Maria Butina sidled up to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne as part of a Russian "honeypot" scheme. Rather than admit it, Byrne went on a rant about the deep state. Now he's out of the company he founded, resigning his position on the board and also as chief executive. It all begins with Maria Butina and Byrne's tendency toward paranoid right-wing behavior, as NBC reporter Ben Collins reports above. Byrne was involved with Butina from 2015 to 2018, on and off in what is widely understood to be a Russian "honey pot" operation involving several Americans.