Missouri GOP defends Gov. Eric Greitens after indictment: It's a 'political hit job'

The Missouri Republican Party defended Gov. Eric Greitens after he was indicted on one charge stemming from a 2015 extramarital affair, and called the indictment a “political hit job.” “Missourians should see this for what it is, a political hit job. This law has never been prosecuted in this way and it is safe to say if Eric Greitens wasn’t governor, it wouldn’t have been this time either,” the state party said. Greitens, a Republican, was indicted by a St. Louis grand jury on one felony charge of invasion of privacy. According to the indictment, Greitens “knowingly photographed” a woman who was either partially or fully nude without her consent in March 2015. He then “transmitted the image.

Source: Yahoo News