While Rep. Anthony Weiner (D NY-9) dodged the question of whether the photo tweeted from his official Twitter account is in fact a picture of him, the New York congressman has finally gone on the record to say that he did not send the link of the image to a 21-year-old female student via Twitter.
“I did not send that photo. My system was hacked. I was pranked,” Weiner told ABC News on Wednesday.
“Somebody sent a picture of a wiener from Weiner’s account. I’ve been hearing that joke since I was 5,” the Democrat said, acknowledging the endless barrage of puns levied against him in what is being deemed Weiner-gate.
Weiner landed in the hot seat Friday when a lewd photo of a man in gray underwear with an erection was tweeted from Weiner’s Twitter account and directed to Gennette Cordova, a Washington State University student. Cordova is one of the 198 people that the congressman follows on the social network. She has since deleted her original Twitter account and relaunched a new one.
The rouge tweet at issue was quickly deleted from Weiner’s page but not before Dan Wolfe (who describes himself on his Twitter profile as a “Conservative Reagan Republican”) retweeted the message adding “Anthony Weiner tweets X RATED PIC TO FOLLOWER!”