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BumRushDaShow

(165,755 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 03:12 AM Dec 14

Hunter Biden accuses ex-Overstock CEO of repeatedly defaming him on 'The Alex Jones Show'

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 13th, 2025, 3:30 pm


As the yearslong legal battle between former presidential son Hunter Biden and onetime Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne limps toward a likely determinative – if not entirely final – hearing early next year, a recent filing aims to clarify matters for the judge overseeing the case.

On Friday, in a 4-page supplement to his default motion, Biden accused Byrne of ongoing defamation.

In the filing, Biden writes "to inform the Court of recent public statements" allegedly made by Byrne "repeating the same Defamatory Statements on a widely distributed public forum that are the basis of this lawsuit."

"The continued public dissemination of these Defamatory Statements after the Court stated in its order denying Defendant's summary judgment that Defendant did not have a basis for making the Defamatory Statements shows that Defendant will continue to defame Plaintiff unless he is punished by the imposition of significant punitive damages as requested in Plaintiff's Default Judgment Motion," the supplement reads.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/comparable-to-e-jean-carrolls-case-hunter-biden-accuses-ex-overstock-ceo-of-repeatedly-defaming-him-on-the-alex-jones-show-and-likens-him-to-president-donald-trump/



Full headline: 'Comparable to E. Jean Carroll's case': Hunter Biden accuses ex-Overstock CEO of repeatedly defaming him on 'The Alex Jones Show' and likens him to 'President Donald Trump'

Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26376513-biden-byrne-default-supplement/

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26376513/biden-byrne-default-supplement.pdf
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Hunter Biden accuses ex-Overstock CEO of repeatedly defaming him on 'The Alex Jones Show' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 14 OP
Sad that so many CEOs are such disappointing specimens of human beings. nt blue_jay Dec 14 #1
Yeah, but we are supposed to worship them. OldBaldy1701E Dec 14 #2
Many got there through pure luck and ruthlessness nuxvomica Dec 14 #5
luck, ruthlessness and daddy's money DBoon Dec 14 #8
Jack Welch myth Envirogal Dec 14 #11
Why is there STILL an Alex Jones Show!!! 70sEraVet Dec 14 #3
My first thought too. mdbl Dec 14 #10
That isn't how civil law & courts works. Jacson6 Dec 14 #12
Most CEOs profile as serial killers. Blue Full Moon Dec 14 #4
True! sunflowerseed Dec 14 #6
And yet we continue to allow this... blue_jay Dec 16 #13
In Bed With Russian Spy 2na fisherman Dec 14 #7
Hunter should sue Alex Jones COL Mustard Dec 14 #9

OldBaldy1701E

(10,188 posts)
2. Yeah, but we are supposed to worship them.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 07:07 AM
Dec 14

And, that programming seems to still hold, even with everything they have done to us in the past.

We don't seem particularly interested in changing it, so...

nuxvomica

(13,894 posts)
5. Many got there through pure luck and ruthlessness
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 07:44 AM
Dec 14

But they think they are brilliant or somehow anointed.

Envirogal

(279 posts)
11. Jack Welch myth
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 05:24 PM
Dec 14

I remember very well the slobbering worship at major media outlets especially business publications, made for that man. The only thing he did was cut jobs and that’s how he became profitable while decimating communities in his awake. He wasn’t innovative he didn’t support anything that grew the company, just cut, cut, cut. A monkey could do that, without the ego and god-complex.

70sEraVet

(5,227 posts)
3. Why is there STILL an Alex Jones Show!!!
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 07:25 AM
Dec 14

He should have been put out of business until he pays the $1.487 billion he owes to Sandy Hook families!!!

mdbl

(8,115 posts)
10. My first thought too.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 03:19 PM
Dec 14

WTF is he still doing on the radio? I thought he had to sell his assets.

Jacson6

(1,766 posts)
12. That isn't how civil law & courts works.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 05:41 PM
Dec 14

The jackass still has the protection of the first amendment. Just sayin...

blue_jay

(184 posts)
13. And yet we continue to allow this...
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:26 PM
Dec 16

maybe there should be a psych screen to rule out psychopathic, sociopathic, anti-social or serial killer tendencies before anyone can hold positions of power?

2na fisherman

(237 posts)
7. In Bed With Russian Spy
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:24 PM
Dec 14

Byrne had to resign from Overstock when his relationship with Maria Butina, became known. She was convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in 2018. All this in addition to accounting irregularities which took place during his time as the former Overstock CEO. So even though he is well educated, his judgement and motivations ought to be questioned. If he continues to smear Hunter Biden, he should remember that old saying, "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." And he had made sexist remarks in his campaign against a female reporter who had criticized him. He made a crude reference to her giving "b---- jobs" so he is known to pursue those on his enemies list with a vengeance.
Hunter Biden ought to receive treble damages in this case.

COL Mustard

(7,994 posts)
9. Hunter should sue Alex Jones
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:59 PM
Dec 14

For approximately $842 Trillion dollars. Make him pay until he has nothing left to pay, then live under a bridge like the troll that he is.

Alex Jones is a despicable excuse for a human being and deserves all approbation.

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