Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’s ex-wife Sheena Greitens said in a recent court filing she has photo evidence that the GOP Senate hopeful physically abused her and their children.
Sheena Greitens, an associate professor at the University of Texas’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she directs its Asia policy program, asserted she wanted the contents of their custody battle to remain private but that her ex-husband’s attacks on her have led to the situation spilling into public view.
“When his political future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive, and threatening,” Greitens said in the filing. “He accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his ‘enemies,’ when I have done no such thing.”
The Greitens campaign did not respond to a request for comment by the Washington Examiner.
MISSOURI SENATE CANDIDATE ERIC GREITENS’S EX-WIFE ACCUSES HIM OF ABUSE IN COURT DOCS
While the Senate candidate has dismissed claims of abuse, Sheena Greitens said she possesses photographs of an incident in which one of their sons came home with a swollen face and loose tooth.
“In fact, they were reported to multiple lawyers, therapists, and our mediator, in 2018 and afterward,” Sheena Greitens said. “I will provide contemporaneous documentation of the relevant communications, as well as photographic evidence of my child’s 2019 injuries, to the court at an appropriate time.”
She also pointed to an incident in which he allegedly “knocked me down and confiscated my cell phone, wallet, and keys so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home at Innsbrook” in Missouri.
Eric Greitens has claimed that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP political operatives are behind the information from the custody case emerging in an effort to derail his candidacy because it would give Democrats a chance at nabbing the seat in the general election. Eric Greitens, who resigned as Missouri governor in 2018 after 17 months in office under threat of impeachment, made the charges during a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast.
Sheena Greitens said her ex-husband’s recent comments are cause for concern, adding that “behavior since 3/21 is consistent with several patterns that I have previously experienced.”
“He uses words like ‘nasty’ and ‘vicious’ to describe my behavior, and threatens to try to take my children away,” she said. “He did each of these things in June 2018, leading me to leave our home with my children out of fear for our safety, and he has done each of them again this week and last week. The video that he posted on 3/25 is a particularly troubling demonstration of his mental state when he perceives his political life to be under threat.”
Eric and Sheena Greitens divorced following a sex scandal involving him allegedly taking a compromising photo of his hairstylist without her knowledge during the course of an affair and threatening to use it against her as blackmail. While the invasion of privacy felony charge against the politician was dropped, he resigned from the governorship less than 1 1/2 years after taking office.
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Polling shows Eric Greitens to be a top contender in the crowded GOP Senate primary race for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Roy Blunt. Multiple GOP lawmakers and strategists have raised concerns that a Greitens primary victory could derail Republicans’ chances of retaining the seat.
