He says the Trump ally falsely linked him to Iran and the Hamas attacks in Israel.
Share on email The lawsuit states that Byrne falsely claimed in a June article that he had contacted Tehran offering to have his father,, "'unfreeze $8 billion in Iranian funds" in return for $800 million "being funneled" into a bank account.
"To make matters much worse," the lawsuit alleges, Byrne reposted those "false and defamatory statements" linking Hunter Biden to Iran on X around Oct. 8, with the "clear implication" being that the president's son had "contributed to the terrorist attacks by Hamas" that led to the deaths of more than 1,400 innocent civilians.
"These defamatory statements by Byrne are not merely false and not merely malicious — they are completely outrageous," per the lawsuit, filed in a Los Angeles federal court. "Byrne knows his statements are baseless and yet published and republished them anyway, and he continues to propagate his lies to anyone who will listen, including his hundreds of thousands of social media followers.
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