Trump Seizes Abedin-Weiner News To Smear Clinton’s ‘Bad Judgment’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles as he participates in a roundtable discussion on national security in his offices in Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Donald Trump jumped on the news that Hillary Clinton’s campaign co-chair, Huma Abedin, was separating from husband Anthony Weiner over a fresh sexting scandal to knock the Democratic nominee’s “judgment.”

“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him,” Trump said Monday in a statement.

“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” he then pivoted. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”

The New York Post on Sunday published explicit messages that Weiner, a former congressman from New York and unsuccessful 2013 candidate for mayor of New York City, allegedly exchanged with an unidentified woman. Weiner’s political career had been derailed twice by sexting scandals.

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  1. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    Pretending his own weaknesses are Hillary’s weaknesses is all he’s got. Any minute now he will start criticizing her hair.

  2. Avatar for jegan jegan says:

    What a thoroughly repugnant human being. And that Weiner guy is no bargain either.

  3. Trump’s just jealous because his phone’s camera can’t zoom in enough to find his manbaby pecker, especially while he’s fumbling around with those manbaby hands.

  4. TRUMP: Sure, I hired a guy who hid his illegal lobbying for a foreign country that was backed by our historic enemy, and then replaced him with a spousal abuser who is registered to vote in a state he doesn’t live in, but … Hillary’s aide’s husband sends d_ck pics!

    TRUMP: And, never mind this fact, but I cheated on each of my first two wives and that resulted in divorces and me marrying the woman I cheated with.

  5. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Said the guy on his 3rd wife, the eurotrash ex-naked model with the fake degree.

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