Eric Grittens, a former Missouri governor and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, has released a new ad offering hunting permits for people who want to shoot RINO (Republican name only).
JEFFERSON CITY – Republican candidate in the Senate of the United States Eric Grittens recycled provocative campaign tactics, which he used in his successful candidacy for governor of Missouri in 2016, presenting on Monday a new video in which he waves a rifle and says he is on hunting for the so-called RINOS, or Republicans by name alone.
The former naval seal, who is trying to return to politics after leaving the post of chief executive of the state in 2018, tells viewers in the video “Today we go hunting on RINO” and offers staff “permits to hunt RINO “.
Later on Monday, Facebook removed the video for violating policies prohibiting violence and incitement. Twitter said the video violated its rules of abuse, but said it was abandoning it because it was in the “public interest” for the tweet to be seen.
Greytens often attacks Republican leaders for being corrupt and cowardly – and lacking support for Donald Trump, the former president.
In 2016, the topic was not other Republicans, but the Islamic State militant group. At the time, he was selling fake IDs to the IDF to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign.
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In the latest version, Greytens and his long pistol walk home, while soldiers in combat uniforms join him.
The combat team breaks down the door of the house, throws a stunning grenade and enters the front room.
“Join the MAGA team, get a RINO hunting license,” Greytens announced in the smoke-filled house.
“There is no baggage limit, no marking limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”
Viewers of the 38-second video are then directed to go to the Greitens campaign website, where they will receive a $ 25 donation sticker with the RINO hunting permit design sticker shown in the video.
We are fed up and fed up with the Republicans only by name, who surrender to Joe Biden and the radical left.
Order your RINO hunting permit today! pic.twitter.com/XLMdJnAzSK
– Eric Graitens (@EricGreitens) June 20, 2022
Greytens, who is trying to win Trump’s approval ahead of the August primary, has been sharply criticized for the video by other elected officials.
Missouri Senate President Dave Shatz, R-Sullivan, who also wants the Senate seat vacated by retired Roy Blunt, called the ad “completely irresponsible.”
“That’s why I’m running. It is time to restore common sense and reject this nonsense. Missouri deserves better, “Shatz said on Twitter on Monday.
Another candidate, US Vicki Harzler, who represents Missouri’s 4th Congressional District, also criticized Greytens.
“Eric Greatens is a bully, a blackmailer, and less than ten years ago a Democrat. There is no basement that is too low to disguise its previous support for Obama and blindfold Missouri residents to believe it represents their values, “she wrote on Twitter.
Gov. Eric Grietens in a frame from his arrest for invasion of privacy on Thursday, February 22, 2018.
U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, said on Twitter that the video was “sociopathic.”
Castro, who has criticized the gun lobby, added that Greitens “will kill someone.”
Senator Caleb Rowden, the Republican leader in the Missouri Senate, announced the video and tweet from an unofficial account of the Greitens campaign of state police officers.
“We are in contact with the Missouri Highway Patrol and hope that former Governor Greytens will find the help he needs. “Anyone with multiple allegations of abuse of women and children should probably get out of this rhetoric,” Rowden wrote on Twitter.
Earlier this year, Greytens was accused by his ex-wife, Sheena, of physically abusing her and her children.
The allegations have led to numerous calls for Greitens to resign, including one of Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
Sheena Greatens’ lawyer, Helen Wade, told Kansas City Star on Monday that she plans to use the campaign video in the former first couple’s ongoing custody battle.
In 2015, Greytens’ former hairdresser claimed that Greytens had taken a photo of her partially naked without her consent and threatened to use it against her if he revealed their affair.
The woman also claims that Graytens forced her to engage in sexual activity several times, insisting that she give him oral sex while crying during a meeting, and that he hit or force her in other cases.
Greitens’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The ad comes as the Senate considers a package of legislation aimed at tackling gun violence following the mass shootings in Texas and New York.
His opponents also put guns and the Second Amendment at the forefront and center of their campaigns as they fight in a country that has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation.
Earlier, Harzler sent a letter to her constituents showing that she was holding a rifle and firing a pistol at a shooting range.
However, her latest ad focuses more on Greitens, whom Harzler calls a liar.
St. Louis lawyer Mark McCloskey’s campaign for the place is largely based on him brandishing a rifle against protesters who passed his mansion in the Central West End.
Other candidates seeking the GOP nomination include Attorney General Eric Schmidt and US Representative Billy Long of Springfield.
Updated at 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 20.
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