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Posted: 2016-08-29T22:43:31Z | Updated: 2016-08-29T22:43:31Z

A GOP congressman who suggested that Hillary Clintons longtime aide Huma Abedin had ties to a terrorist group said Monday GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump should not have seized on news of another scandal involving her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) .

I think this is a sad story. Anthony Weiner is a bit of a weirdo. Hillary Clinton didnt marry him, and she didnt hire him. She hired Huma Abedin. So to make the leap that Anthony Weiner is a security threat, I disagree with Trump, Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) told CNN s Wolf Blitzer.

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Duffy, a Trump supporter, said the GOP nominee made a mistake in politicizing the news that Weiner texted lewd pictures to a woman, including one that featured his young son. In a statement on Monday, Trump suggested that Weiner may have had access to highly classified information, attempting to link him to Clintons email controversy.

I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information, Trump said in a statement. Who knows what he learned and who he told? Its just another example of Hillary Clintons bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.

Last week, Duffy criticized Clinton by suggesting that Abedin is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood which some countries refer to as a terror group repeating a falsehood that was first raised by former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in 2012 , when Clinton was serving as secretary of state and Abedin was her deputy chief of staff.

Why arent we talking about Huma and her ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? Why arent we talking about the fact that she was an editor for a Sharia newspaper? Duffy asked CNNs Brianna Keilar .