Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Says FBI Tapped Him In 2016 Election Sting Operation

Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne explains a shocking story of how he was brought in by the FBI to facilitate a blackmail scheme on then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“They told me Hillary Clinton had accepted a bribe from Turkey for $20 million. They told me I would be working for a group in New York, FBI agents who had authorization to set Hillary Clinton up in a sting. They asked me to facilitate a bribe for her,” he continued, adding that soon-to-be retired Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Special Counsel John Durham were aware of this operation.

Byrne then claimed that days after Clinton received the bribe in early 2016, the FBI told him to “forget the whole thing” because she was poised to win the presidency and retaliate against the bureau.

“I said, ‘what are you talking about?’ And they gave me this excuse; they said, ‘Hillary’s gonna win, and it’s been decided upstairs, nothing is going to be able to stop that now. So she’s going to win, and she’s going to send her people over to the FBI and ask who was part of investigating Hillary and any of us who were a part of it are going to be destroyed. And that includes you too, Patrick. And so this mission has been scrubbed from the highest level.’”

Byrne implied that this precipitated the Russia collusion hoax and eventual what became known as the Crossfire Hurricane plot to overthrow President Trump.