'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.' This time she did it in public, saying that although he had made ' horrible mistakes, both before he resigned from Congress and after', their marriage was secure. The recipient was Sydney Leathers, a 22-year-old from Indiana who had never met Weiner. But I've also learned some tough lessons,' he said in a campaign video.įor a while, it was going well Weiner was frontrunner, far ahead of Bill de Blasio, the awkward-mannered ultra-liberal who is now New York mayor.īut in July there came a dramatic development: screen shots of more sexting that Weiner sent under the alias 'Carlos Danger'. 'Look, I've made some big mistakes and I know I've let a lot of people down. The next May Weiner was back - in a blaze of headline puns - running to be New York mayor and Abedin was at his side. While Weiner used his electronic technology to exchange sexts with strangers, his wife was using an email address from the now notorious server - despite being a State Department employee. It was little commented on then but it was Abedin's job at the time which is now the key to his role in the Clinton email affair. The next week yet more selfies emerged this time he resigned, apologized to his wife - now revealed to be pregnant - and claimed he was seeking treatment for his problems. In May 2011 a picture of the bulging crotch of a man appeared on his Twitter account Weiner's response was to lie that he had been hacked.Ī week later, he cried as he apologized for lying, and admitted he had had several inappropriate relationships with women online.īut he would not resign - and his wife was standing by him. Sexting: The 15-year-old girl who revealed had received sexually-charged messages from Weiner, with her father She was glamorous and impeccably well-connected, he was brilliant - an impassioned speech became a social media hit and he used the new technology to make himself one of the Democratic party's rising stars.īut it was less than a year later that Weiner became an international laughing stock thanks to that same technology. Hillary had hosted an engagement party for them at her Washington home - the ultimate power couple seemed to be endorsing a new generation's Democratic power couple. He first asked her on a date in 2001 - she apparently turned him down - then in 2008, as Clinton tried to be president for the first time, they began dating seriously.Ībedin, a devout Muslim, and Weiner, who is Jewish, were married by Bill Clinton in Huntington, New York in July 2010. She and Weiner started moving in the same orbit when her boss ran for New York senator in the dying days of Bill's White House Weiner was the newly-elected representative in Congress for the 9th district of New York. She has endured years of the Clintons' psychodramas, been at Hillary's side in the turbulent aftermath of the Lewinsky affair, and clearly knows everything about the Democratic candidate for the White House that there is to know. The foundations of the Abedin-Weiner romance were laid in Clintonworld.Ībedin has been Hillary Clinton's longest-serving aide, starting in the White House as an intern, not long after Monica Lewinsky was an intern too. Sexting object: Sydney Leathers, from Indiana, whose online trysts did not end Weiner's marriageĪbedin's loyalty to her husband had finally snapped but it had lasted a very long time, endured a lot of scandals - and now, in the cold light of the FBI's latest move, must seem to her one of the worst decisions she could possibly make. In fact Abedin, 40, was already separated from Weiner, 52, by the time the FBI moved in, as she had announced the end of their marriage in August, when he was hit by another sexting scandal. It is unclear if they also took mobile devices. New York police and the FBI moved in on Weiner quickly after 's revelations - and it now transpires that when federal authorities investigated, they took the former couple's shared laptop. Wiener knew she was 15 - the girl had told him.Īt the time of the sexts, Weiner was still married to Abedin - although he complained about their lack of a sex life to the girl - and caring for their son while she campaigned intensively for Clinton. He told her he was 'hard' that he 'would bust that tight p****' sent her unclothed pictures and told her he had rape fantasies about her. Stand by your man: In the wake of the Carlos Danger scandal Abedin made a rare public statement of support, saying their marriage was not going to end over yet more sexting
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