Report: New Emails Show Mike Pence Got Disgraced Governor Back Into the Navy After Sex Crime Charge

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Emails Show Pence Pressured Navy To Reinstate Former Missouri Gov Who Left Office In Violent Sex Scandal

August 2, 2020

Law & Crime reports:

The office of Vice President Mike Pence used political pressure to get former Missouri governor Eric Greitens reinstated into the Navy despite those in command stating they wanted nothing to do with the scandal-plagued former SEAL, the Kansas City Star reported Saturday.

The Star obtained 850 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which showed top brass at the Navy were extremely concerned with Greitens’ history, which included a 2018 felony charge of sexual misconduct and another felony charge for computer tampering. Though both charges were eventually dropped, Greitens, who won Missouri’s gubernatorial race as an unlikely outsider candidate in 2016, was forced to resign from office.

Emails revealed from the FOIA request show Vice Adm. Robert Burke, then the Navy’s Chief of Personnel, saying that if Greitens was not a civilian at the time of the allegations, the Navy would have prosecuted him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The original report is behind a paywall.

Eric Greitens kidnapped, bound, and threatened a woman he'd had an affair with, then left office to avoid a felony conviction. Mike Pence helped get him back in a uniform, against the desires of the Navy and the Seals. Every part of this story is gross.

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[bullimiami]

1. theres those good xtian values again. go pence.

how about you destroy the careers of some real patriots actually doing good for the country?
oh. already did some of that.

[magicarpet]

2. (Lieutenant Colonel Vindman ring a bell)

[patphil]

3. Every part of this story is gross.

Yeah, well, it's the kind of thing we see all too often in the Trump administration.

Reward criminal behavior and punish honorable behavior.

There needs to be a re-balancing of the scales of justice in 2021.

[PatSeg]

4. Because that's what Jesus would do, right?

What a pathetic worm Pence is.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Violence against women

The 1 single guiding principle for Evangelicals is violence against women. It’s why they love Trump, because they know he views women as nothing more than properly to be used and abused. They love the thought that as an alpha male he’s a serial rapist and wish they too could put women in their place the way he does.

[Iggo]

6. Where's your family values now, Pence?

Don’t answer. It was rhetorical and sarcastic.

[iluvtennis]

7. Guess "Mother" looked the other way on this. trump admin is the SWAMP. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. of course he did.

[RVN VET71]

9. Vindman upholds oath of office and gets kicked to the curb.

But the BDSM kidnappy-rapey guy gets red carpet treatment! How Trumpy! How sickening (but I've just said that). Pence won't but should get hammered with this every time he appears before the media.

[Tanuki]

20. Thank you for making this point!

[RVN VET71]

21. I take no pleasure pointing out the ugly hypocrisy of morally bankrupt so-called "christians"

Oh, who'm I kidding? Of course I do.

[JDC]

10. Pence is a horrible human being.

Almost as bad as this scumbag.

Typo*

[certainot]

11. there will be no repercussions for pence

these kinds of things get dems kicked out - they mean nothing for republicans as long as limbaugh is there to excuse them and go full outrage on democrats for the same crap.

democratic and progressive leadership might as well have its head up it's collective ass as long as it continues to ignore talk radio, especially now when it would be so easy to go on the offensive destroy that republican advantage before it gets to call the election for trump

[DanieRains]

12. Greitens Is Lucky He Is White

Any minority who did this would be serving 3 X 20 year sentences.

BLM.

When you are white you just step down and that is punishment enough.

Ameri KKK a.

[klook]

13. The Party of Family Values shows its true colors again! (nt)

[Sienna86]

14. Thanks to Kansas City Star newspaper

Great reporting.
So much to fix come January 21.

[liberalla]

15. Amazing what christians and their mothers find acceptable...

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Is this the first step in taking Pence off the ticket?

This has been rumoured for months, the Trump will replace Pence with Nikki Haley.

[crickets]

17. Appalling, yet unsurprising. nt

[dmr]

18. This is absolutely disgusting on many levels.

On top of it Greiten is arrogant and feels entitled to what he wants, and then getting.

Red carpet treatment! All because of his connection to Pence? Both men ought to be in prison! Instead they sit above us all. Karma has to come around and show them who's boss.

Greiten is a creep. Pence is creepy. I am creeped out -- and disgusted.

[Blue Owl]

19. Thanks Electoral College for giving us Trump and Pence

n/t