Missouri GOP Says George Soros Is Behind Governor Greitens' Indictment

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

The Missouri Republican Party suggested on Friday that billionaire George Soros was behind the indictment of the state’s Republican governor on felony invasion of privacy charges, stemming from a lewd picture he allegedly took of his mistress against her will.

“Kim Gardner has received more than $200,000 from George Soros groups,” a statement from the party read, referring to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney who launched an investigation into Governor Eric Greitens.

“Missourians should see this for what it is, a political hit job,” the statement continued. “We have a progressive anti-law enforcement Democrat wanting to single-handedly oust a law-and-order governor. We look forward to a bipartisan committee of legislators elected by people across Missouri to find out what’s really going on—ensuring St. Louis liberals aren’t controlling the future of our state.”

Soros is a well known, liberal-minded funder of progressive causes who has often served as a convenient boogeyman for conservatives. But the insinuation that he orchestrated Greitens’ indictment stretches the bounds of traditional conspiracy theorizing. On Thursday, Greitens, a rising GOP star, was indicted off of allegations that he had blackmailed his mistress during a consensual affair —an affair he admitted to having in 2015, prior to being elected.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/missouri-gop-says-george-soros-is-behind-governor-greitens-indictment/

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Minor quibble with the Daily Beast's writer here:

There ARE no "bounds of traditional conspiracy theorizing" for the GOP.

[Iliyah]

1. Of course.

And Obama, HRC, the Democratic Party, space aliens, and tinker bell.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Soros scores again as the easy scapegoat. Hillary's emails, anyone?

[lagomorph777]

26. Woohoo Soros! Since he's omnipotent, maybe he could take out Trump for us?

[Sherman A1]

3. Rats

I thought it was the Flying Rutabaga Squadron!

Now I find out the truth.............

Me thinks they doth protest too much.

[keithbvadu2]

4. The party of personal responsibility... blames someone else... again.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Something is happening in these Red States.

Power Corrupts,and Absolute Power will corrupt. Notice the number of so called Preachers and State Legislators being charged with Sexual Assaults,harrassment ,and theft or swindle. One Dem got his lunch handed to him yesterday in Texas,the rest have been Rethugs.

[UpInArms]

21. The right wing dim bulb who runs the register

At my local grocery store said her pastor told them that Greitens was okay and a good man ... and besides, she likes his policies

:turd:

[Wellstone ruled]

22. I look around when I hear this type of chatter.

Again,it is Religious Stockholm Syndrome . Read the person who is spewing this crap,look at the Person Picture,what do you see,then think about it,there is a story to be told. Ignorance is Bliss to these folks.

[UpInArms]

23. She is probably one of the most ignorant people I know

Was whining and wailing last week about the possibility of a gas tax hike ... I reminded her that it was Dotard’s idea

[Wellstone ruled]

25. Want to have fun,tell

her boss she is a few bricks short of a full pallet.

[UpInArms]

31. he's a worthless alcoholic

and is almost as stupid as she is ... sigh

the dumb runs really deep here

[Wellstone ruled]

32. Wow,you need a new

retail experience some how. You do not need this in your life,these types will sell destruct,but you just do not need this.

[UpInArms]

42. I owned the newspaper in that town .. sold it December 2016 ...

My exposure to all of them is now much more limited ..

Thank you for caring .. just know that I am much tougher than any of them ... lol!

[Wellstone ruled]

43. That is one heck of a expericnce to

have to be the person of record. Welcome to freedom. Childhood pal's family owned the local Paper,heard the real Stories.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. These GOOPERS are batshit crazy..I suppose next Soros took the picture..after he tied up,

blindfolded, and taped this womans mouth..just don't understand this nonsense..greitens BEHAVIOR is responsible....Soros bad, greitens victim...right!!!!!!!

So, if this pervert doesn't plead guilty - the trial is surely going to hurt his family...having the affair - isn't that enough hurt for your wife greitens...

Have you no decency Greitens....

[muntrv]

7. I thought it was the Clenis.

[Ilsa]

34. No, that was back in the good old days!

I'm laughing so hard, remembering those days on DU. Goddess, I'm old!

[monmouth4]

8. For an older guy Soros really gets around..n/t

[KWR65]

9. bLaCk HeLiCoPtErS! bLaCk HeLiCoPtErS! bLaCk HeLiCoPtErS!

[pansypoo53219]

44. heliOcopters!

[SCVDem]

10. As a lifelong Dem,

even I don't know Jack about Soros or Alinsky.

I do know about the Kochs, Mercers, Adelsons and the Russians though.

[moose65]

16. Me either!

Soros has become kind of an all-purpose boogeyman for the right. Although we see the Kochs and Adelson all the time, Soros is invisible. I've never even heard of him making a speech anywhere.

Also, the man is 87 years old! Do they really think he is behind everything that happens?

[rurallib]

11. reaching into the closet of Democratic bogeys

and pulls out an old favorite to shake around.
He knows Soros embodies many of the "other"s that Republicans hate, so Soros is always a good pick.

That is how the party of personal responsibility takes personal responsibility.

[Gore1FL]

12. Soros was every member of the grand jury, I guess. nt

[Downtown Hound]

15. Oh be serious! That's ridiculous!

He does, however, own every grand jury that ever been created. And the media. And the schools. Not to mention, every person that ever protested for a left wing cause. Oh, he also owns the entire Democratic Party, the Deep State, and the dark side of the moon.

I heard that he's also secretly training an army of Babadooks to come and take everybody's guns away.

[haele]

33. And he owes each and every one of us paid liberals $500 per post over two paragraphs.

Not counting the signature line.

Hey George, where's my $2,127,250? I'm not counting the posts I made during the Obama Presidency...
If you don't want to count Lounge and Forum posts, it's only $1,827,200...
And I'm not even asking about those marches I participated in.

Haele

[Bengus81]

40. I'm still waiting on the THOUSANDS I should have received for being a paid marcher....

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Neah neah-neah neah neah booga booga booga.

Tired old tripe, bringing Soros into this.

[DownriverDem]

14. Insane

I don't get it. Soros is 87 years old. He sure is accused of a lot of stuff by the repubs.

[DBoon]

17. Soros is a proxy for The International Jewish Conspiracy

Our right wing politicians are going full on anti-semite

[lapfog_1]

27. but they can't say that because of Adelson.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

18. The Missouri GOP's Nazi is showing.

[Blue_Tires]

19. So they're citing a Jewish conspiracy in order to save another Jewish politician?

[UpInArms]

20. Hahaha

These brain dead wormturds are truly disgusting

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. So, Kim Gardner becomes the circuit attorney when no Republican stands against her

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-presumptive-first-black-circuit-attorney-breaks-racial-glass/article_48b02610-d6b5-55e3-a3c6-f0788e1fac48.html

and it's somehow a Soros plot. My guess is that "George Soros groups" means here groups that perhaps Soros donated to some time in their existence (because that's what 'Soros groups' has turned out to mean elsewhere). This would be like me calling Medecins Sans Frontiers "a muriel_volestrangler group".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. The Dog Whistle to RepubliCONNED is "It's okay if you don't get caught or if Soros caught you." . nt

[WhiteTara]

29. Who needs comedians when we have republicons?

Greitens is behind Greitens' indictment; slimy nasty POS

[GulfCoast66]

30. Is anyone surprised? They are still blaming Saul Alinsky...

And he has been dead for 45 years.

Hhhmmmm, what do Alinsky and Soros have in common? I wonder?

[Sophia4]

35. This campaign against Soros arises from ignorance about Hungary during WWII.

Until 1944, Admiral Horthy was in charge in Hungary.

And until that time, some Jews were "deported" but most were not "deported" or put into prison camps until after Hitler's NAZIs took over in 1944.

If you don't want to take my word for it, Google it.

Horthy is hated by the Russians because his Open Society movement played a key role in the opening up to democracy in Eastern Europe.

The conservatives are fools to hate Soros. They are just showing their ignorance. Soros is a brilliant mathematician I would guess. Many great mathematicians came from Hungary. That, too can be Googled.

Just to get you started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hungarian_mathematicians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Horthy

Hungary during WWII

The Holocaust
See also: History of the Jews in Hungary

On March 19, 1944 German troops occupied Hungary, prime minister Miklós Kállay was deposed and soon mass deportations of Jews to German death camps in occupied Poland began. SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann went to Hungary to oversee the large-scale deportations. Between 15 May and 9 July, Hungarian authorities deported 437,402 Jews. All but 15,000 of these Jews were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau,[11] and 90% of those were immediately killed. One in three of all Jews killed at Auschwitz were Hungarian citizens.[11] Sztojay, unlike previous prime ministers, answered mostly to Berlin and was thus able to act independently of Horthy. However, reports of the conditions in the concentration camps led the admiral to resist his policies.

Hungarian Jewish Women and children from Carpatho-Ruthenia after their arrival at the Auschwitz deathcamp (May/June 1944). Photo from the Auschwitz Album.

In early July 1944, Horthy stopped the deportations, and after the failed attempt on Hitler's life, the Germans backed off from pressing Horthy's regime to continue further, large-scale deportations, although some smaller groups continued to be deported by train. In late August, Horthy refused Eichmann's request to restart the deportations. Himmler ordered Eichmann to leave Budapest.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary_in_World_War_II

It wasn't good, but this explains why Soros managed to escape the Holocaust. A lot of Hungarians did not, but many Americans do not understand this history.

Please remember that Hungary was for a long time until the end of WWI a part of the AustroHungarian Empire.

Lots of ignorance on this issue.

[Yavin4]

36. That George Soros is one busy guy.

Has the energy of a 1,000 men.

[Virtual Burlesque]

37. It Is Simple Logic

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has a mistress. Prior to his election, while she was nude, Eric tied her up, blindfolded her, and took a photo of her against her will. Then Greitens proceeded to blackmail his mistress, claiming that if she ever revealed their relationship publicly, he would embarrass he by releasing the photograph.

Obviously, this is nothing more than a slight eccentricity in Eric Greitens' behaviour, a mere bagatelle, were it not for the near-criminal actions of that agent provocateur, George Soros and his Democratic minions.

Any other reading of this storm in a teacup simply disregards the intellectual powers of the Republican Party.

[dchill]

38. I'll bet it was Benghazi.

Shhhh!

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. GOP points at known donation to Gardner, ignores laundered $2m donation to Greitens

“Kim Gardner has received more than $200,000 from George Soros groups,” Sam Cooper, the executive director of the Missouri Republican Party, said in a statement Friday morning.

Cooper pointed to a 2016 article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how Gardner’s campaign received large donations from super PACs with ties to Soros, who supports progressive causes, including a $73,000 donation from the Soros-backed Safety & Justice PAC in July.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article201771419.html

But when we look at the 2016 article, we find:

Last week, Gardner’s campaign disclosed to the Missouri Ethics Commission a $67,693.23 in-kind contribution from the super PAC. The group apparently took in additional money after June 30, since it donated more to Gardner than it had on hand at that time. But any money donated to the PAC after June 30 won’t be made public until its next quarterly report is filed on Oct. 15.

On July 26, Gardner's campaign reported to the Missouri Ethics Commission a $24,548.37 in-kind donation from the same federal campaign committee, a day after reporting a $25,738.86 contribution from that super PAC. Then on July 29, Gardner reported an additional $72,770.27 from Safety & Justice, bringing the Soros-backed super PAC total contribution to Gardner's campaign to at least $190,750.73.
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A similar kind of donation was made this week on a much larger scale when a committee called “SEALs for Truth” made the single largest donation to a candidate in Missouri history to Eric Greitens, a Republican running for Missouri governor.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-circuit-attorney-candidate-defends-accepting-super-pac-campaign/article_11036aaf-4b1b-58cd-871f-4084f1ec1485.html

How much larger? 10 times:

A federally registered campaign committee called “SEALs for Truth” this week donated $1.975 million to Missouri gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens, a former SEAL. It is, by far, the single largest political contribution in Missouri history to an individual candidate.

And we have absolutely no idea who it came from.

That’s because “SEALs for Truth,” which was registered as a federal “super PAC” in mid-June, reported having no money on hand as of June 30. That’s the cutoff date for committees to make their second-quarter finances public. Any money the committee receives after June 30 doesn’t have to be reported until the third-quarter report, due Oct. 15.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/who-made-the-biggest-political-donation-in-missouri-history-ask/article_1e3b7af6-5e65-54f3-a5b0-cf37ace6c529.html

Oh well, since it's long past Oct 15, 2016, we'll have found out who funds Greitens by now, won't we? Won't we????

Greitens' onetime vows of transparency now lost behind a veil of dark money

Less than a year into his tenure as governor, Greitens has not merely joined in the "game" of hiding financial information from the public — he has mastered it. Today, Greitens is one of the least transparent elected officials in modern state history.

Among the information Greitens and his inner circle have withheld from the public:

• The source of one of his largest campaign contributions. Greitens last year received a single $1.975 million "dark money" donation, money that in one day went from a generic nonprofit organization called American Policy Coalition Inc. to a generic federal super PAC called SEALS for Truth to Greitens' campaign fund — a complex paper shuffle that had no apparent purpose but to get around state disclosure rules and legally hide the origin of the money.

“When drug dealers do this, it’s called money laundering,” John Messmer, founder of Missourians for Government Reform, said at the time. Greitens has consistently declined since then to provide any information about the source of the money. Its origin is still unknown.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/greitens-onetime-vows-of-transparency-now-lost-behind-a-veil/article_7ec42e1c-493e-53c2-9a66-a85d6fc47c90.html

I mean, it's not as if Russia hasn't been trying to influence American elections, is it?

[sweetroxie]

41. George Soros must be a very busy guy

nt