Meet the Trump Donor Who Allegedly Stalked America's Ambassador in Ukraine

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-robert-f-hyde-the-trump-donor-who-apparently-tracked-marie-yovanovitch



He was a longshot candidate with a penchant for the obscene. Now he’s at the center of the impeachment drama.

Will Sommer
Betsy Swan
Political Reporter
Updated Jan. 14, 2020 8:12PM ET / Published Jan. 14, 2020 8:05PM ET

Before Tuesday, he was best known as a little-known, scandal-scarred Republican congressional candidate who tweeted an obscene joke at Kamala Harris. But new documents from the House Intelligence Committee have put a completely different kind of spotlight on Robert F. Hyde, the Trump donor who appears to have tracked U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s movements in Ukraine.

In WhatsApp messages exchanged in March 2019 with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who provided the committee with the files, Hyde and Parnas discussed Yovanovitch’s location. Hyde, a retired Marine, appeared to have associates in Ukraine monitoring her.

“They know she’s a political puppet,” Hyde wrote to Parnas. “They will let me know when she’s on the move… They are willing to help if you/we would like a price.”

“Guess you can do anything in Ukraine with money… what I was told,” Hyde wrote in another message. Parnas responded: “LOL.”

Parnas attorney Joseph A. Bondy confirmed to The Daily Beast that the Hyde in the text messages is the same person as the Republican congressional candidate.

</snip>

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He seems nice.

[dewsgirl]

2. This evening has been...

[applegrove]

3. Can i go back and change my jury decision of 10 minutes ago. I thought it

was kooky content.

[riversedge]

4. "He can't even afford $100 a week in child support but he's golfing with Trump," Morin said, accordi

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-robert-f-hyde-the-trump-donor-who-apparently-tracked-marie-yovanovitch

...................Leading Connecticut Republicans called on Hyde to drop out of the race, but he declined. In the aftermath of that controversy, the Connecticut GOP refunded contributions Hyde had made to the party.

"I appreciate you putting this out there publicly too," Hyde shot back on Twitter. "It's almost my birthday so double win. #thanks."

Hyde has made $56,000 in political contributions since 2016, according to the Hartford Courant, with much of it going to the Republican National Committee. But as of November, Hyde owed more than $2,000 in child support to Jennyfer Morin, the mother of his son.

"He can't even afford $100 a week in child support but he's golfing with Trump," Morin said, according to the Courant.

As news of Hyde’s involvement in the Ukraine scandal broke Tuesday, he was tweeting about his child support and claiming that he wasn’t a “deadbeat.” Hyde later deleted the tweets.

[dalton99a]

5. Low life scum of the same feather

[canetoad]

6. They didn't even bother

To seperate them at birth.

[Duppers]

8. 😂

[rickford66]

7. Every sleazebag has a photo with Trump

[Duppers]

9. The "best people"