Eric Greitens showed Missouri long ago who he is. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, Missouri should believe him. Yet the disgraced former governor, driven from power four years ago by credible evidence that he physically and sexually abused his extramarital lover prior to his 2016 election, has somehow emerged as the front-runner among Republicans seeking the state’s open U.S. Senate seat this year.
That has prompted a big political question in Missouri: What on Earth are Republican voters thinking? This week, that question was replaced by a bigger one: What will those voters think now?
In court documents revealed Monday, Greitens’ now-ex-wife, Sheena Greitens, alleges he was physically violent toward her and their children and engaged in such “unstable and coercive behavior” that she and others around him limited his access to firearms.
