John Edwards Voicemail Recordings Reveal Affair Cover Up on Presidential Campaign Trail
- Posted on March 3, 2011 at 6:40pm by
Meredith Jessup
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A local North Carolina television news station has obtained recorded voicemail messages purportedly left by John Edwards during his bid to become president in 2008 that one former aide says proves the former Democratic senator was complicit in covering up his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter.
Additionally, the battle over a video reportedly showing Edwards and Hunter engaged in sexual relations returned to court Thursday. WTVD reports:
Lawyers for former Edwards aide Andrew Young filed a sealed motion to compel Edwards to give them more information. Apparently, they didn’t get all the answers they wanted when they deposed him in early February.
Hunter sued Young and his wife for invasion of privacy in an effort to get the tape back last year. She has said she attempted to destroy the video tape by pulling it out of its cassette box before storing it in a box of private belongings.
Young, who has said he helped keep Hunter in hiding for Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign – and later wrote a book about the experience – contends the tape was found amid trash that Hunter left behind in a home that he was renting.
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thegoodvoter
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:50amKennedy/Kopechne… Clinton/Lewinsky… Edwards/Hunter…. Obama/ ?Mathews?
Report Post »2tuxedomama
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:10pmThis sordid mess just gets sleazier and sleazier….those 2 deserve what they get. I feel most sad for his wife – battling breast cancer is horrifying enough without having a horrendous spouse like she had – and for Hunter’s daughter….may she never end up with a man like her father.
Report Post »Will Jones
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 1:55pmYou don’t have to judge him. That is for a jury. You should, however, be able to use your common sense to understand whether or not he lied about not knowing what was going on with the attempt to hide her during the Presidential campaign. Scooter Libby was not convicted for exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA employee. Someone else did that. He was charged with lying to federal agents. Edwards certainly seems to have done that. If proven, he should be as culpable as was Libby. No judging, just facts.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 11:39amThis goes way beyond what he did with/to his wife (which was reprehensible).
Report Post »He did this to America…
THIS is the kind of presidential material we have to chose from these days?
Did he graduate from NU with the prof who put on a live sex show for the students?
He deserves punishment here and in the hereafter. How about the aid who felt forced
to claim the lovechild as his own? How many people’s lives did this perverted affair
ruin besides his own? Disgraceful
UlyssesP
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:46amKeep me and America out of your perverted dalliances. You killed your wife scumbag.
Report Post »ldpeters
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:44amHow is it this “class act” (tongue in cheek) hasn’t been prosecuted yet?
Report Post »He needs to be “neutralized” by being enclosed behind bars in perpetuity.
What he did to his wife, his family, his constituents and this country is worthy of a long term vacation in the pokey.
Warphead
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:09amThis creep deserves jail time or worse. He made his fortune sueing doctors for infant maladies the doctors had no control over. He ruined good peoples careers. He is scum in the true since of the word. Then not to mention his arrogance when sitting upon the throne he created for himself. I will savor every moment of his humiliation and fall from grace. And to think this arrogant pompass ass wanted to lead our nation and nearly succeeded. Goes to show you how niave and ignorant the US population has become.
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:56amIf this is news to you, surprises or interests you in any way, you might want to punch yourself in the face and quit trying to contribute to political discussions. Hair John is over…so over…and it feels good. Let’s leave him there with his mirror.
Report Post »hopnmad
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:52amWell said..
Report Post »ONE PIECE
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:18amI feel for his children & dead wife Elizabeth. May she she rest peacefully in heaven. As for John……um-mm? He should go straight to HELL!!! How can someone do what he did to of all people, his wife!! She stood by him believing in him & in the end he left her to DIE broken hearted!! What a SCUM!! He is what a man is not supposed to be!!!
Report Post »Pa7sy
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:17am…Doing it all while he was planning on becoming the most powerful person in the world, the president of the United States! I just can’t imaging what the media coverage would have been like, had this been brought to light as he sat in the white house. What makes it most despicable is that during it all, he had this grand scheme to deceive, not only his wife and family, but the people of America. I wonder how long he thought he would be able get away with it – throughout his entire presidency? I can’t believe he EVER succeeded in ANYTHING with that kind of thinking.
100 years from now, though, it would have been a great presidential scandal to read about in history books.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:16amWhat’s the point of trying to indict him. If it’s a jury trial, with women on the jury, he‘ll turn on the charm and they’ll acquit him. Guys like him get women to do anything for him.
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:11amOnly the stupid ones. Hey ladies, don’t be stupid.
Report Post »Zedleplin
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 4:31amJohn Edwards has an intellect rivaled only by garden tools. From a slime ball Lawyer, to a slime ball politician, to a slime ball husband, soon to be in jail with lots of slime balls.
Report Post »poohbear
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:29amI don‘t like what he did one bit but I’m not gonna judge John Edwards..I’ll leave room for God to do that.
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:24amnow you’ll see why Edwards said there were “two Americas”
the law doesn’t apply to the elites like Edwards – only to the little people
just move along sheeple nothing to see here
Report Post »Zedleplin
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 4:40amYo pooh – your comment sounds right, it sounds spiritual, it sounds humble, it’s just wrong. We are to judge rightly.
Judge Rightly is not some guys name.
Read the statement in the Good Book that says, “judge not, lest ye be judged” in proper context.
The Bible also says, when talking about a man’s wife, “Let her breasts satisfy thee always.” Does that mean during supper, or at a PTA meeting, or while driving at 75mph? This misconception about judging those doing evil has been a puny excuse for Christians acting cowardly when confronting obvious evil. Fifty million abortions prove that. Can you dig it? I knew that you could.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:09amMore power to you, POOHBEAR, God will judge him, but in the meantime, what he did to Elizabeth and his family was the lowest of lows. I hope the new wife doesn’t ever have cancer because he will be on the prowl once again ( or maybe he doesn’t need an excuse) – a leopard doesn’t change his spots!
Report Post »poohbear
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:54am@ grandmaof5
Thanks, I guess I hit a nerve..I agree what he did was horrible to his wife, Elisabeth.
@ Zedleplin
Report Post »As for judging rightly, I think I did..