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The Lesson of Eric Greitens, and the Navy SEALs Who Tried to Warn Us
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 02, 2019 08:43pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Phil Klay |
| News Date | Thursday, May 17, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Missouri legislature is scheduled to begin a special session, on Friday, to discuss whether to impeach Eric Greitens, the state’s embattled governor. A former Navy seal who was once a rising star in the Republican Party, Greitens is now fighting allegations of sexual coercion, blackmail, invasion of privacy, and misuse of charity resources to fund his campaign. The charges stunned many in Missouri, but, in the tight-knit seal community, Greitens has been a divisive figure for years. In 2016, before Greitens was elected, a group of mostly anonymous current and former seals tried to sound the alarm about why they thought he was unfit for office. “What we were afraid of is that, eighteen months from now, you’ve got candidate Greitens, former Navy seal, running for President,” Paul Holzer, a former seal who worked on the campaign for one of Greitens’s gubernatorial-primary opponents, John Brunner, told me. But Greitens, who used his military background to create a public image of honor, courage, and leadership, was largely able to deflect their criticism. |
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