former u.s. rep. anthony weiner is disrupting yet another high-profile career. his history of exchanging sexually explicit text messages with women other than his wife, huma abedin, has repeatedly derailed his political aspirations. more recently, it has attracted the attention of federal law enforcement, and on friday it threatened to disrupt the campaign of ms. abedin<u+2019>s boss, hillary clinton, when the fbi said it was reopening a probe into mrs. clinton<u+2019>s emails after searching a device belonging to mr. weiner. mr. weiner didn<u+2019>t respond to a request for comment on friday. in 2011, mr. weiner, a democrat who represented a swath of brooklyn and queens in the house of representatives and was seen as a rising star in democratic politics, resigned after admitting he exchanged lewd messages and photos online with multiple women. though he initially suggested his twitter account had been hacked, after a picture of his crotch appeared on the social-messaging service, he later admitted that he had mistakenly shared the photo publicly, instead of sending it privately to a woman. in 2013, mr. weiner attempted to revive his career with a bid for new york city mayor. for months, he flourished in the polls, but after a website published photos that he had evidently sent to another woman, his mayoral bid was doomed. still, mr. weiner attempted to revive his brand, occasionally showing up at new york city hall and attending the democratic national convention in philadelphia in july. in september, mr. weiner faced a new setback. after the daily mail reported that he had exchanged sexually explicit messages and photos with a 15-year-old girl, he found himself being investigated by federal and local law-enforcement agencies. mr. weiner has been part of the clinton orbit for years, until his sexual misdeeds caused him to fall out of favor. as a congressman, he was a familiar presence at mrs. clinton<u+2019>s campaign events when she first ran for president in 2008, part of a traveling entourage that also included ms. abedin. capital journal is wsj.com<u+2019>s home for election 2016 news. she and mr. weiner married in 2010. former president bill clinton officiated at the ceremony, a gesture that seemed to showcase mr. weiner<u+2019>s status as part of the extended clinton political family. mr. weiner<u+2019>s sexting scandals, though, collided with mrs. clinton<u+2019>s political ambitions. in the 2016 race, he has been largely invisible as ms. abedin crisscrosses the country. mr. weiner<u+2019>s troubles are doubly embarrassing to the clinton campaign: a reminder of bill clinton<u+2019>s marital indiscretions but also a distraction to a candidate eager to stay on message. republican nominee donald trump has questioned mrs. clinton<u+2019>s judgment in relying so heavily on ms. abedin. when the couple separated in august, mr. trump released a statement saying that ms. abedin <u+201c>was better off without him<u+201d> and suggesting that mr. weiner had picked up <u+201c>highly classified information<u+201d> in the course of the marriage. at times, ms. abedin has been caught up in an awkward dynamic as she served mrs. clinton. a film documentary chronicling mr. weiner<u+2019>s failed mayoral bid illustrated how ms. abedin navigated the two worlds. when mr. weiner cast his ballot, ms. abedin followed the advice of a longtime clinton confidante and chose not to accompany him in public. write to erica orden at erica.orden@wsj.com
anthony weiner<u+2019>s problems threaten to disrupt clinton campaign - wsj
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