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The teenage girl who had exchanged inappropriate text messages with former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) lied about her age and political motivations to harm Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonReport: Girl in Weiner sexting case lied to damage Clinton Trump's triumph in Riyadh proves America is back on top of the world Juan Williams: Trump morphs into Nixon MORE, according to a report by the investigative news siteWhoWhatWhy.

In a report published Monday, the web site said the girl who exchanged the messages with Weiner was closer to 17 and not 15, as initial reports said. That also puts her above the age of consent in North Carolina.

In addition, she and her family were also not Clinton supporters, as the girl claimed in a letter published byBuzzFeed, according to social media posts unearthed by the website. The report also says the girl initiated the contact with Weiner, and then sought advice from a GOP figure behind "prior efforts to harm Weiner and other Democrats."

The website suggests this could mean that Weiner was the target of a politically motivated plot.

Seeing that Weiner is both a repeat offender his sexting addiction cost him his job in Congress as well as a shot at becoming mayor of New York and associated with one of the most important people in Clintons inner circle, it is conceivable that this was a set-up from the beginning, with the objective of embarrassing the Clinton campaign, the WhoWhatWhy report reads.

The investigation of Weiner and his accuser led the FBI to announce just weeks before Election Day that it was again looking at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails. It did so because it had found a series of emails from Weiner to his then-estanged wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Clinton.

Clinton lost the election and many in her camp have blamed the FBI and its then-director, James Comey.

Weiner last week pled guilty to a charge of distributing obscene material to a minor, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

WhoWhatWhy is a non-profit investigative reporting site that describes itself as a "forensic journalism" that looks to "unearth the facts interested parties want hidden." Its editor-in-chief and CEO is Russ Baker, who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

The WhoWhatWhy report, citing a court record, says the girl was just shy of 17 when she approached Weiner, and not 15 as The Daily Mail cited when it initially broke the story.

It argues that this "lie" seems "clearly designed to to produce the maximum public outrage and put Weiner in greater legal jeopardy."

WhoWhatWhy cites a number of social media messages and photographs to argue that the victim was from a Republican-friendly family, and that this suggests a political trick may have been in play.

It says that the victim celebrated Trump's victory on social media, that her father is a registered Republican and that her mother tweeted derisively about the Black Lives Matter movement.

The report also added that Chuck Johnson, a conservative writer, was one of the individuals who connected the girl to The Daily Mail.

Its not yet clear whether the motive was primarily money, a plot to smear Clinton, or both, the report notes.

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This week, Jesse Watters headed to Whippoorwill Park in Westchester County, N.Y. in search of Hillary Clinton, who was previously pictured hiking around there after losing the election.

At a speech earlier this year, Clinton remarked that she was soon coming "out of the woods" and back into the public eye.

With a walking stick to navigate the hilly terrain, Watters hiked the trails in the park, outside the Clintons' adopted hometown of Chappaqua.

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Soon, he spotted a possible sign of the former Democratic presidential nominee:

"There's a $20!" he said, picking up a bill from beside a tree.

Continuing along with no further luck, he tried calling out her campaign slogan to see if she would respond:

Giving up on his quest in the forest, Watters headed downtown to ask the folks there if she or President Clinton had been seen recently.

One woman said she saw the Clintons in the local bookstore:

Other folks said they hadn't seen the couple in a while, but added that they were still fans of the former secretary of state:

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Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is still smarting from his candidates election loss.

In a lengthy interview with Politico, Podesta seemed to hold nothing back in ripping President Donald Trump who has, in Podestas view, made some absolutely crazy moves during his administration.

One of those moves, according to the Clinton campaign chairman whose hacked emails became public fodder last October was the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Podesta doesnt even remotely buy the idea that Comey was dismissed because of his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

Its laughable, really laughable that Donald Trump would fire Jim Comey because of his interference which damaged Hillary Clinton, Podesta told Politico. I mean, it was laughable from the very beginning.

Politicos Susan Glasser then asked Podesta, point blank: Do you think that [Comeys interference] did help to swing the election?

His response?

Oh, yes. Absolutely. I think that look, we bear responsibility, and its a great burden and I feel it every day. I mean, we lost this election; we won the popular vote by 3 million votes, but we lost the Electoral College and lost the election to Donald Trump. So, we have a burden of his having the keys to the White House, and you know, codes to the nuclear football. But I think this was a significant factor. We felt like we had a lead that we took away from the three debates, in which, you know, I believe that Hillary won all those debates. The race was tight; we werent overconfident, but we werewe had a lead, and that lead really substantially narrowed after Comeys letter, and the last week of coverage, which was all about if nothing else, is this thing going to ever end? Now, you know, hewhat he opened, he closed, as I said, just a week later. But he could have done that quietly, and consistently with long-standing precedent, of both Democratic and Republican Justice Departments.

Podestas response mirrors that of his candidates, who said at a forum last month that she takes personal responsibility for the loss, before going on to blame external factors such as Comey and not actually detailing any specific campaign failings.

I think, you know, if those 70,000 votes had gone differently in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, that we would have all been geniuses, Podesta told Politico.

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It wasnt exactly an homage to Hillary Clinton. But she was there in spirit. On the season finale of Scandal, Clinton was an indelible source of inspiration for what was worn and what was not.

On Thursday nights two-hour episode, Melody Margaret Grant, her hair pinned back and up, stood on the west side of the Capitol and took the oath of office, becoming the countrys first female president. To get there, she traversed the kind of tortured, circuitous, blood-soaked route that is a hallmark of the Washington-based melodrama created by Shonda Rhimes. So, despite the history-making nature of her victory, it was not one that fizzed with patriotic delight. But thats how things work in Shondaland a strange, alternative reality that offered up a picture of how Jan. 20, 2017, might have look if the electoral college had voted a different way and the highest, hardest glass ceiling had not only been shattered but done with a female vice president along for the breakthrough.

The new President Grant (Bellamy Young) was sworn in wearing a navy-blue Escada coat with kimono sleeves, navy leather gloves and a red, white and blue scarf neatly wrapped around her neck. Underneath, she wore an Armani dress and blazer. Over the course of her campaign, Mellie wore a flag pin on her jacket or her dress, as all politicians do, but it seemed to get larger the closer she came to victory. By Inauguration Day, her bedazzled flag brooch, not Ann Hand but Oscar Heyman, was practically as large as the satisfied grin on her face.

Holding the Bible and gazing on approvingly was her vice president, Luna Isabella Vargas (Tessie Santiago), who was dressed in a pale pink overcoat from Sentaler, adorned with a more discreet flag pin. Vargas, by the way, was not what she seemed that sugary-sweet coat was nothing but visual misdirection and before the two-hour finale concluded, she had been blamed for the assassination of her husband, was forced to take a poison pill as punishment for her crime, and was last seen slumped on a sofa in the White House.

But back to Mellie.

This female president did not wear pantsuits, or even pants not when she was campaigning and not when she was sworn in. In fact, her only scene in trousers was during a fantasy sequence during which she dreamed about being president, says Scandal costume designer Lyn Paolo.

Mellie has always been a dress girl. First lady Mellie wore lots of floral and prints and garden-party dresses, Paolo says of the character, who divorced former president Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) and embarked on a solo political career. As a senator, she wore dresses with a jacket often a black jacket over a shift dress. . . . For the campaign, I thought it would be too much of a leap for her to wear pants. Her dresses became more of a sheath.

I dont know what were doing with Mellie going forward, Paolo says, but now that shes president I dont want to do anything hitting you over the head with it. So presumably, still no pantsuits.

As the outgoing fictional president prepares to leave the White House and drama continues to swirl around a possible assassination plot against Mellie, the new commander in chief stands up mid-meeting, announces she has to leave and delivers a mini monologue that surely must have been cheered by certain female politicians, their exasperated champions and ardent naysayers who believe that fashion is a distraction rather than tool of self-expression.

Mellie: I have a valet and a dresser waiting for me to finalize my outfit for the ball. For the other 44 presidents, that took all of 10 minutes, but for the lady president that means choosing a dress that will impress the New York fashion blogs without insulting the Washington conservatives. So rather than sit here and discuss the ways I might die today, Im going to go pick an outfit now so I can be done with that nonsense, so I can focus on whats really important: running the damn country.

And with that, she didnt so much as storm out of the room as walk briskly to deal with the task at hand.

Yet just beneath the surface of her cutting commentary about women and fashion, Mellie still wants to look good. Who wouldnt? But how?

How would the first female president dress for her inaugural? I spent hours pondering it, Paolo says. Rhimes actually sent me pictures of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state going to Obamas inaugural.

I really wanted the [look] to be less old Mellie. We always did a kind of Southern-belle feel, A-line, off the shoulder. I just wanted to have something about it that felt regal, Paolo says. She wanted a dress that allowed Mellie to straddle that crazy divide of looking feminine and strong. Its hard for women. And its not fair.

Paolo chose a slim, red, strapless Oscar de la Renta gown with gray and cream bugle-bead embroidery and a matching, short-sleeved shrug. Worn without the jacket it would have been more L.A., Paolo says. We would never have used it without the jacket.

The dress is body-conscious but not form-fitting. It reveals very little skin, but it isnt so buttoned up that it is matronly. It is festive but not ostentatious. It would not spark a roar of excitement among fashion aficionados, but it wouldnt generate mocking, either. And the Washington establishment would probably be just fine with it. It was also a dress that Clinton just might have worn. De la Renta, who died in 2014, was a close Clinton friend and her favorite designer.

Scandal is all fiction, of course. But fiction influences perceptions of reality. The finale was dominated by power-hungry, power-grabbing women. Within the outlandish story lines and the games of psychological chess on Scandal, women embrace power because they believe they have earned it.

They wear their power with delight. This is what that looks like in alpaca, wool and silk.

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