Posted on 06/08/2011 6:39:05 PM PDT by tlb
In a final act of revenge, Elizabeth Edwards secretly recorded a testimony in her dying days that helped prosecutors indict husband John last week, it was claimed today.
John Edwards is due to stand trial on charges that could lead to a 30-year jail sentence after he pleaded not guilty on Friday to using $925,000 in campaign funds to cover up an affair and love child.
The estranged wife of the former presidential candidate is alleged to have filmed a damning testimony that was central to the prosecution’s case for charges.
Friends said the cancer victim, who died in December, wanted to ‘haunt’ her estranged husband and his mistress Rielle Hunter, with whom he fathered a child and made a sex tape
Bruce Baron, an expert on federal law, said: ‘The value of a potential dying declaration, or tape, containing the testimony of Elizabeth Edwards, is devastating to any case or defence that Edwards would have.
‘On the secret video, Elizabeth spells out everything she knew about John’s affair with Rielle and how he managed to cover it up for so long,’ a source told the Enquirer.
‘She also spills all of John’s lies – many of which could be what sends him up the river.’
‘Elizabeth wanted to haunt John and Rielle – literally from her grave – and she has,’ the source told the Enquirer.
‘She hated them with a vengeance. This was a woman who took her final breath in the same bed where John once had sex with his mistress.’
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How utterly sad to intentionally be so unforgiving as you prepare to meet your maker.
We will be judged as we judge, to paraphrase the Good Book.
May God have mercy on her.
Different spin on the “Dead Hand” theory...
I feel extremely sorry for them too - the trauma of losing your Mother at such a young age and then dealing with the very public betrayal and moral delinquency of your Father is so very sad. Hopefully, these kids have other loving adults around them to make up for all of this sadness.
I can only just imagine what they have to deal with on a day to day basis at school (children can be so cruel), in their community and the ever present MSM presence dogging their every step...prayers up. Children should never have to pay the price for their parents drama.
I loathe Edwards like everyone else, but this? Now their children will have no parents. How damn selfish were both of these people? Geez.
A woman who decided to get in the last word.
“How does that affect the legitimacy of her testimony?”
Someone more knowledgeable can fill us in more, but I believe there is a concept of “death bed” testimony in the law and it presumes such a person is telling the truth.
Now, is it discountable for the reason you give? Maybe.
Plus, her “hatred” against these two would be obvious, so that must be taken into account also.
A lot of right wingers don’t like these charges that have been brought against Edwards, so I’m agnostic for now. But the thing that puzzles me most is why it took almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS to “hide” this goumada. Where were they “hiding” her? The Taj Mahal?
5 yrs from now Edwards will be a major domo in the Dem party.
Following the footsteps of Ted Kennedy and BJ Clinton.
Nope.
Cate age 29 (born 1982)
Emma Claire age 13 (born 1998)
Jack age 11 (born 2000)
I am about to do something that will put my ex in extreme legal jeopardy. I've thought about the effect on the kids and decided tough noogies. She should have thought about the kids before she did what she did.
Your choices are yours. So are the consequences.
Can you imagine Edwards in prison? lol I dont see him lifting weights or getting tats, he will be many dudes bitch lol
The media forces this down our throat as some sort of huge ethical/moral outrage, which it isn’t in a secular world, and then make hay as the dims frogmarch one of their own. But zero’s rezko, funding from overseas, rangel, waters, conyer’s wife, jefferson get no or little coverage. The dims aren’t our first problem. To semi-quote carville; It’s the media stupid. They control the narrative and are controlled by the dims. End running them is a work around. We need a final solution.
But this is tabloid-trash squalid. Victimology on steroids. I’d not give a dime for either one of them.
I wish I had a link to the excerpt from that book. Elizabeth Edwards was a belittling, hounding witch. Both parents were a “piece of work”.
Oh, I don' know. About the same degree of selfishness as Tony the Weiner.
Each. John, Elizabeth, and Rielle. Or is it Reille. Whatever.
I’m not thinking any better of her. She wanted to be FLOTUS at all costs—including keeping the truth about JE from the voters.
Amen.
I hope she forgave him. For if she didn’t forgive him, the Father will not forgive her. And I didn’t make this up.
Cheers From Down Unda
Janey
Always.
I’m thinking of how he got his first riches by screwing OBs...now he’ll know how it feels. Seeing JE in an orange jumpsuit would be a very keen pleasure.
In this day and age, I find that concept scary to say the least.
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