Sexting Weiner finally told to go

Hillary Clinton’s closest aide separated from her husband yesterday after he was caught, for the third time in five years, sending sexually suggestive photographs of himself to other women.

Huma Abedin, 40, vicechairwoman of the Clinton campaign, said she would be separating from Anthony Weiner after ‘‘long and painful consideration and work on my marriage’’.

Weiner, 51, once a rising star in the Democrats, was forced to resign from the House of Representatives in 2011 after he sent explicit pictures of himself to women he appeared barely to know.

He promised to reform his ways, but it emerged yesterday that over the past 20 months he had sent numerous suggestive messages via Twitter to a divorced Donald Trump supporter whom he had met online. One message included a photograph of his crotch and naked torso, with his and Abedin’s infant son in the background.

‘‘You do realise you can see you[r] Weiner in that pic??’’ the woman wrote back.

After her husband’s first sex scandal, in 2011, Abedin said the episode had provoked ‘‘every emotion that one would imagine: rage and anger and shock’’.

She stood by him while he had psychotherapy and he then declared himself a changed man.

In 2013, however, it emerged he had sent more pictures of himself. To the delight of the tabloids, he had used a kind of nom de guerre: Carlos Danger.