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Inset top: President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with African leaders successful the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, successful Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Inset bottom: Alex Jones testifying successful Waterbury, Connecticut, connected Sept. 22, 2022 (Law&Crime). Background left: Patrick Byrne, the erstwhile main enforcement of Overstock.com and state of Trump, takes a interruption from being questioned by the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks, successful Washington, Friday, July 15, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). Background right: Hunter Biden leaves national court, Sept. 5, 2024, successful Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File).
As the yearslong ineligible conflict betwixt erstwhile statesmanlike lad Hunter Biden and onetime Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne limps toward a apt determinative – if not wholly last – proceeding aboriginal adjacent year, a caller filing aims to clarify matters for the justice overseeing the case.
On Friday, successful a 4-page supplement to his default motion, Biden accused Byrne of ongoing defamation.
In the filing, Biden writes "to pass the Court of caller nationalist statements" allegedly made by Byrne "repeating the aforesaid Defamatory Statements connected a wide distributed nationalist forum that are the ground of this lawsuit."
"The continued nationalist dissemination of these Defamatory Statements aft the Court stated successful its bid denying Defendant's summary judgement that Defendant did not person a ground for making the Defamatory Statements shows that Defendant volition proceed to defame Plaintiff unless helium is punished by the imposition of important punitive damages arsenic requested successful Plaintiff's Default Judgment Motion," the supplement reads.
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Byrne allegedly made the statements astatine contented during 2 December appearances connected an eponymous programme hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones – "The Alex Jones Show" – and 1 of Jones' affiliated InfoWars speech shows, "War Room LIVE."
The supplement takes banal of promotions for the online broadcasts.
From the filing, astatine length:
[A]n X relationship attributed to Alex Jones posted the afloat 14-minute clip of Defendant's interrogation with the caption: "Breaking Exclusive! Hunter Biden Solicited An 800 Million Dollar Bribe From Iran In Exchange For His Father Joe Biden To Unfreeze 8 Billion Dollars In Frozen Iranian Assets, CIA Whistleblower Patrick Byrne Tells Alex Jones In This Bombshell Report. To Bolster His Claim, Byrne Has Released One Of Many Exclusive Audio Tapes In His Possession.
Biden says the X, formerly Twitter, station by Jones including the afloat clip has been viewed implicit 121,000 times arsenic of the day of the filing.
"In the afloat clip posted by Alex Jones connected December 9, 2025, not lone does Defendant reiterate the aforesaid Defamatory Statements astatine contented successful this matter, but helium doubles-down connected them by taunting Plaintiff astir this suit and publically states helium harbors malice toward Plaintiff," the supplement reads.
In the underlying lawsuit, Biden claims Byrne defamed him during a June 2023 interrogation — and past again successful October 2023.
Biden says Byrne made mendacious claims that helium and his household solicited bribes from the Islamic Republic of Iran successful speech for the Joe Biden medication releasing billions of frozen Iranian funds and for adopting a pro-Iranian presumption during "nuclear talks."
Trial successful the lawsuit has been serially delayed.
After primitively being slated for December 2024, the proceedings was pushed backmost to this past summertime – connected a question to proceed filed by Byrne. Then, successful July, the proceedings was pushed backmost to October – aft a mendacious commencement wherever Byrne abruptly fired his lawyers and failed to person the justice to assistance different lawyer pro hac vice permission to correspond him instead.
Then, the assemblage proceedings was erstwhile again pushed backmost — this clip to January 2026. Around the aforesaid time, the tribunal entered a default against Byrne, fundamentally a formality required earlier Biden tin beryllium awarded a default judgment.
Now, Biden says Byrne is adjacent talking astir the litigation delays successful a mode that makes him, the plaintiff, look responsible.
"Defendant adjacent claims Plaintiff is frightened to look him successful Court astir these allegations contempt Plaintiff being acceptable to proceed to proceedings past July with Plaintiff contiguous each time successful the courtroom portion Defendant's misconduct successful delaying the trial, nonaccomplishment to look for trial, and past intentionally ignoring this Court's orders led to default being entered against him arsenic a sanction," the supplement goes on.
Biden goes connected to allege that Byrne violated a protective bid successful the lawsuit by playing a voicemail connected 1 of the broadcasts.
"Defendant has intentionally violated the Stipulated Protective Order," the supplement continues. "Defendant has again shown helium has nary volition of obeying the orders of this Court."
To perceive Biden archer it, Byrne indispensable beryllium punished owed to specified alleged repetition violations of the court's orders and decorum.
"This republication of the defamatory statements on with a HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL signaling years aft the defamatory statements were archetypal published and during the pendency of this substance demonstrates Defendant is simply a recidivist who volition proceed to maliciously onslaught Plaintiff with mendacious statements," the supplement goes on. "Nothing abbreviated of a harsh punitive damages grant volition beryllium effectual successful curbing Defendant's ongoing defamatory behaviour against Plaintiff and outright disregard for this Court's orders."
And, successful a footnote, Biden likens Byrne's alleged behaviour to that of President Donald Trump with respect to his repetition defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll – violations that person resulted successful tens of millions of dollars successful liability successful New York authorities courts.
Again, the filing, astatine length:
Considering that Defendant has continued to defame Plaintiff with the aforesaid mendacious statements astatine contented successful this case, this lawsuit is comparable to E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against President Donald Trump. In the archetypal case, Ms. Carroll was awarded $5 cardinal for defamation resulting from President Trump stating she lied astir being sexually assaulted by him. Following that judgment, President Trump made the aforesaid defamatory connection for which helium was antecedently recovered liable, and, astatine a 2nd trial, Ms. Carroll was awarded further damages, including $65 cardinal successful punitive damages alone, a 13x summation successful damages from the archetypal trial.
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