Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been behind bars in a New Jersey federal jail for nearly three years, however he nonetheless has 17 years left of his 20-year sentence regardless that he says he did completely nothing unlawful and even incorrect.
Adamiak just lately despatched a private letter to President Donald J. Trump in search of a presidential pardon, which is without doubt one of the only a few methods he has left to acquire his freedom. He has written letters to different politicians, however his letter to President Trump is particular. It’s way more personal than something he’s written earlier than. The previous sailor received very private, particularly about his mom’s demise.
If he receives a pardon, Adamiak was very clear about what he’ll do subsequent.
He’s adamant he did nothing incorrect. Prosecutors and the ATF misused the proof throughout his trial, he stated.
He was very clear about why he despatched the letter to President Trump.
A Presidential pardon stands out as the solely route left to acquire his freedom.
June 1st, 2025
To: President Donald J. Trump
From: Patrick Tate Adamiak
President Trump,
I hope this letter finds you nicely. My title is Patrick “Tate” Adamiak. I’m a 31 12 months previous younger man—a Patriot that has devoted my total life to serving this nice nation. In my decade of honorable service in america Navy, underneath three separate Commanders in Chief, I can say with absolute private conviction that I used to be most proud whereas serving underneath your robust unparalleled management. Having a President with braveness means one thing.
I achieved many nice issues throughout my tenure within the navy, working within the Center East, Africa, Europe, and the Panama Canal in Central America. Whereas on energetic responsibility, I used to be concurrently and diligently working towards my bachelor’s diploma, which I accomplished with a 4.0 GPA, incomes a spot on the President’s checklist. This diploma was required to attend Officer Candidate Faculty, as I used to be on monitor to attaining a life purpose of mine, turning into a Commissioned Naval Officer.
Except for my Naval profession, I used to be additionally a really small-scale entrepreneur, proudly owning some rental properties, and constructing a profitable retail retailer on-line. I really attribute a lot of my enterprise “drive” to you, as I bear in mind watching you on “The Apprentice” as somewhat boy, all the time appreciating the “Artwork of the Deal.”
In reality, you is perhaps shocked to study that my mom really labored for you within the early 80s. She was a famend ballet dancer in New York Metropolis, and also you employed her to show a soccer crew you owned, The New Jersey Generals, coordination and stability methods. My morn all the time used to inform me a joke concerning the day she met you met. Her title was “Senga” Adamiak, and he or she instructed me that you just requested her the place a reputation like that got here from. She then instructed you the story about how her title was alleged to be “Agnes,” however it was mistakenly spelled backwards on her beginning certificates by her dyslexic Uncle, who was on the hospital filling out the paperwork as a result of her father was deployed. Apparently, you bought fairly the kick out of that, and each time you got here up, she’d remind me of this story.
Right now, I’m writing you as a result of I’m in determined want of your helps as you’re the solely particular person that may save me. Whereas it could appear that I had the right life trajectory. it was ALL taken from me because of the incompetency of the Biden period administration. Similar to you, I fell sufferer to politically motivated Lawfare. I used to be focused by overzealous prosecutors, and a then a corrupt DOJ. I did completely nothing incorrect, but needed to lose my Naval profession, stop pursuing my Grasp’s diploma, deplete my life’s financial savings to go to federal trial, be pulled from my family members, and now have been held hostage in a Jersey federal jail for nearly three years. the worst half is, the quantity of turmoil and chaos this case created pushed my frail mom, Senga, to her demise, simply weeks after my arrest, She couldn’t deal with the stress and died of a damaged coronary heart.
Biden put stress on the ATF in early 2022, to “do one thing” about firearms in america. The target was to focus on so referred to as “ghost weapons,” nonetheless sure rogue ATF brokers went even additional than that, utterly violating the rights of regulation abiding gun house owners and Individuals.
As a passionate navy historical past fanatic, I used to be a collector of inert and non-functional weaponry and memorabilia. Props and replicas. Completely not one of the objects at situation in my case might even shoot a single spherical, nor had been they on the market, but I used to be smeared and made out to be some harmful weapons trafficker and handled like a home terrorist. All the pieces I owned remains to be legally obtainable within the open market to this present day.
A deranged ATF worker actually took toy duplicate weapons and “labeled” them as machine weapons. He testified at trial to his findings earlier than a liberal anti-gun choose who accepted his testimony and proceeded to provide me a TWENTY 12 months jail sentence. Twenty years for inert dummy weapons that weren’t utilized in any crimes. I used to be even attacked for being a conservative on this courtroom room, the prosecution ensuring the jury knew I used to be crew MAGA.
This was nothing wanting a weaponized company overreach. It was a political stunt to make it seem like Biden’s administration was undertaking “one thing,” and to assist the ATF justify their existence and wasteful budgets. I used to be used for instance.
None of this could have occurred in the event you had been President. I might have by no means even been arrested. My case could seem weird and unbelievable, however no one is aware of higher than you what it feels prefer to be unfairly focused. I used to be de-banked ripped from my profession, my household—my entire life destroyed over nothing. There have been no victims, nothing was stolen, no evil intent or nefarious agendas, no crime by any means, but right here I sit. perishing in jail.
My case has gained important media consideration because you got here again into workplace. There are tens of hundreds of Individuals rallying behind me—a lot of whom doubtless voted for you all THREE occasions you gained the election, which might be urging you to think about a Pardon for me. Even Senator Rick Scott of Florida has publicly commented that 1 ought to by no means have served a single day in jail. Moreover, Daniel C. O’Kelly, a senior ATF official has come ahead as a whistle blower, publicly exposing the truth that nothing I possessed qualifies as a firearm underneath federal regulation, additional supporting my declare that no crime has been dedicated. Mr. O’Kelly believes I felt sufferer to the stress on the ATF from the Biden administration, poorly educated ATF brokers that misclassified the objects in my case, and ignorant prosecutors that know nothing about firearms and simply took the ATF at their phrase.
Mr. President, I want you. 1 want you to intervene and assist resolve this miscarriage of justice and assist me get my life again. I need nothing greater than to return to service, pursue my objectives in turning into a Naval Officer and to serve underneath the best President that this nation has ever seen.
I’m greater than keen to offer your workers and authorized crew any proof, documentation, or professional testimony that may enable you to perceive the total scope of my case. I can simply show that nearly each declare in opposition to me is FAKE NEWS and utterly not in step with federal legal guidelines. I additionally invite you to go to my web site, www.FreedomForTate.org, to see the continued advocacy effort and protection on my case.
Mr. President, please give me a second likelihood at life. Let me get again to being the practical member of society I used to be, as a substitute of being within the draconian and damaged Federal Bureau of Prisons system, the place I’m shedding the perfect years of my life. You’re the solely particular person on earth that may save me from this unjust 20 12 months sentence I’m serving, and in addition maintain accountable the lunatics throughout the ATF and DOJ that maliciously put me right here. I hope that you’ll contemplate intervening. I can’t make you remorse your resolution.
Thanks on your time, consideration, and repair in preserving america the perfect nation on this planet.
Very respectfully,
Patrick Tate Adamiak
95252-509
FCI Fort Dix
P0 Field 2000
Joint Base MDL, NJ 08640
(Monitored by household)
E mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.FreedomForTate.org
Lee Williams, who’s also referred to as “The Gun Author,” is the chief editor of the Second Modification Basis’s Investigative Journalism Undertaking. Till just lately, he was additionally an editor for a every day newspaper in Florida. Earlier than turning into an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Earlier than turning into a journalist, he labored as a police officer. Earlier than turning into a cop, Lee served within the Military. He’s earned greater than a dozen nationwide journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
