Weiner avoided the first several questions from journalists about whether he wanted to apologize for his “hack” claims now that he said he was coming clean. Finally, Breitbart called out, “I’m right here.” A minute later, Weiner gave in and said it: “I apologize to Andrew Breitbart.”
We know what happened next—less than a week later, Weiner gave in and resigned as humiliating details kept trickling out. Breitbart died after a heart attack the next year (or so the MSM would have you think; his death spurred endless conspiracy theories among the site’s true believers). Weiner, with little idea what to do with his life outside of elected office, returned the following year to run for mayor and surged to the top of the field before the Carlos Danger sexting sequel brought him back down. And then it was the FBI’s probe of Weiner’s third sexting explosion, this one with a minor who may have been paid off by a shady news outlet to entice him and who in any event he knew to be underage and nonetheless began sexting with—that led James Comey to reopen weeks before the election the Clinton email investigation he’d closed months earlier, and that may well have cost her the White House.
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