Missouri Governor admits to affair, but not willing to admit that he blackmailed the woman involved.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), responding to media reports, acknowledged Wednesday night that he was unfaithful to his wife “a few years ago” before being elected. But his lawyer denied sensational allegations aired by a local TV station that Greitens threatened to distribute naked photos he took of the woman with whom he was having a relationship if she ever said anything about it. 

The woman, who has not been named publicly, was Greitens’s hair stylist, according to media reports confirmed by The Washington Post with a source familiar with the situation. 

A joint statement posted Wednesday night by Greitens and his wife, Sheena, said in part that “a few years ago . . . there was a time when he was unfaithful in our marriage. This was a deeply personal mistake. Eric took responsibility, and we dealt with this together honestly and privately.”

But wait, there's more:  

The extramarital relationship itself, however, may have been the least explosive part of the story. 

More unusual was what she purportedly said in a recording made surreptitiously by the woman’s jealous ex-husband, which the station played. 

In it, she can be heard telling how Greitens invited her to his home in 2015. Once she arrived, he told her he would show her how to do pull-ups, taped her hands to exercise rings and blindfolded her, all with her consent. 

Then, to her shock, she alleged, he snapped photographs of her naked and threatened to distribute the pictures if she revealed the relationship.

Greitens is like the perfect GOP politician.  Ex-Navy Seal, worked for the Bush White House, book author, Rhodes Scholar, has a doctorate, and now he is proven to be a sexual deviant.

It's almost like he came from Republican politician central casting.

Now let's see if the Republicans continue to embrace this guy, or if they are finally getting the message from the #MeToo movement.