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Patrick Michael Byrne (born November 29, 1962) is an American businessman. In 1999, Byrne launched Overstock.com after leading two smaller companies. Byrne led Overstock as chief executive officer for two decades, from 1999 to 2019. In 2002, Byrne took Overstock public. Early in his tenure he attracted public attention for a long-running legal battle against short sellers and "naked short selling." He eventually resigned as CEO in August 2019, following revelations that he had been in an intimate relationship with Russian spy, and future politician with Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, Maria Butina.
Byrne then emerged as a leading figure in promoting conspiracy theories, including the "Deep State" conspiracy theory. In 2020 and 2021, he repeatedly promoted unevidenced claims that Donald Trump had won the 2020 U.S. presidential election due to voter fraud. He has also toured the United States in order to provide anti-vaccination stump speeches for COVID-19 conspiracy theorists. He became notable for distributing and selling misinformation on various subject matters via websites, social media, books, and film.
He has also been noted for his conservative views on public education.
Unhinged meeting
Dec. 18, 2020 "unhinged" meeting:
The Outsiders:
Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne
Byrne resigned as CEO of overstock. in August 2019, following revelations that he had been in an intimate relationship with Russian spy Maria Butina (nonfiction).
Commentary
#Jan6 #conspirators
American business failure Patrick Byrne (former lover of GOP-penetrating honeypot Russian spy Maria Butina) was at the "unhinged" secret White house meeting (Dec. 18, 2020), along with 5th-Amendment-pleader Michael Flynn and attorney-nutjob Sidney Powell.
In the News
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External links
- Inside the 'unhinged' West Wing meeting on Dec. 18 @ NPR
- Patrick Byrne, the pro-Trump former Overstock CEO admits funneling cash to his ex-lover Maria Butina, the glamorous spy expected to be elected to Russia's parliament @ Business Insider
- Maria Butina and Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne Were ‘Romantically Involved’: Lawyer @ Daily Beast
Social media
- Post @ Twitter (30 December 2023)