I really like Senator John Edwards. I had a lot of hope for him as a Presidential candidate in 2004 and I was rooting for him to secure the nomination instead of Kerry. He has a very warm personality and seems like a great guy. When Edwards gave Obama his endorsement I had visions of him as Vice President. What a disappointment it is to hear that Edwards thinks with his dick and has been screwing around on his cancer-stricken wife.
The National Enquirer has been breaking this story since late last year. They've had reporters on Edwards and they caught him at a hotel visiting his mistress and her five month-old baby in July. They even had a blurry photo in their latest issue of Edwards holding the infant, a girl named Francis Quinn Hunter. Edwards, 55, gave an interview to Nightline which will be broadcast tonight in which he admits to an affair with Rielle Hunter, a 44 year-old filmmaker he hired to do work for his campaign. He claims her baby is not his, though, due to "timing," but has not taken a paternity test.
The Enquirer has Edwards funneling money to his mistress through other people in an elaborate scheme. Edwards' former campaign aid, Andrew Young, claims to be the father of Hunter's baby. Young is married and is now set up in a $5.6 million mansion in Santa Barbara with his current wife and family along with Hunter, who don't get along. The home where they're all living together is said to belong to a rich retiree who is a friend and supporter of Edwards.
Another Edwards supporter sends $15,000 a month to Hunter according to the Enquirer. They say that Andrew Young may be paid as much as $20,000 additional a month "to carry out the coverup."
Both Young and Hunter claim that Young is the father of her baby, but neither will take a paternity test or polygraph, nor will they sign an affidavit. There is no father listed on the baby's birth certificate.
In his Nightline interview, Edwards will say that he didn't give Hunter any money but that "it was possible some of his friends or supporters may have made payments without telling him."
He also claims that the affair occurred when his wife's cancer was in remission, and says that he told family about his infidelity in 2006. His wife was not aware that he was visiting Hunter secretly at a hotel in July to see that baby that he says isn't his.
Edwards repeatedly lied about the affair when he was running for President late last year, saying that the Enquirer's reports at the time were "completely untrue."
It seems suspicious to me that Edwards is saying the baby isn't his but hasn't taken a paternity test and was seen holding the infant. He's also not doing his shattered credibility any favors by not owing up to sending this woman money.
Edwards has three surviving children out of four with his wife Elizabeth, who has an incurable form of stage IV breast cancer. They have daughters Cate, 26, and Emma Claire, 10, and son Jack, 8. Their oldest son Wade died in a car accident in 1996 when he was just 17.
This really upsets me because Edwards gives the impression that he's a family man. He lied and seems to be continuing to lie when he could just as easily admit to fathering a child as well as having an affair. He wouldn't be the first politician to cheat on a wife suffering from medical problems. John McCain left his first wife, the mother of his three oldest sons, after she was disfigured in a car accident. He married his current wife, Cindy, just a month later.
A lot of people rip on the Enquirer and dismiss them as a "tabloid," but they're like a wise alcoholic aunt. It's easy to dismiss what she's saying because of the way she looks and how raspy her voice sounds, but she knows the neighborhood gossip before everyone else and she's usually right. And her drug-addicted sister, Star Magazine, makes her look bad just by association.
John Edwards is shown at "the AARP Foundation Symposium on Poverty and Aging" in Washington, DC on 7/30/08. Credit: Carrie Devorah / WENN
Details and quotes from ABCNews.com and The National Enquirer, print edition, August 18, 2008.
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