Five years of illegitimate sexting

How the American politician has lost his career and a career and a family

On Sunday, the New York Post published compromising pictures of the New York politician Anthony Wiener on Sunday-the publication printed several half-naked selfies, which the 51-year-old ex-Kongressman sent a virtual acquaintance. This case could be considered an ordinary if not for several circumstances. Firstly, the careless sexting was already turning around for Winer with a career collapse, and twice-a documentary was even shot about the prison of a politician to virtual novels. Secondly, after the third scandal from Wiener, his wife left-adviser Hillary Clinton Hum Abedin. "Medusa" tells the main thing about the political career of Anthony Wiener.

In the 2000s, Anthony Wiener was considered the ascending star of the Democratic Party. At 28, he began working in the City Council of New York and ran for the mayor’s elections. At 35, he first elected to the Congress from the state of New York and since then was re-elected seven times in a row, never gaining less than 59 percent of the vote. In Congress, Wiener worked for 12 years - and resigned in 2011 as a result of the scandal: the politician sent a photograph of his member on Twitter. Wiener was sure that he was sending an image with a personal message, but by mistake he published it in a public tape. For several days he tried to deny everything, but in the end he was forced to take responsibility.

At a press conference in May 2011, Wiener admitted that he exchanged frank photographs with six women, and apologized for his behavior. A few days later he resigned. In September, extraordinary elections were held, following which the Republican Bob Turner received the Viner's chair.

Two years later, Anthony Wiener decided to restart his political career and again advanced to the mayor of New York. In April 2013, the New York Times published a large interview with Winer, in which the former congressman asked the residents to give him a second chance. Together with the viner with Nyt journalists, his wife communicated - adviser Hillary Clinton Hum Abedin. Wiener and Abedin got married in 2010 - a year before the scandal; The media noted that it was the decision of Abedin to preserve the family that allowed the viner to declare repentance and try to return to politics.

In May 2013, Anthony Wiener officially announced participation in the mayor’s elections. But two months later, a new scandal happened - TheDirty.com published a photo of a politician where he again demonstrated his genitals. According to the publication, the picture was sent to him in 2012 - that is, a year after the first scandal. After the publication, Wiener admitted that during 2012 he corresponded with three women and sent them pictures.

Despite the scandal, Wiener decided to continue the struggle for the mayor’s chair. Huma Abedin again supported her wife, at a joint press conference the politician once again apologized, but this did not save the campaign. After the press conference, the chief of his election headquarters resigned, and Winer received less than five percent of the vote in the elections in September 2013.

The 2013 campaign is dedicated to the documentary "Wiener" - operators recorded the life of the family of a politician day after day; Including the film shows the moment when a rather successful campaign ends with a collapse due to the new sex scandal. The film was shown at the Sandance festival in January, it promises to become one of the brightest documentaries of 2016. After the release of the film, the surname of Winer finally became a household name. This was also facilitated by the fact that the word Weiner in English means a sausage (if exactly - a Viennese sausage), with a completely obvious and very common slang meaning.

In 2016, Anthony Wiener was in the center of the new scandal. By this moment, the cross was finally set on his political ambitions: Wiener stated that he devoted all his time to his four -year -old son and called himself a householder. Viner's son is present in the next photo, which the former politician sent a new virtual acquaintance.

The New York Post describes in detail the whole story of the virtual novel by Anthony Wiener with a 40-year-old resident of the Western coast of the United States (the name of the heroine is not called), who told reporters about communication with the politician. Correspondence was conducted since January 2015, and during this time both participants managed to send each other a lot of pictures and comments. According to the tabloid, the woman is a convinced republican and hot supporter of Donald Trump - opponent Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

After the third scandal from Winer, his wife left. The next morning, after the publication of The New York Post, Khum Abedin announced that she intends to disperse with her husband. The media suggested that Clinton's adviser made this decision, fearing that the new scandal would not harm the election campaign. According to The New York Times , Clinton’s headquarters do not believe that Anthony Wiener’s behavior can throw a shadow at Hillary Clinton, but the publication notes that the scandal is already using Donald Trump. In addition, the history of Winner and Abedin can remind voters of a difficult family past Clintons. However, apparently, Anthony Wiener had long suspected that his marriage would not last long - in correspondence published by The New York Post, he admitted that if Clinton became president, his wife would hardly take him to Washington.