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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHopes Dashed After Trump Mega Fan Announces Mask Hoard
*these Magats just disgust me(TalkingPointsMemo) Remember Robert Hyde? He was the Connecticut contractor, congressional candidate and Trump mega-fan who somehow found his way into the Trump/Ukraine scandal. He was the go updating Lev Parnas on the team he purported had surveilling US Ambassador Maria Yovanovich in Kyiv, Ukraine. Seems like a lifetime ago, right?
Well, hes back. And hes sitting on a stockpile of n95 masks. Or so he claims. This morning we saw this tweet in which Hyde announced he has ten million N95 and KN95 masks available for delivery, apparently through Finley Hyde & Associates, LLC the lobbying firm he established to provide access to Trump world power-brokers.
In other tweets, Hyde aggressively defended his efforts to put PPE into the hands of front line medical workers:
Im connecting product to our loved ones on the frontlines that are in dire need. What are you doing beside opening your cock holster on social media? You want to to donate them? Great, make calls, but (sic) them and donate. In the meantime Ill be saving lives by getting masks that nobody can get from countries that will sell to other countries before ours. Youre welcome. Stay home. Stay safe and healthy. Good luck.
Lets get masks to our frontline loved ones. Do you have some awesome contacts I can have? I can get as many masks as your hospitals, police, fire, essential workers states and companies need. Please email me at robhyde@finleyhyde.com pic.twitter.com/9mMocFBEeS
HYDE for U.S. Congress (@rfhyde1) April 1, 2020
Anyway, we wanted to find out how Hyde had managed to get hold of this amount of product when states, hospitals and the federal government are bending every sinew of power to acquire them.
When Josh Kovensky contacted Hyde to ask how he got the masks and how much he was selling them for the story changed. Hyde said he doesnt actually have any masks but seems to be trying to set up as a middleman. We dont have them. Sourcing agents contacted us and weve been paying them up with hospitals etc and then I help locate to get into our country to help save lives of our loved ones on the front lines.
When Kovensky pointed out that this seemed to contradict his public claims, Hyde responded negatively: Whats it contradict? That we sourced them to America and frontline loved ones. Are you on crack? Go help people. They are dying.
So unfortunately it appears that Hyde does not have ten or twenty million masks and likely has no masks.
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Hopes Dashed After Trump Mega Fan Announces Mask Hoard (Original Post)
FM123
Apr 2020
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)1. It's an honest mistake. I
myself have trouble differentiating between 0 and 10,000,000.....
gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)3. When your masks are virtual it really is hard to tell.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)2. He's a fool and a drunk
Let him fade back into obscurity.
DemoTex
(25,393 posts)4. Liquor talk ..
Again.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)5. People can say anything on the internet.
They can be all manner of professional this, that or others.
Its so rarely true.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)11. Wait...you mean this stuff I read onlne is untrue?
...asked this 5'9", 120 lb., 22-year-old blond.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)12. Lol!
Well, some things are true.
Like the fact that I circumnavigated the globe in my kayak.
rockfordfile
(8,701 posts)6. Can a patriot just drop him off in the middle of the ocean
Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)7. So, in fact:
HE was the one doing nothing but opening HIS cock holster on social media. Surprise!
dweller
(23,628 posts)8. check his txts
bound to be some btwn Ukraine mobsters, Ghouliani setting up the deal ...
fuckers 😡
✌🏼
panader0
(25,816 posts)9. People trying to make a buck on this pandemic
are scum beneath scum. Fuck Hyde.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)10. Seems like he was setting up shop to do a scam job on someone
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)13. Republicans really are walking pieces of shit
This arsehole is still running for Congress? For God's sake, Connecticut, humiliate the fucker. Don't even think about giving him a single vote in the primary.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)14. Jig was up when he said 'can ship next week'...clearly he didn't have jack shit. nt