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

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.

Asked about his previously undisclosed involvement in Ukraine, Hyde texted The Daily Beast an insult about House Intel chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), writing "Bull Schiff is a giant b*tch."

"Did Pelosi get drunk and lose the impeachment articles?" he added. "Looks like Schiff wants to whistle blow me."

Hyde seemed to acknowledge authoring the messages in a Facebook post, but claimed they were just meant as jokes meant to fool Parnas, who he called a "dweeb."

"How low can liddle Adam Bull Schiff go?" Hyde wrote. "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. Have fun with your witch-hunt liddle Schiff."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/w...ked-marie-yovanovitch



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