Anthony Weiner has deemed a new Twitter-based scandal as nothing but a “prank,” but the six-term New York Congressman has still hired a lawyer to defend himself against charges of sending a lewd photo to a 21-year old.
On Friday, the 40,000 people who follow Weiner were exposed to a photo of what appeared to be a man’s crotch. (View the picture HERE.) The image was immediately deleted, before Gennette Nicole Cordova of Seattle could even view it.
Weiner says a hacker broke into his account and joked: “Touche Prof Moriarity. More Weiner Jokes for all my guests! #Hacked!”
Cordova has also chimed in on the incident, saying: “There have never been any inappropriate exchanges between Anthony Weiner and myself, including the tweet/picture in question, which had apparently been deleted before it reached me.”
Or might this actually be the work of Dan Wolfe, the BigGovernment dot com writer who claims to have broke the story, is a staunch Conservative and whose Tweets don’t totally proclaim his innocence.
“I don’t care,” he wrote over the weekend. “Either arrest me, press charges, etc. or shut up. If there is a crime why no charges?”
While it would be a federal crime to hack a Congressman’s account, Weiner says he won’t pursue an arrest.
“Look, you’ve got the Republicans… playing games with the debt limit,” he told The New York Post. “You’ve got a Supreme Court justice who is refusing to recuse himself despite conflicts of interest. We have a health-care act that is under siege. This is a distraction, I get it. I was hacked. It happens to people. You move on.”