Anthony Weiner rocks race for president with sexting scandal
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A U.S. official told The Associated Press the newly discovered emails emerged through the FBI’s separate sexting probe of former congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of close Clinton confidant Huma Abedin.
NEW YORK >> Once a hard-charging young congressman, Anthony Weiner lost his career and his marriage to a habit of trading sexually explicit messages that he couldn’t shake — a lurid tale of personal self-destruction that’s suddenly found its way into the race for president.
Weiner is separated from Huma Abedin, the vice chairwoman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and one of the Democratic nominee’s closest aides. It’s the federal investigation into his sexting habits that is the “unrelated case” that led the FBI to a new batch of emails, which agency director James Comey told Congress on Friday may be “pertinent to our investigation” into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
And that has once again cast a spotlight on Weiner, one-time rising Democratic Party star whose very name has become a punchline.
Weiner was forced to resign his seat in Congress in 2011, after accidentally posting a picture of himself in his underwear — a private message intended for a woman who was not his wife — to his Twitter account.
Abedin stood by him, and he had the audacity to ask for the voters’ forgiveness and run for mayor two years later. He spent time atop the polls, until fresh evidence emerged that he hadn’t given up his sexting habit and destroyed his campaign.
When Weiner was caught again sending racy messages last summer, Abedin left him. Federal investigators started a probe in September into whether he had sexted with a 15-year-old girl.
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“I am filled with regret and heartbroken for those I have hurt,” Weiner said after he and Abedin separated, lamenting what he called his “terrible judgment.”
The former congressman did not respond to repeated requests for comment Saturday, as the impact of his sexting extended far beyond his household.
Clinton, who has referred to Abedin as a “second daughter,” lashed out Saturday at the FBI’s handling of a new email review that arrived as unexpectedly as did the revelation that Weiner was involved.
The development led to a chorus of Democratic leaders decrying the bureau’s actions, which came with a little less than two weeks remaining before Election Day. Clinton called it “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling,” and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, said there was “no indication this is even about Hillary.”
The brash, liberal, ambitious and media-savvy Weiner spent seven terms in the House, building a profile as “a Democrat who fights”— an amateur hockey player always ready for a face-off with Republicans.
Some critics saw him as heavy on self-promotion and light on legislative accomplishments. But liberal supporters cheered his willingness to confront the GOP on such issues as public radio funding, Planned Parenthood, health benefits for 9/11 first responders and President Barack Obama’s health care plan.
Wise-cracking and scrappy, Weiner once suggested C-SPAN viewers start a drinking game in which they’d down a shot for every Republican misstatement during a debate on the health care plan — “please assign a designated driver,” he quipped.
As Twitter became popular, he proved a natural at delivering provocations, 140 characters at a time. And then it proved to be his undoing.
In May 2011, a photo of a man’s bulging underpants appeared on Weiner’s Twitter account. By then married and expecting a baby with Abedin, Weiner initially claimed his Twitter account had been hacked.
But after more racy messages and photos emerged, Weiner acknowledged engaging in “inappropriate” exchanges with several women. He said he was getting treatment and resigned at a chaotic news conference, compete with hecklers shouting such comments as, “Bye-bye, pervert!”
Weiner, however, wasn’t out of the public eye for long.
In 2013, he belatedly jumped into the race for mayor of the nation’s biggest city, a prize he’d eyed since a strong primary run in 2005. “I think that it’s up to New Yorkers to decide whether I get a second chance or not, and I hope the answer’s yes,” he told The Associated Press.
While some voters were aghast, Weiner topped polls of the primary field for several weeks until a woman went public with smutty messages and photos she said the candidate had sent to her, using the alias “Carlos Danger.”
He acknowledged he’d found new sexting partners after his resignation from Congress, saying he’d since stopped. But his mayoral bid disintegrated into angry exchanges with voters and ended with a middle-finger farewell to reporters after he lost the Democratic primary.
Still, Weiner didn’t entirely leave the public stage. Over time, he re-emerged as an incisive political observer on a local cable news station, in one of the city’s tabloids and on Twitter, until his reputation unraveled still further earlier this year.
This past spring, a documentary feature film about his mayoral bid made viewers wince as they watched how he and Abedin had tried to keep the campaign and their marriage going.
Then, in August, a new batch of sexts became public, including a bulging-underwear shot — with Weiner and Abdein’s toddler son in the frame — that a woman said she’d received from Weiner in 2015.
By then deeply engaged in Clinton’s campaign, Abedin issued a short statement saying she had decided to leave Weiner. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life,” it said.
Weeks later, a 15-year-old girl told DailyMail.com that Weiner had sent her sexually explicit text and video messages. Weiner acknowledged communicating with her, but suggested her claims of X-rated exchanges were a hoax.
He added: “I have no one to blame but me for putting myself in this position.”
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Uncanny as TheDonald predicted this months ago
He, Bill Clinton and Bobby Sitcomb can ride together on the Lolita Express! lol
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Weiner, as news stories have revealed, was really a zero except for his blind support for Israel which has continued to cost American billions of dollars and our reputation for fairness.
It’s really about Huma and her connections with HiLIARy. Just watch.
FBI investigators want to review emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman and Abedin’s estranged husband.
Weiner is a joke and always was. So sad he keeps hanging around to cause trouble. Stock market is set to tank with Trump. Kiss off your retirement.
hahahahahaha, no one can predict the stock market. Only the cheating insiders
Trends in the market are easy to predict. If a president believes in Voodoo, chances are good that the economy will soon tank. That is why I will be voting for sweet Hillary. I just do not want to see the market fall to under 7000.
I’d like to see the market go to 7000! I’d buy in! Another attempt by a Democratic supporter in Boots trying to deflect the real problem at hand in Hillary’s email scandal.
Cheating insiders, I mean market makers, like Goldman Sachs endorse HitLIARy. Tells you a lot about who the “D” party wants to enrich and who they’re in bed with behind the scenes. Boots probably doesn’t know what a market maker is nor is Boot’s in the 1% elite club, he must somehow think the “D” party actually gives a F*F* about him. hahahahahaha
And what is the real problem Pocho with Hillary’s so called scandal? Frankly I don’t consider bending bureaucratic rules to be a major issue. But I understand for phony conservatives who believe in big intrusive government, these rules are the bible. Anyone who breaks them should be immediately shot. Orwell would be proud of you. lol
dragoninwater, just curious but you think entities like Goldman Sachs would not work with republican candidates to obtain their goals? Where have you been the past 200 years?
allie, you should take the little money you make at the pizza shop and have it sitting in a CASH account ready to buy great American Companies at a discount. The elite are not in the stock market, most are sitting in cash and salivating like vultures waiting for a correction, irrespective of candidate.
Allie is an insider Star Advertiser columnist meant to start up and instigate comments! No pizza maker! Can you smell the yeast!
Not surprised that Allie doesn’t like weiner.
Weiner is smart on Real Time with Bill Maher. But, he has that creepy addiction.
Take away his toy, the i-phone period or forbade him from obtaining same.
Allie, so quick to show your ignorance of finance. Almost as hopeless as Boots.
Predicted what exactly?
you wouldn’t believe it. lol
Didn’t think you could respond. 🙂
This is such a phony issue. Nothing is here. Shame republicans have no issues they can run on.
Hillary: when they go HIGH, we go LOW! lol, what she smoking.
Dude, what you smoking?? You can’t even get that slogan right. next.
The headline of this story is also phony and sensationalistic. The story itself has little relation to the presidential race.
Weiner, the gift that keeps on giving, for the GOP.
haaa, there are two weiners. The first one is Huma’s soon to be ex-husband and the other is married to HitLIARy. Both are the gifts that keep on giving to the the GOP and almost defunct Associated Press whom desperately endorsed both weiners in the past.
Do you think this really gave anything to the GOP? I haven’t met anyone who’s said they’ll change their vote as a result of this story.
You would be surprised how some people that I have grown up with as life long Democrats here have quietly shifted their loyalty away from Hillary. Sad
This really doesn’t do anything that should affect Clinton, other than remind people about her email carelessness. She’s already been cleared of any criminal charges. I don’t think any important classified emails will be found among Weiner’s perverted communications. We’ll see…
FBI Director, Comey has and is a republican and misused his position to affect this election. He has donated the maximum allowed to every republican running for the Presidency for years on end.
Most of the top tier officers in the FBI are also republicans, go figure.
The Senate is responsible for electing who runs the FBI, go figure.
The FBI is supposed to be a neutral bystander from a political stand point just as other branches of government are supposed to be, go figure.
The FBI is getting the real truth out and the Clinton cover up will be revealed. Lock up the female felon and rapist hubby. Trump 2016
“…after accidentally posting a picture of himself in his underwear…”
“accidentally”…what a laugh. You left out the part where he lied and blamed the late Andrew Breitbart for hacking his Twitter account.
agree
POP goes the Weiner! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrB6erRUkAAKZfx.jpg
Why isn’t this guy in jail already – Oh yea he’s a friend of Bills.
……….man it just amazes me how much DIRT has been unleashed during this presidential Campaign!
1st.The Democrats attack Donald Trump with the Trump University Scandal!
Next: Hillary recruits the Venezuela “Bomb Shell” Miss Universe,Alicia “My Shadow”. “He Called Me Miss Piggy”. But,never mind that because ,I made a Porn video! Haaaaaaaaaa!She today totally regrets being involved with Hillary Clinton! They discard her.
Next: They try or (The New York Times “Tries”,by producing Illegally obtained Tax returns of Donald Trump and then Publishes Donald’s Tax Returns in their paper? They Claimed:
Donald Paid NO Taxes!
The NYT forgets that not everyone lives under a rock or in their parents basement! Every Body who ran a business knows how Maximize the IRS “Profit Loss” clause. BTW folks? EVERY BODY does this,they look for the least amount in taxes to pay! We all do this!
Next: “The Locker Room Talk” featuring,”Billy Bush”and Donald talking about grabbing women by the,”you know what”. Which seems to have offended ONLY The Mormon Church….Yeah,i bet their male counter parts did more than just “Talk” about women right? Haaaaaaaaaaa!
Next:They try “The Women Thing” again or should i say recruit “The Women ,on “Da Plane, da Plane” lol…..which fails again. Because their Claims all prove to be False….Again,Hillary discards them .
Now today we have all these Sex Scandals,Obama’s Lewdness with the CNN reporters, Oscar Meyer Wiener’s Sexting , Billy Bob Clinton/ Monica Lewinski,cigars and the Blue Dress, Women who fear for their lives for the connection with Bubba Clinton. The Clinton Foundation, Taking Money from foreign gov. who kill Women and Gays. Walls Street and Those “Mega Donors”? Authorizing Weapons Sales. Benghazi’s, 5 “what difference does it Make” Americans killed .Selling Uranium to the Russians, Man! I can go On and On! They are worried about that?
Well maybe this? The FBI Reopens the case?
And now Hillary Clinton and the MSM are afraid of the FBI and a mere Illegal E-mail server,who she have used to communicate “Classified Material” & Not just with Huma’s (Sic) Husband ,but with President Barrack Hussien Obama! Or The Wikileaks “Dumps” and the 100 John Podesta/Cheryl Mills, “We have Clean up this mess”. Braaaaah! And Hillary is worried about the FBI? Or is it Donald Trump? Maybe Both!
Naaaaaaaah, No Worries Hillary ,you’ve got this one in Da Bag!
Like your illustrious leader, trump would say: LIES. Next.
Whats amazing to me is how this same media is ignoring her corruption and is helping to do damage control for her…. and can do it with a straight face and lack of apparent concern for the truth…
Weiner keeps popping up
Sexting is an awful addiction. Once into it and into dirty talk it is impossible to stop because it alters the structure of the brain. Women who us it to trap men need to beware. Because it isn’t going to benefit them. After they’ve used it to wreck a home! It is going to back fire on them! It isn’t about the relationship or how good or happy or fulfilled a marriage is! It is like the high from drugs. Men and women who find their partners sexting need to get them into treatment! Employers need to keep an eye on employee sexters, particularly women using work time for this kind os stuff! While we may have learned to rehabilitate drug and alcohol addicts, we don’t know how to deal with this disease! And it has nothing to do with love or lust ! It has to do with neediness and the high from it! Asian women particularly, coming in to Hawaii are using this like their weapon. Call me racist, but you have to watch out!
Call you racist? After a crazy rant like that, look for “racist” about midway down the list.
It is terrible, the implications and repurcussions for the innocent and by standers! Neither a Hillary or a Trump supporter, but WHY should Hillary be made to pay for this? The children that die or are otherwise affected by this, the older family members and their lives destroyed, by thos awful disease, worse than alcoholism. The toll it takes on families! And Hawaii’s counselors and pastors are incapable of dealing with it!
Anthony “Carlos Danger” Webber Sexual Predator. Bill Bubba Clinton Rapist.
Crooked hiLIARy unfit and has bad judgement in everything she does. Worst of all she has American Blood on her hands…Benghazi Beast.
Sick mind.
#LockHerUp
Yeah, and don’t forget to include, donald “baba” trump. Rapists Supreme.
And unless you’ve got concrete proof of Hillary’s being at fault for the Bengahzi fallout, you just spitting out lies like the rest of trump’s Hitler movement.
Information(LIES) that trump’s loyalists spout off, just like Obama not being an American, which trump finally put an end to just recently seen nationally on tv saying that Obama was born in the USA. And still you got many republicans who hold the former lies as truth. Now that’s what I call absolutely “brainwashed.”
mctruck…CNN ABC CBS MSNBC are in…I repeat…ARE IN COLLUSION with hiLIARy. So getting your info from them makes you simply uninformed.
Heard of WIKILEAKS?
Talk to me when you get informed.
Mickey Truck. Time for your Mommy to take away your internet access and wash your mouth with soap.Such lies.
Bubba & The LOLITA EXPRESS……Bubba instructed his SS detail to not accompany him…he can handle the teen girls.
He is one sick man. He needs to get some serious help, before he ends up in jail for being a sex offender. He had such a beautiful classy wife and screwed it up. Reminds me of a professional golfer we all know.
Perhaps a scorned/rejected/neglected Tony Weiner out for revenge?
Unleashing Uma’s secret emails?
That makes a lot or sense. I still laugh that he calls himself “Carlos Danger”. And New Yorkers elected him!
From what I’m reading, the FBI uncovered Uma’s emails while investigating Weiner’s perverted communications relating to a fifteen year old’s allegations.
Weiner didn’t turn over anything, the FBI got a court order to access his texting and emailing accounts which apparently he shared with Uma who was unaware of his misdeeds.
Put away the comic books.
Thank you, Anthony Weiner. You may have given Americans the gift of now getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the Clinton email server scandal.
What “truth” are you talking about?
As it is, Comey is sitting on a powder keg about to destroy himself because nothing will come of Weiner’s email connections.
The most powerful indictment will be how he manipulated his inclusion of this ludicrous information in trying to affect the election. That’s what is criminal. Now Congress/the Senate will need to investigate the Director of the FBI.
As it is, Comey is sitting on a powder keg about to destroy HiLIARy.
Every good Democrat knows that the “right thing to do,” was to cover up any new evidence of wrongdoing by HRC and lie to the American public. That’s what DOJ does.
STUPID WEINER!!!
STOOPID WEINER!!!
aka Weiner.
if it’s about the email your pinning the wrong person. Hillary only has to look in the mirror to see where to in the blame.
Pocho keep posting. Everyone gets your message.
MM..you do know the clintons introduced Huma to Anthony right? And the rest is history.