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Anthony Weiner, the disgraced ex-congressman seeking to instrumentality to authorities arsenic a subordinate of New York's City Council, quipped during an interrogation that "women are brainsick astir me" contempt going to situation and being required to registry arsenic a enactment offender.
"Oh for sure, for sure, my god, they're brainsick astir me. Women are brainsick astir me," Weiner said erstwhile comedian and podcaster Adam Friedland asked if the powerfulness politicians wield makes them much charismatic to the other sex.
Weiner's sexting saga began much than a decennary agone aft a lewd photograph of the joined congressman successful his underwear was posted to 1 of Weiner's nationalist societal media accounts.
That archetypal photograph acceptable disconnected a bid of events, including his wide publicized departure from Congress successful 2011, further sexting scandals and an FBI probe that resulted successful Weiner serving 21 months successful situation and registering arsenic a enactment offender for sending sexually explicit images to a minor.
New York City Mayoral campaigner Anthony Weiner during a quality league astatine the Gay Men's Health Crisis office July 23, 2013, successful New York. (Associated Press)
Weiner appeared Wednesday connected a YouTube-based show hosted by Friedland, during which the podcaster suggested Weiner's sexting ungraded wouldn't adjacent interruption the "top 100" quality stories of the twelvemonth successful 2025.
Weiner agreed, adding "it was a comparatively dilatory quality period" astatine the time. He besides said his sanction was portion of the crushed it gained truthful overmuch publicity.
"I’m a feline named Weiner who tweeted retired a representation of his d---," helium said.
Friedland pointed to what helium suggested was a deficiency of sum astir accusations against erstwhile GOP Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, who was accused past twelvemonth of engaging successful enactment with a minor. Gaetz has denied the accusations.
Rep. Matt Gaetz was accused of having enactment with a minor. He denied the accusations. (Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
"Right, and if his sanction was Matt Kidf---er past the communicative would have," Weiner said, earlier Friedland interjected.
"No, that's not true," Friedland said. "Think astir it this way. If it was today, it would beryllium a 48-hour quality cycle, and it would beryllium forgotten."
Weiner challenged Friedland's theory, telling him it was not a caller thought to deliberation exertion played a relation successful making his sexting ungraded truthful wide publicized.
"Let's determination disconnected of this one, not terribly caller thought that exertion played a part," Weiner said.
Weiner and Friedland continued discussing the sexting scandal, including the imaginable domino effect it played successful narration to James Comey's probe into Hillary Clinton's backstage email server. During the FBI's probe of Weiner's alleged intersexual crimes against a minor, officials reportedly came crossed emails that prompted FBI Director Comey to reopen an investigation into Clinton's usage of the email server.
Anthony Weiner, right, and Huma Abedin look successful tribunal successful New York Sept. 13, 2017, asking a New York City justice for privateness successful their divorcement case. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News via AP, Pool)
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Other topics included however Weiner often gets mistaken for different enactment scandal-plagued New York politician, Eliot Spitzer, however helium stayed harmless successful prison, what it was similar having to registry arsenic a enactment offender and his relationships with different New York Democrats.
Weiner is moving successful the Democratic superior to correspond Manhattan's East Side District 2.
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