Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday that her marriage to disgraced former ex-congressman Anthony Weiner was over, a move which opened the door for Donald Trump to launch a questionable attack on his political rival.
Trump was asked about the announcement by a conservative talk show host on Monday and the Republican presidential nominee immediately ripped into Weiner, who has been embroiled in high-profile sexting scandals.
“I said a long time ago that she’s married to a guy who is a disaster,” Trump told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson. “I’ve known him for a long time. Here’s a guy, that what he’s done over the internet is disgusting, and he’s a pervert, and just a very sick guy, and she’s married to him.”
The twice-divorced Trump then took time to question whether the marriage should have been considered an issue of U.S. national security.
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“In the case of Anthony Weiner she’s married to a guy that is uncontrolled and uncontrollable. He’s a sick person and, you know, she has access to classified information,” he said. “Huma Abedin has access to classified information. How Hillary got away with that one, nobody one will ever know but to think that it’s very likely that much of this information Anthony Weiner would know about. I think it’s something that is terrible.“
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While he did not really back up his opinion with anything factual, he also made another vague assertion about former State Department employee Abedin and her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin.
“Take a look at where she worked by the way and take a look at where her mother worked and works,” Trump said.
Saleha Mahmood Abedin is a dean of a women’s college in Saudi Arabia and also runs the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
Huma Abedin worked at the journal for a dozen years, a publication conservative media has recently been trying to paint as “radical.”
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