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Last edited Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:28 AM - Edit history (1)
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David Corn ✔ @DavidCornDC
This is what a police report said about the newest figure in the Ukraine scandal when the cops took him into custody at a Trump resort last year. And you have to read the whole story.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/new-figure-in-ukraine-scandal-was-taken-into-police-custody-at-trump-resort-last-year/
12:16 AM - Jan 15, 2020
On edit: Important point by Brad Moss:
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Bradley P. Moss ✔ @BradMossEsq
A few months later, he was in the luxury suites with Trump at the World Series.
David Corn ✔ @DavidCornDC
SCOOP: Robert F. Hyde, the new mystery player in the Ukraine scandal, was taken into police custody at a Trump resort last year, claiming the Secret Service & a hit man were after him. He was then involuntarily confined in a medical facility.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/new-figure-in-ukraine-scandal-was-taken-into-police-custody-at-trump-resort-last-year/
12:05 AM - Jan 15, 2020
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,110 posts)Of course that is likely by design.
Who is this Hyde figure, and where does he fit in?
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)(I didn't know either)
The 40-year-old Hyde is a curious figure. In recent years, he has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Trump and the Republicans, as he has tried to establish himself as a Washington, DC lobbyist and public affairs operator. The former owner of a landscaping company, he was arrested in 2011 after his firms work led to a tree falling on power lines, according to CT Insider. (He has said the charges were later dropped and he paid a fine.) His Facebook, Instagram, and website pages feature a parade of photos of him posing with Trump and other notable Republicans, including Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Jim Jordan, now-convicted felon Roger Stone, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. A financial disclosure form he filed as a congressional candidate notes that he did public relations work for a mysterious Trump donor from China (whom he once introduced Trump to at Mar-a-Lago). In November, he texted a reporter for CT Insider pictures of himself with Rudy Giuliani and two Giuliani associates who have been indicted, Lev Parnas, and Igor Fruman.
It is Hydes connection to Parnas that has landed him in the news, and a 2019 police report obtained by Mother Jones suggests that Hyde might have been a peculiar choice for Parnas to work with on his Giuliani-led Ukrainian op. The report notes that Hyde had a disturbing episode at a Trump resort for which he had to be taken into custody by police and brought to a medical facility under a state law that allows for involuntary confinement of people who might pose a risk to themselves.
More here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/new-figure-in-ukraine-scandal-was-taken-into-police-custody-at-trump-resort-last-year/
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,110 posts)2 nights ago was awake all night with my husband in the ER,
Was pretty sluggish yesterday and poof... the situation twists
And turns again.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Couldn't someone produce a dramatization in time for the general election to sell to Netflix and Amazon Prime for a nominal price. This is how they do it.
RDANGELO
(3,435 posts)Taking everything into consideration anything is possible.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)government.😳 I think it's highly possible he is telling the truth here.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)5X
(3,972 posts)dotard's properties are likely hubs of such activity.
Would be interesting to do a drug screen on the toilet water of air force one.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Whining about how people are out to get him. Also, hanging around with hit men.
Either way, it's a perfect fit.
malaise
(269,200 posts)game where the Con was booed - he is among the group.
Talk about Thugs of a feather!
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)one from the right angle. They have deleted several photos and videos since last night.
Sewa
(1,262 posts)Fall guy if shit went sideways.
gademocrat7
(10,674 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)abruptly returned to Washington on April 25th, because of fears for her safety.
her recall became public on May 7th
Hyde's removal from Doral was on May 16
She was terminated as Amb on May 20th
trump's call with Zelensky July 25th
My question is... were Hyde's fears justified because he did not complete the job he was hired to do?
Delmette2.0
(4,173 posts)I was just about to start looking up dates myself.
He should have been paranoid because he failed at his part of the task. He probably also remembered the poisoned Russians.
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)that happened march 4th 2018
Delmette2.0
(4,173 posts)crickets
(25,986 posts)mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)Parnas said he stopped the convo after this interchange. He regarded Hyde as a drunken loon. Which goes along with what I said in another OP. With his history, if the plot was exposed (whether carried out or not) he would make a good fall guy. Just another crazy "lone wolf" in trump's orbit.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)And that he knew too much and because he has a drug (alcohol) problem and loose end.
When I listened to the Parnas interview last night, I believed he was telling the truth - except for about Hyde. I think he was advised to not be tied to this guy by his lawyer. Not that that the truth wont come out under oath - and its possible Parnas wasnt ordering Hyde around (but Giuliani was or Igor Fruman) and Parnas best defense is that he didnt know the guy and he was a drunk.
But I saw Rachel Maddow talking with Lawrence O.Donnell in the handoff and he asked Rachel why Parnas is willing to talk to her and so openly and Rachel said: To stay alive - that the more is out there, he is likely to be safer and stay alive.
Michael Cohen knows that feeling
I also bet Parnas has Jeffrey Epstein on his mind under Barrs care.....
My head is exploding since last night....this situation is staggering. And didnt Barr just announce that no counter-intel investigations of a Presidential Campaign can be launched without his sign off?
OMFG
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)on 3/25 and 3/26 Hyde started talking about putting a hit on her. Parnas replied on 2/27 with let me call you in studio. What did they talk about on the phone?
I tend to believe him when he said he wanted no part of that "drug deal" If he was he would be complicit in the killing of a US ambassador. He would have been dead by either falling out a window, suicided while waiting trial or a death penalty. It was self preservation. I am going to speculate that he knew of talk like that floating around with others in this circle.
tetedur
(820 posts)Perhaps he spoke with someone at Doral about the situation in Ukraine with the ambassador. Maybe they realized how bad it would be if there were "emails" (proof) and pointed out to him how stupid it was to have that documented in emails. Maybe they did threatened his life. He panicked. Maybe he thought he would be safe if he made a scene and the cops were called.
Because you know these "big and bad" types are typically chicken down deep.
I wonder what he's doing today. Better be trying to find a good lawyer.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)are coming out of the woodwork. While, the pics with Princess Trump and those with tRump's spawn Dumb and Dumber are to be expected, I was surprised to see the pic of this douchebag with the ignored child "who shall not be named" (shhh...Tiffany...shhh). Geez, this guy really got around...kind of like he was following a dossier...hmm.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Sorry, folks
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)the Connecticut GOP condemned him for his grossly sexist comments about Kamala Harris dropping out of the race for president.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)They sure can pick em.