The Inevitable John Edwards and Rielle Hunter Breakup Has Finally Come
The couple that many would say never should have been is no longer. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter are splitsville.
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Mark Sanford did it. Anthony Weiner is trying it. Jonah Lehrer botched it. And now, it looks like disgraced politician John Edwards could be gunning for his own public redemption moment.
The couple that many would say never should have been is no longer. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter are splitsville.
The New York Post is not a fan of John Edwards. And Rielle Hunter's new book, What Really Happened, which is out June 26, is getting plenty of attention from the tabloid because of that.
The comparisons between the 2012 and 2004 presidential elections are so pervasive they've wormed their way into the campaign's collective brain, so much so that John Kerry will play Mitt Romney in President Obama's debate prep, and Romney is considering a very John Edwardsesque running mate, Tim Pawlenty.
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Well, this is the end of it. Unless someone comes up with a whole new narrative about something John Edwards did to break the law, his legal troubles are over.
We were disappointed when Rielle Hunter did not take the stand to testify during John Edwards' campaign finance fraud trial, but now we have an idea why: She'd have cannibalized her new tell-all book.
After learning how much was lacking in John Edwards — lack of character, lack of what we need in a leader and, more personally, in a husband and father, lack of a certain kind of humanity — his criminal trial came down to a lack of evidence.
"While I do not belive I did anything illegal… I did an awful, awful lot that is wrong," Edwards said outside the courtroom after a jury acquitted him of one count and the judge declared a mistrial on the other five.
When a judge and media covering this very serious trial start cracking jokes and laughing at the glacial pace of jury deliberations, it's a sure sign that this trial has jumped the shark.
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You know people are really getting stir crazy when the dressing and flirting habits of a friendly group of female jurors start attracting whispers among court watchers
A final, if expected, blow to the reputation of the guy who was once headed for big things—if not president, Supreme Court justice, or maybe attorney general?—comes from his own defense team.
If Republicans get to talk about President Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Roland Martin said on CNN Thursday, then Democrats get to talk about how Mitt Romney's Mormon church used to be racist, so there. Could there be a perfectly calibrated rulebook regulating the precise tit-for-tat between presidential campaigns? The Atlantic Wire has tried to create one.
We wouldn't be so disappointed that John Edwards' defense team had rested its case without him or his mistress being called to testify if that possibility hadn't been teased so hard in the news, but as it is, this is such a letdown.
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On Monday, John Edwards' defense team began their case in his trial over the alleged violation of campaign finance laws. What's happened so far, and what can we expect?
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John Edwards' trial over campaign finance violations has gone on for some three weeks now, transporting us back to 2008 and exposing the darker side of the man who might have been president.
Rielle Hunter is the remaining wild card in the John Edwards trial. Will the prosecution actually risk having her on the stand? And what might they gain—or lose—if they do?
Weeks before John Edwards was indicted for allegedly using $725,000 he'd received from Bunny Mellon to hide his affair with Rielle Hunter, Mellon's librarian Tony Willis testified Monday that Edwards had asked her for more money.
Another day of the John Edwards' campaign finance trial, another tale of unrequited love.
Last week, we wrote about the women of the Edwards trial, and how they each seem to fit into stock characterizations: the good wife; the frail, wealthy donor; the gold-digging, Medusa-esque mistress. But there's new information that changes things.
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We're in the second week of John Edwards' trial, in which he faces up to 30 years in jail and a $1.5 million fine for allegedly violating federal campaign finance laws, and there are some interesting updates from the testimony of Cheri Young.
So far, former John Edwards aide Andrew Young has sounded a bit like a spurned lover in his testimony in Edwards' campaign finance trial, but on Friday he sounded more like a scared lackey, saying he covered for Edwards out of fear for his own life.
John Edwards' trial over alleged campaign finance law violations continues, and there are continued twists and turns with which to keep us both horrified and entertained. But let's take a step back. What does this trial, and its lead-up, say about women?
It's enough to make you wonder if Democrats really want to have their convention in Charlotte later this year.
Dispatches from John Edwards' trial over campaign finance law violations continue to come out. Today's episode takes an interesting romantic turn.
The trial of disgraced former Senator John Edwards is well underway, and there are nuggets both titillating and shameful coming forward. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him, after everything we've been through?
Despite what they're telling you, we are pretty sure that The New York Times is reporting and covering the John Edwards trial from Greensboro, North Carolina--not Greensboro, South Carolina.
The long tentacles of John Edwards criminal trial, which begins today, will drag in a host of familiar faces from his 2008 presidential campaign and a number of Obama administration officials.
As the trial of disgraced former Senator John Edwards begins today, The Washington Post has the must-read piece on what his life has become: a sad, single father, alone with his regrets.
John Edwards' attorneys have threatened litigation against local news website DNAinfo after the site published a report Thursday about the former senator and presidential candidate, according to the site's managing editor.
After days of headline sabbatical, there's more on the Mommy Madam case. A call girl working for the alleged madam, Anna Gristina, said she was paid to have sex with John Edwards.
Plus: who looked like "teeny as a human Q-Tip" at last night's White House dinner.
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Following the news that John Edwards' lawyers requested yet another delay to his trial due to a mysterious illness, a court filing revealed the former vice presidential candidate's diagnosis: a "life threatening heart condition" that requires surgery.
At first we thought the news that John Edwards had come down with a mysterious "medical issue" that would prevent him from facing a judge for campaign finance-related crimes next month was a joke -- it's not.
The former North Carolina senator has reportedly asked Rielle Hunter to move in to his North Carolina mansion, Pippa Middleton's romantic life chronicled, and Michael Kors made himself $100 million this week
An inquiry into whether the 2008 presidential campaign of former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson allegedly ponied up hush money to keep a woman from saying she and the then-governor had an affair, gives the scandal a decidedly John Edwards-like tone.
Pierce O'Donnell has pleaded guilty for violating campaign finance laws
His 100-year-old benefator says: "He would have been a great president"
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