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Posted on 01/19/2016 6:27:38 AM PST by W.
In May 2013, Huma Abedin and Anthony D. Weiner allowed filmmakers full access to his mayoral campaign with the hopes that the end result would document a spectacular political comeback, with Mr. Weiner being sworn in as mayor of New York having emerged from a scandal centered on explicit texting that forced him to resign from Congress.
Things did not go quite according to plan.
Instead, Weiner, a new documentary that The New York Times was allowed to view exclusively ahead of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, provides an unfettered look at the implosion of Mr. Weiner's mayoral campaign and a wrenching inside account of the couple's interactions in the aftermath of his second explicit texting scandal.
The film overflows with juicy moments about Mr. Weiner. As the second scandal unfolds in July 2013, Mr. Weiner is shown panicking; misleading the news media; and, at one point, racing through the back halls of a McDonald's to avoid a woman with whom he traded inappropriate texts, whom his campaign code-named "Pineapple."
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Weiners are always causing problems for democrats.
They look like such a happy couple.
Geesh. How’d you like to be stuck in an elevator with those two?
They are both so ugly. I wonder what their alleged kid looks like.
She has not aged well.
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