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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:37 AM Jan 2020

Details on Hyde's meltdown at Doral - this guy is clearly in need of help

Last edited Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:28 AM - Edit history (1)



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:



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
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Details on Hyde's meltdown at Doral - this guy is clearly in need of help (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
I can no longer keep track PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2020 #1
Here's a little explanation from the Mother Jones article: Mike 03 Jan 2020 #14
Thanks PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2020 #23
With what we have now exboyfil Jan 2020 #2
Either this guy is nuts, or he was mixed up with some bad people. RDANGELO Jan 2020 #3
Yep, and those bad people are running the upper levels of our dewsgirl Jan 2020 #8
Those two possibilities are not mutually exclusive ToxMarz Jan 2020 #18
Or both. TNNurse Jan 2020 #19
paranoia is a symptom of using methamphetamine 5X Jan 2020 #4
Seems like he fits right in with dRump and his crowd. Mc Mike Jan 2020 #5
There is video of Kevin McCarthy, Hyde and others at the playoff baseball malaise Jan 2020 #6
I've been checking out videos from the game, I can't seem to find dewsgirl Jan 2020 #9
Looks like he would make a good patsy Sewa Jan 2020 #7
The trump cabal is full of soulless miscreants. gademocrat7 Jan 2020 #10
I think he was drunk, but that's just a likely explanation. :p NCLefty Jan 2020 #11
Amb Marie Yovanovitch mercuryblues Jan 2020 #12
Thank you. Delmette2.0 Jan 2020 #20
Ooooh. I'm gonna go google when that happened. mercuryblues Jan 2020 #21
Keep us updated on what you find. Delmette2.0 Jan 2020 #22
Interesting timeline & good question. Thanks for that. nt crickets Jan 2020 #24
After Maddow's interview last night mercuryblues Jan 2020 #25
+100000000 Pachamama Jan 2020 #26
I got the same feeling about Parnas and Hyde mercuryblues Jan 2020 #27
Just because you're paranoid does not mean they are not trying to get you. tetedur Jan 2020 #13
Photos of this guy with pretty much every major Rethug out there PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #15
I'm too gaslit to understand superpatriotman Jan 2020 #16
A little over a month ago NewJeffCT Jan 2020 #17
And Republicans want this clown as a candidate. C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #28

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,110 posts)
1. I can no longer keep track
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:41 AM
Jan 2020

Of course that is likely by design.

Who is this Hyde figure, and where does he fit in?

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
14. Here's a little explanation from the Mother Jones article:
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:33 AM
Jan 2020

(I didn't know either)

On Tuesday evening, the House Intelligence Committee released a new batch of documents relating to the Ukraine scandal, and the material introduced a new player: Robert F. Hyde, a minor Republican lobbyist and avid Donald Trump supporter who is mounting an against the-odds congressional campaign in Connecticut.

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 firm’s 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 Hyde’s 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)
23. Thanks
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 07:43 PM
Jan 2020

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)
2. With what we have now
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:43 AM
Jan 2020

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)
3. Either this guy is nuts, or he was mixed up with some bad people.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:46 AM
Jan 2020

Taking everything into consideration anything is possible.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
8. Yep, and those bad people are running the upper levels of our
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 07:39 AM
Jan 2020

government.😳 I think it's highly possible he is telling the truth here.

5X

(3,972 posts)
4. paranoia is a symptom of using methamphetamine
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:51 AM
Jan 2020

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)
5. Seems like he fits right in with dRump and his crowd.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:57 AM
Jan 2020

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)
6. There is video of Kevin McCarthy, Hyde and others at the playoff baseball
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 06:58 AM
Jan 2020

game where the Con was booed - he is among the group.

Talk about Thugs of a feather!

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
9. I've been checking out videos from the game, I can't seem to find
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 07:48 AM
Jan 2020

one from the right angle. They have deleted several photos and videos since last night.

mercuryblues

(14,547 posts)
12. Amb Marie Yovanovitch
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:13 AM
Jan 2020

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)
20. Thank you.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 10:12 AM
Jan 2020

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)
25. After Maddow's interview last night
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 09:35 AM
Jan 2020

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)
26. +100000000
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 09:54 AM
Jan 2020

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 won’t come out under oath - and it’s possible Parnas wasn’t ordering Hyde around (but Giuliani was or Igor Fruman) and Parnas best defense is that he didn’t 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 Barr’s care.....



My head is exploding since last night....this situation is staggering. And didn’t Barr just announce that no counter-intel investigations of a Presidential Campaign can be launched without his sign off?

OMFG

mercuryblues

(14,547 posts)
27. I got the same feeling about Parnas and Hyde
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 10:59 AM
Jan 2020

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)
13. Just because you're paranoid does not mean they are not trying to get you.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:22 AM
Jan 2020

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)
15. Photos of this guy with pretty much every major Rethug out there
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 08:57 AM
Jan 2020

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.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
17. A little over a month ago
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 09:25 AM
Jan 2020

the Connecticut GOP condemned him for his grossly sexist comments about Kamala Harris dropping out of the race for president.

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