Patrick Byrne set up Hillary Clinton in a bribe.
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Ask Dr. DrewOct 21, 2026
The extracted claim faithfully matches the passage, where Byrne says he was asked to set up Clinton in a bribe and 'successfully did.' The sources show only that Byrne made this assertion repeatedly, and the New Yorker describes it as made 'without offering any proof' and as part of claims that were 'exaggerated, false, or unproven.' No source examines this.
What was said
… So I have a very broad line. I've always had. I'm out of all this now, but I always had a very broad attitude and sort of took assignments that were outside the conventional. So there was a Russian woman named Maria Butina that I had a relationship with. In addition, I was asked to set up Hillary Clinton in a bribe, which I successfully did. So it turned out there was a faction in government, since Thanksgiving 2015, that was running. We set up the Russian collusion hoax, and we set up Hillary Clinton. Whoever won in 2016 was to be under the thumb of Barack Obama or my handlers. …
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Contradicts. The New Yorker reports that Byrne's claims were 'nearly all exaggerated, false, or unproven,' and that his account of an FBI-arranged bribe came without any proof. This is a general dismissal rather than a specific finding on this allegation.[1]
Context. The claimant's own statements are the basis for the bribe assertion; the post itself is the claimant's account and cannot corroborate it.[2][3][4]
Context. Multiple outlets report that Byrne has claimed, including in interviews, that he bribed Clinton on behalf of the FBI, and that he said he brought up the claim as a joke or conspiracy at a White House meeting. These confirm that the claim was made, not that it is true.[2][5][6]
Context. The Dominion complaint describes Byrne's other claims as false, but it concerns different allegations about Dominion and does not address the Clinton bribe.[7]
Sources
7 sources: 7 not rated
- 1A Tycoon's Deep-State Conspiracy Divenewyorker.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 2Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Reportedly Claims He Bribed ...mediaite.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com, claims he was involved in a bribe for Hillary Clintonyoutube.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Download - Danger Close with Patrick Byrne Part 2 - Podbeanpodbean.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne describes bluffing his way into ...sltrib.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Founder of Conservative Colorado Think Tank Shared Election Conspiracy Video With John Eastman After Jan. 6coloradotimesrecorder.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 71courthousenews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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- Patrick Byrne is a defendant in a $1.7 billion defamation case brought by Dominion.True