Ex-Overstock CEO Says He's Put Together an 'Army of Various Odd People' to Save Trump

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http://Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne claims he's funding an army of hackers who can save the election for Trump

Ex-Overstock CEO Says He’s Put Together an ‘Army of Various Odd People’ to Save Trump
After resigning in 2019 following claims that he’d romanced a Russian agent, Patrick Byrne is back and he says he’s funding a team of “hackers and cybersleuths” to rescue Trump.
thedailybeast.com
10:05 AM · Nov 28, 2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-overstock-ceo-says-hes-put-together-an-army-of-various-odd-people-to-save-trump

Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne left behind a cloud of confusion when he resigned in 2019 from the internet retailer he’d founded after panicking investors with his bizarre claims that he had romanced a Russian agent at the behest of “Men in Black” working for the United States government.

Now he’s back, with what he has described as his own personal “army,” touting what he claims is proof that Democrats stole the election from Donald Trump.

“I’ve funded a team of hackers and cybersleuths, other people with odd skills,” Byrne said in a Tuesday interview at One America News, where OAN personality Chanel Rion praised Byrne as the head of an “elite shadow cyber security team.”

As Trump’s chances of securing a second term dwindle down to nothing, Byrne has launched a media tour to promote his mysterious hacker team, appearing from an “undisclosed location” on OAN, Newsmax, and a series of far-fringe YouTube shows associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. On Friday, a guest host on the popular Rush Limbaugh talk radio show praised Byrne’s allegations about voter fraud and proposed inviting Byrne on the show.

With Trump allies on his legal team and in conservative media scrambling for any evidence that Trump didn’t legitimately lose the presidential race, Byrne has become a hero to the MAGA crowd, despite his history of making off-the-wall allegations.

Byrne claims he’s funding teams of “hackers and crackers” who realized all the way back in August that Dominion voting machines could be used to steal the election from Trump. Since the election, those voting machines have figured prominently in Trump supporters’ allegations of fraud, despite the company’s repeated denials and any actual proof the voting tallies were changed.

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[Newest Reality]

1. Ah, an opportunist! The roaches crawl out of the walls.

[OhZone]

2. I know he's ex-

but this just makes me want to avoid overstock.com

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Thanks for the heads up, Patrick!

DOJ will open a case shortly on your attempt to create sedition.

[ornotna]

4. These wealthy unpatriotic kooks are disgusting

They have no boundaries and are willing to do anything to keep their grip on power.

[rainin]

5. We should seize this moment to remove all voting machines and go full paper ballot.

This is our moment to be free of these machines once and for all. They'll cry foul and say "NOOO NOOO we only meant the DOMINION machines, not ES&S, those are trustworthy!" Republicans are doing our work for us. Let's be smart and take advantage of this one.

[orwell]

10. The Dominion machines...

...print out the ballot after you fill it out so they leave a paper trail.

You can check your ballot to make sure that the machine recorded it properly and that ballot is then handed to an election worker in case the vote needs to be audited.

That is why the Cons hate them. They are auditable.

[rainin]

15. Good to know. I don't like them because the ballot has a bar code that some states

can rely on for the count. I'm not given the opportunity to confirm that the bar code matches my selections.

[scarytomcat]

24. YES this maybe the chance to get unhackable fair systems

the repubLICS won't like this

[orwell]

6. I haven't shopped at OverStock for over a decade...

...since this asshole sent me a note responding to my email about him openly supporting Bush II by buying thousands of copies of his book to hand out to the troops.

I'll never forget his response...

"Let a thousand flowers bloom..."

Fuck him and his thousand flowers. You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Another nut...trump attracts all of the idiots, like a piece of rotten meat attracting flies...

And this guy's claim, I have a team of hackers and crackers who prove that hacking occurred and vote tallies changed? Just how in the world (when the manufacturer themselves said that vote tallies couldn't be changed) will this idiot prove (1) that someone broke into what? a database of some sort or each individual voting machine to hack the votes? (2) who in the world is going to let an unknown group of hackers, supposedly SMEs at hacking etc. (yeah, right), go back, track millions of communications pathways, track 10s of thousands of voting machines used across the entire country and determine that fraud happened, blah blah blah?

Byrne is an idiot and doesn't know what in the hell he's talking about...I've been around in IT and the data network world dealing w/ thousands of point of sale devices, and this is not as easy as he seems to make it out to be. All he's doing is trying to take advantage of these idiots and make a fast buck. That's it.

[jpak]

8. Koo koo

Yup

[BainsBane]

9. This is like the fool who gave Trump 2.5 million to uncover "fraud."

Only this doubtless costs more and the other guy finally got the sense to figure out he'd been conned.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. Dude, just admitted he is going to attack a corporation, smear their product.

Fool admits to a criminal conspiracy.

So far Dominion just seems to be taking it.

[CatMor]

12. How did all the unhinged people get that way ..

Byrne was intelligent enough to start a successful business yet ends up totally crazy. Is it all for attention. How could anyone believe all that nonsense.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. lock him up!

[RockRaven]

14. "Army of Various Odd People" sounds like the book Doris Kearns Goodwin would write about Trump

and his administration.

She could sell it as a set with "Team of Rivals"

[Blue Owl]

16. I think they already tried that...

If Rudy isn't a various odd person, then I don't know who is...

[pandr32]

17. Crossing Overstock off my list

[Sapient Donkey]

26. He was forced out over a year ago and no longer has any ties to the company

Although, I always found overstock.com the exact opposite of what it claimed to be. I think I used a couple times back in the early 2000's and that's it. I didn't even know the place still existed until recently.

[louis-t]

18. They're 'odd' all right.

[LiberalFighter]

19. So he is publicly admitting that he will be committing a crime. Very stupid.

[mnmoderatedem]

20. "Odd" people defending trump

are there any other type??

[Midnight Writer]

21. Money is wasted on the rich.

[Thekaspervote]

22. "Election chances dwindle down to nothing?" Dotard is done...toast..period

[jmg257]

23. This ass stated last Sunday he would release his evidence

The next day.

Another grifter liar.

[Sapient Donkey]

25. I wonder how many Trump-cultists would vote for this guy if he ran for president in 2024

[JHB]

27. Less "hackers & crackers" and more "shoutycrackers"