Huma Abedin (left) and Sec. Hillary Clinton.Photo: Jonathan Ernst/GettyHuma Abedin’supcoming memoirpromises to untangle some of the messiest chapters of her personal life, her relationship as an aide and confidante toHillary Clintonand the hard-to-quantify affect that all had on presidential politics and the trajectory of a nation.Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which will be released Tuesday, addresses the long, drawn-outunraveling of Abedin’s marriageto disgraced former congressmanAnthony Weiner, howClinton comforted her close adviserduring Weiner’s eventually illegal string of sex scandals and Abedin’sunwelcome sexual encounterwith an unnamed U.S. senator.In an interview withCBS Sunday Morning’s Norah O’Donnell, Abedin also addressed the feelings of guilt she experienced over Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential race toDonald Trump.As an adviser to the candidate, she bears some responsibility for the campaign’s successes and failures. But FBI Director James Comey’sso-called “October surprise"11 days before Election Day — which involved Weiner and Abedin — made Abedin the target of many asking who was to blame for the loss at the ballot box.“I think I’m going to take it to my grave,“Abedin told O’Donnellof the guilt in an interview set to air Sunday on CBS to promoteher book. “It took me a while to reconcile that it was not all my fault.“On Oct. 28, 2016,Comey upended the race between Clinton and Trumpwhen he wrote in a letter to Congress that the FBI agents looking into Weiner’s illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl had discovered emails that “appear to be pertinent” to a previously closed investigation into the Democratic nominee’s private email server.The cover of Huma Abedin’s memoir.Simon and SchusterAlthough Comey said the FBI “cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant” andWeiner and Abedin were separatedat the time, the Clinton campaign found itself again contending with the controversy over how Clinton handled her emails.Her opponent, himself facing a major scandal over theAccess Hollywoodtape, pounced.In their book,Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,released in April 2017, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes wrote that “Huma was a disaster waiting to happen.““In any other political operation, she would have been cast aside publicly and brutally long before this moment,” the authors also said. “Now her detractors' fears were being realized, and the risk could no longer be ignored.“Abedin did feel responsible as the trouble erupted, a source told PEOPLE after Comey’s bombshell. “At one point Huma was sobbing that if she cost Hillary the election, she couldn’t live with herself,” the source said at the time. “It was excruciating.“Two days before the election, the FBI declared there was nothing new in the emails found on Weiner’s laptop. Clintonhas calledthe news of Comey’s letter “the determining factor” in her defeat.Abedin’s wide-ranging CBS interview will air Sunday, with a previewing airing on theCBS Evening Newsthis Friday.
Huma Abedin (left) and Sec. Hillary Clinton.Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Getty
Huma Abedin’supcoming memoirpromises to untangle some of the messiest chapters of her personal life, her relationship as an aide and confidante toHillary Clintonand the hard-to-quantify affect that all had on presidential politics and the trajectory of a nation.Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which will be released Tuesday, addresses the long, drawn-outunraveling of Abedin’s marriageto disgraced former congressmanAnthony Weiner, howClinton comforted her close adviserduring Weiner’s eventually illegal string of sex scandals and Abedin’sunwelcome sexual encounterwith an unnamed U.S. senator.In an interview withCBS Sunday Morning’s Norah O’Donnell, Abedin also addressed the feelings of guilt she experienced over Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential race toDonald Trump.As an adviser to the candidate, she bears some responsibility for the campaign’s successes and failures. But FBI Director James Comey’sso-called “October surprise"11 days before Election Day — which involved Weiner and Abedin — made Abedin the target of many asking who was to blame for the loss at the ballot box.“I think I’m going to take it to my grave,“Abedin told O’Donnellof the guilt in an interview set to air Sunday on CBS to promoteher book. “It took me a while to reconcile that it was not all my fault.“On Oct. 28, 2016,Comey upended the race between Clinton and Trumpwhen he wrote in a letter to Congress that the FBI agents looking into Weiner’s illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl had discovered emails that “appear to be pertinent” to a previously closed investigation into the Democratic nominee’s private email server.The cover of Huma Abedin’s memoir.Simon and SchusterAlthough Comey said the FBI “cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant” andWeiner and Abedin were separatedat the time, the Clinton campaign found itself again contending with the controversy over how Clinton handled her emails.Her opponent, himself facing a major scandal over theAccess Hollywoodtape, pounced.In their book,Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,released in April 2017, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes wrote that “Huma was a disaster waiting to happen.““In any other political operation, she would have been cast aside publicly and brutally long before this moment,” the authors also said. “Now her detractors' fears were being realized, and the risk could no longer be ignored.“Abedin did feel responsible as the trouble erupted, a source told PEOPLE after Comey’s bombshell. “At one point Huma was sobbing that if she cost Hillary the election, she couldn’t live with herself,” the source said at the time. “It was excruciating.“Two days before the election, the FBI declared there was nothing new in the emails found on Weiner’s laptop. Clintonhas calledthe news of Comey’s letter “the determining factor” in her defeat.Abedin’s wide-ranging CBS interview will air Sunday, with a previewing airing on theCBS Evening Newsthis Friday.
Huma Abedin’supcoming memoirpromises to untangle some of the messiest chapters of her personal life, her relationship as an aide and confidante toHillary Clintonand the hard-to-quantify affect that all had on presidential politics and the trajectory of a nation.
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which will be released Tuesday, addresses the long, drawn-outunraveling of Abedin’s marriageto disgraced former congressmanAnthony Weiner, howClinton comforted her close adviserduring Weiner’s eventually illegal string of sex scandals and Abedin’sunwelcome sexual encounterwith an unnamed U.S. senator.
In an interview withCBS Sunday Morning’s Norah O’Donnell, Abedin also addressed the feelings of guilt she experienced over Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential race toDonald Trump.
As an adviser to the candidate, she bears some responsibility for the campaign’s successes and failures. But FBI Director James Comey’sso-called “October surprise"11 days before Election Day — which involved Weiner and Abedin — made Abedin the target of many asking who was to blame for the loss at the ballot box.
“I think I’m going to take it to my grave,“Abedin told O’Donnellof the guilt in an interview set to air Sunday on CBS to promoteher book. “It took me a while to reconcile that it was not all my fault.”
On Oct. 28, 2016,Comey upended the race between Clinton and Trumpwhen he wrote in a letter to Congress that the FBI agents looking into Weiner’s illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl had discovered emails that “appear to be pertinent” to a previously closed investigation into the Democratic nominee’s private email server.
The cover of Huma Abedin’s memoir.Simon and Schuster
Although Comey said the FBI “cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant” andWeiner and Abedin were separatedat the time, the Clinton campaign found itself again contending with the controversy over how Clinton handled her emails.
Her opponent, himself facing a major scandal over theAccess Hollywoodtape, pounced.
In their book,Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,released in April 2017, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes wrote that “Huma was a disaster waiting to happen.”
“In any other political operation, she would have been cast aside publicly and brutally long before this moment,” the authors also said. “Now her detractors' fears were being realized, and the risk could no longer be ignored.”
Abedin did feel responsible as the trouble erupted, a source told PEOPLE after Comey’s bombshell. “At one point Huma was sobbing that if she cost Hillary the election, she couldn’t live with herself,” the source said at the time. “It was excruciating.”
Two days before the election, the FBI declared there was nothing new in the emails found on Weiner’s laptop. Clintonhas calledthe news of Comey’s letter “the determining factor” in her defeat.
Abedin’s wide-ranging CBS interview will air Sunday, with a previewing airing on theCBS Evening Newsthis Friday.
source: people.com
