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When Huma Abedin’s Private Life Went Public

October 18, 2021 at 5:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Huma Abedin has an excerpt of her new book in Vogue on the moment she got a text message from her then-husband, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY): “My Twitter was hacked and someone posted a photo. There might be a story, but I am working on fixing the problem. Nothing for you to worry about. See you soon.”

“He told me not to worry, so even though the concept of being hacked was unsettling, I didn’t. I just saw this as yet another item on the unending stream of incoming. Anthony was the problem solver in our relationship, and since he said he was handling this one, I was sure he would.”

Both/And: A Memoir

Amazon Kindle Edition
Abedin, Huma (Author)
English (Publication Language)
511 Pages - 11/02/2021 (Publication Date) - Scribner (Publisher)

Abedin and Weiner Withdraw Their Divorce

January 10, 2018 at 2:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Huma Abedin and convicted perv Anthony Weiner agreed Wednesday to finalize their divorce out of court, seeking to protect their 6-year-old son from an embarrassing public separation,” the New York Daily News reports.

From a statement by Abedin’s attorney: “In order to reduce any impact of these proceedings on their child, the parties have decided to reach a settlement swiftly and privately.”

Huma Abedin Mulls Book Offers

April 13, 2017 at 7:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, is considering offers to write a book,” Playbook reports.

“She has been approached by people interested, but has not made a decision. “

Huma Abedin Gives Marriage Another Try

March 25, 2017 at 11:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Post: “After years of public humiliation by her sext-a-holic husband, Anthony Weiner, 40-year-old Abedin finally separated from the former congressman in August, one day after The Post reported that he had sent yet another explicit photo to a woman — this one showing his toddler son asleep beside him.”

“But sources tell The Post that Hillary Clinton’s righthand woman is now giving the marriage another try.”

Abedin Surprised Emails Were on Husband’s Laptop

October 31, 2016 at 7:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Huma Abedin “has told colleagues she was taken aback when she learned that the FBI found her emails on a laptop belonging to her estranged husband Anthony Weiner and doesn’t know how the messages got there,” Politico reports.

“The newly found emails number in the tens of thousands or more, with at least some pertaining to the period when Abedin worked for the State Department from 2009 to 2013, first as a deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Clinton’s and later as a consultant.”

Warrant Issued to Review Clinton Aide’s Emails

October 30, 2016 at 6:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Federal investigators have obtained a warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails belonging to a top aide to Hillary Clinton, federal law enforcement officials said Sunday, as prosecutors and F.B.I. agents scrambled to review as much of the information as possible before Election Day,” the New York Times reports.

“It remains unclear, though, whether they can finish their work by then.”

Clinton’s Top Aide Frustrated by Use of Private Email

June 30, 2016 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A top aide to Hillary Clinton said the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business on at least one occasion got in the way of Clinton’s work and left the aide frustrated,” Bloomberg reports.

“Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and now the vice chair of her presidential campaign, was being deposed about the context of a November 2010 e-mail she sent Clinton that they ‘should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam.’ Prompting the note, according to the e-mail chain released last week by the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act, was a missed scheduled phone call, one of a number of communications mishaps detailed in Clinton’s 55,000-page e-mail record.”

Trump Ally Suggests Clinton Aide Is a Possible Terrorist

June 13, 2016 at 11:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments

Roger Stone, an informal adviser and friend of Donald Trump, suggested that Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin could be a “Saudi spy” or a “terrorist agent,” Politico reports.

Said Stone: “I also think that now that Islamic terrorism is going to be front and center, there’s going to be a new focus on whether this administration, the administration of Hillary Clinton at State was permeated at the highest levels by Saudi intelligence and others who are not loyal Americans. I speak specifically of Huma Abedin, the right-hand woman, now vice-chairman or co-chairman of vice—of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”

‘The Most Mortifying Movie Ever Made’

May 24, 2016 at 11:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 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?”

Issa Says FBI Has Evidence to Indict Clinton

January 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told the Washington Examiner that the FBI has enough evidence right now to indict Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin, but that FBI director James Comey is being constrained.

Said Issa: “I think the FBI director would like to indict both Huma and Hillary as we speak. I think he’s in a position where he’s being forced to triple-time make a case what would otherwise be, what they call, a slam dunk.”

Digging Into Clinton’s Inner Circle

January 6, 2016 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

Vanity Fair profiles top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and looks at everything from her unique job status at the State Department to her husband, disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

First Read: “It’s not the most flattering of pieces — and could make Abedin even more of a target on the right.”

Hillary Clinton’s Most Trusted Aide

July 2, 2015 at 7:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments

Politico profiles Huma Abedin, who is “is weaning herself slowly away from a life on the road to occupy a perch overseeing the campaign operation and serving more often as an independent surrogate for her boss.”

“Her elevation comes as longtime top Clinton aides like Cheryl Mills, Maggie Williams and Philippe Reines have receded in influence and are not functioning as part of the current campaign’s inner circle. Instead, Abedin has been elevated to the most senior member of Clinton’s old guard, and the person filling a role Clinton has always valued: that of the strong, trusted, female advisor.”

On That Chipotle Visit

May 11, 2015 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments

Washington Post: “One afternoon in April, Bill Clinton looked up at a television in his midtown Manhattan office and saw the grainy security-camera photo of his wife and her aide, Huma Abedin, at a Chipotle in Ohio, appearing incognito in dark sunglasses. He turned to aides and wondered, ‘What are she and Huma doing? Are they robbing that place?'”