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[lucky, mydog]

lol. that's worth revisiting. or not.

https://www.ccn.com/overstock-patrick-byrne-russia-maria-butina-fbi/

[alchemytrader]

If they present their evidence and overturn the election then what will you say?

I think you should then take a long look in the mirror.

If you can then still say you support the corrupt democrat party you have truly lost your soul.

That goes for you and everyone here.

[DrContango]

PATRICK BYRNE BACK IN THE NEWS!

Trump assembles a ragtag crew of conspiracy-minded allies in flailing bid to reverse election loss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-assembles-a-ragtag-crew-of-conspiracy-minded-allies-in-flailing-bid-to-reverse-election-loss/2020/12/21/d7674cd2-43b2-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html

While Powell, Flynn and Giuliani were well-known advisers to Trump even before the election, Byrne has emerged as a relatively new character in the president’s orbit. He has filled a void left after longtime aides including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, campaign manager Bill Stepien and his deputy, Justin Clark, have largely disappeared from the scene.

Byrne wasted no time sparring with Trump’s remaining advisers.?He has taken to social media to taunt the other officials present for Friday’s meeting, accusing Cipollone of being a “leaker” and saying the president is surrounded by “mendacious mediocrities” who want him to lose — including his chief lawyer and his chief of staff.?

As the founder and chief executive of Overstock, Byrne was known as an eccentric but often prophetic financial forecaster. For years, he maintained a blog called Deep Capture, in which he spun wild conspiracy tales, claiming he was a target of international Russian mobsters because of his exposure of short-selling stock schemes on Wall Street.

He resigned from the retailer in August 2019, after revealing that he had engaged in a multiyear romantic relationship with Maria Butina, the Russian graduate student who pleaded guilty in April 2019 to conspiring to act as a Russian agent and trying to build inroads on behalf of the Kremlin with prominent Republican politicians and conservative organizations, including the National Rifle Association.?

Butina served five months in federal prison and was deported to Russia in October 2019.?Byrne has said he came to believe Butina was merely an inquisitive student and has alleged that the charges against her were part of a “deep state” plot to hurt Trump. The allegations, which he initially put forward on Overstock letterhead, led the company’s stock to plummet last year and, ultimately, to his ouster as CEO.?

In interviews with conservative media personalities in recent weeks, Byrne has promoted the same conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that have been backed by Powell. He has claimed that he is working with hackers who have shown that enormous security lapses allowed votes to be manipulated in key counties, stealing the presidency from Trump.?

“This is a soft coup, make no mistake,” he told conservative radio personality Glenn Beck earlier this month.?Byrne, who did not respond to interview requests, says he has spent millions of dollars on probing the election out of concern for the nation. He describes himself as a libertarian who did not vote for Trump.?

But speaking at a pro-Trump rally in Washington earlier this month, he called the election a “psyop” by hostile foreign states, including China and Iran.

On Sunday, Byrne turned his ire toward Trump’s aides. The president, he wrote on Twitter, was being “terribly served” by officials in the White House — a comment endorsed Monday by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.?Trump, Byrne said, “is standing up to his waist in snakes,” adding that he should trust only Giuliani and Powell.


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