Missouri governor to resign

Trebuchet said:
Here's CNN. But we all know it's fake news.
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(CNN)A Missouri panel "found no evidence of any wrongdoing" by former Gov. Eric Greitens following a nearly 18-month investigation into allegations of misconduct by his 2016 gubernatorial campaign, according to a report released Thursday, even as investigators faulted his campaign for failing to report legal in-kind contributions by two groups.
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This article seems to be about a completely different scandal involving the same person.
 
Checkmite said:
...Do you have a different source?
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This story -- all with the same headline -- is all over right wing news. The headline on the story linked-
Missouri case that toppled GOP governor boomerangs on Soros-backed prosecutor
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George Soros 'backed' the prosecution? Looks like fake news. However, Greitens has just been cleared of campaign violations. Below is a report from CNN-
A Missouri panel "found no evidence of any wrongdoing" by former Gov. Eric Greitens following a nearly 18-month investigation into allegations of misconduct by his 2016 gubernatorial campaign, according to a report released Thursday, even as investigators faulted his campaign for failing to report legal in-kind contributions by two groups. Those contributions came in the form of television and radio ads that attacked Greitens' rivals in the Republican primary, funded by the outside group LG PAC, and a series of polls conducted in 2017 on behalf of the Greitens campaign but paid for by his not-for-profit entity, A New Missouri.
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It appears right wing media is trying to blend all the allegations together. CNN also reports on the allegations that led to Greitens resigning and they still seem pretty solid.
The woman testified under oath in 2018, telling Missouri lawmakers that she felt forced into sexual acts with Greitens, and that he had threatened to release explicit photos of her if she revealed their relationship. Greitens admitted to the affair, but denied ever engaging in blackmail, coercion or acts of sexual violence. At the time, he maintained that the allegations against him were part of a "political witch hunt" perpetrated by his enemies. Link
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Using the 'witch hunt' and 'George Soros is behind it' defense. Seriously? ;)
 
newyorkguy said:
It appears right wing media is trying to blend all the allegations together.
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That's the impression I'm getting as well. If the sexual-harassment allegations were completely invented, as the first article seems to want to be true, it seems incredibly odd to me that Greitens - who actually was the governor and not simply campaigning, mind - would just instantly resign as soon as they were announced.
 
If you Google "Missouri case that toppled GOP governor boomerangs," you get links to right wing 'news sites,' Youtube, Reddit, etc. If you use Google News you don't get much.

Curious, I looked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch news site to see what they might have. Not much. The finding that Greitens was not personally liable for his campaign's violations apparently was released several weeks ago. Here's what I did find, an editorial from February 15:
Missouri ethics officials last week confirmed what has long been apparent regarding disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens: His campaign violated state law with dark-money schemes to obtain unreported political help during and after his 2016 election victory. That conclusion, and the $178,000 fine imposed by the Missouri Ethics Commission, are damning reminders that Greitens doesn’t belong in politics — though you wouldn’t know it from his crowing on Facebook and in friendly media interviews. This self-proclaimed leader is claiming vindication because regulators couldn’t prove he personally knew what was being done in his name within several campaign organizations that supported him. That’s leadership?

Even as controversy grew over Greitens’ campaign shenanigans and his extreme secrecy in office, he ultimately resigned amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse of his hairdresser during their consensual affair. Link
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newyorkguy said:
If you Google "Missouri case that toppled GOP governor boomerangs," you get links to right wing 'news sites,' Youtube, Reddit, etc. If you use Google News you don't get much.

Curious, I looked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch news site to see what they might have. Not much. The finding that Greitens was not personally liable for his campaign's violations apparently was released several weeks ago. Here's what I did find, an editorial from February 15:
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That is very interesting.

When I first questioned the originally-linked website, I figured it was just me having trouble finding a reputable source - it's happened before - and I actually fully expected that one would be linked verifying the story. But others like you are turning up blanks as well when actually looking. I guess it's safe to disregard this one.
 
FWIW, the local conservative talk radio station was parroting this story a while back. I meant to look into it, but forgot. Thanks for the update.
 
newyorkguy said:
This story -- all with the same headline -- is all over right wing news. The headline on the story linked-





George Soros 'backed' the prosecution? Looks like fake news. However, Greitens has just been cleared of campaign violations. Below is a report from CNN-







It appears right wing media is trying to blend all the allegations together. CNN also reports on the allegations that led to Greitens resigning and they still seem pretty solid.





Using the 'witch hunt' and 'George Soros is behind it' defense. Seriously? ;)
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When you consider how much trouble Soros causes globally I'm not surprised he's behind this as well.
 
Defenders of former Missouri governor Eric Greitens -- who was "a rising star in national Republican politics" -- seem to be trying to muddy the waters in a bid to give Greitens' supporters some talking points with which to defend him. This is from a New York Times report from June 2019:
In the Greitens case, [prosecutor Kimberly Gardner] has become a focus of a special prosecutor who was appointed to investigate a former F.B.I. agent. The prosecutor has had her office’s email server seized by the police, giving them access, her lawyers say, to active criminal investigations of the department itself. He has been fishing for incriminating information on her administration, according to an affidavit by the agent’s lawyer. Her aides have been called before a grand jury.

The controversy began in January 2018, when allegations surfaced that before he was governor, Mr. Greitens, who was married, had taken a picture of his mistress without her consent while she was partly clothed, tied up and blindfolded, and threatened to release it if she revealed the affair...During a sworn deposition the following month [March 2018], though, Mr. Tisaby [the former FBI agent and private investigator in the Greitens case] made a number of false statements, including that he did not have notes from the interview, and that a video recorder had malfunctioned. But there were notes, and a videotape, both of which Ms. Gardner turned over to the Greitens legal team three weeks later. Armed with those, the defense lawyers went on offense. They said the tape had been deliberately concealed because it showed the hairdresser contradicting what she had told a state legislative committee, undermining the case against Mr. Greitens. Link
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Despite the allegations and accusations, it is not at all clear that the case against Eric Greitens was based on 'fraud' by investigators. The heart of the accusations is that the witness against Greitens, the hairdresser, gave contradictory statements to investigators. That the prosecutor, Kimberly Gardner, knew this but concealed it from Greitens defense team. However, that does not seem to be true. Gardner's office turned over the tape to Greitens defense team three weeks after they requested it, in March 2018.
Failure to turn over the tape would be a far more serious concern if it had the potential to help exonerate the defendant. But it is not clear that the video would have: When the state legislative committee investigating the controversy, composed largely of Mr. Greitens’s fellow Republicans, reviewed the tape, it found that the hairdresser’s accounts had been consistent.
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The new prosecutor the court appointed also found the witness, the hairdresser, was consistent in her statements.
A new prosecutor was appointed to review the case, but the statute of limitations had almost expired and she ran out of time, though she found the hairdresser “extremely credible.”
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Kimberly Gardner has prosecuted Eric Greitens and St. Louis police officers. She has made some powerful enemies. They're playing hardball. (A police union official said publicly that Gardner should be in jail.) My impression is, they are fighting back, primarily by smearing her. They make accusations that turn out to be false or overstated but the right wingers don't care. It gives them something they can use -- in internet discussions like this one, for example -- and that's good enough. It's the times we live in.
 
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Checkmite said:
This is very clearly not a reliable source; for instance in the middle of the article it randomly asides to the Trump-Russia allegations, calling them "debunked" which is objectively a lie.

Do you have a different source?
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Remember Ziggurat, justthenews.com is not your friend.
 
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