Courtesy of Mother Jones:Just in: Statement from Huma Abedin announcing separation from Anthony Weiner pic.twitter.com/DzIJ9PwSf5 via @albamonica— MSNBC Live w/Tamron (@TamronMSNBC) August 29, 2016
In a statement to NBC, Huma Abedin announced she is planning to separate from her husband Anthony Weiner.
Anthony Weiner appears to have deleted his Twitter account amid new allegations that the former New York congressman has been sending lewd messages to an unknown woman over the past 19 months, the New York Post reports. The report is the latest in a series of sexting scandals involving Weiner, including one that brought down his 2013 campaign to become the mayor of New York City.
One of the photos allegedly sent by Weiner, the husband of Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin, includes their sleeping son.
So to the question of whether or not there are douchebags on the Left to match the douchebags on the Right, I give you exhibit A.
You know in full disclosure there was a time that I really liked Anthony Weiner but damn is he a POS!EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner sexted a busty brunette while his son was in bed with him https://t.co/amX1TJIFn7 pic.twitter.com/qlJ8O22UvO— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2016
And I really feel sorry for Huma.
Not only is the poor woman now under constant attack from the Right Wing, but she also has to put up with this shit.
And I shudder to imagine how the Right Wing and Donald Trump will use this to attack Hillary Clinton. Because you know they will.
Update: Well that didn't take long.
Courtesy of the New York Times:
But Ms. Abedin’s separation quickly became political fodder for Donald J. Trump, Mrs. Clinton’s Republican opponent.
“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.
“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,” he continued. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
And I imagine that is only the beginning.
Weener has a hard-on for texting.
ReplyDeleteThis is really sad as Weiner has been given many opportunities to keep his pecker in his pants and finger off the phone.
ReplyDeleteHe has had some progressive ideas that need to be heard and in place.
Unfortunately, those ideas will get buried in a lonely dresser drawer where he keeps his thong underwear.
As for a very accomplished Huma, she has been Hillary's confidante for a long time and currently has her plate filled with Trumped-up allegations.
Painful stuff.
Like myself, surely many an aging baby boomer sees this post and is very grateful to have lived in a time before our carnally-charged, impulsive decision making could be shot around the world and preserved for all time with a keyboard stroke. Dumb Tony, dumb.
ReplyDeleteAnd just why is Trump assuming that Huma would pass classified information? Because she's a woman? Would he have said this about a man married to an adulterous wife?
ReplyDeleteTrump: Misogynistic to the core.
My thoughts exactly!
DeleteTrump should talk with an illegal as his wife.
DeleteTrump holds her nationality against her. Her parents are Indian but to someone like Trump she's basically an Arab because, well, India is close enough and also b/c she grew up in Saudi Arabia and her father is a scholar in such areas as Muslim affairs.
DeleteLike Trump? The jerk that has had numerous affairs and was married to multiple women?
DeleteTrump is a first-class asshole and is no one to talk about anything sexual!
Trump is no more qualified to be POTUS than I am! He can't keep his mouth shut for two seconds and is so quick to criticize or put someone down!
Trump is not someone most would want to follow. I feel sorry for his kids having to come to gripes with the evilness of the boy/man who is called their father!
He has such a shallow ego! It's amazing to watch and listen to him! Can hardly wait for him to become 'the loser' Trump!
Vote for Hillary Clinton! I am!
I just had a thought. If internet as it is now, was available to Trump back when his junk was younger, he may have done what Wiener does. Because, Trump tweets like a teenager. So I know this would have happened. He's so full of himself.
DeleteDrumpf would have used some much BIGger dudes junk in the tweet/pic.
DeleteHe isn't. In Trump's sick chauvinistic, misogynist mind, wives are property. Therefore, Hillary really hired Weiner, not Human Abeddin. He can't separate the two parts of a married couple.
DeleteComment from Crooks and Liars article:
ReplyDelete"The fact that Anthony Weiner is still alive should put to rest any notion that the Clintons actually have people killed."
Ha!
DeleteGood one, 8:39 AM!
DeleteHillary introduced them. Bill officiated at their wedding.
DeleteI'm not making any excuses for Weiner and Huma should have left him a long time ago, but he sounds like he has a serious impulse control issues. I have a now divorced brother-in-law who did similar ( but not with pics) and he was later diagnosed with adhd and the prescribed meds did wonders for his ability to control his impulses.
ReplyDeleteHillary has a pretty good Rapid Response team. Let's see it at work, answering Trump.
ReplyDeleteWeiner is the pits. I'm glad Huma dumped him.
At last. Huma. Let it go.
ReplyDeleteShe needed to separate him, and especially with the child in the pic--no way could she have not separated this time.
ReplyDeleteTrump had already talked about Wiener of late. I'd heard him a few times mention Wiener over many weeks. To Trump, Wiener's personal life was something he thought he could use against Hillary. And he has also recently brought up the Lewinsky blue dress. But Trump thinks his own personal life with Melania should be off-limits. No way. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I want to know when Melania's news conference is going to finally happen. And I hope the people working on getting a hold of all her visa info and work date info are still trying hard to get that info.
Trump becomes more of a pig every day. What Wiener's doing should be beneath mentioning, but of course Trump goes there.
ReplyDeleteTrump who was married three times and who had multiple mistresses on top of all the other rumors floating around is hardly in a position to comment. I hope that someone refreshes his memory on that subject.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for Huma but who could blame her. The photo in which we see her young sleeping son while Anthony is otherwise occupied is heartbreaking. I would hope that he gets only supervised visits with his son. He has already demonstrated that he cannot be trusted.
Not only does Trump have his own history of repeated infidelity (there's a pot and kettle comment in there somewhere), but one of his closest advisors as he prepares for the upcoming debate is Roger Ailes, who is in the middle of an enormous sexual harassment lawsuit.
DeleteIt's truly frightening how he can manipulate reality so that anything and everything relates directly to himself. That's a terrifying prospect in a potential president!
I had forgotten about Ailes. Trump has no shame. He'll use anyone or anything to benefit himself. I shudder to think about what he would do if he would ever become president.
Delete"It should be required reading for anyone involved with male collegiate athletics" OR just like carrying A water bottle...
ReplyDeleteThis quote speaks to many subjects that appear here> "This is hard work. It is emotionally draining and painful. Carrying other people's pain, being their champion, day after day, changes you forever. And it often creates an obligation—a feeling that you cannot quit. That once you've taken up the mantle, to abandon it would be unthinkable. Especially when there are so many stories to tell, so many people who need someone to be their advocate." Jessica and Melissa Zero in on this. You go Girls>
http://www.shakesville.com/2016/08/review-jessica-luthers-unsportsmanlike.html
btw... What happened to Sarah Palin's assistants?
ReplyDeleteI hear she may have a concussion. Are her assistants leaving her unassisted at this critical time? Something is wrong.
They all know about the problems with assassination threats. Sarah and Bristol are so scared they have the man Bristol married going on and on about his purpose is to protect and sell guns and equipment. He is so into his passion he has signed on with a rescue mission to save others who are in a mess.
As important as health is and Sarah knows all about that, why would she be rock climbing? She knows she is clumsy. Her family of assistants know and I can't believe they would allow her to rock climb. Didn't she and Todd do a promotion about that before. It was a failure? No assistant in their right mind would leave their clumsy boss in danger.
How can "The Donald" (POS that he is) even BEGIN to make a personal and private decision like the one the Weiner's are announcing into an attack on Hillary Clinton? Good grief!
ReplyDeleteGive that a think one time before you go ALL CAPS and good grief: Last week the Clinton campaign and the Dems used the personal, private matters of Bannons as an attack on Donald Trump.
DeleteMoron at 10:33 Bannon is IN CHARGE of Trumps's whole scampaign. Weiner is married to an aide and is OUT OF THE LOOP, you fruit cake.
DeleteYou're the moron-fruitcake if you're claiming it's OK to attack one candidate about the personal matters of a staffer but not another.
DeleteAnd let's not pretend Abedin is some low-level aide. Abedin is the Clinton gate-keeper, closest aide, her "second daughter" (Clinton said that). She's stayed with a guy to whome she's given at least 2 second chances. Now he's sexting with a baby in the bed. Goes to judgement.
DeleteThis is the danger in using the personal for politics: what goes around always comes around.
I wish Clinton and her surrogates in the party and the press would resist the urge to get in the gutter with Trump.
11:12am, you've already proven you're too stupid to get it. You don't have to keep trying.
Delete11:48 - You're the one who doesn't get it. Clinton and the Dems should stay on the high road.
Delete20:33 and 11:32. You didn't do well in logic or debate at school, did you?Bannon (Trump staffer) = perpetrator; Huma (Hillary staffer) = NOT perpetrator. You repeat your idiotic comparison even after somebody points out the very obvious significant difference: Trump chose to have the person with poor judgement directly lead his campaign, whereas Weiner has nothing to do with Hillary's campaign. Btw, in your book it's ok that Trump cheated on a wife and got another woman pregnant.....but you're going to accept his judging Hillary?
DeleteNot to mention, Huma, the innocent and wronged spouse was employed by Clinton long before the sexting happened round 1. Huma chose to stay and work on her marriage (unlike T.rump dump the wife.)
DeleteT.Rump hired Bannon, the voter registration felon, the accused wife beater AFTER he had perpetrated these crimes.
SO you have apples and oranges as to guilt and innocence, and you have apples and oranges chronology. You're twice dumb as a box of rocks @10:33
Mission accomplished! With tweets and PICs!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/michael-moore-and-bill-maher-go-on-a-search-for-trumps-tax-returns-hilarity-ensues/
I can't believe Wiener didn't find anything suspicious about this woman who obviously has fake boobs and who has a hot bod and doesn't need to be tweeting with someone like Wiener. She's either in some area of the sex biz or she'd been planning all along to use this year-plus of sexting with Wiener politically. I'd love some PI work done on this to find out who else might be involved.
ReplyDeleteThese pixels were from 2015. They held them and timed the release.
DeleteOh, so it's someone else's fault Weiner got caught sexting again but this time with the baby in the bed. Yeah, he was entrapped. Give me a fucking break and search your moral compass.
Delete11:05am, reading comprehension is clearly not your strong suit.
Delete10:54 - Didn't you read the post and the article? "Over the last 19 months" This wasn't a one-off from 2015.
Delete11:49 - PI's to check if he was entrapped and by whom, wouldn't help. You want this to go away fast, not keep it in the news. So what if you learn he was sexting a hooker this time instead of a co-ed. The guy's a sex addict.
Yeah, 11:05 is the poster who misses the actual point every time. Subtlety is not their string suit....actually, intelligence is not their strong suit (along with reading comprehension).
DeleteSo, what's up with the case against Trump raping a then-13-year-old? I hope more is about to come out on that. And Melania being a possible escort. These topics are not over with. I hope they come to the forefront very soon.
ReplyDeleteCarlos Danger really stepped in it this time :-)
ReplyDelete(Please, please, please let John Oliver revisit this!)
Problem for the Clinton campaign and Dems: Arguing Weiner's off-limits after bringing up Bannon's personal past.
ReplyDeleteWhy? Is Weiner running Clinton's campaign?
DeleteDon't play obtuse.
DeleteBe dumber.
DeleteHuma, like Hillary, really cares only about riding the coattails to the top than focusing on being a good partner in a marriage. Hence, the Wienerman, much like Bill, is off doing his own thing. Huma (and Hillary's) bigger problem is her connection to radical Islamic publications. Hillary may very well have to dump her girlfriend before too long as more is uncovered.
DeleteBullshit. Trump chose to put Bannon on staff and in charge of his campaign. His faults are fair game.
DeleteWeiner has no position with the Clinton campaign. Neither Clinton nor Abedin is responsible for his inability to keep his pants zipped.
2:22pm, next time you have an opinion you want to voice, let it go. It will be a better world I'd you were to shut the fuck up.
DeleteAbout time. He always struck me as a douche in private and I had reservations about what he was saying. Like he was making sure he stated everything that was expected of him and for the benefit of getting votes. He always struck me as insincere.
ReplyDeleteShe should have dumped him long ago.
I'd also like to know what he does for a living? It's not like he'll ever have a political career again. Is he a lawyer and practice law? I can't imagine him being an asset to any firm. I don't see him making money from the media as a commentator or pundit.
Now, after this, he is simply a public joke and will be even more so for even longer.
As for Donald, he should be very careful what stones he chooses to toss considering who he brought with him to his security briefing. Hey, Donald! When will Melania give her immigration press conference?
As exhibit A, I give you Mark "hiking the Appalachian Trail" Sanford. Still in office (yeah Tarheels are stoooooopid.)
DeleteThis is one reason I cringe when women give their husbands a second chance (they should at least separate to show an addict they mean business). When a man is threatened with loss of everything in his life, a good man WILL change.
ReplyDeleteVery few are like Bundy, who was far gone. I firmly believe that.
I HOPE given time, TonyW can take the Stephen Collins route and GET HELP.
What is wrong with y chromosomes?
How Did Huma Not Know ‘She Had a Deviant Taking Care of Her Child’?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-on-weiner-how-did-huma-not-know-she-had-a-deviant-taking-care-of-her-child/
How does Donald not know about Bannon of Sarah Palin's 'Undefeated'?
Deviant? Oversexed, idiotic, yes. Deviant?
DeleteI am sorry but I must write this tangent after a morning from hell.
ReplyDeletePreface: I have a 14 yr old and 17 yr old. Both girls.
This is my speech to them, borrowed but perfect for ANY parent.
"My promise to my children:
As long as I live ' I am your parent 1st and your friend 2nd. I will stalk you, flip out on you . lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare and hunt you down like a bloodhound , when needed because I LOVE YOU!
When you understand that , I will know you are a responsible adult. You will never find someone who loves,prays, cares, & worries about you more than I do! If you don't hate me once in your life time - I am not doing my job properly..."
No thanks, I have a much better one, from John Powers, The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God - paraphrase: and when we see each other as adults, let it be because were friends and we want to."
DeleteHe's not scum. That's unfair to say at this time.
ReplyDeleteSome people need to lose everything to turn around.
Hopefully, he is a good man like Stephen Collins and not like Cosby.
Memo to Huma: You need to read up on Lorenna Bobbitt and her cure for idiot husbands.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt
Huma needs to do what Sarah Palin did.
DeleteThere were pictures, a video or 2 of her son the war hero. It showed him in bed with his daughter and the woman he was with going on about their unwed sleeping with his daughter from another relationship.
She goes on about the morning, how great it is to wake up from a night like that.
It was sick and disgusting child abuse.
Sarah Palin got rid of the posts, pictures and writing.
Huma needs to read up on how Sarah Palin handles her family child abuse and the whores that Palin men use.
When this first made news, she shouldn't separated and restricted his time with their son.
ReplyDeleteHe clearly is a person who has to lose everything to change.
Let's pray for him. EVERYONE deserves prayer, good vibes and a chance. While some people can change for the better and stay married, I doubt these two are in that category. he kind of sounds like he hates political life and needs a new setting. Could be anything. People are complex.
#whatswrongwithmeningeneral
Trump sends Palin home to take care of her family.
ReplyDeleteHer family can't take care of her either.
How is it no one is keeping a watch on the self confessed clumsy Sarah Palin? The family values family refuses to assist the pathological liar?
Sarah Palin falls and cracks,
ends up in a Amsco Delivery 4 birth bed - there are no coincidences,
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/sarah-palin-falls-and-cracks-her-head-and-makes-it-all-about-hillary-clinton/
Who did she give birth to?
https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14141769_10154491160898588_3533344584803488850_n.jpg?oh=5c2e25e5778c18f94bee93acbe3d00d3&oe=5847DF24
The Daily Mail asks for tips. Now they are being sued. They could use the money and crack the mysteries.
Why do I care who anybody else slept with or sexted?
ReplyDeleteAs long as they're consenting adults, it's only between the parties involved, and their partners.
The fact that this is news is a little puritanical.
Oh wait - unless you're contradicting your public persona. I won't mention any names, but she rhymes with Pistol Bailin.
ReplyDeleteI know someone with a rhyme, Pistol Failin. Failin has a commercial place on the internet where she sell things. She sells she is all about family and family values. It is some sales job.
DeleteFailin's mother has a big bloody boo boo. She does not want the lamestream media to break the news or make reports like they tried to do with another family boo boo.
Or all the times she tried to get out of Wasilla to be with Trump. The lamestream media broke and owned her stories when she was sent home due to screwed up family values.
What does Grandma Failin do with her current breaking news?
Grandma Failin breaks the news herself. All alone and no one else in sight. Grandma Failin has no support or help, not one person that cares. She is on her own and all alone.
You would think Pistol Failin would be with her mother and trying to be supportive of someone with a head injury who is a public babbler, known to drunk babble.
Grandma Failin could have a concussion.
Pistol Failin and her bff, trained to kill, are too busy having fun and posing with beer and others from the DNA (substance abuse) family.
Why are they hiding from Grandma's breaking news? Where are the reports from the doctors so the concerned fans know it is not a concussion? What would a family values family do to protect a Grandma that is so out of shape and out of it?
The entire Palin Klan is so fucking stupid that a head injury would be an improvement.
DeleteDidn't Donnie take BANNON along with him to his security briefing? You know, the guy who hates America and loves Russia. Hillary went ALONE, Donnie. She is smart enough to understand critical data unlike you, who will use secret reports as bribes to get what you want. You re as disgusting as Weiner.
ReplyDeleteTrump goes on and on about Wiener, the husband of an aid to Hillary, yet the CEO of Trump's campaign has a record of domestic abuse and thought he had the right to strangle his wife, but that's okay by Trump. Time after time, we see people who are very close to Trump shown to be horrors, but Trump defends their behavior.
ReplyDeleteWell now this is another sad story related to Donald John Trump Campaign 2016. In the don playbook reality show in making, he is to arrange a past bimbo of weeny to seduce him by any means and take um down. I feel bad for the child and mother huma weeny. Don will be exploiting this for profit for at least 60 days and maybe after the election. There are so many victims of the toxic rump campaign. Don and company would sell America and soul to avoid debt at all cost. A sinfluenza ultimate brat.
ReplyDeleteOn MSNBC's With All Due Respect (w/ Mike Barnicle sitting in for the GOP host today), they just had on Kellyann Conway and let her talk her spin forever about Trump and how it is absolutely Trump's right to talk about Winer (and the excuse being that he could have passed on top secret info from Huma to his sexting partners). She ended saying that the last thing she wants to do is to talk about Wiener, but that was really all she wanted to do during her guest appearance. I couldn't believe they just let her go on and on. Well, I'm sure the later evening shows will take care of that--Chris Hayes, Rachel, and Lawrence can be counted on to do that.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a pug to use this scandal to his advantage. He is low as Weiner.
ReplyDeleteKellyanne Conway repeated this voicing her disgust of Weiner. I wanted to say Who chains herself to a suitcase with fake boobs and what spouse wants to publish his wife naked?
Kellyanne does not impress me in the least. She appears cold, steady in her thought process and always w/no emotion reflected!
DeleteI'll bet she is one cold turkey!
Damn. There was a time when I admired Anthony Weiner; thought he had a bright future. Boy, was I wrong. I now feel the same way about Alan Grayson, another promising Democrat who has flamed out because of his marital woes. What I despise is the hypocrisy from the right as though it has no perverts in its ranks.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am deeply disappointed that Weiner could not control his base impulses thus putting his wife in a vulnerable position. Almost as though he was passive-aggressively trying to destroy her future with the next president of the United States.
He does have an impressive looking cock, he just needs to learn to keep it to himself or learn to twitter and text by proxy server if he wants to be nasty.
DeleteThat being said, I appreciate his cock photos, but please Tony leave your face out of it, it ruins the moment :-)
Good for Huma. I, too, liked Anthony, thought he'd have a good influence on the Democratic party, but apparently, he's addicted to exposing himself on the net more than he loves his wife and child.
ReplyDeleteAnd screwwwwww Trump. Anyone taking marital advice from Amnesty Don and the merry wives in his wake is either a fool or insane. He's the last in the world to give advice. Shut your piehole, Huma's a smart woman, she knows what to do, and it isn't plagiarizing someone else's speech. Where's your website, immigrant Melania?
Well, if anyone knows about exposing nasty? It is the trump fiasco campaign of sinners.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/donald-trump-got-a-clean-bill-of-health-from-a-physician-who-sounds-remarkably-like-donald-trump/
ReplyDeleteI worry that little Donnie has been given access to classified information. Who knows who he will tell like his pro Russian former aide? his father in law the commie and who knows who else because little donnie can't keep his mouth shut.
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