Thread: Weiner Refuses to Quit 'The picture was of me, I sent it'

New York congressman: 'The picture was of me, I sent it'

Weiner also admits to online relations with 'about six women over the past three years'

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated less than 1 minute ago 2011-06-06T21:52:09

WASHINGTON — After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman. "The picture was of me, I sent it," he told a room full of reporters in Manhattan.

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Weiner said he intended to send the picture as a joke, but "I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked."

Earlier Monday, the conservative website that started the furor over that lewd image, posted new photos from a second woman who said she received shirtless shots of the congressman.

Weiner, who said he has no intentions of resigning, admitted to additional, questionable online behavior at the Monday news conference.

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Weiner said he has had "several inappropriate conversations with women I have met online," he estimated that there had been "about six women over the past three years." He said many of the exchanges took place before his marriage, but others happened more recently.

Weiner insisted the relationships never moved beyond online interactions. "I have never met any of these women ... I've never had sex outside of my marriage."

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He said he did not know the ages of all the women, but believes "they're all adults, at least to the best of my knowledge."

The lawmaker said he does not believe that he used government property or congressional time to send these online messages. "I don’t believe I did anything here that violates any law or violates my oath to my constituents."

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Earlier Monday, BigGovernment.com, a website run by conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, posted a new photo from a second woman allegedly in contact with Weiner. Breitbart said the new photo was in a cache of intimate online photographs, chats and email exchanges the woman claimed to have.

Breitbart appeared unexpectedly at Weiner's news conference, approached the microphone and began taking reporters' questions before the congressman entered the room.

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He said, "This is a continuing attempt to blame the messenger ... I'm being accused of being a hacker." Added Breitbart, "I'm here for some vindication."

Later pressed by reporters at his news conference, Weiner apologized to Breitbart.

Meanwhile, the celebrity website RadarOnline.com said a woman claimed to have 200 sexually explicit messages from Weiner through a Facebook account that Weiner no longer uses.

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Charles Dharapak / AP Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, are seen in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011. Weiner had said his Twitter account was hacked and that he'd hired a lawyer and a private security firm to get to investigate the incident involving the underwear shot. But he could not say for sure if the underwear photo was of him.

The photo purportedly showing Weiner shirtless was reminiscent of a photo of former Rep. Chris Lee, a New York Republican who resigned from office earlier this year after a shirtless photo he sent a woman on Craig's List became public.

"I was embarrassed and I didn’t want it to lead to other embarrassing things," said Weiner of his initial denial of the story. "It was a dumb thing to do, to try to tell lies about it because it just led to more lies."

Weiner, 46, married Clinton aide Huma Abedin last July, with former President Bill Clinton officiating. He said Abedin, who wasn't present Monday, was aware of his online behavior prior to their wedding.

"I love my wife very much, and we have no intention of splitting up over this," insisted the New York congressman.

Msnbc.com's Kara Kearns and Carrie Dann contributed to this report.

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I don't think anybody's wife with any smarts would put up with that crap!


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