Anthony Weiner, a dishonest former supervisor who is about to return to politics as a member of New York City Council, said in an interview that “women are crazy about me,” despite being asked to go to prison and register as a sex offender.
“Yes, my God, they're obsessed with me. Women are obsessed with me,” Weiner said when comedian and podcaster Adam Friedland asked if politicians in power were more attractive to the opposite sex.
Weiner's sexting saga began more than a decade ago after indecent photos of a married House member wearing his underwear were posted on one of Weiner's public social media accounts.
That first photo sparked a series of events that included a widely publicized departure from Congress in 2011, an additional sexting scandal, and an FBI investigation.
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New York City candidate Anthony Weiner at a press conference at Gay Men's Health Crisis Headquarters in New York on July 23, 2013. (AP News)
Weiner appeared on Wednesday at a YouTube-based show hosted by Freedland. Meanwhile, podcasters have suggested that Weiner's sexting scandal will not break the 2025 “Top 100” news stories.
Weiner agreed and added the “relatively slow news period” of that time. He also said his name was part of why it got so much publicity.
“I'm the guy named Weiner who tweeted a picture of him,” he said.
Freedland pointed to what he suggested was a lack of coverage on the charges against former GOP Florida MP Matt Getz, who was accused of having sex with a minor last year. Gaetz denied the charges.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz was accused of having sex with a minor. He denied the charges. (Aaron Schwartz/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“If he had been right, and his name was Matt Kiddoff, he would have had the story,” Weiner said.
“No, that's not true,” Friedland said. “Think it like this. If it were today, it would be a 48-hour news cycle and you'd forget it.”
Weiner challenged Friedland's theory and told him that it was not a novel idea to think that technology played a role in making his sexting scandal so widely public.
“Let's move away from this one rather than a terrible, novel idea that technology played a role,” says Weiner.
Weiner and Friedland continued to discuss the sexting scandal, including the potential domino effects James Comey had done in connection with his investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. During the FBI's investigation of Weiner's alleged sexual offences against minors, officials reportedly came across an email that encouraged FBI director Comey to resume an investigation into the use of Clinton's email servers.
Anthony Weiner, Right, and Huma Abedin appeared in New York court on September 13, 2017, asking for privacy from a New York City judge in his divorce case. (Jefferson Siegel/The Daily News by AP, Pool)
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Other topics include how Weiner is frequently mistaken for Eliot Spitzer, a New York politician who is suffering from another sexual scandal, how he stayed safe in prison, what kind of things he has to register as a sex offender, and his relationship with other New York Democrats.
Weiner is running in the Democratic primary to represent Manhattan's East Side District 2.
