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Report: Elizabeth Edwards Left Behind Video Testimony Against Her Husband

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Elizabeth Edwards, who passed away from cancer in early December of last year, has left a damning video testimony highlighting what she knew about her husband John Edwards‘ extramarital affair with his former campaign worker, Rielle Hunter … this, at least, according to an exclusive by The National Enquirer, the publication that first broke the story of Edwards’ affair and subsequent child with Hunter.

Reports the Enquirer, quoting a “source close to the scandal”:

Elizabeth wanted to exact revenge against John for destroy­ing their 33-year marriage and family by cheating with Rielle.

It was Elizabeth’s idea to secret­ly record a video and tell what knew of the affair and John’s horrific betrayal.

The source added that Edwards then passed the video on to a friend, asking that it be sent to prosecutors in the case against her husband.

Last week, John Edwards pleaded not guilty following a federal grand jury’s indictment on charges he conspired to cover up his affair during his 2008 campaign by “secretly obtaining,” donors’ contributions and later misreporting these donations.

h/t National Enquirer

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  • BatBoy

    Good for her!

    I always knew that guy was a scumbag!

  • bealzebubba

    WOW. Good for her.

    He’s done a lot of damage…totally betrayed the trust of his constituents and the party. Off with him!

  • slickerwick

    Will the press now demand the release of all his official emails while he was Senator and will they be diligently sifting through them with the help of partisan volunteers?

  • GoneFishing

    Dayum… that is Soo, gonna leave a mark.

    Methinks pretty boy Johnny’s gonna be a wife in da big house. Karma is such a bitch.

  • Big Eddie

    Who cares about a slug like Edwards ?

    But , like O.j. Simpson’s children , who must know the truth by now , his kids unfortunately will have to deal with it someday .

  • Just my Opinion

    I saw on MSNBC (do you believe that) Lock-up that his cell mate
    will ask him if he wants to be the Momma or the Daddy at the beginning
    of the relationship.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Don’t care for John Edwards but this is some outright waste of revenue.

  • Rivermont

    Talk about speaking from the grave.

  • Rivermont

    But the question we must ask is did Edwards run on Family Values? If not, everything he did is acceptable.

  • LOGICandREASON

    LOL

  • TheBiggestBrax

    Though I felt for Elizabeth Edwards and what her slimy husband did to her, the tape is inadmissible in any court proceeding. There’s chain of custody issues — as well as being able to cross examined her and the veracity of the content of the tape.

  • TeaPartyNation

    “Report: Elizabeth Edwards Left Behind A Video Testimony Against Her Husband”

    I do hope The Weiner’s pregnant wife is paying attention to this. Elizabeth should be her role model – AND CERTAINLY NOT HILLARY !!!!

  • bealzebubba

    Rivermont said:
    But the question we must ask is did Edwards run on Family Values? If not, everything he did is acceptable.

    Depends on the values and on the family. You’re family values aren’t the as any of ours.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Elizabeth Edwards was no saint, I read Game Change and apparently she used to insult Edwards in public. I’m not saying that justifies adultery, but Edwards should have divorced her years ago. The thing is liberals hate being blunt with one another, they love being politically correct, they try to be sensitive, they worry about what will people think, and then they end up destroying each other.

    Conservatives are more practical, it’s not working out? You get a divorce.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Liberal Tormentor

    I do wish she would have been honest when she was pushing her husband on America. I find it hard to believe she didn’t know the truth then. Having said that, God rest her soul.

  • JR

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    Elizabeth Edwards was no saint, I read Game Change and apparently she used to insult Edwards in public. I’m not saying that justifies adultery, but Edwards should have divorced her years ago. The thing is liberals hate being blunt with one another, they love being politically correct, they try to be sensitive, they worry about what will people think, and then they end up destroying each other. Conservatives are more practical, it’s not working out? You get a divorce. http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

    Insulting in public is enough to do all of that? I think not. Perhaps the reason why she was insulting him had it’s roots in THIS story. And if that is the case, he deserved far more than that.

    The end of a marriage, especially a long term one, when it comes to this level of betrayal, isn’t going to be pretty.

    Good for her that she taped her deposition, brilliant move on her part.

  • Nature Freak

    “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,”

    spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII.
    William Congreve

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    Conservatives are more practical, it’s not working out? You get a divorce.

    And then another one. And another one. And then you bash gays and whine about the sanctity of marriage. Christ you’re stupid.

  • WillP

    You can’t beat this. A deathbed confession from Elizabeth Edwards. Forget about FEC campaign election laws. John Edwards might be convicted and go to jail just because he was so dammm cruel to his dying wife.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Has anyone beyond the Enquirer confirmed this? Would seem to go against the grain of her last public interview where she said her kids would need John to lean on after she was gone.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Publius219 said:
    Has anyone beyond the Enquirer confirmed this? Would seem to go against the grain of her last public interview where she said her kids would need John to lean on after she was gone.

    As I recall, Elizabeth Edwards wanted her daughter to take custody of the two younger children upon her death and she was particularly adamant that she didn’t want John and Rielle raising HER children.

    As with Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Edwards life revolved around her husband’s career success and she was willing to put up with John’s behaviors just as Hillary was. I believe it’s called “blind ambition.”

  • Dem4Ever

    I don’t think Elizabeth liked John very much. What ya think?

  • slickerwick

    Edwards used his sick wife and his children to show what a great family man he was while he was campaigning.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Dem4Ever said:
    I don’t think Elizabeth liked John very much. What ya think?

    Do you blame her?
    She knew what a scumbag he truly is.

    If it wasn’t for Edwards stealing enough of Hillary’s precious votes to get the DNC nomination she would be President right now!!

    The really disturbing thing is that I still see a few Edward bumper stickers, not very many but still..sheez, some people!!

    btw, I do not see many Obama stickers these days either…just a bunch of scratch marks where people have scraped them off.

  • Dem4Ever

    Colorado_Conservative said:  I do not see many Obama stickers these days either…just a bunch of scratch marks where people have scraped them off.

    LOL

  • ckw

    A woman scorned getting sweet revenge from the grave. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Do you blame her?
    She knew what a scumbag he truly is.

    If it wasn’t for Edwards stealing enough of Hillary’s precious votes to get the DNC nomination she would be President right now!!

    The really disturbing thing is that I still see a few Edward bumper stickers, not very many but still..sheez, some people!!

    btw, I do not see many Obama stickers these days either…just a bunch of scratch marks where people have scraped them off.

    Excellent point about Edwards siphoning off Hillary votes. If the media had done its job (in my dreams!), Obama wouldn’t be in the process of destroying the country right now. I’m no fan of Hillary’s, BUT I don’t think she’d preside over the destruction of our economy as Obama is doing.

    Thanks, legacy media, Obama is the gift that keeps on giving- and that all of our grandchildren will pay for forever.

  • newzmaker

    Wow, Elizabeth had a lot of nerve to do this. If I were terminally ill, I wouldn’t want my last act to be one of revenge, just in case God wouldn’t approve. I’ve already got plenty to atone for, without adding something this drastic to my list. Geez…

  • Rivermont

    bealzebubba said:
    Depends on the values and on the family. You’re family values aren’t the as any of ours.

    I know- we don’t send out crotch pics like your family does, son.

  • Cecelia

    If this is true, I supppose Elizabeth thought she was protecting her children.

    There’s something terribly disturbing about it though.

    It’s only natural to hope that Mrs. Edwards entered the next dimension with a heart, mind, and soul in perfect peace.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    As I recall, Elizabeth Edwards wanted her daughter to take custody of the two younger children upon her death and she was particularly adamant that she didn’t want John and Rielle raising HER children.

    As with Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Edwards life revolved around her husband’s career success and she was willing to put up with John’s behaviors just as Hillary was. I believe it’s called “blind ambition.”

    Your recollections are at least somewhat incorrect, and your assumptions baseless.

  • Woofie

    No matter how slick, this guy thinks he is, he is the lowest form of humanity!

    Nothing too bad, could happen to him. He should rot in hell!

  • Nature Freak

    I may have said this a couple of days ago, but Edwards was my senator for part of the time I was living in Western
    NC. John actually cared about and fought for the poor and working class, and all those who are marginalized by
    our society. He supported unions. I was proud to have John as my Senator.

    I suspect Edwards may have developed mental illness sometime in 2006 or 2007. His actions since then have been inconstant with what he was before. It’s a damn shame what he became.

  • Nature Freak

    For all those on the right who are laughing and enjoying the fall and decline of Anthony Weiner and John Edwards remember what the Bible says, “What Goes Around Comes Around!” (Genesis 29:1-30)

    Karma is a bi*ch.
    Anthony and John are learning this the hard way
    and so will right wing/ tea party type Republicans.

    I actually feel bad for Larry Craig. He lives his whole life in the closet instead of being true to himself.
    That has to be a personal hell.

  • Cecelia

    Nature Freak said:
    Karma is a bi*ch.
    Anthony and John are learning this the hard way
    and so will right wing/ tea party type Republicans.

    I actually feel bad for Larry Craig. He lives his whole life in the closet instead of being true to himself.
    That has to be a personal hell.

    It’s hardly profound that men and women of all stripes, are prone to moral failure.

    Republicans and Democrats who fail, will come and go.

    It doesn’t take mental illness, it merely requires human nature.

    THAT is our “karma”.

  • Nature Freak

    Cecelia said:
    It’s hardly profound that men and women of all stripes, are prone to moral failure.

    Republicans and Democrats who fail, will come and go.

    It doesn’t take mental illness, it merely requires human nature.

    THAT is our “karma”.

    No it does not take mental illness. to experience epic fail.
    But in my opinion regarding John Edwards, something is different.
    Again it’s just an opinion. I am not John’s doctor. I am not Dr. Drew Pinsky or Dr. Phil.
    I could be wrong.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Nature Freak said:
    I actually feel bad for Larry Craig. He lives his whole life in the closet instead of being true to himself.
    That has to be a personal hell.

    Larry Craig’s not gay. It was the media’s fault. The media was trying to paint him as gay, and he just happened to be trolling in a known male sex meeting place. But he’s not actually gay. He’ll tell you himself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8C3tR9Yl4g

  • Bennybombom

    Publius219 said:
    Larry Craig’s not gay. It was the media’s fault. The media was trying to paint him as gay, and he just happened to be trolling in a known male sex meeting place. But he’s not actually gay. He’ll tell you himself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8C3tR9Yl4g

    you’re funny.

  • dougx

    He stuck with her for years even though he had no interest in her, and she pays him back in this manner. If you’re sick of your marital partner, let them go and move on. No good deed goes unpunished.

  • Paul G

    dougx said:
    He stuck with her for years even though he had no interest in her, and she pays him back in this manner. If you’re sick of your marital partner, let them go and move on. No good deed goes unpunished.

    Actually you’re right…I have an ex wife that put up with abuse from her ex… but STILL she can’t ‘explain’ it ….I don’t get it/Thank God she’s not a libturd or repub…but I guess that’s what the libturd women and bois want…..

  • BushClintonCrimeFamily

    Rivermont said:
    I know- we don’t send out crotch pics like your family does, son.

    No, you hire hookers and hang out in bathrooms soliciting gay sex.

  • Judge Mental

    TheBiggestBrax said:
    [T]he tape is inadmissible in any court proceeding. There’s chain of custody issues — as well as being able to cross examined her and the veracity of the content of the tape.

    Depending on the circumstances in which the tape was made, this likely qualifies as a dying declaration, which is an exception to the hearsay rule. In other words, it’s admissible.

    There may be chain of custody issues, but I doubt it. Elizabeth Edwards was an attorney, so I’m sure she was aware of the legal requirements for maintaining evidence.

  • WillP

    Nature Freak said:

    I suspect Edwards may have developed mental illness sometime in 2006 or 2007. His actions since then have been inconstant with what he was before. It’s a damn shame what he became.

    I don’t buy it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had been unfaithful before in the past. He was completely full of himself feeling on top of the world starting to run a campaign where many people considered him a frontrunner. An attractive woman fell for him. She became pregnant certainly against his wishes. He tried to cover it up funneling money from donors to protect her. A bad situation became a whole lot worse raising questions now being adjudicated over whether he broke campaign finance laws in the coverup. And hence the same old yarn of truth that the coverup is worse than the crime. End of story.

  • Biscuit

    TillieGlockenspiel says:
    June 10, 2011 at 5:28 pm
    10 8
    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Do you blame her?
    She knew what a scumbag he truly is.

    If it wasn’t for Edwards stealing enough of Hillary’s precious votes to get the DNC nomination she would be President right now!!

    The really disturbing thing is that I still see a few Edward bumper stickers, not very many but still..sheez, some people!!

    btw, I do not see many Obama stickers these days either…just a bunch of scratch marks where people have scraped them off.

    Excellent point about Edwards siphoning off Hillary votes. If the media had done its job (in my dreams!), Obama wouldn’t be in the process of destroying the country right now. I’m no fan of Hillary’s, BUT I don’t think she’d preside over the destruction of our economy as Obama is doing.

    Thanks, legacy media, Obama is the gift that keeps on giving- and that all of our grandchildren will pay for forever.

    No, Conservatives DESTROYED their own and their grand-children’s future when they voted in those idiots, Reagan and Bush.

  • Biscuit

    Paul G says:
    June 11, 2011 at 1:57 am Paul G(Quote)
    1 1
    dougx said:
    He stuck with her for years even though he had no interest in her, and she pays him back in this manner. If you’re sick of your marital partner, let them go and move on. No good deed goes unpunished.

    Actually you’re right…I have an ex wife that put up with abuse from her ex… but STILL she can’t ‘explain’ it ….I don’t get it/Thank God she’s not a libturd or repub…but I guess that’s what the libturd women and bois want…..

    Don’t you have a feminazi, er, wife or mother to berate, Con?
    WHAT is it about your childhoods that make you spineless boys hate women so much, hon?

  • Biscuit

    Rivermont says:
    June 10, 2011 at 5:46 pm Rivermont(Quote)
    8 1
    bealzebubba said:
    Depends on the values and on the family. You’re family values aren’t the as any of ours.

    I know- we don’t send out crotch pics like your family does, son.

    Well, we don’t obsess about pubic hairs and coke bottles, toots.

  • Biscuit

    Elizabeth Edwards was no saint, I read Game Change and apparently she used to insult Edwards in public. I’m not saying that justifies adultery, but Edwards should have divorced her years ago. The thing is liberals hate being blunt with one another, they love being politically correct, they try to be sensitive, they worry about what will people think, and then they end up destroying each other.

    Conservatives are more practical, it’s not working out? You get a divorce.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

    She was no Nancy Reagan, that’s for certain. If there ever was a self-serving, hypocritical, conservative slut, it was that parasite.

  • MoreLeftInsanity

    Publius219 says:
    June 10, 2011 at 9:36 pm Publius219(Quote)
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    Nature Freak said:
    I actually feel bad for Larry Craig. He lives his whole life in the closet instead of being true to himself.
    That has to be a personal hell.

    Larry Craig’s not gay. It was the media’s fault. The media was trying to paint him as gay, and he just happened to be trolling in a known male sex meeting place. But he’s not actually gay. He’ll tell you himself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8C3tR9Yl4g

    Whatever! My ex-husband was gay and never bothered to tell me! Some gays will never be honest as long as they can keep fooling people.

  • puck30

    Nature Freak said:
    John actually cared about and fought for the poor and working class, and all those who are marginalized by
    our society.

    Here’s where I have a problem with that Nat, I remember reading about and watching stories about a Trailer Park that was outside their Mansion and the folks inside the Park said the Edwards never visited them or even waved to them if they happen to be passing by.

    If he had an illness it was too much power and too much money and his wife became a bore to him.

    In short he owns from the seven deadly sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Envy? (maybe) & Pride.

    Elizabeth I’ll leave alone because I do my best to live by the old saying, “I will not speak ill of the dead.”

  • puck30

    Biscuit said:
    Well, we don’t obsess about pubic hairs and coke bottles, toots.

    Remember after he got confirmed how fast that all went away.

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