{"id":76088,"date":"2026-07-14T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/hunter-biden-says-rule-of-law-prevailed-in-defamation-lawsuit-netting-him-1-7m\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:55:50","slug":"hunter-biden-says-rule-of-law-prevailed-in-defamation-lawsuit-netting-him-1-7m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/hunter-biden-says-rule-of-law-prevailed-in-defamation-lawsuit-netting-him-1-7m\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden says \u2018rule of law prevailed\u2019 in defamation lawsuit netting him $1.7m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden sued ex-CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne over claim that Biden sought bribe from Iran government in 2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> says he is \u201cgrateful that the rule of law prevailed\u201d in a defamation lawsuit that recently netted him a judgment of $1.7m in punitive damages from former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made that comment in a social media post that served as his first comments about the judgment, which a federal judge in California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/11\/hunter-biden-defamation-suit\">handed down<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/14\/hunter-biden-defamation-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden sued ex-CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne over claim that Biden sought bribe from Iran government in 2021 Hunter Biden says he is \u201cgrateful that the rule of law prevailed\u201d in a defamation lawsuit that recently netted him a judgment of $1.7m in punitive damages from former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. Biden made that comment &#8230; <a title=\"Hunter Biden says \u2018rule of law prevailed\u2019 in defamation lawsuit netting him $1.7m\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/hunter-biden-says-rule-of-law-prevailed-in-defamation-lawsuit-netting-him-1-7m\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hunter Biden says \u2018rule of law prevailed\u2019 in defamation lawsuit netting him $1.7m\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}