Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens is speaking out against his ex-wife's claims of domestic abuse.
In a statement posted to Twitter by KMBC reporter Micheal Mahoney, Greitens' campaign characterizes him as a "great Dad" who is allegedly the victim of "a woman with a documented history of mental illness and emotionally abusive behavior." The statement elaborates on this contrast, alleging that his ex-wife, Sheena Greitens, spent a week in Washington, D.C., filing court documents with false accusations while he was spending spring break with the couple's two sons.
"Eric will fight for his children and defend himself from these outright lies," wrote the campaign. "His children deserve a father who will speak the truth and stand up against malicious attacks that are clearly politically motivated."
Greitens had been accused earlier of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, the court documents showed. Those accusations led Alyssa Farah Griffin, the White House's director of strategic communications during the Trump administration, to call for the Republican Party to have a "moral primary" and to urge Greitens to drop out of his race for the U.S. Senate.
On Monday, Greitens, a former governor, also made a separate statement on his Facebook page regarding Sheena's accusations. In the piece, he took aim at "the liberal media," which he claims is peddling lies.
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