Continuing his legal offensive against the freelance MAGA conspiracy freaks constantly harassing him with insane bullshit, Hunter Biden on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against QAnon-pilled former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne for a series of tweets falsely linking Hunter to Iran and blaming him for the horrific October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks on southern Israel.
“Plaintiff brings this action for defamation against Byrne because he has made, published, and repeated false and defamatory statements about Plaintiff, knowing full well that the statements are false, for the purpose of subjecting Plaintiff to harassment, intimidation, and harm. On or about June 27, 2023, Byrne published false statements that Plaintiff ‘was reaching out to the Iranian government in the fall of 2021’ and offering to have Plaintiff’s father, President Joe Biden, ‘unfreeze’ $8 billion in Iranian funds ‘in return for $800 million being funneled into a numbered account for us.’ Byrne further stated falsely that Plaintiff urged the Iranian government that, ‘if you do this deal with us, it will lubricate other negotiations which have recently started between us.’ According to Byrne, ‘by that, the Iranians believed that Hunter meant the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] talks, which had restarted in Geneva a month or two previously.’ These statements are completely false, and Byrne knew them to be false at the time he made them,” wrote Hunter’s lawyers in the complaint.
Continued: “To make matters much worse, on or about October 8, 2023, shortly after news broke of the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel that resulted in the slaughter of more than 1,400 civilians, Byrne reposted the false and defamatory statements about Plaintiff’s allegedly corrupt and treasonous dealings with Iran on X (formerly known and hereinafter referred to as Twitter), apparently so that his hundreds of thousands of social media followers and others would be reminded of the false statements Byrne initially had published in June. The clear implication of Byrne’s October 8, 2023 posts was that Plaintiff’s allegedly criminal and corrupt actions had contributed to the terrorist attacks by Hamas, that Plaintiff’s purported crimes had led to the deaths of more than 1,400 innocent civilians, and, more broadly, that Plaintiff was a substantial factor in causing the recent outbreak of violence, war, and tragic death in the Middle East.”