Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary
Clinton, announced Monday she will be separating from her husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., following another sexting scandal. "After long and painful consideration
and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband. Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy," Abedin said in a statement. The announcement comes after the New York Post reported Sunday that Weiner
had been sending lewd photographs of himself to another woman while his wife was on the campaign trail with Clinton. One of the photos included his 4-year-
old son in the background. This is not the first time Weiner has been
involved in a sexting scandal, he
resigned from Congress in 2011 over a similar scandal, and his 2013 race for New York mayor was upended by another set of lewd online exchanges. Weiner's Twitter account appeared to have been deleted Monday. A documentary about the mayoral
race was released earlier this year. The film featured the couple going through the at-times painful struggle of trying to resurrect his political career — both Abedin and Weiner never watched the final product, according to Weiner's August interview with The New York Times Magazine.
In that same interview he was
also asked if he was "still engaging in the activities that got you in trouble." "I’m not going to go down the path of talking about any of that. But I will say this: There’s no doubt that the Trump
phenomenon has led a lot of people to say to me, 'Boy, compared to inviting the Russians to come hack someone’s email,
your thing seems almost quaint,'" Weiner said.
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