Anthony Weiner Aide Calls Former Intern a "Slutbag" in Crazy Rant

His attempt to campaign just keeps getting worse.

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Anthony Weiner's attempt to run for mayor of NYC post-sexting scandal just keeps getting better and better. The newest development doesn't come in the form of a new sexting partner, however—instead, it's Weiner's top campaign aide, communications director Barbara Morgan, making the headlines this time. Specifically, for calling a former campaign intern a "fucking slutbag" and a "cunt," amongst other things. Yikes.

The comments were made during an interview with Talking Points Memo's Hunter Walker yesterday. Walker reached out to the Weiner campaign to get a comment about their former intern Olivia Nuzzi's New York Daily News article which criticizes the campaign and claims that interns were inexperienced and often just trying to impress Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, for her connection to Hillary Clinton (Abedin works as Clinton's chief of staff).

Walker got in touch with Morgan, and the following went down:

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But wait, that's not all! Morgan went on to claim that Nuzzi was a terrible intern for the campaign, and allege that she often didn't show up for work:

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Oh boy. About 45 minutes after the story went live on TPM, New York Observer reporter Jill Colvin tweeted a new, much less profanity-ridden statement from Morgan:

Rule #1 of journalism: You are not off the record unless you explicitly state that you are now speaking off the record. Everything else is fair game. 

An hour later, Morgan released the following official statement apologizing for her comments:

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In spite of all of this, Anthony Weiner is still running for mayor of NYC. This is going to be an interesting campaign.

[via Gawker]

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