More Edwards Bombshells from the New Paper of Record

Move over, New York Times.  The National Enquirer is way ahead of you on the John Edwards story.  More damning details are out today:

The ENQUIRER has uncovered bombshell new details about the John Edwards sex scandal after the former presidential candidate finally admitted he'd cheated on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth!

Edwards' headline-making admission confirmed The ENQUIRER's blockbuster world exclusive reports detailing his affair, in articles Edwards brazenly called "completely untrue" and "tabloid trash" while running for president and afterward.

And now 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.

ENQUIRER reporters caught Edwards, 55, making a late-night visit to 44-year-old Rielle and their daughter at the hotel on July 21 - which prompted us to release the first-ever photograph of him with his love child last week.

NOW, The ENQUIRER has uncovered more blockbuster information, including:

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 an interview with ABC's Nightline correspondent Bob Woodruff on Aug. 8, the former North Carolina senator admitted for the first time that he engaged in what he called a "short" extramarital affair with campaign worker Rielle Hunter.

Edwards told ABC the affair was limited to 2006, before he confessed "the mistake" to wife Elizabeth, 59, who is battling a recurrence of breast cancer.

But Edwards denied he's the father of Rielle's daughter, who was born on Feb. 27, 2008. The ENQUIRER reported last December that Hunter had told close confidantes that he was the father.

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.

Well, there go the last few shreds of possible remaining credibility for Edwards.  Unless he produces proof that the Enquirer is wrong and a paternity test showing he's not the father of the baby (which seems to be unlikely at this point), he's toast.

It makes me wonder what Elizabeth Edwards will do -- or what she should do.  Having terminal cancer and two small children is trouble enough, but add to the mix a serial philanderer, and what do you have left?

Comments

[Michael Carr]

Please cut Edwards some slack. Elizabeth's cancer was in remission when he had the affair.

[Gina Cobb]

Michael, I don't know if you're serious or tongue in cheek, but I thought the vow was "in sickness AND in health." I didn't realize that keeping one's solemn vow of fidelity is only expected "in sickness." My bad.

[Mamba1-0]

Michael Carr - That is one of the all-time most stupid things a libtard has ever come out with (and that's going some). So, it's OK to cheat on your wife as long as she's healthy (so she can support herself after the divorce if she catches you?); but if she gets sick, you have to suspend the affair until she recovers? Is this applied to all sickness - colds, flu,beri-beri, etc. - or only to the biggies like cancer. Enquiring philanderers want to know!!

[Sisyphus]

I assume Michael Carr was just joking.

[Jack]

I'd like to ask a question of all those democrats out there who contributed to Edwards' campaign. How do you feel about two America's now. In one America men pay for their mistress, in the other, your campaign contributions pay for a mistress.