Clinton campaign in crisis after FBI agents uncover Hillary emails among sexts to underage girls on Anthony Weiner’s phone.

The new Hillary Clinton emails uncovered by the FBI were discovered on electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner.

The devices were seized by the FBI as they investigate allegations Weiner sent illicit sexual messages to underage girls.

The New York Times reports that “The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the thousands — potentially reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.“

Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest aide, separated from her husband Weiner recently after it was revealed he conducted an online affair with an underage girl – the latest in a long line of scandals for the former congressman.

The FBI informed Congress that while analyzing Weiner’s phone agents had uncovered new Hillary Clinton emails related to the investigation into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information.

The announcement has breathed new life into the Trump campaign – and proved the Republican nominee was eerily accurate with an old prediction. In a statement on his website immediately after the Abedin-Weiner split, Trump questioned Hillary’s judgement in allowing someone like Weiner into her circle of trust:

DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON HILLARY CLINTON’S BAD JUDGMENT

 

 “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? 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.” – Donald J. Trump

And previously, in an Aug. 3 tweet:</s>WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, is married to Huma Abedin, the top aide.

Mr. Comey's letter said that the F.B.I. would review the emails to determine if they improperly contained classified information, which is tightly controlled by the government. Senior law enforcement officials said that it was unclear if any of the emails were from Mrs. Clinton’s private server. And while Mr. Comey said in his letter that the emails “appear to be pertinent,” the F.B.I. had not yet examined them.</s>The FBI had been investigating the contact by Anthony Weiner, whose political career collapsed a few years ago because of his online indiscretions, with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

NEW YORK — The revelation Friday that the federal authorities found a batch of emails that may be related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server appears to be the latest fallout from an unlikely source: Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who once represented New York in Congress and ran for mayor.

The FBI had been investigating the contact by Weiner, whose political career collapsed a few years ago because of his online indiscretions, with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. On Friday, federal law-enforcement officials said emails related to the Clinton case had been found on at least one electronic device once shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Clinton.

Here are key moments in Weiner’s long fall from grace.

Weiner’s descent in the public’s eye began in May 2011, when an explicit picture was sent out to the world from his Twitter account.

Weiner initially denied responsibility, saying he had been hacked. But the scandal refused to die down, as details about lewd exchanges the congressman had conducted with other women online trickled out. On June 16, he announced his resignation from Congress at a news conference in Brooklyn.

“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,” he said.

Weiner said he would join the race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York in spring 2013, two years after his career had been all but written off.

There were some encouraging signs that Weiner was on his way to a political resurrection. He rose steadily in the polls and was doing well with fundraising early on.

But the emergence of more explicit online messages forced Weiner to admit that his habit of sending sexual images and text messages to female fans had continued at least a year after he left Congress. Weiner stayed in the Democratic primary despite calls to drop out, but he ended up receiving less than 5 percent of the vote.

Weiner’s wife, Abedin, said in August that the couple would separate after another revelation, this time in The New York Post, that he had continued to exchange illicit online messages with a woman. Amid a racy conversation with the woman, Weiner sent a photo of his crotch as he lay next to the couple’s 4-year-old son. The New York City Administration for Children’s Services opened an investigation into his treatment of the boy, Weiner later said.

Less than a month later, federal authorities issued a subpoena for records in the wake of new accusations published in another tabloid, DailyMail.com, that Weiner had engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

The FBI said it was looking into new emails related to the Clinton case Friday, delivering a jolt to the presidential campaign just 11 days before the election. Federal law-enforcement officials said the emails that appeared pertinent to the Clinton case had been found after the FBI seized at least one electronic device once used by Weiner and Abedin.
Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin.