Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens Announces US Senate Bid

(Julie Smith/The Jefferson City News-Tribune via AP, File)

A former Missouri governor who resigned three years ago says he’s running for the U-S Senate in 2022.

Republican Eric Greitens was elected as Missouri’s governor in 2016 and resigned in 2018, 17 months after taking office. He announced Monday on Fox News’ “Special Report” that he’s running for the Senate in 2022. Greitens says Missouri needs a fighter in the U-S Senate ” … to defend President Trump’s America first policies and also to protecting the people of Missouri from Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s radical leftist agenda”

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office announced in 2018 that they dismissed a computer tampering case against Greitens, in exchange for the governor’s resignation. The charge involved Greitens’ alleged attempt to take a donor list from his former charity, the Mission Continues, without the permission of charity officials.