LindellTV host Emerald Robinson claims Patrick Byrne “got called in to the White House”

Byrne had attended a notorious December 2020 meeting where election deniers urged Trump to seize voting machines

Written by Alex Kaplan

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LindellTV host Emerald Robinson said on her January 8 show that election conspiracy theorist Patrick Byrne was supposed to appear on the program but instead “got called in to the White House.” Stefanie Lambert, who has represented Byrne in past litigation and apparently appeared on the show in his stead, also claimed Byrne was at the White House.

Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock, played a major role in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election; in December 2020, he was part of a group of election deniers at a White House meeting where the group reportedly urged Trump to seize voting machines. (Earlier this month, Trump said that he regretted not seizing the voting machines.) In the following years, Byrne would help to fund election denial efforts.

This month’s alleged White House visit came shortly after the Trump administration directed the military to intervene in Venezuela and capture its president, Nicolás Maduro, whom Byrne and other right-wing media figures have tried to connect to election voter fraud claims; a Trump U.S. attorney is reportedly investigating. Byrne has previously claimed that he hacked the Venezuelan government and once told Robinson of a possible incursion in Venezuela that “there’s never been as necessary a war since the Civil War.”

On January 8, Lambert — a Michigan attorney who has been charged with involvement in a “scheme to access voting tabulators following the 2020 election” and who has represented Byrne in litigation — appeared on The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, seemingly joining the show in place of Byrne. 

Lambert said during her appearance that Byrne was at that moment “at the White House.” Robinson — a Byrne ally who has pushed election-related conspiracy theories including that Smartmatic software was used to “fix elections in Venezuela” for Hugo Chávez — added that Byrne “got called in to the White House today,” noting that he was invited shortly after he appeared in “our segment here on The Absolute Truth related to Delaware County, Pennsylvania.” During that segment, Byrne discussed supposed fraud in that county in 2020.

From the January 8, 2026, edition of LindellTV's The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, streamed on Rumble

EMERALD ROBINSON (HOST) And I know people were expecting to see Patrick Byrne, Stefanie, but —

STEFANIE LAMBERT (ATTORNEY): Oh, I didn’t know that. He’s in an important meeting right now.

ROBINSON: Patrick —

LAMBERT: He’s in a very important meeting.

ROBINSON: Can we say where? Can we say where?

LAMBERT: Well, I think we can. He’s at the White House.

ROBINSON: Yeah. Patrick Byrne got called in to the White House today, almost immediately after our segment here on The Absolute Truth related to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. So, hopefully he will share what details he can when he’s back with us.