UPDATE, August 13, 2008: "SEX, MORE LIES & VIDEOTAPE"
The ENQUIRER has uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying his mistress Rielle Hunter - and she was whisked away on a private jet two days before he confessed their extramarital affair on national TV!
The ENQUIRER has also confirmed that Edwards secretly visited Rielle and their love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this year - a fact that proves he is still lying to America and his wife.
...After Edwards confessed the affair to his wife, he restarted it, and was sexually involved with Rielle when she became pregnant.
Despite his denials, Edwards WAS aware that his former finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, was funneling money to Rielle.
Experts are now calling for a federal investigation into Edwards' use of campaign funds.
...In denying he fathered Rielle's baby, Edwards told ABC that he would "be happy" to take a paternity test to prove he's telling the truth. (He has refused numerous previous requests by The ENQUIRER to take a paternity test.)
Edwards claimed he ended the affair in 2006, but sources say he restarted the illicit romance after confessing to his wife.
Rielle soon became pregnant after the affair was rekindled, say sources.
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UPDATE, August 8, 2008: Edwards admits affair.
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UPDATE, August 6, 2008: THE Photo
Actually, I'd like to see a photo of the ashen John Edwards hiding out in the bathroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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UPDATE, July 25, 2008: FOX News reports that a hotel security guard confirms some of the National Enquirer's story.
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When the National Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, and his love child, I defended Edwards.
I thought Edwards, who was in the hunt for the Dem presidential nomination at the time, was the latest victim of silly, tabloid trash.
I said I didn't for one minute believe that Edwards would cheat on his wife, especially given her health situation.
During their marriage, they've faced tragedies and challenges together. I couldn't imagine Edwards doing that to her.
Now there's a new chapter in the Edwards saga, also brought to you by the National Enquirer.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer -- met with his mistress, blonde divorcée Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn't leave until early the next morning.
Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness.
But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.
The story of the rendezvous and Edwards' early morning departure from the hotel reads a bit like a screwball comedy.
At 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday, Edwards appeared at the hotel, and was dropped off at a side entrance. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield witnessed the ex-senator get out of a BMW driven by a male companion and stroll into the hotel.
Said Butterfield: "Edwards was not carrying anything. He walked in alone. He was wearing a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was looking around nervously before he entered the hotel.
"Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up - rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen."
Meanwhile, Rielle had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Rielle was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.
Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.
Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.
Said reporter Hitchen: "After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!
..."Some guests up at this late hour watched the spectacle in amusement from a staircase nearby."
I have difficulty believing that Edwards would arrange to see his alleged mistress and baby in a hotel in LA.
Certainly a more discreet location could have been the site of the meeting.
And then Edwards attempting to slip out of the hotel, thwarted by Enquirer reporters and a photographer, the running around, the hiding out in the restroom -- It's a goofy scene.
If Edwards was, in fact, holed up in the bathroom for 15 minutes, I'm sure an Enquirer photographer would have captured that. There would have been plenty of time.
One of the reporters could have taken photos or video on a cell phone.
It's strange to me that there's no photographic evidence of the episode.
However, the Enquirer seems bent on proving this story to be true. After all, it has been a "months-long investigation."
Moreover, I wouldn't think the Enquirer would want to mess with trial lawyer Edwards. It would be like begging for a lawsuit.
I don't buy the details of this latest account, but I am beginning to wonder about the alleged affair and the child.
I still don't want to believe that Edwards would betray his wife Elizabeth as she battles her disease. I would hope that he would have the decency to love and respect his wife and children as they deal with Elizabeth's health crisis.
Edwards did get kind of close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. It's not good to think that someone next in line to be leader of the free world would be the type to have a Charles Kuralt thing going.
This revelation, true or not, does cast a dark shadow on Edwards, possibly making him less likely to have a role in what could be an Obama administration.
It's hard to say. The National Enquirer has been right, but it's been wrong.
I don't know what to believe. I know what I want to believe.
6 comments:
Unbelievable that you would post ANYTHING that the National Enquirer would say, but even more unbelievable is that you said this:
Edwards did get kind of close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. It's not good to think that someone next in line to be leader of the free world would be the type to have a Charles Kuralt thing going.
This revelation, true or not, does cast a dark shadow on Edwards, possibly making him less likely to have a role in what could be an Obama administration.
Talk about "dark shadows". What about these that are well documented and even admitted to by the candidate; who, by the way, will have a bit more than "a role" in our government??????
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind
By Sharon Churcher
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections. .........................
‘I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,’ says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.
Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing.
But already the McCains’ marriage had begun to fray. ‘John started carousing and running around with women,’ said Robert Timberg.
McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.
He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics.
In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.
Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide. .......................
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
The more you post here the more I see how your comments reflect the typical Leftist approach.
I don't think you read my post. If you did, I don't think you picked up the meaning.
Why would you copy and paste a personal slam on McCain because I've defended Edwards?
It's not good to think that someone next in line to be leader of the free world would be the type to have a Charles Kuralt thing going.
You call this defending Edwards????? With friends like you, he doesn't need enemies. You must have trouble reading ( a typical problem with you righties). I'll post it again for you.
Unbelievable that you would post ANYTHING that the National Enquirer would say, but even more unbelievable is that you said this:
Edwards did get kind of close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. It's not good to think that someone next in line to be leader of the free world would be the type to have a Charles Kuralt thing going.
This revelation, true or not, does cast a dark shadow on Edwards, possibly making him less likely to have a role in what could be an Obama administration.
Talk about "dark shadows". What about these that are well documented and even admitted to by the candidate; who, by the way, will have a bit more than "a role" in our government??????
Please carefully reread my post.
You will find that I am defending Edwards.
I wonder why this story swirls and swirls...like smoke?
Loved the inference that right thinking folks can't read. He, he...and left minded folks only argue with attempts to one up.
What a country!
Love America
The approach that I'm taking in writing about the Edwards story is apolitical.
This isn't a Dem or Republican thing.
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