Posted on 04/11/2018 5:04:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Gov. Eric Greitens' one-time mistress told lawmakers that Greitens, in some of their encounters, slapped her, shoved her and touched her without her consent.
The disclosure came in a House Special Investigative Committee's report, released Wednesday by five Republicans and two Democrats who said they found the woman a credible witness. They also interviewed two confidants of the woman and her ex-husband.
Following the release of the report, House Speaker Todd Richardson said a special session would be called to consider impeachment of the governor. In a press conference, state Democrats called on Greitens to resign.
The woman testified that during a March 20, 2015, visit to Greitens' Central West End home, Greitens convinced her to go to the basement for "some sort of sexy workout." She said Greitens tied her up and blindfolded her, and that she became uncomfortable after Greitens pulled down her pants and kissed her stomach.
"(T)hen I hear him kind of, like, step back – take a step back and I hear – I can hear like a, like a cell phone – like a picture, and I can see a flash through the blindfold," she said, adding that she's not sure whether she ever saw a cell phone on Greitens' person.
According to her account, Greitens then told the woman that, "You're not going to mention my name... because if you do, I'm going to take these pictures, and I'm going to put them everywhere I can."
The woman said when she tried to leave, Greitens grabbed her in a "bear hug" and laid her on the floor. Then he fondled her, and coerced her into a sex act, the woman said. The woman said she returned later in the day to Greitens' home to retrieve keys, and that Greitens told her that he erased the photo because he "felt bad."
Greitens has been charged with felony invasion of privacy related to that incident. A jury trial in St. Louis Circuit Court is scheduled for next month. He has denied blackmailing the woman.
During another encounter, in June 2015, the woman said Greitens slapped her after she told him that she had slept with her husband.
Weeks later, the woman said Greitens "kind of smacked me and grabbed me and shoved me down on the ground" after engaging in a sex act.
Earlier in their relationship, at a salon where the woman worked, Greitens moved his hand up her leg and "all the way up to her crotch" without her consent, the woman testified.
He needs to resign, but he won’t. He doesn’t care about his party. All about him.
What kind of a stupid headline is that? The guy ties her up, photographs her, and performs a sex act with her without her approval and all they mention is slapping and shoving?
Oh come on. Everything described is a typical Friday night for me.
LMAO. Seems the left will print anything a woman says these days. Yes, we know things happen. Most men here have known some ruthless/vindictive women in our lives.
#LazamatazToo
Maybe don’t agree to be blindfolded in some dude’s basement, you dumb trollop.
Ugh. This is last thing MO GOP needs after it’s historic victory in 2016.
He treated her like a whore?
Is there video? Witnesses?
Or just He said, She said.
The GOP nationally seems to have a problem vetting its candidates. Of course if Greitens was a Democrat, he'd be getting the PoundMeToo Man of the Year Award about now, :)
News at eleven...
He WAS a democrat, not long ago. Not long ago at all, his claimed excuse was that he was politically ignorant and realized he should be a Republican
He is very charismatic (in that oily used car salesman sort of way that clearly isn’t good) and that carried him through the GOP primary.
I must be missing something. From the way I read the excerpt posted here, it sounds like this was a consensual encounter. Even agreeing to being tied up, blindfolded after being told for something sexual. No charges were filed afterwards. No complaints filed. And she even went back a few times. What did she expect to happen in his basement during sexual play and letting him tie her up and be blindfolded. I didn’t hear anything about here fighting back or trying to get away. Or avoid him afterward. She went back at least TWICE after.
The guy became a republican when it was politically convenient.
Figures. Guess now we know what this is being brought up now.
The article posted forgot to mention that she testified she might have just “dreamed” he took her picture. I haven’t heard his side of the story. Does she have any proof? I hate these sex scandal stories. I don’t want to know about anyone’s sex life but my own, and it’s nobody else’s business, either. If a woman is stupid enough to have an affair, she shouldn’t go whining to the press about it. If any of this is true, she must have approved of “rough sex”. Sounds like there was more than one encounter. (Naturally, I would never approve of actual rape).
P.S. I don’t see anything about being gagged either. And no mention about her complaining or ever saying ‘no’, stop, don’t, or anything. Before, during, or after. Even with a gag you can yell something or show your disapproval in all sorts of ways. Sheesh.
Ditto!
She recently confessed that the purported photo and threats alleged to have taken place in Greitan’s basement during a bondage encounter, might well have been a dream and not real. She is confused with the details.
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