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Weiner Had Online Sexual Relationship with 15-Year Old

September 21, 2016 · 11:37 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Anthony Weiner carried on a months-long online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl during which she claims he asked her to dress up in ‘school-girl’ outfits for him on a video messaging application and pressed her to engage in ‘rape fantasies,'” the Daily Mail reports.

“The girl… said the online relationship began last January while she was a high school sophomore and before Weiner’s wife, Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin, announced she was ended their marriage.”

“When confronted with the claims, Weiner did not deny exchanging ‘flirtatious’ messages with the teen.”

Scandal Anthony Weiner

Child Welfare Launches Probe Into Weiner

August 31, 2016 · 3:58 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Child welfare officials are investigating Anthony Weiner in the wake of the New York Post’s exclusive report that he sent a lewd selfie that showed his young son lying in bed next to him.”

“The Administration for Children’s Services has launched a probe into the disgraced ex-pol’s care of the boy, a city government source said.”

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

August 16, 2016 · 2:00 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Notwithstanding the flames I went down in, I’m pretty good at this stuff.”

— Anthony Weiner, in an interview with thew New York Times, on whether he misses politics.

Scandal Anthony Weiner

Weiner Threatens to Challenge Trump Jr.

July 27, 2016 · 9:30 am ET · Leave a Comment

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) told Fox News that he would end his retirement to keep Donald Trump Jr. from becoming New York City’s mayor if he ran.

Said Weiner: “I’d come out of a retirement just to beat him like a rented mule.”

Uncategorized Anthony Weiner

‘The Most Mortifying Movie Ever Made’

May 24, 2016 · 11:16 am ET · 43 Comments

Vanity Fair: “An extraordinary and flabbergasting documentary film opened last week: Weiner, directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg. An intimate, unblinking look at Anthony Weiner’s disastrous 2013 campaign for New York City mayor — which was derailed by revelations that he had continued sexting multiple young women even after a previous sexting scandal had forced him to resign from Congress in 2011 — Weiner might well be the most mortifying movie ever made, even including Mortdecai.”

“My first thought after seeing the film was, like most people’s, What were Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin (longtime Hillary Clinton aide), thinking when they allowed some of the most painful, excruciating moments in their marriage to be filmed? My first and a half thought: What would a shrink make of all this?”

Media Buzz, Scandal Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin

Weiner

May 21, 2016 · 1:02 pm ET · 11 Comments

The AP reviews Weiner, “the compulsively watchable new film about Anthony Weiner and the implosion of his 2013 New York mayoral run amid a revival of his sexting scandal.”

“There are lots of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. But occasionally there’s one that makes you want to ask the fly: Just HOW did you get onto that wall, and how did you manage to stay there?”

Media Buzz, Scandal Anthony Weiner

Quote of the Day

March 28, 2016 · 7:19 am ET · 28 Comments

“I’m probably the best campaign politician you will ever interview. I’m like perfectly evolved. I’m like the Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator. I love it. I’m just really good at it and take great joy in it.”

— Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), in an interview with the Huffington Post.

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New Film Documents Anthony Weiner Implosion

January 19, 2016 · 8:36 am ET · 11 Comments

New York Times: “In May 2013, Huma Abedin and Anthony D. Weiner allowed filmmakers full access to his mayoral campaign with the hopes that the end result would document a spectacular political comeback, with Mr. Weiner being sworn in as mayor of New York having emerged from a scandal centered on explicit texting that forced him to resign from Congress. Things did not go quite according to plan.”

“Instead, Weiner… provides an unfettered look at the implosion of Mr. Weiner’s mayoral campaign and a wrenching inside account of the couple’s interactions in the aftermath of his second explicit texting scandal.”

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Anthony Weiner Gets a New Job

July 23, 2015 · 6:28 am ET · 15 Comments

New York Post: “A top ‘crisis’ public-relations firm with ties to Hillary Clinton has hired the last person in the world that most people would call on to dispense advice on dealing with a scandal: disgraced, penis-texting former Congressman Anthony Weiner.”

“The man who destroyed his own promising political career by botching a 2011 sext-message imbroglio with bald-faced lies — and who then ruined his comeback by running one of the most disastrous mayoral campaigns of all time — will now get paid to dispense advice to high-paying clients of the MWW p.r. firm… About the only thing that makes sense about this is that one of the company’s clients is Ball Park Franks.”

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Candidate Vows No Nude Photos

March 16, 2015 · 9:08 am ET · 18 Comments

Daniel Donovan (R) “promised Brooklynites last night that if they elect him to represent them in the House of Representatives, he won’t follow the example of former Congressman Anthony Weiner of Queens or Christopher Lee from western New York in uploading unclothed images of himself online,” the New York Observer reports.

Said Donovan: “I will never embarrass you. I’ve run four times, I’ve been vetted up and down, there’s nothing in my background that’s going to embarrass you. And I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.”

2015 Campaign Anthony Weiner, Daniel Donovan

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