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(NewsNation) — Huma Abedin is finally getting what she wants.
The former wife of disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner is set to marry an actual billionaire at the end of the month … and now runs the Democratic Party inside circle, sources say.
”She is marrying Alex (Soros), who now controls the Soros Foundation and is the biggest power in the Democratic Party,” a source told me. “Huma will be, by marriage, just as powerful, if not more than him, due to her contacts.”
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As if to put the contacts on display, Abedin dined with former Senator and boss Hillary Clinton and George Clooney’s wife, Amal, at the Polo Bar in New York City last week.
”There were secret security and bodyguards everywhere,” my spy said. “They were just huddled together at a table talking.”
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Amal Clooney is, of course, the wife of George Clooney, whom people in the Democratic Party mysteriously consider a heavyweight, despite normal Americans not wanting their votes dictated to by a multimillionaire Hollywood actor.
He also wrote the scathing takedown of Joe Biden in The New York Times last year (“I Love Joe Biden, But We Need A New Nominee”) that many point to as the final reckoning for President Biden’s reelection hopes.
Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney attend the red carpet of the movie “Wolfs” presented out of competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, on September 1, 2024. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)VENICE, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 01: George Clooney attends the “Wolfs” red carpet during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 01, 2024 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Stefania D’Alessandro/WireImage)TOPSHOT – Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney attend the red carpet of the movie “Wolfs” presented out of competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, on September 1, 2024. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)From left : actor George Clooney, actor Austin Abrams, actress Amy Ryan and actor Brad Pitt attend the red carpet of the movie “Wolfs” presented out of competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, on September 1, 2024. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)George Clooney thumbnail with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev in the background.FILE – George Clooney attends a special screening of “The Boys in the Boat” in New York on Dec. 13, 2023. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)FILE – In this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, file photo, actor George Clooney talks to reporters on arrival at the premiere of the television mini-series “Catch22,” in London. Clooney was honored Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, by co-stars and colleagues at the annual film benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, held virtually. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP, File)FILE – In this Sept. 19, 2019 file photo, US actor and activist George Clooney speaks at a press conference in London. George Clooney on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. ruled out having a second career in politics, saying he would rather have a “nice life” and says he is looking to reduce his workload. Nevertheless, the 60-year-old actor and director waded into politics during an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr. Clooney, a long-time supporter of U.S. President Joe Biden, described America as a country that is still recovering from the damage caused by Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)2022 Kennedy Center Honoree George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, arrive at the Kennedy Center Honors. (Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
Clooney was later blamed, as well as others in the Democratic Party, for Biden’s cover-up, as he admitted in the piece, he had seen Biden’s demise up close and had not acted sooner. But still, it is Abedin (soon to be Soros), Clinton and Clooney who are considered the female triumvirate of the Democratic Party.
”If these people are picking the new party head, we are in trouble,” said an insider.
Abedin is marrying the young Soros heir on June 14 in the Hamptons, and the Democratic royalty will all be there … I can only imagine what “plans” are afoot to revive the party.
