Rep. Anthony Weiner battled for his political life Tuesday night after a porn star claimed he told her to lie to cover their X-rated tracks - and reports surfaced he considered meeting one of his Internet paramours.
"Do you need to talk to a professional PR type person to give u advice? I can have someone on my team call," Weiner messaged to former porn star Ginger Lee on Thursday as he was denying all to the press.
"The key is to have a short, thought out statement," Weiner told the star of "Legal At Last 4." "Have a couple of iterations of: 'This is silly.'"
He followed up with a suggested statement that read in part, "I have posted about my admiration for Rep. Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I'm a fan of his."
Lee turned over the emails to the gossip site TMZ.com.
Weiner's critics said Lee's coached denials sounded a lot like college student Gennette Cordova's statement that she had no contact with the congressman other than to follow him as a "fan."
It was the crotch shot tweeted to Cordova that exposed Weiner's sexting obsession. But in her May 29 statement to the Daily News, Cordova had said she was an unwitting victim.
The House ethics committee might be interested to know whether by "someone on my team" Weiner meant a taxpayer-paid congressional staffer.
The office of the Queens-Brooklyn congressman, who confessed Monday to sending explicit photos and messages to "about six" women he met via Twitter and Facebook and then lying about it, said in a statement, "No one in his official staff or anyone affiliated with Anthony in any way had any contact with Ms. Lee."
Meanwhile, RadarOnline published transcripts of reams of dirty Facebook messages between Weiner and 40-year-old Las Vegas blackjack dealer Lisa Weiss.
Political banter about punchingHouse Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the head mixed easily with dirty talk. "What's up baby?" she asked on March 3. "Whoah, looks like I am. Wanna ride it?" he shot back. Starting last September, she begged him to meet her, and he sometimes promised he would.
"I want the real Anthony sex, not just FB sex," she told him. Neither ever mentioned his wife.
When he mistakenly posted a snapshot of his bulging briefs to his public Twitter stream, Weiss sent him a message of commiseration.
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