“I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him”, Trump said in a statement. Even people who believed that nothing Anthony Weiner go do would shock them are disgusted by the latest photo, which dragged a child into such lurid business.
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A spokesperson for NY1, the 24-hour NY news channel, said in a statement to CNNMoney that “Anthony Weiner is on indefinite leave from the station”.
Campaign officials had braced for fresh revelations about Mr Weiner after the Post reported earlier this month that a Republican had baited Mr Weiner into a sexual online chat.
He appeared to have sent a photo of himself in his underwear – one with his toddler son nearby.
“Your do realize you can see you (r) Weiner in that pic??” the woman replied, according to the Post.
Weiner crossed the line over the weekend when he tweeted a photo of his underweared self to a woman he had never met.
She recently told Vogue about how she juggled the demands of motherhood and a campaign job. In December 2011, she gave birth to a boy Jordan Zain Weiner. Her email exchanges with Clinton were closely scrutinized during the Justice Department’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Mr Weiner could not be immediately reached for comment.
Ms Abedin’s separation quickly became political fodder for Mr Donald Trump, Ms Clinton’s Republican opponent.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information”, he said on Monday, reiterating those professed concerns. “Who knows what he learned and who he told?” However on Monday, several news organisations distanced themselves from him.
Anthony Weiner is in the news again for shenanigans he’s previously been in the news for.
The New York Daily News, for which Weiner was an occasional columnist, separately said it would no longer run his columns.
Weiner, a former congressman from New York City, has found himself repeatedly in hot water over sexting.
The photos were part of a months-long exchange between Mr Weiner and the woman and numerous messages were sexual in nature, according to the New York Post report. The paper described her as a 40-something divorced woman from the West.
“Take a look at where she worked by the way and take a look at where her mother worked and works”, Trump said.
She is now the vice chairperson of Clinton’s presidential campaign. She is widely expected to play an important role in a Clinton administration if the Democrat is elected president.
Stylish and poised, Abedin carries enough clout within Clinton circles to headline high-profile fundraisers, as she did in 2015 alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in Paris, raising money from Americans living overseas.
Abedin is Clinton’s most well known aide.
Former New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin attend a news conference in New York, July 23, 2013.
Meanwhile, Rep. Charles Rangel, who served with Weiner in Congress, weighed in Tuesday morning on the child being dragged into the tawdry tale.
He made similar accusations exactly a year ago, referring to Weiner then as “one of the great sleezebags [sic] of our time” and “a perv”.
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Two years later he was caught again, sexting with an aspiring porn star from southwest IN named Sydney Leathers.
