‘I’m a little landscaper from f—ing Connecticut’: GOP candidate denies he spied on US ambassador

Published January 16, 2020 3:38am ET



A Republican candidate for Congress is denying that he spied on a U.S. ambassador after he claimed to be doing so in texts made public Tuesday.

The House Intelligence Committee released pages of messages between GOP candidate Robert Hyde and Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, on Tuesday. Parnas gave the messages to the House as part of its impeachment investigation into President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

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