More on Robert Hyde

The Intercept obtained police records showing that Hyde violated a restraining order issued by a Washington, D.C., Superior Court judge at the request of a Republican consultant who says that Hyde stalked her and intimidated her family over the last year. In one of the reports, an officer disclosed that Connecticut police confiscated Hyde’s firearms in connection to his violation of the restraining order. Hyde was reported to authorities for “unsettling behavior” and trespassing at a church in Connecticut, according to a separate police report last summer.

Asked for comment, Hyde texted The Intercept, “Bull Schiff is still crying?! Lol. Tell him to go whistleblow himself.” He did not respond to other allegations against him.

Hyde’s other acquaintances noted that he has a history of erratic behavior. Jeffrey Peterson, a technology entrepreneur, said Hyde came to meet with him recently, then disappeared, only to resurface months later. Hyde, Peterson said, “has been trying to reestablish contact with me ever since, not really comfortable with him.”

Hyde publicized that he was placed in a psychiatric facility in Florida last May, following an incident at the Trump National Doral Miami resort. A report written by the Doral Police Department at the time notes that Hyde expressed fear for his life and told officers that he “was scared due to several painting workers and landscape working trying to do harm to him because they weren’t working.”

[...]

Shortly after his release, in a now-deleted Facebook post, Hyde wondered if Dan Coats, Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, “effed with me in DC a month ago” and “probably initiated my disappearance for awhile.”

Last year, Hyde began a campaign for Congress, seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn. The former owner of a landscaping company, Hyde describes himself as a “U.S. Marine Corps Iraqi Freedom war veteran” and “an ardent support of our duly elected president, President Trump” on his campaign website.

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He also owes more than $2,000 in child support payments, according to the Hartford Courant, despite donating thousands of dollars to Trump and the Republican National Committee.

Hyde’s tone toward women has also sparked a minor scandal in his political campaign. In December, after Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., suspended her presidential bid, Hyde tweeted that Harris was “brought to her knees,” followed by the message: “Must be a hard one to swallow. #KamalaHarris #heelsup.” The inflammatory message was swiftly condemned by both parties. The Connecticut Republican Party returned Hyde’s donation of $750 in response to his “vile comments on Twitter.”

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WhatsApp messages between Hyde and Parnas reveal a new dimension to the continued focus of Giuliani’s focus on Yovanovitch. “She under heavy protection outside Kiev,” Hyde wrote to Parnas last March. In another batch of messages, Hyde claimed, “That address I sent you checks out. It’s next to the embassy.” Other Hyde messages conveyed an eerie level of knowledge about Yovanovitch’s activities: “She’s talked to three people. Her phone is off. Computer is off. She’s next to the embassy. Not in the embassy. Private security. Been there since Thursday.”

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Hyde also sent several cryptic messages that implied he knew of “security forces” in Ukraine who could be tapped for assistance. “They are willing to help if we/you would like a price. Guess you can do anything in Ukraine with money …” Parnas responded, “Lol.”

Whether Hyde truly had special access to Yovanovitch remains unclear. The WhatsApp messages were sent last March as the Giuliani-backed campaign to force Ukraine to investigate the Bidens escalated. In April, Trump ordered Yovanovitch to be recalled to Washington, and she was terminated from her post in early May. In November, during the impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch testified that she had been advised by the State Department that she faced threats to her security last year.

Hyde’s various social media profiles are filled with pictures of him with the president, Eric Trump, Corey Lewandowski, Roger Stone, Sarah Sanders, and a variety of Republican lawmakers. On multiple occasions, his photo has been snapped at federal government offices and at Trump-owned properties in New Jersey, Florida, and Washington, D.C. As CNN reported, Hyde “posed for a selfie with Trump on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, the same day Trump first called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.”

  The Intercept

Hyde, Giuliani & Parnas

Trump's Three Stooges

Pompeo will investigate a scheme he was in on

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday broke nearly 72 hours of silence over alleged surveillance and threats to the former United States ambassador to Ukraine, saying he believed the allegations would prove to be wrong but that he had an obligation to evaluate and investigate the matter.

  alJazeera

What do you think his verdict will be?

"We will do everything we need to do to evaluate whether there was something that took place there," he said in a radio interview with Tony Katz, an Indianapolis-based broadcaster.

I'd say the Ukrainian investigation will provide a more reliable account, but for the fact that Levensky still hasn't gotten a meeting or assurance of US support from Trump.

Mr. Hyde has been busy

He's just not very bright.  Blends right in with the Trump cabal.

UPDATE 1/18:

More and more yet to come - part 2

Democrats have released three sets of Parnas documents this week.

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The new documents include screenshots of undated text messages that appear to show Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate in Connecticut, messaging with a foreign number from Belgium, which appear to describe efforts to surveil Yovanovitch. Hyde appeared to share the screenshots with Parnas, which is how they wound up on his phone that he turned over to House investigators.

The Belgian country-code number sends Hyde a screenshot of an official photo of Yovanovitch. The Belgium number, whose identity is not known, writes "My contacts are checking," adding, "I will give you the address next week."

Hyde replied, "Awesome."

In another series of texts, the Belgian number tells Hyde at 2:05 p.m., "Nothing has changed she is still not moving they check today again," shortly adding, "It's confirmed we have a person inside."

"She had visitors," the Belgian number texted in another exchange.

  CNN

Yeah, just like Hyde claims, that all certainly sounds like him just goofing around with a "buddy".

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

The new documents

UPDATE:

The Belgian connection: Athony de Caluwe  - Track & Trace New IT Tech Company.

More and more yet to come

A set of text messages released Friday evening by the Intelligence Committee show a top Nunes aide, Derek Harvey, in frequent contact with Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani who has become a key figure in the Ukraine controversy that resulted in Trump’s impeachment last month. In one exchange, Harvey appears to pass along Nunes’ contact information two days before the Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report indicated that a phone connected to Nunes made contact with a phone connected to Parnas.

The text messages, provided to investigators by Parnas, show Harvey in contact with Parnas throughout the spring of 2019 — the same time Parnas was working with Giuliani and other Trump allies to remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.

[...]

The newly released text messages show Harvey asking Parnas to pursue several lines of inquiry with his Ukrainian contacts, including one regarding what Harvey calls “rumors” about coordination between the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Harvey asked a few days later whether Parnas was preparing to send documents or if he would “keep working through [John] Solomon,” a reference to a former columnist at The Hill who was working closely with Parnas and Giuliani on the effort.

Over the next few weeks, the pair attempted to arrange Skype interviews between Republican staff of the Intelligence Committee and senior officials in Ukraine, including former prosecutors Viktor Shokin and Yuri Lutsenko, who had been working to oust Yovanovitch and had offered up allegations of dirt on Biden.

[...]

It appears that at least one of the interviews ultimately occurred but Harvey then asked on April 19 to hold off on “any more interviews” until there were official letters exchanged and documents available.

The new text messages add another layer to Nunes’ potential involvement in the Giuliani-led effort to oust Yovanovitch and push the Ukrainian government to announce an investigation targeting Biden. Nunes' office did not respond to a request for comment.

  Politico

I'm really ready for that smug scumbag to go down.

In an interview on MSNBC earlier this week, Parnas said both Nunes and Harvey were “involved in getting this stuff on Biden,” adding that Nunes was trying to “help out.”

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House impeachment investigators first revealed late last year that Nunes exchanged a handful of phone calls with Parnas and Giuliani. Investigators obtained the call records from telecommunications company AT&T, and Republican lawmakers objected to the decision to publish identifying information about a sitting member of Congress, accusing House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff of abusing his authority to smear his political opponents.

Schiff has maintained that Nunes was not subpoenaed and that the information was lawfully obtained from AT&T. He has defended the decision to release the call records as part of his committee’s final report on the impeachment inquiry, citing Parnas’ and Giuliani’s relevance to the investigation.

Schiff has declined to directly address Nunes’ possible involvement, but he suggested at a press conference in December that Nunes was “complicit” in what Democrats have described as Trump’s impeachable conduct.

So when will Nunes try to tell us he had no idea what his top aid was doing?

UPDATE:

Nunes admitted Wednesday to speaking on the phone with Parnas, who has become a key figure in the Ukraine scandal, after previously saying such a conversation would have been "very unlikely."

  CNN

We knew when he said it that he was trying to avoid outright lying. He must have figured receipts might be coming.

Parnas told Harvey in an April text message that he would be interviewing "the general prosecutor that got fired by Biden," who is Viktor Shokin. Parnas also references Ukraine's then-prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko. Both prosecutors also spoke to Giuliani in his effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens.

"Let's do our call at 12 and we can do the first prosecutor at 1 your time?" Parnas texts Harvey on April 17, 2019.

"Okay," Harvey responds.

Two days later, Harvey texts Parnas: "Lev. I think we are best served by sending the official letter and receiving documentation before any more interviews."

The new documents

Gaze upon your overlords MAGAverse

Where the hell are they?  The Social Security office?  The airport lounge?

UPDATE:

If Robert Hyde makes it to Congress, stock your basement and hunker down, because there truly will be no hope for this country.

Does he have no one who could hold the camera?

At least he only has two s's in Congress this time.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Rudy in doodoo

Ha.  Either even Trump himself doesn't want Rudy as his impeachment mouthpiece, or Jay Sekulow has threatened to quit if he puts Rudy on the team.

It's okay.  I think we can answer that question for you.

Front row, left to right:  Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani, Robert Hyde

Speaking of Jay Sekulow...

In an interview that aired Thursday night, Parnas, an associate of Giuliani, said Sekulow was "in the loop" but "didn't want to be involved in the Ukraine stuff." He said he heard Sekulow and Giuliani talk about the matter, and Sekulow "didn't agree with what Rudy was doing, but he knew what he was doing."

  The Week

Does this mean Sekulow "is unable to appear?"

More about Mr. Hyde

[Former Marine Robert Hyde, a House candidate in Connecticut and donor to President Donald Trump, and] Republican activist who bragged about surveilling a U.S. ambassador in explosive text messages released by the House on Tuesday night has a history of erratic behavior and outlandish statements.

  Politico

They left out: associate of Rudy Giuliani, et al.

Photos show he has repeatedly rubbed shoulders with Trump as well as members of the president’s inner circle, including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.

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Jeffrey Peterson, a pro-Trump businessman, said Hyde traveled to meet him last year in Toronto, where Peterson is based. Over lunch at the building formerly branded as Trump Tower Toronto, Hyde pitched Peterson on services to help him grow his following on social media, where he has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s.

[...]

After the meeting, Peterson said, Hyde "disappeared off the face of the world for two months." Then Peterson said he received a message from Hyde saying that he was in Venezuela hunting down corruption. Hyde also sent Peterson invoices for consulting work that was never performed, which Peterson ignored, he said.

One Republican operative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Hyde described himself as the son of a billionaire but that his family story kept changing, leading the operative to conclude that Hyde was unreliable.

Last May, police took Hyde into protective custody at Trump’s Doral resort in Miami, according to a police report obtained by Mother Jones. The police report states that Hyde was claiming to be the target of a hit man and of surveillance by the Secret Service.

Around the time he was detained by police, Hyde was posting a bizarre, rambling message on social media and sending it by text message to acquaintances. The statement begins, “If something was to happen to me, connect the dots.”

It refers to his meeting with Peterson as well as a visit to the White House bowling alley, then proceeds to make a series of perplexing statements about several political operatives, Pence, members of Pence’s family, Venezuela and the CIA.

Hyde has also posted a photo of himself and Pence on LinkedIn with a caption, “There’s just something’s [sic] you wished you never donated to or met,” according to a screenshot provided by one of the recipients of Hyde’s rambling message.

A spokeswoman for Pence did not respond to a request for comment.

One person mentioned in Hyde’s rambling message sent POLITICO a restraining order they had been granted against Hyde by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which found Hyde had committed stalking. The person said they had a brief business association with Hyde but had broken it off over erratic behavior and that Hyde lied on his congressional financial disclosure by describing himself as the president of their firm, a position the person claims Hyde never held.

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In a Facebook post Tuesday night, Hyde suggested that his claims of surveilling Yovanovitch were not serious. “I was never in Kiev,” he wrote. “For them to take some texts my buddy’s [sic] and I wrote back to some dweeb we were playing with that we met a few times while we had a few drinks is definitely laughable.”

I'm going to guess that it would be a fairly simple thing to find out if he was in Kiev. But even if he wasn't, that doesn't mean he wasn't involved or that the threats to Marie Yovanovitch were not real. The fact that he's nuts doesn't make it any less so.

The outgoing voicemail message on his campaign phone number describes the line as belonging to “Senator Hyde,” and his campaign’s Twitter account features a header photo that spells “Congresss” with three s’s.

Lordy, look at Mafia-don-wannabe-Matt Gaetz' shoes!

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Unlike Lev Parnas, Hyde would like to continue his favorable status with the Trump cabal:

"Let Lev Speak"

Donald Trump “knew exactly what was going on” in a scheme to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden, according to an associate of the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Lev Parnas, a businessman and GOP donor who was indicted for campaign finance violations, made the explosive allegations during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night.

When Parnas was in Ukraine, attempting to pressure Ukrainian officials to help dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, he was doing so on behalf of the president and Giuliani, he said, speaking with his lawyer at his side.

[...]

Parnas also said other members of the Trump administration knew about the Ukraine pressure campaign. William Barr, the attorney general, “was basically on the team”, Parnas said. And the former national security adviser John Bolton, who recently indicated he would testify in the Senate impeachment trial if he was subpoenaed, also “100%” knew about the scheme, Parnas said.

  Guardian

Get Barr on the witness stand.

On behalf of Giuliani, Parnas said he told a Ukrainian official that unless the administration announced an intention to investigate the Bidens, Mike Pence would not attend the Zelenskiy’s inauguration. The next day, “to my awareness”, said Parnas, Trump called to inform Ukrainian officials that Pence would cancel his trip to Ukraine.

Ooooh. Hadn't heard that one.

Trump has insisted that he didn’t know Parnas and Igor Fruman, another Giuliani associate, who was indicted along with Parnas for making illegal campaign donations. Photos posted by Parnas to Facebook show himself and Fruman with Trump and president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr.

“It’s possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody,” Trump said.

But the president “lied”, Parnas told Maddow. “Me and him didn’t watch football games together, we didn’t eat hot dogs. But he knew exactly who I was.”

Parnas also said he was with Giuliani when he was on the phone with the president. At times, Giuliani took the calls on speakerphone. Other times, the president was speaking so loudly that Parnas could overhear the dialogue even when the speaker function was turned off, he explained to Maddow.

We've heard that about Trump phone calls before.

Newly released text messages between Parnas and the Trump donor Robert Hyde also imply that Marie Yovanovitch, a widely respected US ambassador to Kyiv whom Trump ordered removed from her post in April, was being surveilled. In the messages, Hyde hinted he could arrange for Yovanovitch to be removed, for a price. In light of these revelations, former diplomats and congressional Democrats have asked for an investigation into whether Yovanovitch was indeed being monitored.

Parnas said he didn’t believe Hyde was being serious, or that the ambassador was ever in actual danger. Parnas had met Hyde at the Trump hotel in Washington: “He was a regular, at the bar,” he said, describing Hyde as a “weird individual”.

Wierder than Rudy??

 As a matter of fact, look in the mirror, Lev.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

"President Trump knew exactly what was going on," said Parnas, a Soviet-born Florida businessman facing number criminal charges related to campaign finance violations.

"He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the president."

[...]

Giuliani called Parnas's statement "sad".

"I feel sorry for him," Giuliani said in a text to a reporter from The Associated Press. "I thought he was an honourable man. I was wrong."

Asked directly if Parnas was lying, Trump's lawyer replied, "I'm not responding yet."

[...]

Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said on Wednesday that Parnas's claims were "100 percent false".

  alJazeera

UPDATE:

Parnas unleashed a slew of new accusations against the president, including that he, as a representative of Trump, gave Ukrainian officials a “very harsh message” that the U.S. would cut off all aid to the country if it did not announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.

“The message was it wasn’t just military aid. It was all aid,” he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “Basically, the relationship would be sour. We would stop giving them any kind of aid.”

  The Hill

It keeps getting worse: Trump's personal mafia

Well, for starters...

I can't even excerpt this article.  You need to read it all.  Parnas and Giuliani and a character named Hyde were tracking Marie Yovanovitch.  And more.

Sarah Kendzior is right: it's an international crime syndicate masquerading as a government.

And may be why Yovanovitch was told to get on the next plane out.

Yes, and all those who knew and were involved shoud be arrested as well.  That includes Mike Pompeo and Devin Nunes.

Yeah, and Trump said she was "going to go through some things," while she was testifying, too.

And there's this:

Excerpts from Schiff's letter:

In January of 2019, Mr. Parnas and Mr. Giuliani exchanged text messages about securing a visa for former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. When Mr. Parnas advised that the United States had denied Mr. Shokin’s visa, Mr. Giuliani responded “I can revive it.”  Mr. Giuliani later revealed, “It’s going to work I have no 1 in it.” He also gave Jay Sekulow, President Trump’s personal attorney, Mr. Parnas’ phone number.

"No. 1."  I believe that's the way Mueller referred to Trump as well in his reports  - Individual 1.

Mr. Parnas communicated extensively by phone and messaging applications with Mr. Giuliani about matters relevant to the House impeachment inquiry.

[...]

In March 2019, Mr. Parnas communicated by text message with Robert F. Hyde about former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. In response to some articles, tweets, and videos accusing the Ambassador of being disloyal to President Trump, Mr. Hyde wrote “Wow. Can’t believe Trumo [sic] hasn’t fired this bitch. I’ll get right in that.” Mr. Hyde then sent a series of text messages suggesting that he had Ambassador Yovanovitch under physical surveillance in Kyiv and that “They are willing to help if we/you would like a price.” 

Letter from Schiff to Nadler

Docs uploaded on House website

No wonder they are so desperate to keep documentation away from the House Committees and to  keep people from testifying.

But this Hyde character...Holy Shit.

He thinks he's going to be a congressman???  Read on.

On Tuesday, after the Intelligence Committee documents containing his name became public, Hyde tweeted: "I just can’t wait for my attorney. He’s probably going to be pissed I put this out there before he wrote a statement. But most reporters are scumbags. Here’s what I paid last year in child support. Not anything else, not lawyers, not motions in court, not anything but child support. I couldn’t standby any longer when that very fat nasty girl Erica L and my kids mom calls me a ‘deadbeat’. Pretty sure the L stands for losers in both names."

  Hartford Courant

If he had an attorney, I'm sure he was indeed pissed.

In May, Hyde was removed by police from Trump National Doral Miami in Florida. According to an incident report filed by the Doral police department, Hyde told the responding officer that he was in fear for his life and “a hit man was out to get him.”

Hyde gave police with a variety of names and contacts to provide information about why he felt his life was in danger.

He was not arrested. Police escorted him from the hotel and transported him to an undisclosed location. In the vehicle, Hyde said his computer had been hacked by the Secret Service and that the Secret Service was watching him at the premises, according to the incident report.

[...]

Hyde has yet to report raising any money for his congressional run.

Well this isn't going to help.

I don't know.  Perhaps because Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort are already in jail.

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

Jesus H Christ.