After Hunter Biden's defamation lawsuit against Overstock's former CEO failed to get off the ground at trial this summer in " three-ring circus " fashion, Biden has been left with no choice but to seek an arrest warrant that will secure Patrick Byrne's presence in court, according to a weekend filing from the plaintiff.
Biden's lawyer Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina state senator who represented convicted double-murderer Alex Murdaugh, in a Saturday motion urged U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Ronald Reagan appointee going back to 1985, to follow through on a prior arrest warrant threat. Harpootlian argued that Twitter posts about the court's prior orders have been ignored.
President Joe Biden's son filed the defamation lawsuit in late 2023, claiming that Byrne defamed