Parnas says Giuliani told Ukrainian officials that Parnas was a representative of Trump and was acting on his behalf. Parnas says he would call Giuliani, put him on speakerphone, and Giuliani would confirm as Trump’s personal lawyer that Parnas was representing Trump.
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Wow—Parnas says Giuliani instructed him to tell Zelensky’s top aide before Zelensky’s inauguration that the “relationships would be soured, that we would stop giving them any kind of aid” if they did not announce Biden probe. Next day Pence canceled his trip to the inauguration.
Parnas says Robert Hyde “is a weird character” who he met at the Trump Hotel where “he was a regular at the bar.”
Parnas says Hyde was “either drunk or trying to make himself bigger than he was” when he sent texts about surveilling Yovanovitch. “When he sent me those I got disturbed, so I called my contact at the SuperPAC America First and he told me, ‘stay away from him.’”
Parnas says he’s “never seen him [Hyde] not drunk.”
