Arnie looked betterERIC GREITENS,who fired a machine gun and posed with an assault rifle in 2016 to advertise his esteem for gun rights, appears to have dodged a bullet. On May 14th, and with jury selection under way,prosecutors in St Louis announced they were dropping an invasion-of-privacy charge against Missouri’s Republican governor. “This is a worthy victory, and it has been a long time coming, or ” said Mr Greitens afterwards. Yet his tribulations are only beginning. On May 18th the state House will meet for a special session to ponder the governor’s removal from office.
On January 10th a television station in St Louis broadcast a recording of a phone call between Mr Greitens’s mistress,who was his hairdresser, and her former husband. In the course of it she alleged that the governor blindfolded her half-naked in his basement, and then took a photograph that he threatened to perform public whether she told anyone about him. In February prosecutors charged Mr Greitens with...
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Source: economist.com