Weiner Won’t Deny He’s Still Sexting: ‘You Can Quibble About Beginnings, Middles, And Ends…’

In an interview with the New York Daily News Tuesday morning, Anthony Weiner did not deny he was currently engaging in sexting activity, despite the emergence of a second scandal last week that took his longshot mayoral campaign from first place in the polls to fourth.

“There is no one you are sexting now?” Denis Hamill asked the candidate.

“You can quibble about beginnings, middles and ends but what we’re talking about is over a year ago,” Weiner said.

Throughout the interview, Weiner placed great stock in the fact that the incidents under discussion were more than twelve months behind him.

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“You must remember this isn’t something that happened yesterday,” he said. “For us, this is an issue that’s over a year old. And we’d gotten to this really great place with each other and we’d put it behind us to a place where we felt comfortable enough to move ahead to run for mayor. For us, this was a distant event.”

Weiner resigned his congressional office in June 2011; however, the new sexting allegations refer to activity that happened in 2012, well after his pledge to cease online sexual activity, and just one week before a People magazine spread presenting him as reformed.

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[h/t NY Daily News]

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