“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband”, she said in the statement. “During this hard time, I ask for respect for our privacy”, she added.
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They have a three-year-old son, Jordan Zain Weiner.
Abedin’s and Weiner’s relationship has been strained since his second round of publicly revealed sexting sunk his mayoral bid in 2013.
The Post story said Weiner had sent lewd photos of himself to another woman while his wife was campaigning with Clinton. “I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him”.
The photos were part of a months-long exchange between Weiner and the woman and numerous messages were sexual in nature, according to the Post report.
He then is alleged to have sent a picture of a barechested man with white boxers and a bulge, while a small child is asleep beside him.
“Your do realize you can see you (r) Weiner in that pic??” the woman replied, according to the Post.
Weiner was with her and Jordan this weekend in the Hamptons, but left Monday morning. Why didn’t Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner separate earlier?
Even more potentially damaging, of the 110 emails Abedin forwarded to her personal email servers, 45 were found by WND to have contained heavily redacted information, with some 20 of the emails 100 percent redacted.
Mr Weiner had also remained in the public eye as a political commentator in recent years.
The statement went on to criticise Clinton for allowing Weiner close proximity to classified information, suggesting that this had compromised United States security.
Trump immediately seized on the aide’s marital split to accuse Clinton of “bad judgment”.
“Anthony Weiner is on indefinite leave from the station”, a NY1 spokesman told CNN’s Dylan Byers.
Weiner resigned from Congress after that episode. And the New York Daily News said it would no longer run his columns. During that time, it was not always clear whose interests she was representing – the public’s, the foundation’s, or her own.
The Post, which did not completely identify the woman, said she provided 12 selfies from Weiner.
Abedin has been under scrutiny during the probe into Clinton’s use of a private email system while she was secretary of state.
Abedin began working for the former first lady as a White House intern and became a trusted aide as Clinton won a seat in the Senate representing NY in 2000, ran for president in 2008 and served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
Throughout these scandals though, Ms Abedin, who married Mr Weiner in 2010 at a ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton, stood by her husband. She’ll no doubt rely on advice from Clinton, who she’s worked for since she was her intern in the 1990s, according to the New York Times. 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.
Weiner the documentary, which is out on DVD through Madman Films on September 7, offers extraordinary access inside the politician’s doomed 2013 campaign to become the mayor of NY.
Weiner had been sexting a porn star named Sydney Leathers hiding behind the Twitter name “Carlos Danger”.
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As of about 7:35 a.m. ET, Weiner’s Twitter page had been taken down.
