Timothy Birdnow

Looks like the attack on Mo. Governor Eric Greitens was financed by some shady political operatives. According to the Belleville News Democrat:

"The attorney for the man who first accused Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens of blackmail said Monday that he received $100,000 from an anonymous source in January.

Al Watkins, the St. Louis attorney who represents the ex-husband of Greitens’ alleged victim, confirmed the payments, which came in two $50,000 increments, while talking to reporters shortly after a St. Louis judge ruled that he could not also represent an investigator in the case.

The decision of the ex-husband to go public with the allegations that Greitens had photographed his ex-wife without her consent to keep her from speaking about an affair has led to a felony indictment in St. Louis and a Missouri House investigation that could lead to impeachment.

Watkins said he did not know the source of the money but thinks it was delivered to deal with fallout from the affair's disclosure. It was dropped off by a person who appeared to be a courier, he said."

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A hundred grand just appeared out of nowhere? Now where did that come from? St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner - a Black Lives Matter activist - was at least partially funded by revolutionary billionaire George Soros. Soros, you may remember, was th radical who spent $33 million to gin up the Ferguson riots. This incident involving Greitens, while an act of immorality and extreme stupidity on the part of the now Governor, appears more and more to be a planned political hit using the power of the State to destroy the legally elected Chief Executive of Missouri.

In related developments, Josh Hawley, Missouri Attorney General, is hell-bent on throwing away any chance he has of defeating Claire McCaskill for the U.S. Senate as Hawley has gone all in on the campaign against fellow Republican Greitens. Hawley refered a minor matter - Greitens using the donor list from his charity to solicit funding for his run for Governor - to Gardner for prosecution. Greitens had already been dealt with over this, paying a hundred dollar fine as a result of an ethics committee sanction. The committee didn't see this as much of a "crime" but Hawley is trying to triangulate here, thinking that he will get in good with the Deep State RINO Republicans. In short, he's selling out. Greitens ran as an outsider and the GOP hates him for that Hawley is playing to the Party at the expense of the voting public. He is going to regret that.

So once again Claire McCAskill will win re-election by hook or crook.

Read more about this at the Gateway Pundit.

Let's sum this up, shall we?

Eric Greitens is accused of felony invasion of privacy for a photograph he allegedly took of a woman with whom he was having a consensual affair. The photograph cannot be found and the adultress he was involved with admitted in her deposition she is unsure if Greitens actually took the photo or if she dreamed it. The woman did not press charges and indeed continued to see Greitens for several months afterward. Circuit attorney Kim Gardner is a radical leftist and filed charges against the now sitting Governor despite the fact the "victim" never sought to press charges. Her ex-husband, who was angry about the affair, received a hundred grand from an "anonymous source" to proceed with legal measures. Gardner is unwilling to use the investigative resources of the police, instead hiring a disgraced former FBI agent who was drummed out of the Bureau for perjury. This investigator has repeatedly lied about his work in this case, claiming he had no notes when there was a video that turned up showing him writing notes down, and lying about even having the video. The Prosecution has repeatedly withheld evidence from the defense. The investigator failed to show up when he was ordered by the Court. The investigator tried to hire the same attorney as the ex-husbandis using, an attorney being paid for by an anonymous source. And the Missouri Attnorney General, who is running for the U.S. Senate and wants to get good press, has thrown the sitting Governor, who is in his own party, under the bus.

This is like a story line from 24 or a Tom Clancey novel.

I didn't support Greitens in his bid for the nomination (although I voted for him in the general election, with reservations); Greitens was a Democrat until he decided to run for Governor, then he flipped. I think Greitens shows himself to be an immoral man, one who in a previous era did not deserve to be in a high office. But I know a dirty political hit when I see one.

This is dirty, dirty, dirty, and it's coming from outside of the state.

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