Impeachment looms after woman says Missouri governor coerced her into sex
Missouri's governor faced calls to resign and a threat of impeachment Wednesday after state legislators released a bombshell report in which a woman testified he slapped her, ripped open her shirt and "coerced" her into giving oral sex against her will.
Republican Gov. Eric Greitens - a former Navy SEAL whose outsider 2016 campaign for governor made him a rising star in the GOP - already faces an upcoming felony trial in St. Louis over allegations he photographed the woman naked against her will during an affair in 2015.
But after a special House of Representatives investigative committee - commissioned to examine the pair's extramarital affair - released a much-awaited 24-page report, legislators expanded the committee's mission to include
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