White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday said that while the White House did not have an official statement on the allegations of sexual abuse against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), they found the findings of the Missouri House report released this week “very concerning.”
“Certainly (that is) something that is very concerning and something that we’re taking very seriously,” she said, when asked whether President Trump would ask Greitens to resign. “I’ll keep you updated as we have something.”
Greitens faced increasing scrutiny this week after a Missouri House committee on Wednesday released it’s report into allegations of sexual misconduct. The 25-page report outlines the testimony of a woman who told legislative investigators that Greitens coerced her into non-consensual sexual activities while she cried on the floor of his basement, as TPM has reported.
In a letter to President Trump yesterday, three Missouri GOP legislators asked the President to call on Greitens to resign.
Greitens has admitted to having an affair with the woman, but denied her allegations that he took a photo of her while she was nude in order to allegedly blackmail her into keeping quiet about the relationship. He has refused to resign from office.
Read TPM’s report on the legislative investigators’ findings here.
Yes, please, let’s talk about Greitens! Anything but my boss’s mountain of madness.
“Certainly (that is) something that is very concerning and something that we’re taking very seriously,” she said, when asked whether President Trump would ask Greitens to resign. “I’ll keep you updated as we have something.”
I think we should all play a game, and have Trump try to find Missouri on the U.S. map.
And President Trump vehemently denies any stunning similarity to the numerous sexual abuse allegations he’s accused of.
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Honestly, I think that’s kind of a stupid question. Greitens is a state official who answers to the people of Missouri. No President has anything to do with it.
The only thing Trump takes seriously is fleecing the country.
As an aside, Bloomberg reports that the 60,000-plus sq. ft. retail space on the lower 2 floors of Trump Tower-Chicago remains 100pct. unoccupied. To that end, Trump Organization has appealed its property tax burden to the county.
Emoluments clause? What emoluments clause?