GOP defends Missouri governor who allegedly took nude photo of woman without her consent
Because of course they are!
GOP defends Missouri governor who allegedly took nude photo of woman without her consent
State lawmakers, however, are pushing back.
Melanie Schmitz
Feb 23, 2018, 1:44 pm
The Missouri Republican Party on Friday rushed to defend Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who was indicted this week for allegedly taking a nude photo of a woman without her consent and threatening to use it as blackmail.
“Kim Gardner has received more than $200,000 from George Soros groups,” Executive Director Sam Cooper stated, referring to the St. Louis circuit attorney who launched the initial investigation into Greitens after the allegations first went public in January. “Missourians should see this for what it is, a political hit job.”
Greitens was arrested Thursday on a felony invasion of privacy charge stemming from a 2015 incident in which he allegedly took naked photos of a woman with whom he was having an affair and threatened to use them against her if she ever made their affair public. The woman, Greitens’ hairdresser at the time, said she had initially approached him for a coffee date, but that he insisted on her coming to his home, at which point the two engaged in a consensual sexual encounter. After he tied her hands to exercise rings and blindfolded her, Greitens allegedly snapped a photo of the woman and told her, “You’re never going to mention my name, otherwise there will be pictures of [you] everywhere.”
KMOV first reported the allegations, which were detailed in a tape recording the woman’s ex-husband made while the two were still together, in early January.
According to Greitens’ indictment, the governor has been charged with violating Missouri State Statute 565.252, which prohibits individuals from from photographing or taping someone “in a state of full or partial nudity” without their consent and carries a special three-year statute of limitations, according to the circuit attorney’s office.
“This law has never been prosecuted in this way and it is safe to say if Eric Greitens wasn’t the governor, it wouldn’t have been this time either,” Cooper stated. “We have a progressive anti-law enforcement Democrat wanting to single-handedly oust a law-and-order governor. We look forward to a bipartisan committee of legislators elected by people across Missouri to find out what’s really going on – ensuring St. Louis liberals aren’t controlling the future of our state.”
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A married guy can’t even have an affair, take a sex picture of his mistress and blackmail her with it anymore. Those damn lib prosecutors and that damn George. 
