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Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner’s multiple scandals during marriage: ‘I don’t regret standing by him’

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Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday she didn’t regret standing behind her disgraced ex-husband Anthony Weiner following his 2011 sexting scandal, resignation from Congress, and as he attempted to revive his political career. 

In one of her first live interviews after years of being in the spotlight due to Weiner’s multiple scandals, Abedin told “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie that standing beside her husband during his ill-fated New York City mayoral run in 2013 “was the right thing to do.” 

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“I don’t regret standing by him,” Abedin told Guthrie as they were discussing her new memoir titled “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds.” Guthrie, citing subsequent revelations that Weiner was continuing to send sexually explicit messages to women after apologizing for the first scandal, had asked Abedin if she regretted standing by him considering the lies he was still telling.

Weiner’s 2013 mayoral campaign collapsed after revelations that he had continued to send explicit messages under the moniker “Carlos Danger.”

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“I know there’s been a lot of speculation on what is wrong with her, what is she thinking in that time?” Abedin added. “I decided it was the right thing to do because I had encouraged him to run for mayor. I did think that he was a good public servant and I thought this was a way back for him.” 

Huma Abedin is spotted grocery shopping with estranged husband, Anthony Weiner in New York City today. The pair who’ve reportedly split, but not divorced, seem still to be very civil with each other.  Abedin recently dropped a bombshell from her new book, “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds” claiming that a Senator, who remains unnamed, assaulted her in the mid-2000’s while at his home in Washington, D.C.. Pictured: Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner Ref: SPL5270175 271021 EXCLUSIVE Picture by: Elder Ordonez / SplashNews.com Splash News and Pictures USA: +1 310-525-5808 London: +44 (0)20 8126 1009 Berlin: +49 175 3764 166 photodesk@splashnews.com World Rights, No Poland Rights, No Portugal Rights, No Russia Rights
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“As I write … I was in shock. I went through a period of time saying I just – I want my life back. We didn’t just have any life. We had this most perfect life. I thought we had this amazing love affair. And so, no, for me, I felt I owed it to people to stand at that podium because I had supported his decision to run,” she said. 

Weiner, a Democrat, resigned from Congress in 2011 after he lied about sexually charged communications he had with women he met online. 

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He attempted a political comeback when he announced in 2013 he would be a candidate for New York City mayor. 

His campaign, however, quickly fell apart as new revelations surfaced he was continuing to send lewd messages to women amid a “rough time” in his marriage with Abedin. 

Former U.S. Congressman Weiner exits the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Manhattan following a probation meeting in New York
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That wasn’t the end of his scandalous behavior. Weiner later pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit messages to an underage girl and served 18 months in prison; the 2016 revelation of his exchanges with the minor rocked Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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Abedin separated from Weiner in 2016, later filing for divorce after his guilty plea. They eventually agreed to finalize it out of court.

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Huma Abedin admits she ignored Hillary Clinton’s calls on Anthony Weiner

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Huma Abedin revealed that she ignored then Sen. Hillary Clinton’s calls regarding what to do about her scandalous husband Anthony Weiner.

On Sunday, the former Clinton aide spoke with “CBS Sunday Morning” to discuss her upcoming memoir “Both/And: A Life in Many Words.” The book reportedly covers her life growing up as an American raised in a Muslim environment in Saudi Arabia as well as the scandal surrounding the former congressman.

In 2011, Weiner was forced to resign from the House of Representatives after a racy photo of himself in his boxer brief was posted on his Twitter account with about 40,000 followers.

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Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin attend a news conference in New York, U.S. on July 23, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo
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In 2013, after Weiner announced his candidacy for mayor, a website published screenshots of several alleged conversations Weiner had with another woman along with explicit photos.

One excerpt read: “Whatever personal pain and betrayal I felt, I instinctively set aside. I didn’t break down in tears or collapse on the sofa. The first thing out of my mouth wasn’t ‘How could you do this to me?’ or ‘I thought that you loved me.’ The first thing I said was, ‘You mean you’ve been lying to the whole world for a week?? Anthony, you have people counting on you. You owe them the truth!’ ‘I know,’ he said. ‘I have to go back and deal with the consequences.’”

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Though Weiner admitted to sexting another girl, Abedin stood by her then-husband’s side at the admission.

“What I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as I have said from the beginning, we are moving forward,” Abedin said.

Huma Abedin arrives at the premiere for the Showtime TV series “The Loudest Voice” in New York, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Gabriela Bhaskar
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In her interview with CBS, however, she admitted that several people called her to advise her against appearing with Weiner.

“Everyone was calling me and saying – people who loved me – were calling me and saying, ‘Don’t do this.'” Abedin said.

She also admitted that Hillary Clinton was one of the people who would have likely advised against it.

“I think if I had talked to Hillary or my mother or anybody in my family, they would’ve advised me against doing it,” Abedin said.

“I didn’t take their calls.”

This reaction contrasted Hillary Clinton’s behavior during her own husband’s scandal after Monica Lewinsky famously had an affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

Huma Abedin arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 7, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Despite this, Abedin later separated from Weiner in 2016 shortly before the FBI and New York Police announced an investigation into Weiner for sending lewd messages to an underage girl. In 2017, he eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. 

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner were previously married in 2010 with former President Bill Clinton officiating the wedding. The couple also had one son.

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Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report. 

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Ex-Clinton aide Huma Abedin says she was sexually assaulted by US senator but repressed memory for years

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Hillary Clinton’s former aide Huma Abedin says that she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed US senator but that she repressed the memory for years.

Ms Abedin writes in her forthcoming memoir that the senator forcibly kissed her on a couch after inviting her up for coffee after a dinner in Washington DC between senators and their aides.

And she writes in wrote in her new book, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, that she was able to forget about the incident until 2018 when Christine Blasey Ford testified to Congress about her alleged assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Ms Abedin does not name the senator or his political party in the book, which is out next week.

She writes that the incident happened sometime after Donald Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania Trump, after she had gone to the dinner with Ms Clinton.

“I ended up walking out with one of the senators, and soon we stopped in front of his building and he invited me in for coffee. Once inside, he told me to make myself comfortable on the couch,” she writes in the book, which was obtained by The Guardian.

She said the senator took off his blazer and made coffee before sitting down beside her on the couch.

“Then, in an instant, it all changed. He plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa.

“I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away. All I wanted was for the last 10 seconds to be erased.”

Ms Abedin said that the senator apologised to her and admitted he had “misread” their relationship as she worked out a way to leave “without this ending badly.”

“Then I said something only the twentysomething version of me would have come up with – ‘I am so sorry’ – and walked out, trying to appear as nonchalant as possible,” she wrote.

She says in the book that she suppressed her memory of the incident until she read about Ms Ford “being accused of ‘conveniently’ remembering” her alleged assault after Mr Kavanaugh was nominated for the high court by Donald Trump.

Ms Ford alleged that Mr Kavanaugh assaulted her at a high school party, which he strongly denied before being confirmed to the bench.

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