Exclusive | Huma Abedin and billionaire Alex Soros are engaged
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Huma Abedin and Alex Soros are engaged, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Sources tell us Soros popped the question six weeks ago, and the couple were spotted recently celebrating the happy news in Italy.
"The best way I can describe the relationship is effortless," a friend of Abedin's for over 15 years tells Page Six.
"After a lot of tumultuous years for Huma, she's relaxed and happy and in love," the insider added.
The Democratic political insider and the son of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros were first linked earlier this year when the duo posted a cozy pic from a Paris restaurant for Valentine's Day.
The "Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds" author confirmed she was dating Soros with the sweet pic, and the message, "Happy Valentine's Day."
They subsequently attended the 2024 Met Gala together in May, where Abedin, 47, wore a green gown with butterfly appliques designed by Erdem. Soros, 38, went with a gray tuxedo and added a gold bug pin to his bowtie to match.
He cheekily captioned an Instagram Stories shot from the gala, "A little buggy out" — referring to their matching insect accoutrements for the glam event where the theme was "The Garden of Time."
Hillary Clinton's former deputy chief of staff has also been seen leaving her now-fiance's apartment downtown in NYC.
One former senior Clinton aide had previously told Page Six of the pair, "It's a classic Clinton World couple. Alex is the perfect match for Huma."
Abedin has long been considered a "second daughter" to Hillary, and Alex's dad, George Soros — who made his money in hedge funds and is worth $6.7 billion, according to Forbes — was one of the top 10 donors to Hillary's presidential run in 2016, contributing more than $9.5 million to the campaign.
"I'm thrilled for her," an Abedin friend previously told Page Six of her relationship with Soros. "She works so hard and she deserves happiness. I just hope she's happy — she's been through so much."
We hear that the engaged couple — who met through a mutual friend who was dating one of Alex's cousins — have been recently traveling together, and sources told us that Abedin was appearing in the Balkans for a talk.
11Sources have said the pair met through a mutual friend. GC Images11Abedin has been spotted leaving Soros' NYC apartment. MEGA
They'd previously gone to Munich, Germany, at the same time as the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering on international security policy that attracts world leaders.
They've mostly kept a low profile but were also spotted in April sitting courtside at a Knicks playoffs game.
It's certainly a happy ending for Abedin, who has a son with her ex, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner. They were married from 2010 to 2017.
It will be Soros' first marriage.
A source previously told Page Six of the scion: "Alex started to get more politically active 10 years ago when he was still finishing college. He started hosting his own events, not just for the Clintons, but for congressional candidates."
"He literally grew up with his dad hosting and being the biggest Democratic donor in American politics," the source added.
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"Birds of a feather ...
I wish I could say there were fine people on both sides.
No, you'll save that for the 34 times convicted felon, "grab 'em by the pussy" sexual assaulter.
He won't be for long.
Fantasize all you want. That's not going to change a thing.
I'll put up my house against your house, that verdict gets overturned on appeal.
Uh, no. Besides, I have a feeling that you would have to put up many multiples of your house in order for it to be an even exchange. Probably the fair market value of my garage and the fair market value of your house would be a dollar equivalent.
lol …. Yup, the self appointed defenders of the little man always seem to live in mansions.
Funny how that works but useful idiots do eat that shit up with a serving spoon.
The lesson is that with hard work one can realize the American dream, even someone who came from an average working class family like me. It's a lesson you might want to learn, although some seem to prefer wallowing in envy rather than applying themselves and taking advantage of the opportunities this country has to offer.
Don't worry. He got it!
Yes, it's exactly as I said in response. See Comment 1.1.6.
Although you will have to admit that his second sentence was complete gibberish.
lol, envy? Wishful thinking. I could say that I probably could buy and sell you several times over, which I probably could, but that would be about as useless a comment here as you bragging up your net worth.
But you keep doing you.
Only to the target audience ….
Yeah, Obama did pretty good for a community organizer. Net worth over 70 million. Same with the Clintons, considering according to them they were broke when they left the Whitehouse. Net worth over 120 million.
At least Trump produced something. Those two above just sucked off the public teet their whole careers.
All faux gold - all that glitters is not gold in trump world - more like golden showers
Is that last picture when the former 'president' convicted felon and rapist was doing Stormy Daniels? It's right around that time frame - infant Barron there.
Your comment is dripping with it.
Talk about wishful thinking.
The best possible description of your comment. It almost shows a bit of self-awareness.
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Won't change the fact that he was found guilty. Sorry!
No, you know I'm right, but you don't care.
It absolutely will. Don't you understand the law?
I know you are very far right.
It's a free country, so you are entitled to whatever extremist political positions you may want to take.
You are confused.. They are not going to overturn a jury decision. Not going to happen.
You have absolutely no way of knowing that.
Some 31% of appeals after jury trials are successful.
I beg to differ.
I am certain of it.
It might be good to take a look at the Enron verdict.
Wow, they are totally the same thing LOL
In a sense they are. When you do dirty things like Andrew Weissmann did, you get overturned eventually.
Trump is a convicted felon, that's not going to change. Sorry.
It's possible but statistically unlikely.
Based on analyses of the contemporary data, the chance of winning an appeal from a criminal conviction is from 7% to at most about 20%, depending on the jurisdiction.
'dirty things'?
That's persuasive authority. You should bet your house on it.
True, I get that but I think it's pretty unlikely, in my non-professional opinion.
You're correct. There needs to be a finding of reversible error for an appeal to succeed. I haven't read of any reversible error in this case.
Trump is apparently basing his appeal on the new Supreme Court case. He would need to show, and the court would have to accept, that he was convicted for a crime committed while engaging in an "official act", or that the conviction was somehow tainted by the introduction of forbidden evidence related to an "official act". In a nutshell, that's what I understand the new case to mean, although there is a bit more to it. Was Trump engaging in an "official act"? Certainly not for anything that occurred before he became President. I believe that it would be tough sell to convince a court that any of his conduct involved an "official act", but we shall see.
Wrong again. Trump had already appealed the New York conviction based on a litany of actions by the judge.
Provide us with a link to the notice of appeal or appeal pleadings Trump has filed, other than his recent letter to the Judge regarding the Supreme Court ruling, or admit that you are completely wrong, again.
The highest court he can appeal to is the Supreme Court of NY. Here is their photo...
Good luck.
I'm going to give you the most important one:
"New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan , who presided over the hush money trial of former president Donald Trump that returned 34 felony convictions , ought never to have accepted the case. And Merchan surely should have stepped away once Trump’s lawyers moved that he disqualify himself.
Yes, in response to that request, an appeals court ruled last month that Trump “has not established that he has a clear right to recusal.” But I expect that such clarity will emerge in the appeal of Trump’s conviction , which will be filed soon after his sentencing next month.
Many legal analysts who have assessed the case, finding it a disturbing aberration in how criminal law ought to be used and criminal trials conducted, have nominated their favorite “most compelling” argument for Trump’s success on appeal. Mine goes to Merchan’s astonishing decision to preside in the first place.
Begin in July 2023, when New York state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct reprimanded Merchan, sending him a “caution” because the judge had made contributions to President Biden’s reelection campaign and to two anti-Republican and anti-Trump political action committees: Progressive Turnout Project and Stop Republicans. New York absolutely prohibits its judges from making such political contributions (see below), and while the rebuke delivered to Merchan was not made public — Reuters broke the story last month — it will be much discussed in the months between now and the election.
In a recent episode of the podcast “The McCarthy Report,” former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy and National Review editor Rich Lowry detailed 10 grounds on which the Trump legal team could demand that the verdicts against Trump be tossed out. An appeal that stays the sentencing (which is set for July 11 ) requires a “colorable” claim of error, and McCarthy opined that the Merchan’s conduct amounted to a “coloring book” of such claims.
Just for starters, appeals courts must reassess the significance of Merchan’s $35 in political donations. The advisory committee’s opinion is not dispositive on the issue of recusal nor is the first appeals court’s decision. Those refusals to recuse will have to be studied in light of Merchan’s many rulings against Trump in the course of the trial.
Is there any doubt, outside feverish anti-Trump circles, that Merchan was compromised by his donations? He got a slap on the wrist from the judicial conduct commission, perhaps because the offense was Merchan’s first and the amount of the donations was so small. The judge’s lack of awareness regarding the appearance of impropriety arising from his contributions, or simple indifference to it, was abetted by the advisory committee, but the commission clearly rebuked the judge last summer for the contributions. Merchan’s decision not to recuse is mystifying.
Consider these particulars from New York’s rules governing judicial conduct:
Section 100.2 provides “A judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge’s activities.”
Section 100.4(A) provides “A judge shall conduct all of the judge’s extra-judicial activities so that they do not: (1) cast reasonable doubt on the judge’s capacity to act impartially as a judge …”
Section 100.5(A)(1) provides “Neither a sitting judge nor a candidate for public election to judicial office shall directly or indirectly engage in any political activity except (i) as otherwise authorized by this section or by law, (ii) to vote and to identify himself or herself as a member of a political party …”
Section 100.5(A)(1)(h) spells it out: A New York judge may not make “a contribution to a political organization or candidate.”
Merchan is a partisan, and a robe doesn’t disguise the team jersey with the great big “D” he is wearing underneath it."
Opinion | Why Trump will win on appeal: Judge Merchan should have recused - The Washington Post
And why don't you just admit you don't see anything outside of a progressive bubble.
Judge Merchan didn't need to recuse himself - he checked - and was not advised to do so.
ginny, I mean token thomas and alito SHOULD have recused themselves.
Why didn't they??
So, Merchan was compromised by donating $15?
How stupid
You may be 'right' but not correct. I've never seen that to be the case.
I'll take his expertise and knowledge and experience any day..
Never yours or the armchair lawyers graduates of trumpU
Not gonna happen.
That is a rather racist insinuation.
Your comment:
My reply:
Your response:
So, you failed to provide a link to Trump's appeal pleadings because you can't, since an appeal "based on a litany of actions by the judge" has not been filed, contrary to what you stated. Instead, you attempted to deflect by quoting from the opinion of a right wing propagandist and by making a spurious claim about me, when in reality, you are the one who never sees anything outside of your reactionary pipe dream.
Why don't you just man up and admit you were wrong?
It didn't happen because what he is claiming to exist doesn't.
That's usually the case
You could, but you won't.
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The useful idiots are just too dull to make the connection
There are no fine people on the 'right' except maybe the few republicans with a spine, such as Liz Cheney.
She has my sympathies, but she's probably just like him.
Trump is not a victim of lawfare he is a perpetrator of it.
Exactly.
Ah Page Six wherein one can find much news of import such as Meghan Markle looks good in white.
Interesting, she went from wiener to another one.