TAIL OF TWO HUBBIES
Hil pushed Huma to dump sext maniac Weiner because HE would hurt campaign: report
Hillary Clinton’s campaign team urged Huma Abedin to dump hubby Anthony Weiner (inset r.) after sext scandal derailed his 2013 mayoral bid, a report charged Thursday. Clinton famously stood by her man, Bill (inset), amid Monica Lewinsky affair.
ADULTERY? Not a problem. Seedy sexts? Ditch the bum. Now.
A new documentary about Anthony Weiner’s political collapse was cut to remove scenes showing Hillary Clinton’s camp urging top aide Huma Abedin to kick her Xrated-texting husband to the curb, a new report says.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, aides to Clinton — whose marriage had its own infidelity issues — were prodding Abedin to dump Weiner so the scandal wouldn’t drag down Clinton or her pending presidential campaign.
Filmmakers, who were given unfettered access to Weiner and Abedin, were convinced to cut the prodding scenes, the publication said. The documentary of Weiner’s 2013 mayoral campaign was supposed to be a redemption tale of Weiner’s improbable comeback bid after he resigned his congressional seat two years earlier in a white hot sexting scandal.
But the quixotic campaign imploded amid reports of even more online sexcapades under the alias “Carlos Danger,” and much of the fallout was caught on tape — including concerns from the Clinton camp, the Hollywood Reporter said.
“Multiple parties who viewed early cuts of the documentary say Clinton’s team is seen trying to pressure Abedin to immediately cut ties with Weiner, fearing the scandal will hurt the secretary of state’s bid for the White House,” the article says.
Filmmakers Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman had unprecedented access to the campaign and the couple. Kriegman had worked for years as Weiner’s chief of staff, and was given fly-on-the-wall status in exchange for footage that was to be used for campaign ads.
The Hollywood Reporter, citing sources, said the footage was “explosive and potentially damaging” to Clinton’s White House bid. But the producers denied that Clinton’s advisers ever appeared on film giving Abedin marital advice.
“In 400 hours of footage that we shot, we never witnessed that conversation,” Kriegman and Steinberg said in a statement.
As for Weiner, the former congressman said he hadn’t seen the movie, and questioned the accuracy of the report.
“This was 2013,” Weiner said in an email. “Who would be the Clinton team?” Clinton did not announce her candidacy for the White House until 2015.
Weiner’s first sexting scandal involved a sexually explicit picture he sent to a woman via his public Twitter account. After claiming his account had been hacked, he admitted he exchanged explicit photos and messages with up to six women. He later resigned.
His comeback was derailed after he sent more explicit photos as “Carlos Danger” to a 22-year-old woman named Sydney Leathers.
The film, titled “Weiner,” premieres Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.