Eric Greitens, the embattled former Missouri governor-turned-GOP Senate candidate, released a campaign ad Monday in which he and a group of armed men in tactical gear are on the hunt for “RINOs” — Republicans in name only. “We’re going RINO hunting,” a shotgun-toting Greitens, with a handgun holstered at his side, says before he bursts into a house with the men in tactical gear, one of whom throws what appears to be a flash-bang grenade. “Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country,” he says at the end of the video, which encourages donors to pay $25 for a “RINO hunting” sticker. Earlier in the video, Greitens, who resigned as governor in 2018 amid a sexual misconduct scandal and a campaign finance felony charge that was later dropped, says, “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice.” The video was posted on Greitens’ YouTube page, and he tweeted out a link to the ad. Hours after the tweet, Twitter put it behind a warning that said it “violated the Twitter Rules of abusive behavior” but that the site had “determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
