Greitens’ marketing campaign off to an awesome begin after conservative hosts asks about ‘half-rape’ allegation

On Wednesday, Greitens was a visitor on Salem Radio Community’s The Hugh Hewitt Present, the place he proceeded to assault the sufferer, revising the details of the case of his alleged assault. Added to this cauldron of misogyny was Hewitt’s weird make-it-up belittling of the fees towards him. Media Issues experiences that throughout the interview, ostensibly about Greitens try to win the Republican nomination for Missouri senator this yr, Hewitt requested Greitens if that factor that occurred lower than 30 months in the past may come up—, the factor that ended with allegations that Eric Greitens assaulted, abused, kidnapped, and threatened a lady he had admitted to having an extramarital affair with? However Hugh didn’t ask it like that. He stated this: “Look, you are speaking to a Republican. I simply wish to win the Senate, Eric, and I am afraid you may be Todd Aikin 2.0. I am afraid Todd Aikin obtained killed over ‘reliable rape’ and on this Missouri report, you might be accused by a witness of half-rape. What are you going to do when the adverts assault you of half-rape?”

”Half-rape.” It’s so past the pale it’s arduous to place into phrases what a waste of carbon Hugh Hewitt is. The allegations towards Greitens are graphic and embrace his accuser being repeatedly slapped and hit and sexually assaulted by Greitens. Then threatened with blackmail by Greitens. Candidate Greitens needs Hewitt and his listeners to know that the girl who stated he coerced her into performing oral intercourse whereas she wept uncontrollably on a basement ground was paid off. “You gotta have a look at the details. Here is the details, sir. Once more, $120,000 money bribe was paid and the one that you are referencing stated that they is perhaps remembering their accusations by means of a dream.” 

Let’s first speak about this “dream” comment by Greitens. What he and his staff of dozens of legal professionals jumped on was the assertion his accuser made that whereas she was tied up and blindfolded, “I can hear like a, like a cellular phone – like an image, and I can see a flash by means of the blindfold.” This {photograph}, thoughts you, exists. Greitens has been very cagey about whether or not or not he took the photograph—a photograph that exists. However, throughout a seven-hour deposition by protection legal professionals, the girl stated that she couldn’t recall ever seeing Greitens in possession of a digital camera or a telephone.

When the protection counsel requested the girl, “Did you ever see (Greitens) in possession of a digital camera or telephone?” she answered: “To not my information. I didn’t see him with it.”

An assistant circuit lawyer requested the girl, “Did you see what you believed to be a telephone?”

She answered, “… I haven’t talked about it as a result of I don’t know if it’s as a result of I’m remembering it by means of a dream or I – I’m unsure, however sure, I really feel like I noticed it after that occurred, however I haven’t spoken about it due to that.”

Particular prosecutor Baker, when holding her press convention in regards to the fees and the suspiciously lacking proof, made it clear that the girl charged was brave and plausible in each respect. “What’s vital to notice about this sufferer by means of all of that is that she didn’t waver. Although she repeatedly confronted a big, aggressive staff of pricy legal professionals — I’m advised that checklist could also be as excessive as 40 legal professionals — she held her personal.”

The “$120,000 money bribe,” Greitens throws in there refers back to the cash that was reportedly paid out to the lawyer of the girl’s ex-husband—who was additionally presumably working for a “rich Republican who didn’t like Greitens and that it was private,” as reported by the Los Angeles Instances in 2018. However allow us to be clear right here: That $120,000 appears to have gone to the ex-husband’s lawyer and the ex-husband to launch the {photograph} and a recording of the girl admitting to the affair and Greitens’ felony habits. That cash didn’t go to the girl, and that girl has gotten nothing however heartache and abuse, publicly and privately, for her unlucky connection to the previous shame of a Navy SEAL. 

Greitens, a person in his 40s, clearly solely resigned as a result of he would have been impeached in any other case, and has been working to rapidly rebuild his model of former Navy SEAL-turned politician by restarting the clock, with rumors that he would return to the Navy to be redeployed within the subject of fight.  Whether or not or not Greitens actually deliberate to try this, whether or not or not the Navy truly would need him again, all disappeared into the information cycle. However Greitens did make one factor clear—he needs to be Missouri’s senator in 2022. The GOP is hoping that the previous alleged sexual assaulter and corrupt public official received’t win the first nomination. In fact, the Republican Social gathering made this mattress of sociopathic snakes so … they get what they vote for. And a reminder, Greitens’ quick time in workplace included actions like signing anti-labor right-to-work legal guidelines together with virtually $150 million in cuts to schooling and voting. He believes in pushing the insurance policies of the Republican Social gathering—a Social gathering that represents folks like Greitens.

Enormous Hewitt has been a right-wing hack for a very long time, and like all hacks, the Trump administration and its failures uncovered the degrees of self-degradation folks like Hewitt have been keen to sink to to be able to keep in energy and cash. Like most of the archaic hucksters with right-wing microphones, Hewitt at one level in his profession had been capable of disguise behind a “genial, agreeable type that the Beltway media mistook as considerate evaluation.”