The ex-congressman-turned-stay-at-home-dad has deleted his Twitter account since this story was plastered on the front page of the New York Post yesterday.
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Abedin discovered the new photos only after Weiner was questioned about them by the New York Post.
Both announcements came after Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife and a top Hillary Clinton aide, announced that she and her husband were separating. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what’s best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this hard time, I ask for respect for our privacy”, she added.
The last straw for Abedin, 40, appears to have been revelations that her husband, 51, sexted another woman a photo of his crotch with the couple’s now-4-year-old son in bed next to him.
The New York Times claims Wiener’s actions will cast “another shadow on the adviser and confidante who has been by Clinton’s side for the past two decades”.
The film, which is now playing in theaters, shows from close at hand the reactions of the former legislator and his wife to the second scandal that upended his electoral aspirations.
Abedin announced on Monday that she and Weiner, who have a young son, Jordan, are separating after 6 years of marriage.
One resident told WUSA9, “It’s outrageous and I’m glad she left him”. She was a personal aide to Clinton during her successful 2000 campaign for US Senate, worked on Clinton’s first, unsuccessful White House bid in 2008 and served as her deputy chief of staff at the US State Department. She hired Huma Abedin. Abedin spoke with several close friends Sunday night and early Monday morning before deciding to announce a separation. But now that his campaign of bluster and bigotry isn’t faring well with general election voters, he is desperately grasping at anything he thinks will make a dent in Hillary Clinton’s polling lead.
He asserted, “Huma is making a very wise decision”.
“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. Weiner informed his wife about the scandal and admitted that he sent the pictures.
The marital split spilled into the presidential campaign, with Trump seizing on it to accuse Clinton of “bad judgment”. During that time, it was not always clear whose interests she was representing – the public’s, the foundation’s, or her own.
Trump also repeated his attempts to tie Weiner to Clinton’s emails through Abedin.
Weiner said he had undergone therapy after the first sexting scandal, according to media reports. Weiner hasn’t responded to Romper’s requests for comment.
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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. The New York Daily News had employed Mr Weiner as a columnist but the paper’s editor told The Daily Beast they would no longer run his pieces.
