Anthony Weiner: Wife Huma's only crime is 'standing by my side'

NBC's Today Show ^ | September 8, 2013 | Jillian Eugenios

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New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner will appear in a live interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie Monday, just a day before New Yorkers head to the polls to cast their vote in the primaries.

A taped pre-interview between Weiner and Guthrie appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and Weiner admitted to Guthrie that his campaign was a gamble.

“From the moment go, I was waging this campaign on a bet,” he said. “And the bet was basically that I know that people have embarrassing things they would hear about me and did know about me and my background.”

Weiner’s campaign has been embroiled in controversy since nearly the beginning, when it was discovered that he had been sending lewd photos to women who were not his wife after leaving Congress.

Weiner told Guthrie he knew “100 percent” his past would be a distraction in his campaign, and overshadow his message and ideas. Now in fourth place, he has slipped from the frontrunner position he once held at the start of his campaign.

He has also hit some trouble on the trail. Last week, he was caught on camera in a verbal altercation with a voter in a Brooklyn bakery. The voter attacked him over his behavior online, and mentioned Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife.....

[freekitty]

Then try her for treason along with Hillary and Obama and a few others.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Anthony Weiner: Wife Huma’s only crime is ‘standing by my side’”

As if that isn’t enough...

[Major Matt Mason]

While I certainly have my issues with the GOP these days, is there a more simple and direct example of the difference between a Democrat and a Republican than the Weiner farce? How is this guy even able to show his face in public at this point, let alone continue campaigning to become mayor of America's largest city? I think it is a certainty that any GOP candidate with this baggage would have moved on by now, for good - well, except for Mark Sanford, anyway. The Democrats are truly the party of (open) moral turpitude. But maybe that describes much of the U.S. today, too.

[Ann Archy]

Weiner was Huma’s ticket to be First MUSLIM Lady of New York, and then for her to go on to be the Senator from NY!!! Huma is ONLY mad that he’s in 4th place.

[rfreedom4u]

You can put her under oath all you want. She’s a muslim and therefore allowed to lie as per their unholy book the koran.

Why does spell check suggest I capitalize muslim and koran?