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发帖数: 6929 | 1 连克林顿见希拉里都要通过她，和穆斯林兄弟会有联系
Abedin, who has been referred to as Clinton’s “second daughter,” is the
gatekeeper to the nominee. Even Bill Clinton sometimes can’t get to his
wife without working through Abedin, who carries Hillary Clinton’s
cellphone in her purse. Abedin’s imprimatur can be found all over Clinton’
s world: on emails she sent to Clinton trying to explain how to use a fax
machine, high-stakes diplomatic efforts in Libya (Abedin got hauled before
the House committee on the Benghazi attacks for questioning) and the care
and feeding of billionaire donors.
Yet Abedin almost never speaks publicly, meaning her work for Clinton is
opaque to voters.
Operatives and pundits ascribe to her the motives that suit their own
agendas. The media outlet that has most aggressively targeted her is the
right-wing website Breitbart News, which first uncovered Weiner’s sexting.
More recently, it has taken to suggesting Abedin is spying for Saudi Arabia
and working to spread sharia law. Breitbart’s leader recently decamped from
the outlet so he could run GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.
The media attention erupting around Abedin right now, though, is not
Breitbart’s making. It is the kind of spectacular staff drama the Clinton
operation had been so good at avoiding during her presidential run over the
last year and a half, the kind associated with previous campaigns of both
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
By contrast, Clinton’s current team is disciplined, tight-lipped and
uncharacteristically dull.
Trump wasted no time pouncing after Abedin said she was separating from
Weiner. Her announcement followed a New York Post story detailing an
unsettling private message Weiner sent on Twitter last year, in which he
tried to impress a woman with an image of his and Abedin’s toddler son
sleeping alongside him — and with the outlines of Weiner’s genitals
clearly visible through his underwear in the photo.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and
negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly
classified information,” Trump said in a statement Monday. “Who knows what
he learned and who he told? It's just another example of Hillary Clinton's
bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been
greatly compromised by this.”
Abedin’s and Weiner’s relationship has been strained since his second
round of publicly revealed sexting sunk his mayoral bid in 2013. They
scarcely saw each other amid the rigors of the presidential campaign, during
which Politico noted Abedin was frequently seen without her wedding ring.
Abedin is almost always within steps of Clinton, and Clinton is almost
always on the road.
But that close proximity to Clinton — paired with Abedin’s upbringing in
Saudi Arabia — has fueled the many conspiracy theories.
“Why aren’t we talking about Huma and her ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
” said Rep. Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican, during a CNN appearance
last week. “Why aren’t we talking about the fact that she was an editor
for a Sharia newspaper?” That same day, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump
insider, accused Abedin of being a “Saudi asset.”
Fact checkers at the Washington Post looked into the charges and found them
to be “bogus.” The allegations stem from Abedin’s upbringing in Saudi
Arabia and a staid academic journal her mother publishes that Islamic
scholars say is decidedly not radical.
The accusations that Abedin is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the
political organization that briefly gained power in Egypt after the Arab
Spring but is also classified as a terrorist group by some countries, has
been uniformly panned as absurd by experts who track and study such groups.
But the Clinton campaign has been unable to easily swat away some of the
other charges that swirl around Abedin. She operates in that controversial
nexus of Clinton’s government work and the Clinton family foundation. At
one point while Clinton was secretary of State, Abedin was being paid both
by the government and a consulting firm founded by one of the top executives
at the foundation. During that time, it was not always clear whose
interests she was representing — the public’s, the foundation’s, or her
own.
Congressional Republicans have been investigating the arrangement for years.
More recently, Abedin’s name has surfaced in emails disclosed as part of
Clinton’s private email server controversy. They show her working to help
donors and other foundation friends get access to Clinton while she was
secretary of State.
Some inside the Clinton orbit acknowledge that has created some anxiety,
particularly for the high-level operatives who joined it only as this
election cycle got underway. They have worked determinedly to keep the staff
’s profile low. The flamboyant advisors who in the past had been known to
possess the power to rattle the entire operation with a few whispers in the
candidate’s ear are gone. Though that’s not Abedin’s style, she also
doesn’t need to play by the same rules that everyone else on the team does.
That much was clear when Abedin, a fashion aficionado and a style icon in
her own right, was profiled in Vogue — for the second time. The story for
the magazine’s high-profile September issue, which Abedin agreed to be
interviewed for, came at a time when others in the campaign already wanted
less attention on her, not more.
Now Abedin herself is asking the media to back off.
“During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy,” she said
in a statement Monday.
But as long as Abedin remains a vital part of the Clinton operation, her
life is almost certain to remain very public. | t*c
发帖数: 6929 | 2 Huma还是一个sharia 报纸的编辑，希拉里好糊涂啊。
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: 连克林顿见希拉里都要通过她，和穆斯林兄弟会有联系
: Abedin, who has been referred to as Clinton’s “second daughter,” is the
: gatekeeper to the nominee. Even Bill Clinton sometimes can’t get to his
: wife without working through Abedin, who carries Hillary Clinton’s
: cellphone in her purse. Abedin’s imprimatur can be found all over Clinton’
: s world: on emails she sent to Clinton trying to explain how to use a fax
: machine, high-stakes diplomatic efforts in Libya (Abedin got hauled before
: the House committee on the Benghazi attacks for questioning) and the care
: and feeding of billionaire donors.
: Yet Abedin almost never speaks publicly, meaning her work for Clinton is
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