I HOOKED WEINER
Anthony came on quickly after N.C. girl made contact
THE TEEN WHOSE raunchy cybersex romps with Anthony Weiner led to his sex crime conviction wondered if the pervy pol was still on the prowl when she first tweeted him.
The answer came almost immediately: He sure was.
Weiner responded within “minutes” to the 15-year-old girl’s introductory private message via Twitter in January 2016, she said in an interview with “Inside Edition” set to air on Monday.
The North Carolina high school student, revealing her face for the first time, said things moved quickly from sedate to seductive with the erstwhile Carlos Danger.
“I just sent him a nice message: ‘Hello, I’m a huge fan,’ ” she recalled.
Weiner almost immediately started in with the online sexual advances that destroyed his political career and his marriage.
“I knew that it was going downhill very fast,” she told the syndicated program. “He called me attractive.”
The teen said she was initially intrigued by the close relationship between Weiner’s estranged wife Huma Abedin and then-Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for President in the year 2016,” the teen said. “I wanted to see if Anthony was still up to the same antics.” And Weiner certainly was. According to his victim, the failed mayoral candidate would ask her to undress for him over Skype.
Weiner would also send the teen photos of himself barechested, she said.
One message from the sext-obsessed former congressman, then using the handle “T Dog,” included a shirtless photo in which he was accompanied by his young son.
The teen told “Inside Edition” she found it “particularly upsetting.”
She says, “I was disgusted. That was part of the reason I came forward.”
The FBI arrived at her home last September to seize all of her electronic devices and anything containing messages related to Weiner.
Investigators soon did the same at the 52-year-old’s Manhattan apartment.
Aside from implicating himself, Weiner wound up inflicting a major hit on the Clinton campaign when FBI agents found emails connected to Hillary on his computer.
The discovery and then-FBI Director James Comey’s announcement about reopening the federal investigation into the emails came just weeks before Clinton’s election loss to President Trump.
“This man will be the death of me!” Abedin told her longtime boss as she was “bursting into tears” upon hearing of her husband’s latest exploits last fall, Clinton writes in her forthcoming book “What Happened.”
Abedin, 41, filed for divorce on the same May day that a weeping Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor.
The couple, married for six years, have a 5-year-old son.
“I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,” the serial sexter said of his crude threemonth online affair during a teary appearance outside Manhattan Federal Court in May.
“I apologize to everyone I have hurt,” he added. “I apologize to the teenage girl, whom I mistreated so badly.”
Weiner faces a prison term of 21 to 27 months at his Sept. 25 sentencing.