Three years ago I sued @PatrickByrne for lying about me. He claimed that I took a bribe and committed treason. He implied I was in some part responsible for the Hamas attack of October 7th.
His lies caused real damage and endangered my family.
On Friday I was awarded $1.7M in punitive damages by a Reagan-appointed federal judge. The court determined that everything he said about me was a complete fiction.
For those of you who don’t know Patrick Byrne, he is the former Overstock CEO who lost control of his company when it became public he was sleeping with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina. He is the man who was in the Oval Office with Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell leading up to the January 6th insurrection.
He is a clownish footnote in history. But his lies travel far and wide. He is a fraud who did the bidding of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.
This isn’t the first defamation case brought against Byrne, and it won’t be the last. Even after losing, he is still doing it.
He continues to tell his audience he has “three dynamite voicemails” and a former federal agent whose testimony confirms his story. Byrne had three years to bring that evidence to court. He never produced it. The voicemails he did produce, the court found, “do not mention a bribe, implicate contemporaneous involvement in any illegal scheme by Plaintiff, or otherwise independently corroborate Defendant’s story.” The former federal agent Byrne relied on, John Moynihan, gave sworn testimony that contradicted him. The FBI agent Byrne claimed had backed him up denied it under oath.
Those are not my findings. Those are the findings of a federal court. And nothing prevents Byrne from releasing the voicemails he keeps promising his audience. He never has, because the court has already listened to what he produced and found they prove nothing.
Patrick will try not pay this judgment. He didn’t pay the $34,969 the court ordered six months ago either. His strategy is delay. Fire the lawyer. Skip the hearing. File nonsense with courts that have already ruled. Repeat the lie on Alex Jones while the clock runs.
He is not a whistleblower or a spy. He is a man who got played by a Russian intelligence asset, lost his company over it, and has been performing a spy fantasy on the internet ever since.
He is a coward who wouldn’t even show up in court to face me. He is hiding in Dubai, where he fled during my case to avoid being deposed, and told the court a story about a Venezuelan hit squad to explain it.
He will run from this judgment the same way he ran from my trial. Fine. Every defamatory statement is a new lawsuit. I have as much time as he has words.
I see the "Fuck Your Feelings" crowd is out policing civility this morning.
Remember when Lindsay blasted Trump for mocking Robert Mueller's death? Or Colin Powell's? Or John McCain's?
Odd...me either.
I am grateful that the rule of law prevailed in my defamation case against Patrick Byrne.
The court’s order which you can read for yourselves speaks for itself.
“the most plausible explanation is that Defendant is not credible, fabricates awesome and farfetched narratives to garner attention in the media, and fabricated the defamatory story at issue in this case to damage Plaintiff’s reputation.” (Page 14 of the order.)
Moron?? Are you projecting or are you trying to be ironic? You’re such a clueless, numb nuts, you’re incapable of drafting an articulate rebuttal supported by facts. Let me demonstrate:
It’s not a coincidence that 95 out of the 100 poorest counties are in @GOP “governed,” race to the bottom, shit hole, welfare states. The irony is that taxpayers in Democrat governed states subsidize the social welfare programs that @GOP “governed,” states desperately rely on. Those @GOP “governed,” states would fall apart if they weren’t sucking on the tit of the federal government. Which is beyond the pale of hypocrisy. MAGA supporters are in desperate need of an ECON101 lesson, then again so do Republican politicians who only care about the financial interests of their wealthy benefactors. Ask a MAGA supporter why they support @realDonaldTrump & they’re incapable of explaining why they support demented DJT because they don’t support DJT because his policies will help them & their communities. MAGA supporters are only motivated by the politics of hate & fear. They don't measure DJT’s success by what he does for them, they measure by what he does against people they don't like. That's why they see him as being "successful."
Working class MAGA supporters are so moronic that they choose race over class to their economic detriment. Which explains why the poorest counties voted predominantly for @realDonaldTrump & the @GOP. Just like they did in 2016. When will the electorate in those poorest counties realize that it isn’t minorities, immigrants, non-Christians, Liberals, the media, the Deep State etc. that are responsible for their miserable lots in life, it’s the Republicans they elect & the @GOP’s failed economic policies. Trickledown economics has destroyed America’s middle class & has continued to exacerbate America’s atrocious income inequality compared to other western liberal democracies. Keep voting Republican & the only thing that will change is that todays America’s millionaires will be come tomorrows billionaires & that todays America’s working class will become tomorrows working poor.
Are you aware that presidential historians have ranked @realDonaldTrump as the worst president in US history?
Obama is ranked the 7th best & Biden is ranked the 14th best. That must really sting demented DJT’s fragile ego. Ironically Andrew Johnson is the 2nd worst president because of his impeachment; he allowed former Confederate states to quickly return to power & passed racist Jim Crow laws; and he consistently vetoed civil rights laws. Johnson has a lot in common with DJT but unequivocally DJT is far worse than Johnson!
So why do you support DJT?
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Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.
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The Federalist papers were written under an alias in part because three authors wanted to present a single point of view (and because one of them was a Virginian, which is a whole other issue).
Pretty sure the Declaration signed 250 years ago today was not signed by Alan Smithee
@BuzzPatterson@BillClinton Oh lord. You were a cargo pilot. Stop fucking acting like you were outside of the wire w/ TF Ranger. Stolen valor mother fucker.