What's next for confirmed adulterer and accused blackmailer Eric Greitens?

In one short year as Missouri’s governor, Eric Greitens has shown himself to be a bully and a control freak.

This is the man who told a state senator, “I can see by your pupils in your beady little eyes that you’re afraid of me.” This is the governor who uses disappearing text messages to keep government business away from the eyes of the press and public.

Now comes an explosive news report out of St. Louis, where TV station KMOV aired tapes of a conversation in which a woman told her then-husband that Greitens bound her hands to an exercise machine, blindfolded her, took nude photos and threatened to put them on the Internet if she disclosed their affair.

Greitens admitted to an extramarital affair Wednesday but denied the blackmailing allegations. And, no question, KMOV’s story has some problems. But, unfortunately for Greitens, he has spent the past year establishing a pattern that makes the story difficult to dismiss.

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