ZDT COFFEE CHAT TWISTED JUSTICE, FRIDAY, DUMB TAKES [ZeroDarkTony] / September 4, 2026 / YouTube / S65WxrCsbMk
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, commented on the Lindsay-Clancy trial mistrial during a September 4, 2026 YouTube livestream. He stated that a juror in the case would likely face problems if her identity were exposed, citing “nutty people” and “real crazies.” In the same stream, D’Amato threatened critics he characterized as painting him in a “false light,” stating that their accounts would be subpoenaed and that legal consequences were coming.
“I Don’t Condone Violence at All, But That Juror Really Is Probably Going to Have a Problem in the Future”
While discussing the trial, D’Amato stated on stream that he held no personal intent to harm but framed the juror’s potential identity exposure as something third parties would act on. His framing paired an explicit disclaimer of personal violence with a prediction of future harm tied to that exposure. Shortly before the passage, chatters had been posting personal information in the stream, which D’Amato audibly told them to stop multiple times.
Later in the broadcast, D’Amato responded to critics who had accused him of bribery and perjury, dismissing both allegations as misreadings of jokes and threatening to subpoena the accounts making those claims. He characterized the critics’ conduct as a “pattern and course of conduct” that would not be excused, and stated he would “enjoy watching what happens to you in that courtroom.”
Exhibit A
D’Amato tells his audience that, while he does not personally condone violence, “that juror really is probably going to have a problem in the future if her identity… there are some nutty people out there. There are some real crazies out there.” He then turns to chat and orders viewers to stop posting personal information, saying “I don’t know how many times I have to say it.”
Timestamps: 00:25:17 – 00:27:25 | Open clip in new tab
D’Amato’s disclaimer of personal violence is present and intact, but the surrounding construction links juror identity exposure directly to predicted harm by unnamed third parties. The passage does not identify the juror by name and D’Amato does not instruct viewers to find her identity. The dual framing, disavowal paired with a prediction of consequences if exposure occurs, is the documented pattern here.
Exhibit B
D’Amato references James O’Keefe’s Supreme Court victory to frame his own anticipated litigation, then addresses unnamed critics directly: “if others choose to continue to pet the tiger’s tail, there just are going to be severe legal consequences… I am going to enjoy watching what happens to you in that courtroom and you should really think this through.”
Timestamps: 00:33:32 – 00:37:36 | Open clip in new tab
D’Amato states that continuing to criticize him will result in “severe legal consequences” and expresses personal satisfaction at the anticipated courtroom outcome. The critics are not identified by name in this passage, but D’Amato characterizes the situation as already heading toward litigation. The language is a stated legal threat, not a physical one.
Exhibit C
D’Amato responds to audience members who had accused him of bribery in connection with a prior statement about someone named Lara, calling the accusation a misreading of a joke: “what I said about Lara was a joke… they’re trying to paint me in a false light. And when we subpoena your account, that one’s going to go on the pile… It shows a pattern and course of conduct that you are not going to get away from.”
Timestamps: 00:43:58 – 00:45:52 | Open clip in new tab
D’Amato explicitly names subpoena of critics’ accounts as an anticipated legal step and frames their commentary as evidence of an ongoing pattern of conduct against him. He denies the bribery reading by asserting the original statement was a joke, while simultaneously invoking what he describes as active litigation strategy. The clip establishes D’Amato’s stated intention to pursue account-level legal process against named critics.
Taken together, the three clips document D’Amato predicting third-party harm to a juror contingent on identity exposure, threatening unspecified critics with litigation, and describing a plan to subpoena critic accounts, all in a single broadcast on September 4, 2026.
Prior Coverage
HNZ has already examined the bribery episode, and the coverage was more measured toward D’Amato than his September 4 characterization suggests. In a “Zoey Explains” video publishedon September 2nd, she walked through the California statutes potentially implicated by his plan to crowdfund PetSmart gift cards to get Lara FM to drop off Scott Hochstetter’s bail bond, including witness bribery, witness tampering, extortion, and conspiracy, and concluded that the strongest theories were plausible, but not proven. The analysis explicitly pushed back on treating this as a “clean, he offered money to a witness, therefore it’s bribery” case, and noted that realistically, prosecutors probably would never file a standalone case over unaccepted gift cards.
What the coverage did not do was call it a joke. On stream, D’Amato didn’t either. He defended the plan in legal terms, not as humor:
“It’s just a pitch, you know, and it really doesn’t exist until one certain thing happens. So right now, it’s not even real.”
That defense has its own problem HNZ flagged at the time: bribery statutes are generally satisfied by the offer itself, acceptance isn’t required, so “it’s not even real until she accepts” doesn’t hold up as a shield even if the underlying bribery theory is less than airtight.
Where our coverage was firm was on probation. D’Amato pitched the plan after being found in violation of his supervision in the Los Angeles case. That hearing runs on a preponderance standard before a single judge, not a jury and not beyond a reasonable doubt, meaning any new law violation, even one that never becomes a standalone criminal case, can be grounds to revoke probation outright.
[Video: “Did ZeroDarkTony Commit Bribery Live? Zoey Explains.” https://youtu.be/Er0xQ6Pzke0 ]
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript
- Full Text Transcript
- Full Chat Transcript
- Date: 2026-09-04
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · S65WxrCsbMk