Ex-Overstock CEO who had ‘trysts’ with Maria Butina and attended heated Trump Oval Office meeting in 2020 now faces Hunter Biden defamation suit

Patrick Byrne, Hunter Biden

Left: Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive of Overstock.com and an ally of former President Donald Trump, takes a break from being questioned by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks, in Washington, Friday, July 15, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). Right: FILE – Hunter Biden departs from federal court June 11, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum).

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has asked a federal judge to grant summary judgment “in its entirety” tossing out Hunter Biden’s defamation lawsuit or to at least rule President Joe Biden’s son is a public figure who cannot show that claims of “treasonous crimes” involving his father, bribery, Iran, and “nuclear talks” were made with “actual malice.”

The filing dropped Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, where Biden has alleged that Byrne in a 2023 Capitol Times Magazine “interview” falsely accused him of soliciting millions in bribes from Iran so, as his lawsuit put it, his “family” would release to Iran “billions of dollars in frozen funds and ensuring that the United States would ‘go easy’ on Iran during ‘nuclear talks’ between the two countries.”

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