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Hillary made a secret deal with Huma to keep Weiner quiet

By Emily Smith and Ian Mohr

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Hillary Clinton (from left) and Huma Abedin plan on keeping Abedin's husband, disgraced Twitter crotchshot enthusiast Anthony Weiner, out of the spotlight.Photo: (Left) AP, (center) David McGlynn, (right) Reuters

Hillary Clinton has a “secret deal” with her top aide Huma Abedin to keep Abedin’s troublesome husband,Anthony Weiner, out of the spotlight, sources tell Page Six, as the former secretary of state mulls a run for president.

Clinton aides have insisted Weiner “stay out of public life for two years” and that he “avoid causing any further embarrassment to Huma or Clinton,” according to our sources.

The former sexting pol has been noticeably absent at recent public events attended by Abedin, including the Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner in Manhattan earlier this month. Nor has he appeared at the recent plethora of New York galas and awards dinners attended by the Clintons, such as the Wildlife Conservation Society Gala on June 12 and the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence Gala on April 24.

While a spokesman for Clinton insists the talk of a deal with Weiner is “1,000 percent absurd,” a well-placed source told us, “He has been put on notice by Clinton aides to keep a low profile and remain out of sight and out of trouble.”

Weiner caused a stir earlier this month when he favorited a tweet that said, “Tinder will now be the ultimate sext machine.” He later tweeted it was an accident: “OK, to recap my day. I accidentally hit the star thingy on a @voxdotcom story about Tinder. Sorry.”

The Democrat’s 2013 mayoral bid collapsed when he repeatedly sexted a woman after resigning from Congress for similar behavior.

While Abedin has been accompanying Hillary on a tour to promote her book “Hard Choices,” Weiner has been making a few hard choices of his own. He’s kept his social media activity clean and is keeping himself discreetly busy with consulting work, appearing on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” and writing for a few publications about politics.

But he’d better not say, tweet or write anything revealing about Hillary, our source added. His rep didn’t get back to us last night
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