Posted on 05/10/2012 3:36:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
Even as John Edwards' presidential hopes dwindled, the candidate had ambitions for high office, his former senior economic adviser testified Thursday.
"We talked about a more elaborate long-term goal of Mr. Edwards, which was to be a Supreme Court justice," Leo Hindery said on the witness stand.
Instead of landing on the federal bench, Edwards is now a defendant in federal court. The detail about Edwards' lingering political aspirations emerged shortly before the prosecution rested its case Thursday in that trial, calling its last set of witnesses after a dramatic three weeks of testimony.
Prosecutors did not end up calling the mistress, Rielle Hunter, to the stand, despite her featuring prominently in much of the testimony so far.
"They probably thought she was too dangerous," Steven Friedland, a law professor at Elon University and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News.
Instead, prosecutors attempted to leave jurors with an impression of Edwards as a career politician who still had ambitions for high office, even as his presidential hopes and marriage were crumbling...
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I started to LMAO until it dawned on me who is POTUS and VPOTUS and I realized the possibilities....
A junk-science-based trial lawyer on the high court? Delusions of grandeur seems applicable.
I started to LMAO until it dawned on me who is POTUS and VPOTUS and I realized the possibilities....
Yep, as weird as it seems if Zer0 is reelected it could have happened.
Humm....Edwards is probably more qualified than Kagan....
That’s not saying much.....but it’s probably the truth...
At least the silk pony actually defended real people with real problems, after all he’s the expert on “other Americans” ...you know the ones not like him....
Sadly, you’re probably right.
My first thought as well.
He didn’t defend anybody. He was an ambulance chaser.
He didn’t defend anybody. He was an ambulance chaser.
Edwards is stark, raving mad.
Its clear that this guy is delusional.
From all the reports I’ve read, I do not recall any evidence presented showing the campaign accounts being used to make any payments in cash or services to Ms. Hunter.
If Edwards’ friends gave her money from their personal accounts, they have a right to do that.
Aside from being a sleazeball, where is the crime? If Edwards is guilty, when will the prosecution of Bill Clinton begin?
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