Patrick M. Byrne, then chairman and ceo ofOverstock com, represents an image at an Overstock storage facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Thursday, April 29, 2010.
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A previous Trump administration assistant and a leader with a pro-Trump Christian group are assisting Patrick Byrne, the multimillionaire Overstock creator and ex-CEO, run a not-for-profit that has actually pressed incorrect election conspiracy claims, according to a filing evaluated by CNBC.
The group, called the America Project, is led in part by Emily Newman, who worked as a consultant in then-President Donald Trump’s administration, according to the file. The disclosure report was submitted this month in Delaware, according to Florida’s department of corporations site. The America Project has a mailing address in Sarasota, Fla.
Rob Weaver, who has a management function with the Jericho March, a pro-Trump Christian union, is noted on the type as the group’s primary monetary officer.
Byrne has actually formerly stated he pumped $1 million into the group. The not-for-profit company isn’t lawfully needed to divulge its donors.
The America Project spent over $3 million moneying an election audit in Arizona that wound up proving Joe Biden beat Trump in MaricopaCounty Its site likewise notes 3 videos that declare there were significant abnormalities in the 2020 election. Federal and state authorities have actually stated there was no prevalent citizen scams in the last election.
Byrne isn’t the only rich entrepreneur making incorrect, pro-Trump declares about the election being rigged. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell informed CNBC that he has actually invested $25 million pursuing his own election crusade.
The discovery about the America Project’s management comes as a House choose committee examines the fatal Capitol Hill riot onJan 6 and Trump allies’ functions in arranging the occasions that preceded the insurrection. Lawmakers that day were voting to validate Biden’s Electoral College triumph overTrump Trump himself has actually continued to press lies about the election.
Newman was White House intermediary to the Department of Health and Human Services in Trump’s administration, and later on ended up being a chief of personnel to the then-head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, MichaelPack She later on dealt with Trump legal consultant Sidney Powell and other legal representatives on a stopped working election claim in Michigan that challenged the lead to that state. Biden won Michigan.
Byrne and Newman were amongst a group of Trump followers who met the then-president last December at the White House to persuade him to utilize his governmental powers to attempt to continue to battle the outcomes of the election, according to reporting byAxios Powell was likewise supposedly at the White House conference.
Weaver was an organizer of the Jericho March’s rally in Washington, D.C., last December, according to a license submitted to the U.S. Department of theInterior The authorization states the occasion was suggested to consist of a “prayer and worship demonstration, consisting of a peaceful protest, prayer and fasting, in support of election integrity, transparency and reform.”
Michael Flynn, a previous nationwide security consultant to Trump who was pardoned by the previous leader in chief, was an included speaker at the Jericho March occasion.
Flynn is included in a video promoting The AmericaProject One of his siblings, Joseph Flynn, can be seen in numerous videos on the group’s Rumble account. Michael Flynn was amongst a group of Trump allies who were subpoenaed by the House choose committee examining the fatal riot on Capitol Hill that occurred onJan 6.
Byrne, who was likewise long time CEO of online furnishings merchant Overstock, has a projected net worth of about $75 million, according to information put together by Celebrity NetWorth Earlier this year, he self-published a book called “The Deep Rig: How Election Fraud Cost Donald J. Trump the White House, By a Man Who Did Not Vote for Him.” Byrne informed the New Tang Dynasty network previously this year that he had actually contributed a minimum of $1 million to the America Project.
In that interview, in which he revealed the group’s starting, Byrne stated the 2020 election was a “fraudulent election,” a claim numerous federal government authorities on both sides of the aisle have actually stated is not real. Former Trump Attorney General William Barr, for example, has actually stated that there was no prevalent election scams throughout the 2020 governmental election.
During that interview with NTD, Byrne did not call individuals who were working for the group, however explained them as “killers” and “savvy operators who I’m working with to continue the fight.” He went on to state that “we have very smart, shrewd insiders, who are making the moves that you want made.”
While the Arizona audit the group aid fund had actually discovered a couple of ballot disparities within Maricopa County throughout the 2020 election, the leaders of the county stated that it likewise showed that Biden won there, which is Arizona’s biggest county.
Representatives for The America Project did not return an ask for remark.
