copy on my website, unlicensedfurnituremovers.com.
Hold on, hold on.
What's it called?
Unlicensed.
Oh, I get it.
Unlicensed.
That's too complicated.
Unlicensed furniture.
Movers.com.
All right.
Look how beautiful this is.
So, how long has it been out for?
And how is that experience?
So, you wrote a book, self published, I presume?
Self published.
We had a handful of offers to have it published, edited professionally.
But in my opinion, it's a historical document.
It is my words.
It is my story.
And whether, you know, there are a few typos or whatnot, it's my story.
Dude, I love this.
I mean, it's so.
Did I bring up the screen?
I did.
Not to say that you should be.
The branding is amazing.
But that image that will be.
An icon of American history for the foreseeable future.
Okay, so you got the book and the electors.
Yes, I got one back there.
Whatever.
We did successfully auction the other one off.
You remember what happened with that?
I tried to auction it off on eBay.
We took it down for the fruits of violent whatever, like raising money for violence.
And they ended the auction.
Adam, how can people?
So they can get the book on the website.
And where can they follow you?
So you can follow me on Twitter at lecternleader.com or lecternleader, not.com, just at lecternleader.
And so I actually am also running for public office.
I'm running for Manatee County Commission in District 1.
You can help support my campaign by going to voteadamjohnson.com.
We are winning.
We are raising.
What's the time frame on this?
Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
Like, when are the elections?
The primaries are in August.
So we are in.
Campaign donation mode right now.
We're knocking on doors.
We have dozens of volunteers.
It's looking fantastic.
We are primed to win this thing.
And I tell everyone, you know, if you want to fix the world, you got to start in your backyard.
And that's why I'm running for local office.
What's the website again?
I'm going to bring this up and share it right now.
VoteAdamJohnson.com.
Vote.
You actually got that with a name as common as VoteAdamJohnson.
I'm surprised at.com.
Let's see what this looks.
We've got to see some branding.
There better be a man with Electrode on it.
There is.
I'm joking.
Let's bring this up.
So this is it.
Those are your kids.
That's your wife.
Look at those.
It's so beautiful.
Okay, so how does this work?
Conservative fighter for Manatee County, Adam Johnson, for county commissioner, what does the position do?
County commissioner deals with everything in your backyard.
It is the zoning for what gets built, doesn't get built.
It's traffic, it's where all of your tax dollars go locally.
I got to ask the crass question Is this a full time job with remuneration?
Is it a part time job with crappy remuneration and a full time job schedule?
Is this going to be what you do day in and day out for your term?
For me, it will be, yes.
There are a lot of county commissioners who view it as a part time job.
They show up for the hearings they have to show up to.
Sometimes they don't.
For me, it'll be a 60 hour a week job.
I want to make sure that I represent my neighbors accurately and adequately.
So I'll be working 60 hours a week, making sure that our backyard looks like we want it to look like.
How many people, how many commissioners are there?
Are there just one for the district?
There are six commissioners in total for Manatee County.
It is the second fastest growing county in Manatee, Florida, or in Florida.
And there are two at large seats, one and six.
I'm running in district one.
Sorry, there are two at large seats.
It's six, and I want to believe it's five.
But I'm running for my local office.
It's Parish, it is Duet, it is Mayaka, it's all the rural lands and all these single families who are sending the kids to school.
Okay, now I don't know if you've done these calculations.
First of all, someone said, I'll lift Manny up when he's ready.
We named our dog Manny, Adam, because he looks like a manatee.
A mentally deficient manatee at that.
But the question I was going to ask was Have you run the numbers?
How many votes are cast?
And what is the most effective method of reaching the constituents who are going to vote?
Well, traditionally, local elections are all about name recognition.
It's knocking on doors, it's wearing out a pair of shoes across nine months and letting people know you're running on your platform.
In my case, because I do have a modicum of notoriety and because I did announce my run on January 6th this year, we have over 40.
Different news articles written about me locally that have reached everyone in my county.
Everywhere I go, people recognize me and say, We're glad you're running.
I'm still knocking on doors.
I'm still doing events.
I'm still listening to everyone in my county and my district.
And, you know, we're going to win because it's what needs to happen.
This is what it looks like to restore America.
You get patriots up front running at a local level because it's going to take us, all of us.
How, you, I think I know that you do live in a politically sane, In a politically sane region, how many people are running against you, or how many people are running for the same position?
It's an open seat right now.
The previous county commissioner, unfortunately, and very tragically passed away a couple of months ago.
So it's an open seat.
We have, I believe, 10 different Republicans running for the same seat right now, but I have outraised all of them in campaign donations.
Most of these people have tossed in over $10,000 of their own money to buy a seat.
Everything I've raised has been grassroots dollars.
Population of Manatee County, Florida.
That's big.
458,000 people.
It's a very large county and growing.
Holy crab apples.
Adam, that's amazing.
I sort of want to say I forgot about that, but I'm not.
You had to have told me that.
I just now.
All right.
So, well, what can we do?
So, the vote or the election is in August.
That is correct.
The primary.
If I win the primary, I win the general.
So, we're looking forward to it.
I think it's going to happen, but we do need your help.
We need your support.
I say, you know, it's our slogan is change for a dollar.
For a dollar, we can change our backyard.
So, if you have a dollar, yeah, $5, $10, go to the website, donate, voteadamjohnson.com.
We're going to change a backyard.
We're going to show you that there is a way through this, but it starts with people standing up, taking a stand, and getting involved.
That's amazing.
Okay, so everyone's got the link.
Anybody can contribute from out of state, out of maybe even out of country.
I don't think you can donate out of country, but you can definitely donate out of state.
Well, I'm definitely know exactly what I'm doing after this is over.
Oh my goodness.
Okay, well, we're going to talk offline and we'll see what we can do in terms of making it known.
Everybody, share it.
And this is how you do it.
Grassroots level, you go from district commissioner to president of the United States of America.
It will make it happen.
And how are you allowed?
Do you say how old you are?
I'm 41 years old.
I'll be 42 this year.
Okay.
You're prime age for the next president of these United States of America.
We're going to start with Manatee County.
Adam, I'm not going to bother you to stick around.
Oh, hold on a second.
I did want to get questions.
That's what I want to see if there's any questions in the chat.
I'm going to go to locals and I'm going to go to Rumble and get questions in.
Tag me because it'll make it easier for me to see it.
But let's just see if we got any here.
Don't any county have only one commissioner?
Uh, if I could move in time to vote for August as one of the people, show him any great show, Viva.
Hold on, the show's not over yet.
But Manny, the thing is, they're sleeping.
Adam, have you seen our new dog?
I have not seen the new pup, no.
Okay, you'll see why he looks oh my god like a man.
Property Taxes and Traffic Plans00:07:45
Hold on, let's get this out of here.
Boom, he we got him.
He's he's absolutely just the sweetest dog on earth.
Oh, we got him.
Tri County rescue.
Oh, my breast smells a little bad.
He snores like a pig, and um, he's he's.
Just, I mean, I'm going to get the other one jealous here.
Hold on.
Get out of here.
And you.
I'm not neglecting Winston.
You get a kiss, too.
Thank you.
Yeah, he's acute.
Now they're going to start fighting with each other, by the way.
Oh, gosh.
I shouldn't have done this.
Yeah, we called him Manny, put it to a vote with the community, and they said, call him Manny because he looks like a manatee.
And that one stuck.
Okay, there's a tag in here.
Let me bring it up.
Adam, hold on.
What is your platform, Adam, asks Joe Mazzkew.
Well, if you know if you haven't made it to county or aware of what's going on in Florida, we have a lot of overdevelopment.
We have special interests that are basically destroying our rural areas for dollars.
My platform is very simple.
There are in my district specifically, we have areas that are very rural that want to remain rural.
I say we let them remain rural.
You do have a place where I live in Parrish, and you have a lot of young families that do want restaurants, they do want parks, they do want libraries because they're raising.
Children here.
So, my thought is you can give everyone what they want.
But what we have right now is very unstructured development.
We don't really have a long term game plan as to what Parrish is going to look like, what Myaka is going to look like 10 years from now.
It's very haphazardly thrown together.
So, my platform is very simple.
We need better traffic studies that are based not just on the new buildings that have been able to be built, but also they should be viewing things like what other buildings have been given the green thumb to be built.
Because when you do a traffic study, this is in the weeds, I'm sorry.
When you do a traffic study, the developer that comes in says, I want to build this apartment complex, and we think that X amount of cars will be on the road between nine to five.
Going to increase this amount of traffic, so we don't really have to build an additional lane or you know do more for these roads.
What they don't have to take into account is the other 20 things that are being developed at the same time.
And if they had a cumulative study where it said all of this traffic's now being brought on this road, we could then slow things down and say, Well, listen, because we have 20 apartment complexes coming in with 10 shopping plazas, we need to take a look at our roads and make sure that our infrastructure catches up before we continue to build.
It's amazing, it's amazing, and you know, people always say.
You start local because you don't have very much control federal and you have even less control international.
I don't know if these are direct questions.
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Yeah, my tan is visible, as is the blemishes that I keep.
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He has no, let's see here.
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Okay, I don't think we have any questions in here.
Don't let them build a data center.
So, one of the issues I notice, at least in West Palm Beach, traffic is a massive issue.
And I like traffic is an issue.
And for me, it's not traffic as in like congestion, it's an utter danger to bike, to walk on the road system here.
I don't know what it's like in Manatee County, but I mean, I guess so.
What's the biggest issue that you would actually be able to?
Have a practical impact on if you get elected?
Well, they have a 10 year, you know, they call it a master plan for a build out.
So a lot of things have already been voted on and put together.
So it's very difficult to go back and stop things that are already rolling.
And that seems to be the issue with the commissioners we have right now, that they're being blamed for things that were planned years ago.
I mean, traffic is obviously one of the biggest issues.
Our property taxes are a very large issue.
But most of the issues really are from Tallahassee top down.
They are.
They're running on this idea that they're going to get rid of property taxes.
And what's going to happen with that if this ends up going through is during COVID, we had a large surge of conservatives flee liberal hellholes to come to Florida.
If you do something that's very apolitical, like get rid of property taxes, and I'm not for them, taxation is theft, but it's an apolitical bill that's going to be passed.
You're going to flood the state and make it a swing state again.
So I'm concerned with that.
But I mean, as far as what you can do initially, it's not.
It's not a ton in the commissioner position because of how Tallahassee is rolling right now.
If they go through and take care of, you know, get rid of property taxes, what can a commissioner actually do?
On top of this, they can be sued multiple times for voting against things.
They have to be objective, they have to listen to both sides of the fence.
So, master planning, as far as I know, there's a comment here I don't know the master planning.
Well, here's the good news I'm a very quick learner and I listen to everyone.
So, if you have opinions or ideas, please feel free to DM me.
I'd love to listen to you and your ideas and your plans, and we can get to work on that.
Just make sure they live in your district and they're not just wasting your time like time goblins.
But no, Adam, anybody who's watched any of our previous interviews, you are as sincere a human as they come and sincerely listen to diverging opinions, even when they're not politely submitted to you.
But just make sure that they're not people out there to distract you from your mission who are not actually in Manatee County and have no interest there except to distract you from your mission.
Yeah.
I actually signed all the copies.
I was going to bring that up.
Anyway, there was.
Arkansas crime attorney says, Anyway to pay for a signed copy, that was a $5 Rumble rent.
You sign all of them?
Amazing.
By the way, let me see here.
Check it out, boys.
Let me see if that's going to focus.
Well, it's not going to focus.
It's signed anyhow.
Number 35.
Take a stand, people.
In another realm of the universe, that would be like insurrectionist paraphernalia.
I'll keep it mildly not hyperbolic.
Do what Alaska does require X years of residency.
That's how you get your oil money there, says F. Chartrand.
And data centers are a great thing, too.
I actually proposed that a few weeks ago.
I said what we should do is have some type of.
Legacy residency credit, where if you have your primary residence in Florida, one house, not 10, not developers who own thousands of them, not big corporations who own hundreds of homes, a legacy credit for if you are a homesteader property owner for 10 years, you paid into the system, you can then be phased out from paying property taxes.
But you should have to invest in the state that you are living in.
I love it.
I love that idea.
I would also love the idea, let me bring us back in here.
Not necessarily having to pay school taxes if you opt out.
I guess you can sort of, I don't know what power you would have to actually facilitate homeschooling in terms of property taxes, but.
Well, property taxes are not something you are.
Property taxes are specifically what commissioners deal with.
These school taxes, we have no say over that.
I will tell you, our CFO, Blazingolia, did multiple audits across Florida.
I'm sure you know about this.
In Manatee County alone, there was over $100 million that was misallocated and misspent.
So, I've talked to Blaze a handful of times.
I would love to have him come down and do an actual full audit on not just the commissioner side of it, but also the school board side of it as well.
Opting Out of School Taxes00:03:43
Amazing.
Well, as you started saying that, you started glitching out, and now I think the internet is catching up with us.
All right, Adam, this is amazing.
I'm going to call you after the show.
I'm going to go to the locals after party, and I don't ask or expect you to stay around for that because it's going to be the intimate locals after party.
Your book, they can go to unlicensedfurnituremovers.com.
Your website, I've given everybody the links.
I'm going to put them on the pinned comment afterwards.
It's voteadamjohnson.com.
Your handle is lecternguy, not.com.
And, um, what's lectern leader?
Lectern leader.
Gosh darn, that would have been all right.
Lectern guy is going to get bombarded with uh, Adam.
Thank you very much.
First of all, thank you for following that case, uh, for everything you've done and for everything you're going to do because uh, you have greatness ahead of you.
Thank you, sir.
I've always appreciated hanging out with you.
We got to get in soon with the kids.
Absolutely, we're doing it again.
We're going when I don't know when we're heading up.
Anyways, we're doing our road trip in a bit.
Kids are going to be out of school in a bit, so we will hang out in a bit.
Yes, sir.
All right, Godspeed.
Bye.
All right, that was amazing.
I'm getting shinier and shinier as it goes on here because, yeah, that thing right there.
You want to go crazy now?
Now I just pointed it out.
I don't put makeup on people.
What was I going to do?
We're going to go raid.
Who are we going to go raid right now?
Well, we're going to raid Timcast is up there.
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That's not, it's a he gets a hook in the neck, okay?
It's not getting hooked on anything bad.
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And hold on.
Now I got to see something.
I just got distracted by the chat.
And if you want to do XAUT, that's how you do it.
Okay, right here.
Now, hold on.
What was in the chat?
Viva has changed too much.
Hold on.
That was Dog Digger.
Bagelboy says, Dog Digger, no way he's changed too much.
What did Dog Digger say?
Dog Digger, I know that I see him around.
He says, Hey, y'all, don't forget to hit the Rumble like button.
Okay.
It will change to redacted diffuse as neurodebt version.
Hold on.
What did Dog Digger say that the answer was that Viva has changed too much?
Catchy Headlines and Tipping00:02:18
I hope it was in a good way.
I don't think I changed.
I think the world has gone crazy, thus making me look sane.
All right.
Well, we're going to get to that in a bit.
But for the time being, people, Get this out of here.
We're going to go now.
Raid Redacted should be up on the front page.
And yeah, they're up there.
And it says famine.
Okay.
I know what people's issues are in general.
You got to make headlines catchy.
And I like Redacted.
They're good people.
Their headlines are always catchy.
Here it says, High alert.
The great fertilizer famine is coming.
They can't hide it anymore.
Redacted.
And now we're going to go raid them.
You're going to say hi.
You're going to say, Viva sent you.
We're going to go to vivabarnslaw.locals.com.
For the after party, you're going to cover two stories James Comey facing an indictment for something that I telegraphed a year ago, and the other one there that Fauci's partner got indicted as well for hiding stuff.
I did see one more rumble rant come in, but I think we already got to it because I think it was the one how do we get the book signed?
And that is it, yeah, from Arkansas Crime Attorney.
And now in our locals community.
F. Chartrand says he's changed in as much as he got better at the podcast biz.
I'm going to have a confession of insecurity over at Locals after this.
So, right now, we're going to go over to Rumble Premium and Viva Barnes Law.
Locals.com.
We're going to do two stories, confession.
Then I'm going to get ready for bowling night because it is league night and Viva has been on a tear.
We lost all our games last week and the aggregate points, even though we all bowled above average and I averaged 196.
And change for my three games.
The week before, I averaged two.
What was it?
It was well over 200.
I had a 256, I had a 228, and I had a two.
Yeah, I got like 218 the week before.
But right now, we're just going to update.
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