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ByJenniferPeltzand Ken Thomas The Associated Press NEW YORK HillaryClinton aide Huma Abedin is done playing the good wife to An- thony Weiner, announcing Monday she is leaving the serially sexting ex-congress- man after he was accused of sending raunchy photos and messages to yet another woman. Abedin, who as vice chair of Clinton's campaign is destined for big things if the Democrat is elected pres- ident, stayed with Weiner after a sexting scandal led him to resign from Con- gress in 2011 and after a new outbreak of online misbehavior wrecked his bid for New York mayor in 2013. She didn't leave even when a recent documentary blew up tense moments in their marriage to big-screen proportions. But on Monday, she effec- tively declared she had had enough. "After long and pain- ful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to sepa- rate from my husband," she said in a statement issued by the campaign. "Anthony and I remain devoted to do- ing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life." The New York Post pub- lished photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year to a woman identi- fied only as a "40-something divorcee" who lives in the West and supports Repub- lican Donald Trump. The photos included two close- ups of Weiner's bulging un- derpants. In one of the pictures, Weiner is lying on a bed with his toddler son while texting the woman, accord- ing to the Post. The tabloid also ran sexually sugges- tive messages that it said the two exchanged. Weiner told the Post that he and the woman "have been friends for some time." "She has asked me not to comment except to say that our conversations were pri- vate, often included pic- tures of her nieces and nephews and my son and were always appropriate," the 51-year-old Democrat told the newspaper. Weiner didn't return a call, text or email from The Associated Press. He de- leted his Twitter account Monday. The Post didn't say how it obtained the photographs and messages. Abedin, 40, is a long- time Clinton aide and confi- dante who is often referred to as the candidate's second daughter. Trump immediately seized on the aide's mari- tal split to accuse Clinton of "bad judgment." He sug- gested that Weiner might have compromised national security, but offered no ev- idence to support the alle- gation. "I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clin- ton was careless and neg- ligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proxim- ity to highly classified in- formation," Trump said in a statement. "Who knows what he learned and who he told?" Abedin has been under scrutiny during the probe into Clinton's use of a pri- vate email server while she was secretary of state. Fed- eral prosecutors declined to file charges in the in- vestigation, but FBI Direc- tor James Comey said Clin- ton and her aides had been "extremely careless" in their handling of classified infor- mation. Abedin began working for the former first lady as a White House intern and be- came a trusted aide as Clin- ton won a seat in the Sen- ate representing New York in 2000, ran for president in 2008 and served as Presi- dent Barack Obama's secre- tary of state. Former Presi- dent Bill Clinton officiated when Abedin and Weiner married in 2010. The marriage would pro- vide years of fodder for po- litical commentators, arm- chair psychologists and spouses all over America who wondered: How could she stay with him? Abedin was pregnant with the couple's son, Jor- dan, when a photo of a man's bulging underpants appeared on Weiner's Twit- ter account in 2011. After initially claiming his ac- count was hacked, Weiner acknowledged inappropri- ate online communication with several women. Two years later, Abedin was all in for her husband's mayoral bid, raising money, appearing on the campaign trail and participating in in- terviews in which the cou- ple talked about rebuilding their trust and marriage. Then a new series of sex- ually explicit pictures and messages emerged, and Weiner was forced to ac- knowledge he kept sexting after he had resigned from Congress. Still, Abedin said, "I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and ... we are moving forward." Voters weren't ready to forgive, however. Weiner lost the Democratic pri- mary. SEXTING Abedin dumps husband Weiner over new scandal KATHYWILLENS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Huma Abedin, alongside her husband, then-New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, speaks during a news conference in New York. By Jill Colvin The Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. It's been the driving issue of Donald Trump's campaign. Build a wall along the southern border. Make Mexico pay for it. And expel everyone living in the U.S. illegally with the help of a "deporta- tion force." Ten weeks before the election, however, buffeted by conflicting advice from aides and advisers, Trump has seemed to be in full in- decision mode. At a Fox News town hall tall taping last week, in the face of pressing questions, he proceeded to poll the au- dience at length on the fate of an estimated 11 million people. Trump is now planning a major speech on Wednes- day, during which he's ex- pected to finally clarify his stance. Supporters are hoping for a strong, deci- sive showing. But for crit- ics, many already disposed to vote against him, his wavering on what has been his signature issue, seems like a warning that he's un- able to handle a central el- ement of any president's job — making decisions. It also underscores how little his Republican campaign has invested in the nitty gritty of out- lining what he would do as president, especially when compared with the more detailed plans of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. "It's just puzzling," said Lanhee Chen, who has served as a policy adviser to several Republican pres- idential candidates. "This is the issue on which he rose to prominence in the primary and the issue on which he continues to stake much of his campaign." From the start, Trump has never been the kind of candidate to pore over thick policy books. Indeed, he has mocked Clinton on the subject. "She's got people that sit in cubicles writing policy all day. Nothing's ever going to happen. It's just a waste of paper," he told Time Mag- azine in June. "My voters don't care and the public doesn't care. They know you're going to do a good job once you're there." To date, Trump's cam- paign has posted just seven policy proposals on his web- site. There are 38 on Clin- ton's site, ranging from ef- forts to cure Alzheimer's disease to Wall Street and criminal justice reform. "I've laid out the best I could, the specific plans and ideas that I want to pursue as your president because I have this old-fashioned idea," Clinton said during a recent speech in Colorado. "When you run for presi- dent, you ought to tell peo- ple what you want to do as their president." Trump's new campaign manager, Kellyanne Con- way, has said she's pushing her boss to get more spe- cific. Yet his positions on a host of issues remain vague at best. For example, while Trump has slammed the Common Core education standards and touts the benefits of local control of education, he has no for- mal, detailed plans for im- proving public schools. He talks about student loan debt and the increasing costs of higher education, but has yet to propose solu- tions. He has teased plans to make childcare more af- fordable, but has missed his own deadline for unveiling them. Until recently, however, there has been no doubt about where Trump stood on illegal immigration. The wall was going up — Mex- ico would have to pay — and those estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally were going to have to leave. But over the summer, Trump began suggesting in closed-door conversations with Hispanic leaders that he might be open to soften- ing his stance. On August 20, he convened a closed- door round table of His- panic lawmakers and busi- ness leaders, and left some with the same impression. The day after, campaign manager Conway said his position on deportations was "To be determined." Trump's supporters say questions about his recent waffling are overblown. His running mate, Mike Pence, describes him as "a CEO at work" as he consults with various stakeholders. "You see someone who is engaging the American people, listening to the American people," Pence told CNN on Sunday. "He is hearing from all sides." But Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who has worked with Trump to shape his tax and economic plans, says the vagueness on policies is also by design. "We want to talk about the big visionary stuff. We don't want to have a big de- bate about this loophole, that loophole," he said. "This is a campaign, it's not a write-up of a tax bill in the Ways and Means Com- mittee." Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary un- der George W. Bush, says the confusion that now exists about Trump's plans for im- migration underscores "the risk in electing someone whose candidacy is based on his personality and im- age, as opposed his experi- ence and policy knowledge." 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