The allegations stem from Abedin’s upbringing in Saudi Arabia and a staid academic journal her mother publishes that Islamic scholars say is decidedly not radical.
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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.
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. Weiner was alleged to have sent a picture of a barechested man with white boxers and a bulge, while a small child is asleep beside him.
Duffy, a Trump supporter, said the GOP nominee made “a mistake” in politicizing the news that Weiner texted lewd pictures to a woman, including one that featured his young son. But it is her marriage to Weiner that made her a somewhat reluctant celebrity – her choices and motives up for public debate, her marriage the subject of a widely watched documentary, and her designer clothing the subject of public scrutiny and magazine profiles. Weiner hasn’t responded to Romper’s requests for comment.
“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”, added Trump.
Unfortunately for anyone who wants to try and keep lurid or sensationalistic topics out of the campaign, however, Donald Trump has already done more than enough to lower that bar himself, without any help from Anthony Weiner or Hillary Clinton. He said it’s an example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgement.
Anthony Weiner leaves the press conference he called to announce his resignation Thursday, June 16, 2011 in New York City, New York.
“Anthony Weiner is on indefinite leave from the station”, a NY1 spokesman told CNN’s Dylan Byers. Weiner was a frequent guest on the NY news channel’s “Inside City Hall” program. 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. He deflected at the time, saying “I’m not going to go down the path of talking about any of that”, before changing the topic to Trump.
Before The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner sent a year ago to a woman identified as a “40-something divorcee”, Abedin was spotted outside a Clinton fundraiser at the Southampton home of philanthropist Marcia Riklis.
Weiner told the Post that he and the woman “have been friends for some time”. The paper described her as a 40-something divorced woman from the West.
Ms Abedin and Mr Weiner Wednesday in 2010 in a ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton. Additionally, she was personal aide to Clinton during her successful 2000 campaign for United States Senate. Abedin was present as an East Wing aide for Hillary Clinton’s painful reckoning with her husband’s infidelities.
The separation was announced after Weiner’s online exchanges with women had been a source of tension within Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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The former NY congressman, who was once considered a rising star of the Democratic party, resigned in 2011 after accidently posting to Twitter an explicit photo meant for a woman he met online.
