This Robert Hyde freak claimed he was simply drunk when he texted Parnas...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

...who he claimed to have barely known, and that he was just joking around.

Meanwhile, this stalking/possible assassination of Ambassador Yovanovitch narrative that he was telling Parnas about lasted for a total of eight days.

So his "defense" was that he was drunk for a period of eight straight days and spent that time texting someone he claimed was a stranger about stalking and physically harming a US Ambassador.

Link to tweet

HYDE for U.S. Congress? @rfhyde1 · 12h12 hours ago

How low can liddle Adam Bull Schiff go? I was never in Kiev. For them to take some texts my buddy’s 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. Schiff is a desperate turd playing with this Lev guy.

7:43 PM - 14 Jan 2020

Meanwhile, he's posed with the Madman on at least three different occasions:

[Wounded Bear]

1. I guess that's better than "I was following orders"...

[Maeve]

2. One helluva bender!

In vino veritas

[Mike 03]

3. For eight days?

[onecaliberal]

4. No no no. That simply will not fly.

[H2O Man]

5. Recommended.

Hyde is worried about his life expectancy.

[MineralMan]

6. Rightly so, perhaps.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Funny, funny, funny. Ha, ha, ha. It was just a joke. Can't people take a joke these days?

That seem to be their fall back defense about a lot of things.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. It's so sad, isn't it?

Remember when, "I was drunk," actually worked for white males?

[Wawannabe]

27. Worked for Kavanaugh very recent history!

This is all so insane!

[Baitball Blogger]

29. "It was the era"

I do believe that he benefited from the olden time view that frat boys were allowed great license due to the Animal House phenomenon. Not that it should have been an excuse. Now that we see them grow up and see the trail of recklessness follow them into the Supreme Court, I suspect those days are very over.

About Animal House and Tim Matheson, who played Otter. Much later he would play the role of a father in the movie, "She's All That." The son, Freddie Prince Jr. who played Zack was at the same age that Otter was in Animal House and he gets a reality check by his father, Matheson. I SWEAR THAT PATERNAL SPEECH WAS A THROW-BACK TO OTTER'S DAYS IN COLLEGE. IT WAS ALL ABOUT WASTED YOUTH.

I've tried to find a transcript but without success.

[fierywoman]

24. + 1000000

[RAB910]

8. Republicans are treasonous anti-American scumbags

What kind of person would vote for a leader that is this much of an asshole?

Schiff is a desperate turd

The GOP is destroying our nation with this low life treasonous people they are running for office

[padah513]

30. I think they were quoting Hyde's text

[SoCalNative]

9. Meanwhile

David Corn (@DavidCornDC) Tweeted:
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://t.co/7Rkx3dXlJG

Link to tweet

?s=20

[dewsgirl]

12. I actually think there may possibly be some truth in this,

but I doubt we will we know.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. Brace yourself for the manure truck headed your way, Biff.

[dewsgirl]

10. Who amongst us hasn't got drunk and plotted the assasination

of a US ambassador?🙄
Seriously, did not have assasination on my batshittery bingo card yesterday.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. I suppose after Khashoggi we should probably have had it on there. nt

[dewsgirl]

13. Indeed😳

[greenjar_01]

15. His WhatsApp texts are too specific for that

She had three visitors? Phone and computer off?

Nah. He may have been drunk when sending that information via text, but it's information coming from somewhere.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Who are Hyde's "guys" that he keeps referring to?

And how the hell did he become the point person for said guys?

[greenjar_01]

18. Good question

He's obviously thick as thieves with Rudy, Parnas, and Furman. Perhaps they delegated the dirty work to him.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. Furman; is this Mark Fuhrman of the O.J. Simpson trial?

[greenjar_01]

31. Wow. Typo correction

Thanks, Teach!

[Arkansas Granny]

32. I didn't know if it was the same man or not.

[NewJeffCT]

19. the WhatsApp messages

are also over a period of 7 days - was he drunkenly texting for 7 straight days?

[Bayard]

21. Definitely qualified for office as a rethuglican

Drunk and dangerous, crazy batshit tRump wannabee.

What's with the thumbs up anytime tRump has his picture taken with a MAGAT? Oh....nevermind.

[gratuitous]

22. Michael Deaver tried that defense

Michael Deaver was Reagan's chief of staff before leaving the White House to cash in on his connections. Newsweek had a cover story about him, smiling broadly from the back seat of a limo while holding up a mobile phone. The caption "Who is this man calling" was the headline for a soft-focus puff piece on a new power player in Washington.

It all fell apart for Deaver when he started throwing his weight around and treading on the toes of more established power players. He was eventually indicted for influence peddling, and initially brought his usual attorneys out to plead his case in the court of public opinion. Their first gambit was that Deaver was a black-out drunk and couldn't possibly be held accountable for calls he made whilst imbibing. I saw that excuse and I thought, "Oh boy, there's probably only about a million guys sitting in jails and prisons right now for crimes they committed while drunk or high. Let's see how this alibi works out for a Washington big shot." It didn't.

We'll see if the "I was drunk" defense has gotten any credible in the last 25 years.

[Catherine Vincent]

23. He has some nerve calling Schiff a turd.

[mr_lebowski]

26. I don't understand how that text equates to 'I was drunk'?

What am I not getting?

[Laxman]

28. In Vino Veritas...

if he wasn't drunk he would have been more careful about sending that message, not that it wasn't his intention.

[Midnight Writer]

33. More GOP projection. "Schiff is a desperate turd playing with this guy"?

Mr. Hyde, your own defense is that YOU were the one "playing with this guy". And you further claim there is nothing wrong with that.