“I regret not being honest about this,” Rep. Weiner said in a tearful statement. “I was embarrassed, I was humiliated, I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame.”
He claimed to have tweeted the picture to Seattle student Geanette Cordova “as a joke,” then “panicked” and removed the tweet. But Cordova didn’t understand what joke that would be. “Am I the only one still confused?” she tweeted during the press conference.
Weiner said he has had online relationships with six women, and that his wife knew about them — but that s he did not know until this morning that he had lied about not sending the tweet.
We’ll bring you more details as the press conference continues.
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