Ex CEO of Overstocked dotcom. was in the news a year or so ago, reporting he’d been asked by the FBI to rekindle a friendship with some Russian chick. The jist of that revelation was that the FBI is a pack of liars.
I doubt Byrne is a nutjob, and I see nothing that makes me doubt his truthfulness.
I do not think Bryne is a nut.
He is just very smart and can connect the dots a lot easier than most people.
Like Trump, he is decisive to act on the data he assimilates much faster than a lot of people. They think ahead and consider consequences to their course of action but not what others will think. They are confident and not politicians.