Abedin has been by Clinton’s side for two decades, first as an intern in the first lady’s office in the 1990s and then as a top aide as Clinton began her own political career as a USA senator from NY.
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Richard Johnson said, “More scandals in the DNC why am I not surprised”.
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.
Weiner resigned as NY congressman in 2011 after photos of a sexual nature emerged of him with another woman.
Huma Abedin has been described as Hillary Clinton’s “shadow”, following her almost everywhere as campaign vice chairwoman.
Trump also repeated his attempts to tie Weiner to Clinton’s emails through Abedin.
“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband”, said Abedin in a statement yesterday (Monday). “I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him”, Trump began in his statement. The woman said she has never met Weiner in person and that she too is in a relationship with a boyfriend who she lives with.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is from NY, praised Abedin’s decision.
Even Clinton’s opponent, Donald Trump, noted Abedin was “making a wise decision” to leave Weiner behind. Two of these allies said they were told that some kind of statement would be coming and urged them to respect Abedin’s privacy.
Huma Abedin’s response: “I love him, I trust him, I believe in him”. He and his wife both have stressful jobs that probably keep them separated a lot of the time, and on the scale of shitty things to do to a romantic partner, sexting is relatively low compared to, say, cheating and giving your partner an STD.
The announcement of the separation came after the Post showed that Mr Weiner had exchanged photos with the woman. But it worked out for the best, being surrounded by her family and her friends. Abedin has been a close Clinton aide for two decades.
Moments later he reportedly anxious he had posted the image on his public timeline and not as a private, direct message – like in 2011 when his Twitter followers saw he had uploaded a picture of himself, posing in grey underwear. She said Weiner made some “terrible mistakes” before and after he resigned from Congress.
“With Huma, her grace, her intellect and her humility have been unmatched as I’ve watched her go from an aide to an adviser to one of the people at the top of my campaign”, Ms. Clinton said in a recent profile of Ms. Abedin in Vogue.
In 2014, Weiner apologized after favoriting a Tweet that called the dating application Tinder the “ultimate sext machine”.
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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.
