Richard Johnson said, “More scandals in the DNC why am I not surprised”.
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Photos published by The New York Post late Sunday show the man completely and others feature Weiner’s face, but the photo of the boy has been partially blurred out, and the woman’s face is blurred out in her photos.
The Post story said Weiner had sent lewd photos of himself to another woman while his wife was campaigning with Clinton.
A documentary released in May, “Weiner”, chronicled that campaign and the painful burden shouldered by Abedin, who worked on Clinton´s first presidential campaign in 2008 and followed her boss to the State Department.
In spite of the scandal and his resignation from Congress, Weiner chose to run for mayor of New York City in 2013.
“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband”, Abedin, 40, said in a statement. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him.
On the streets of D.C., people were shocked.
This afternoon, former Clinton White House legal counsel Lanny Davis suggested Clinton respond to Trump’s statement “by repeating the words of Joseph Welch to Sen”. As Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor, Abedin has been in the spotlight, and was constantly being asked about her philandering husband.
“These things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife”, Weiner said at a press conference, with Abedin appearing by his side. Federal prosecutors declined to file charges in the investigation, but FBI Director James Comey said Clinton and her aides had been “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information.
Ms Abedin’s announcement comes after a report emerged that he had allegedly exchanged sexual photos with a woman.
The clearest sign of this: Abedin had recently not been wearing a wedding ring, a fact that did not go unnoticed by people inside and around the Clinton campaign. Abedin has been a close Clinton aide for two decades.
Two years later, Abedin was all in for her husband’s mayoral bid, raising money, appearing on the campaign trail and participating in interviews in which the couple talked about rebuilding their trust and marriage. She is widely expected to play an important role in a Clinton administration if the Democrat is elected president.
“What I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as I have said from the beginning, we are moving forward”, Abedin said.
This is the third social media scandal Weiner (aka Carlos Danger) has been involved in.
Trump gave a total of $4,300 in 2007 and 2010 to Weiner’s congressional runs, and $150 to a city council race in 1997. His political comeback – a tilt at the NY mayor’s job in 2013 – also came undone when a series of explicit messages to young women were revealed. 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.
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Trump, who has been divorced twice and is a known adulterer, supported Abedin for leaving Weiner and last month publicly called Weiner “a sleazeball and pervert”. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has repeatedly questioned Abedin’s designation as a special government employee, pushing for more disclosure about the decision that allowed her to hold both jobs.
