By Britt Nelson

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All these Clinton emails are a slow bleed that cannot be stopped: drip, drip, drip… they keep coming. Hillary doesn’t have enough fingers to plug all the holes in the dike. Will her campaign sink, swim or sail to the presidency? She’s still ahead in the polls, but her lead is shrinking, says Real Clear Politics.

With 70 days until the general election, it appears that Democrat Hillary Clinton is trying to run out the clock with delays, stonewalling and dodging questions about more emails being recovered. It was also revealed this week that thousands of emails on Clinton’s home-based server were permanently erased using a computer program titled Bleachbit.

“Even God can’t read them,” said U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, in a news report from the Washington Examiner.

But unexpected holes in the dike keep opening in places that raise eyebrows, like the private life of Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin and her weird husband Anthony Weiner, who keeps sending odd pictures of himself and his penis to undisclosed women on his smartphone. That naughty practice has already cost him a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011 and doomed his run for mayor of New York City two years later.

Pictures of Weiner, in his underwear, lying on his bed with his 4-year-old son were published this week by the New York Post, prompting Abedin to make her split with Weiner publicly known through a statement released Sunday by the Clinton campaign.

The Post did not disclose how it received the new pictures of Weiner.

Abedin announced she is separating from Weiner just after he got caught again sexting on his phone, but this time it’s too little, too late to keep the bad publicity from bleeding all over Clinton and her second campaign for President of the United States.

“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” Abedin said in her statement.

But the judgment of Abedin is being called into question because she should have left Weiner long ago.
Clinton’s judgment on keeping Abedin on her staff is also being questioned by Clinton’s competitor Republican New York billionaire Donald Trump.

Abedin, 40, is currently vice-chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign. She served Clinton as deputy chief of staff for the former U.S. Secretary of  State and she worked on Clinton’s first bid for the White House in 2008, according to Wikipedia.

Clinton has remained silent about this turn of events involved her long-time aide.

Trump questions Clinton’s judgment for allowing Abedin such close access to state secrets that she could have shared with her husband, who at the time was a New York politician.

“So Huma is getting classified secrets,” Trump said at a fund-raiser on Sunday in New York, according to NBC News. “She’s married to Anthony Weiner … One of the great sleazebags of our time … he’s a perv.”

In a statement released on Sunday, Trump continued with: “Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him. 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. Who knows what he learned and who he told.”

Abedin and Weiner were married in 2010 in a private ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton. Now who would have guessed that one? Birds of a feather flock together.

About the Author

Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member