SPECIAL: Florida Man Attempts a Jussie Smollett Hoax - Nightly Scroll with Hayley

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0:38Let's get into it. There was a potential bomb threat yesterday at Turning Point USA's first campus event back in Utah since Charlie Kirk's assassination. Then a Jussie Smollett-style hoax has been debunked in Florida after a teen shot himself in the leg after telling his family he was abducted by a group of Hispanic men. We're gonna get into that story as well. Also, no name given is the name. Don't wear it out. Kathy Hochul, Sanctuary State New York, has issued commercial driver's licenses with no name on them to illegals. And yes, they were driving all over the country with them to a red state near you.

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2:14Just tell a friend. That's all I ask. Just tell a friend. All right, let's get into the news. Yesterday was Turning Point USA's first event back in Utah since Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10th at Utah Valley University. This was at Utah State University yesterday. They were hosting the event and they were apparently taking extra security measures due to heightened concerns, of course. But Utah State University put this out in a statement. A suspicious device was found near the exterior of Old Main University. A local, I'm sorry, Old Main University and local law enforcement were dispatched to the scene.

2:55A device was located and deemed to be a non-explosive device. Out of an abundance of caution, the bomb squad detonated the suspicious device. So let's just take a second to watch this video of the bomb squad detonating this suspicious device yesterday. Watch. Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

3:23No way. interesting imagine being on campus and hearing that or or you know hearing that explosion and not knowing what's going on i mean that'd be terrifying terrifying so old main is the building and that building was deemed clear and safe um all of the classes remained resumed you know they're all fine and the event the turning point event um went off without a hitch thankfully nobody was hurt, nobody, nothing bad happened. And it was, it went on to be the largest campus event that TPUSA has ever put on with 6 ,500 people in attendance. And at Turning Point Personality, host of the Culture Apothecary podcast, Alex Clark was speaking alongside Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Utah Senator Mike Lee, Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was in attendance at Utah Valley University at the event where Charlie was assassinated.

4:26I am still so shocked that Charlie is gone. It still feels surreal to me. I know I watched the video as many of you did. I covered the news. We've seen all the news that has come out since. We watched the memorial service, right? It still feels surreal to me. I can't believe, I really cannot wrap my head around the fact that we're talking about Charlie Kirk in the past tense. Still, I can't get over the fact that Charlie Kirk and assassinated. These two words are being put in the same sentence. You know, it's just very disturbing. And I don't know because I never met Charlie Kirk, maybe aside from an email that I sent when I was a guest booker.

5:12Right. I never met him in real life. I never met him in person. I didn't know him. but I don't know how the people closest to him are pushing forward. But I am so glad that they are. Certainly they have their faith to lean on the power of prayer. And I am so impressed with how they've continued carrying the torch. I'm even more pleased to see how big these crowds are. They're pulling massive crowds. This was, like I said, the biggest one that they have pulled ever, 6 ,500 people at a campus event. And I know that that momentum is going to continue. I want to turn now to another. I have a lot of disturbing stories today.

5:53This one I think might be the worst. They're all horrible. But Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez, his staffer was set on fire a few weeks ago. This was just, you know, I believe it was September 13th. So just a few days after Charlie Kirk's death. And this didn't really make the same news, of course, as Charlie Kirk's death. But this story is mind boggling. So Texas rep Tony Gonzalez, a staffer, burned to death after dousing herself with gasoline, setting her body ablaze. I hadn't heard this until I saw this. Maybe it was last night when I saw this headline. So I don't maybe you like me hadn't heard of this.

6:37so burned to death in her backyard. Apparently, according to firefighters, she set herself on fire with gasoline, but her family says that this had to have been an accident. This took place in Uvalde, Texas on September 13th. Officials didn't say whether she deliberately started the blaze. So we don't know if this was a suicide attempt or certainly just a horrific, unexplainable accident. But the Uvalde Police Department, they don't suspect anyone else was involved. They don't suspect any foul play. But I mean, this is just so heart-wrenching. This woman, she was found alive and still on fire by her own mother.

7:31So I don't know what time she set herself on fire, but her mom came to her house around 930 p.m. and found her still alive. So she was helicoptered to a nearby hospital. It's unclear how they put the flames out or when the law enforcement was called or the paramedics were called. but her family is adamant that whatever happened was an accident. Apparently, a family member spoke to local news saying that her last words were, quote, I don't want to die. Interestingly enough, they didn't say which family member said that. They didn't say which family member they were interviewing, which, you know, these are all details that might still come out but as we know now uh we're not sure and it says uh that this family member said that her last words were i don't want to die but the rest of the story says that the mother found her alive so was she burning alive for how long i don't know um and did she say that to her mother it's unclear why the local news station just said family member and if it is a family member that's not the mother were they also at the scene or did she say I don't want to die to someone else in her family before this happened like I said law enforcement said that they don't believe that there's any foul play but if she was kind of signaling to her family that she didn't want to die and this was before she set herself on fire then that's odd right so allegedly she was alone when this all happened.

9:22Investigators have gotten the home camera footage and apparently she was home alone when this all happened. I don't know how this could be accidental. Again, I'm not trying to be conspiratorial because this woman is dead now. She's a mother to an eight-year-old boy. It's absolutely horrific. But I can't see someone lighting themselves on fire accidentally. This is absolutely gruesome. Like this is a shock, a shocking headline, but you have to just wait and hope that the pieces add up with this because I don't know many people that voluntarily douse themselves with gasoline. On on, I guess, on on purpose, you know what I mean?

10:06And then and then walk towards a lighter and then this whole thing is just it. There's missing pieces of evidence. It's an early report. I mean, but golly, this is gruesome. Yeah, it's horrible. And, you know, she's young. She's 35 years old. She's a mother, you know, to an eight year old boy. It makes you think if she said to family members that she didn't want to die. I could imagine she wouldn't want to die. Of course, she has her son to raise and he's young. And. yeah the investigation is still ongoing law enforcement said it could be weeks before we find an official report that's released from medical examiners so we will stay on top of that as well but the topic of crime obviously is at the forefront of our minds and this issue of low cash bail or no cash bail or these other policies that allow for criminals to be let back onto the streets to reoffend keep popping up.

11:05So you all remember the story of the Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, Irina Zerutska, who was stabbed in the neck by a schizophrenic repeat offender. Well, another repeat offender, this time in South Carolina, took the life of 22-year-old Logan Federico. And her father, Steve, is rightfully angry. The man who took her life had 30 39 prior arrests, including 25 felonies. So here he is speaking at the victims of violent crime hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday. Listen to this. How many of y 'all have kids? I'm just curious. Here's what I need you to do.

11:50When I tell you this story, think about your kids. Think about your child coming home from the night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father, me, that couldn't be there. She was 5 '3". She weighed 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey, who was arrested 39 goddamn times, 25 felonies, was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids?

13:03He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old, but nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison? You would think that is supposed to be the idea of prison when someone commits a horrific crime like this, among other crimes. dozens of other crimes, they're supposed to be held accountable.

13:50They're supposed to go to jail to not only, you know, try to learn their lesson, but most importantly, to keep them off the streets so that they don't do this again. And with people like this guy, who has proven to be a repeat offender, there is no, in my opinion, this is not someone who has proven that they can go to jail for a little bit and get out, do community service, be a better person. He has not proven that he deserves time outside of jail. This is the kind of person that belongs behind bars for a very, very, very, very, very long time, preferably until they die. I'm just reading this now, too, because I mean, and this all goes to the Fifth Circuit judges there in in the Carolinas where this all is going down in South Carolina's fifth district I mean these people need to be investigated the solicitors the judges the DAs everyone involved with this motherfucker being out on the streets you need to be investigated what are you doing what are you doing and they're violent crimes by the way I mean it's just it's crazy I mean he's been arrested and charged with murder, multiple counts of burglary, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, grand larceny, financial transaction card theft.

15:22Dozens of times he has been charged for various crimes, first degree burglary, armed robbery with a deadly weapon. And he was able to plead guilty to avoid lengthy prison sentences. Anyone involved needs to be held accountable. It's infuriating. And this isn't just a blue state, blue city issue. This was in South Carolina. So there are Democrat governors in purple states. There are Democrat mayors in red states. There are liberal activist judges all over the place. This is a nationwide problem that you can't even move your way out of, apparently. You know, me personally, I lived in New York City.

16:10I started seeing crime and started seeing how the city was kind of falling just from grace. It used to be a great place to live. And then the crime was just kind of out of control. The homeless crisis was out of control. You start looking at your surroundings and thinking, I don't feel safe here. I don't want to live here. I don't want to raise a family here. and you know hearing stories like this is so disheartening because you pick up your life you move from your blue state you try to go to a red state or a red city somewhere to find refuge from all of this crap and the blue state crap follows you because there are activists judges and DAs everywhere they are a cancer to law enforcement because what good does it do if you arrest someone 39 times and then some moron lets them go.

17:05Give me one good reason that someone who has committed 25 felonies should be out on the street. That is why President Trump's mission is so important to make America safe again, to make it a country you want to raise children in, to make it a country its citizens want to be better for, one that addresses not only the mental health issues, but also holds criminals to account in a way that keeps dangerous people off the street and away from law-abiding citizens and innocent people like this one woman. Now, I want to move to a very perplexing story, which is the Jussie Smollett hoax round two. You remember Jussie Smollett?

17:47Oh, you know, absolutely. The Jussie Smollett, what Dave Chappelle said, Smollett. He says, I'm going to go. It's a polar vortex. It's negative 190 degrees outside, but I'm going to go to Subway. Get me a meatball sub. Yeah, his story made no sense because he was an actor on Empire. So he's on this Fox show and, you know, he's famous. And I don't know what, maybe he wanted more attention. He didn't think he was getting enough attention. But Jesse Smollett, what year was this in, by the way? 2020? 2020? We're going to check on that. I don't remember, but Jesse Smollett, you know, he's this actor.

18:29He's walking around in Chicago. It's, you know, it's late at night. It's freezing cold. And, you know, he's trying to get a late night bite to eat. And all of a sudden he claims that he was attacked by two guys. 2019. OK, so in 2019, Jesse Smollett said that he was attacked by two guys in MAGA hats. They put a noose around his neck. They said, this is MAGA country. We all find out later on that this was all a hoax. He had hired two brothers to attack him. For what? I don't know. I mean, did he become more famous? Maybe. Not for the right reasons, not for his acting chops, but because he was a loon, a total loon.

19:17I mean, the dude was on a, I didn't watch it, but the dude was on a show that was getting good ratings. And it was like, man, you're sort of, and he was also signed to a record label and was a recording artist. So he sort of had two, he had two careers, but that's what makes this even more stupid. The whole thing was dumb. So this brings me to this current story, which is kind of like a, it's kind of like a Jussie Smollett, but like inverted. So this is a 17 year old kid in Florida. He basically tried to stage his own Jussie Smollett style hoax. So here's the headline. Florida teen in MAGA hat shot himself in elaborate abduction hoax blaming Hispanic men.

20:09now again this is also ongoing we might find out more information as we go so just take all this with a grain of salt but here's what we know this time he was wearing the MAGA hat and he was allegedly being jumped by a group of four Hispanic men this is what he's alleging right and then he even shot himself in the leg I guess to again this just goes to show how stupid these kids are that's commitment if you're going to shoot yourself in your own leg yes I mean that's at least that's at least a c-minus on this test if you shoot yourself if you shoot yourself in the leg you are really committing to the bit little did he know he was shooting himself in the foot because it's very easy for cops, law enforcement, for forensic investigators to figure out, you know, if you shoot yourself in the leg, that's going to look different than if someone else shot you.

21:14And they can tell. They can tell when you're lying. So anyway, before authorities had realized that this kid faked this whole thing. They set out an Amber Alert, believing that he was actually kidnapped because he had texted his parents or his family saying he was shot and kidnapped by four Hispanic men. So authorities were going off of that, right? The family legitimately thought he was abducted by these people. So they called law enforcement. Law enforcement kicks into gear they're trying to search for him so amber alert goes out after he shot himself in the leg actually this is tbd did he shoot himself in the leg and then ride off on his bike i feel like he took off on his bike then shot his leg somewhere because that would be hard that's important to know because i'm going from a c minus to a c if he shot himself in the leg and then committed to the bike i'm important to know this i think he probably took off on his bike after he texted the parents he took off on the bike he had a tent with him and other camping supplies so where was he going to go and for how long don't know but that's when i think he shot himself in the leg then he walked out into the road hoping that he would be found which is interesting because maybe he just got maybe he just soured on the camping idea right away and he wanted to be found right away yeah i would say with a bullet hole in your quad you're probably like you're like abort mission bad idea i have a bullet on my quad get me out of the woods who did this to me who did this to me he's like i need to get help anyway so apparently he was reported and again this is according to the new york post article a lot of these details are not making sense in my head, I think, because this is a total, you know, fabricated hoax, of course.

23:11So a lot of the details aren't going to make sense. But he was reported to be wearing a MAGA hat at the time. So I think he's thinking, I'm wearing a MAGA hat. I'm going to stage this hoax that these Hispanic dudes are jumping me. They're shooting me and they kidnapped me. He left his car somewhere. So authorities found his abandoned vehicle and then you know later he was in the middle of the road with a gunshot wound to the leg asking for help so here's the crazier part well I guess it's not really crazy because it just goes to show that he certainly is in the wrong hold on did you say that here comes the crazy part we haven't heard it yet no that no I I take that back his parents are not allowing him to be interviewed by the cops.

24:03That's odd to me because, first of all, your son's in the wrong. This is a hoax. And also, what do you mean? Can't the cops charge him with something? And what do you mean the parents have the right to be like, you can't talk to my kid? I don't get that. I mean, discharging a firearm in public is a crime. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to have to read. I don't really know the laws on shooting yourself in the quad. I'll have to read up on that. We circle back pretty fast. I mean, shooting yourself, I imagine, you know, is no bueno. No bueno. But I mean, who says they don't want to? He's not wanting to cooperate with the police?

24:47Well, the parents are not allowing him to speak to the cops. That doesn't make sense to me. Can't the cops override that and say, I don't care? That's what I was going to say. Hey, can't the cops just sort of knock and say, you know, hello, we're the police. You have to speak to us. Yeah. So that also didn't make sense to me either. According to authorities, it's unclear if more charges are going to be brought or if charges are going to be brought at all. But I think if you waste law enforcement's time and energy and resources with a hoax, that is a crime and you need to be held accountable. Isn't that what they charged Jesse Smollett with in Chicago?

25:25So like, I mean, if this is going on here. And there was another woman, I forgot, maybe we covered this, but I think she was in Alabama or something, and she staged something like this, like that she was kidnapped, and then she wasn't. I remember a story like that. But I think if you do anything like this, you have to be held accountable. And I know that he's 17, so maybe he wouldn't go to, maybe he would go to like a juvenile prison or something, but you certainly have to be held accountable. I mean, shooting yourself in the leg isn't punishment enough, in my opinion. You wasted everyone's time.

26:00And that's not like a slap on the wrist kind of a deal, in my opinion. In 2023, Carly Russell in Alabama, 49 hours. She disappeared, I guess, for 49 hours and claimed to be kidnapped. Yep. Again, horrible. Like, these people need to be held accountable. All right. $17 ,000 in restitution. She had to pay. There you go. $17 ,000. So maybe this wouldn't be as much for this kid because it wasn't that long of an investigation or search for him. You have to pay$17 ,000 in restitution and then pay to get the hole sewed up, the hole in your leg you shot. That's the crazy part. Why? What would possess someone to do that?

26:51I'd rather fake like I had a black eye than actually shoot myself in my own hamstring. So dumb. All right, taking a quick break to tell you about blackout coffee. Let's talk about real convenience without sacrificing quality. You already know I'm a blackout fan. I'm drinking it right now. But if you're like me and you need that caffeine fix fast in the morning, their coffee pods are a total game changer. These are not your average grocery store pods. Blackout pods are packed with fresh roasted, bold coffee made right here in Florida and they work with those single serve pod brewers. It's fast, it's easy, and it is actually delicious.

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28:01Why are Democrat voters the way that they are? Well, this guy's trying to figure out at least when it comes to New Yorkers who are all for Zoran Mamdani. Do they know what they're voting for? The policies? Not really, but they're signing on the dotted line anyway. Watch this. You're voting for Zoran, you are. Can I get your signature for support? Sure. Okay, wait, I'm required by law. I just have to read you like three of these policies. You're cool to elect a mayor who won't condemn Sharia law. He started his school's SJP chapter. Do you know what that is? Calls for the destruction of America, students justice for Palestine.

28:34So he's going to tax whiter neighborhoods? Yay! You're cool with that? I love to have white people. Yeah, f***ing white people, right? I'm half black, so... Cool with defunding the police? No more police? Yeah. Okay, you cool with that? Taxing whiter neighborhoods or taxing neighborhoods by race specifically? No. Oh, really? Oh, it says that on his website. I don't think you know how to read his website. Oh. No, it specifically says to tax whiter neighborhoods. Are you cool with taxing companies so high that they're forced to leave the city and take hundreds of thousands of jobs with them? Okay.

29:01That part, no. Yeah, it could even be millions of jobs, but... I'm not going to sign. Um, I don't know about that, but... Oh, you don't? Well, what is this? It's just like a lot of his policy positions and stuff. You have to recognize the DSA's Bill of Rights Socialism, so he'd replace the Bill of Rights with... You can read all this. This is out there. You still want to do it or no? Oh, he's gonna tax white people higher. It's on his website first

29:25You can look all the dots. No, this is literally the first thing on his website by taxing whiter neighborhoods No, it literally says whiter neighbor Wait, so you voted from the primary but you didn't know about that Okay, are you cool with the destruction of America? No, you're not you don't want to sign anymore

29:54my favorite is when the guy in the pink shirt said you don't know how to read his website and then knocked it at it i mean of course because we know they get very violent they're very violent if you even ask them like hey did you know what you were voting for they get very violent when they don't know the answer because they don't have an answer so the answer is violence you know i really i I really appreciate this guy's dedication to the role in getting all of these liberal exclusive interviews. He committed to the mask. You can't you can't get that close and have that kind of, you know, intellectual compatibility without going all in in the costume.

30:34And he had a mask. He had to be friendly. He had to look like a friendly face and then swoop in with the facts. That's what happens. But then the New York Post did another man on the street asking New Yorkers, specifically strippers, about Zoran Mamdani's plans to decriminalize sex work. Listen to this. I'm voting for Mamdani. Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani may soon make history by becoming the city's first Muslim mayor. I'm Ben Kowalor with the New York Post. And today we're talking to a demographic that loves Zoran almost as much as Muslim voters do. Let's talk to the sex workers. Do you think Zoran has like the sex worker vote in the bag?

31:15I would go as far as to say yes. Mamdani has long advocated for decriminalizing prostitution, which critics say could actually lead to more sex trafficking and a more generally brothel-y atmosphere. Some people think that if we legalize prostitution or even decriminalize prostitution, this city is going to turn into Sodom and Gomorrah, or one of those anyway. I mean, we decriminalize weed. Yeah, now the whole place smells like weed. Yeah, but the world didn't end and those people's lives got changed in no way. If you really think about it, at the basic, most basic level, supporting sex work is literally just mutual aid.