Disgraced former US congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career nosedived after he was caught sending sexually explicit texts and images to young women while he was still married, has allegedly spent several months this year in an online, highly explicit relationship with a 15-year-old girl, according to a new report.
The ex-politician and failed New York mayoral candidate asked her to undress for him and engage in rape fantasies among a plethora of erotic exchanges that began in January 2016, the Daily Mail reported.
Weiner is still married to Huma Abedin, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's longtime aide and campaign vice-chairman. Abedin announced in August that she was separating from her husband after Weiner was revealed in another report to have sent another woman a provocative picture of himself in his underwear, with his young son next to him.
Comment: 20 years ago, this would have ended a candidate's election run. But not today...
Comment: It's not shocking that there are perverts out there like Weiner. What's shocking is that he remains involved in politics, not least through his recent attempt to become mayor of NYC, and the fact that his wife is so close to Hillary Clinton but the association apparently doesn't trouble leading Democrats!
So what was going on here?
Weiner was a House of Representatives congressman for New York's 9th district (Brooklyn) from 1992 to 1998. Clinton was Senator for New York from 2001-2009. Clinton's connections got him a job in 2015 at a PR firm. Did Hillary Clinton owe Weiner for services rendered? Did the party bosses and/or the Clintons 'reward' him with a marriage to Hillary Clinton's aide, Huma Abedin?