Anthony Weiner rocks race for president with sexting scandal

AP ^ | Oct 30, 11:10 AM EDT | By JENNIFER PELTZ and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

650.000 emails....mindblowing!

[Bon mots]

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[Kenny]

My brother just saw on CNN that Huma is working with FBI.

[Bon mots]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How to separate these is going to take some manpower and time.

My speculation he knew he needed to capture some good stuff from Huma's emails to either blackmail or to protect himself!

So he might even know about more than just what is in the emails.

[TBP]

Weiner may jut have put Donald over the top.

he was closing anyway; this may be the thing that cements it.

[FreeReign]

Anthony Weiner rocks race for president with sexting scandal

As if the scandal is "all about sex(-ting)"

AP takes a page from the Clinton propaganda playbook from the 90's.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

WOW!

Now it is really getting interesting!

[Ken H]

It was Weiner’s Russian hands and Roman fingers.

[eekitsagreek]

Weiner will cooperate with the FBI. Since he is split from Huma, and if he is going down, he may as well take Huma and Hillary with him.

[okie01]

Isn't it ironic that the Libs, who have fought to sexualize everybody and everything, could now be hoist on their own petard -- by a stupid sexting scandal?

Talk about poetic justice...

[catnipman]

Mind-blowing to realize that Antony Weiner and James Comey are the means for Divine intervention to save our country. God truly does work in mysterious ways!

[Milton Miteybad]

I wonder if Harry Reid will send Carlos Danger a letter on Senate letterhead warning him of the potential penalties for violations of the Hatch Act.

Probably not, I guess...Carlos isn't really working for the federal government. In fact, it's not clear he's working at all. Unless you count trying to send lewd pictures of himself to underage girls on the Interwebz. I guess that's some kind of job.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is a thread:

FBI discovered Clinton-related emails weeks ago

[Not A Snowbird]

I’m with you. He wants to save his butt and he’s going to take her with him. Huma has no option but to work with the FBI.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AMEN to that!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

It’s not about Anthony Weiner and it’s not about sexting. Other than that, the AP nailed it. Sheesh.

[tumblindice]

Are you Finnish? I thought Carlos Danger was Chicago’s sausage king.