Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton declared Monday under penalty of perjury that she has given the State Department all of her work-related emails from her four years as secretary of state, but her trusted aide Huma Abedin has not yet taken that step – despite a request from a federal judge.
Abedin's lawyer Karen Dunn told Politico on Thursday that the longtime Clinton insider, who served as deputy chief of staff at State, plans to turn over her work-related emails and other messages from her tenure there by August 28.
But Dunn declined to say whether or not Abedin will ink the same statment Clinton has signed.
Abedin enjoyed a rare but legal status as a 'Special Government Employee' during part of her time in government, allowing her to double-dip with a second paycheck in the private sector.
TROUBLE COMING: Clinton aide Huma Abedin has yet to swear that she's turned over all her work-related emails and other materials to the State Department as an investigation swirls around Hillary
SAFE FOR NOW? Clinton signed a statement under penalty of perjury, but there's no indication when or whether her top staffers will follow suit
That arrangement has led some Republicans to speculate that she might have exposed classified information to people who are not authorized to see it.
Donald Trump told DailyMail.com on July 30 that it's reasonable to think Abedin may have shared information with her husband Anthony Weiner, including the contents of classified emails that passed through the former secretary of state's private home-brew server.
Weiner, a former Democratic congressman, resigned in 2011 amid lewd sexting scandals.
Trump told DailyMail.com during a wide-ranging interview in his New York City Office that 'the person seeing [Clinton's] emails more than anybody else is Huma. And who's Huma married to? The worst deviant in the United States of America, right? Weiner!'
Abedin holds a security clearance of the kind that typically comes with detailed guidance on what kind of information must be kept secret from family members, including spouses.
Trump said Weiner's actions were 'shocking and disgusting' and questioned whether 'anyone that untrustworthy' should be 'anywhere around national secrets.'
'Huma knows all those emails,' Trump insisted, 'and she's married to a deviant who has a big
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