Posted on 06/11/2011 5:20:29 AM PDT by NCjim
In a devastating act of ultimate revenge, a dying Elizabeth Edwards recorded a bombshell secret videotape for prosecutors – nailing her cheating husband John as he will stand trial on charges that could land him behind bars for 30 years.
That’s the stunning secret behind the federal indictment brought against the disgraced former presidential candidate on June 3 – following a two-year grand jury investigation into whether he illegally used campaign funds to cover up his affair with his then-pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter.
“Elizabeth wanted to exact revenge against John for destroying their 33-year marriage and family by cheating with Rielle,” source close to the scandal told ENQUIRER.
“It was Elizabeth’s idea to secretly record a video and tell what she knew of the affair and John’s horrific betrayal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
How long after the video did she actually take before she died. There may be too long of a period of time to even classify this as a dying declaration. We all know we are going to die, so that alone is not enough to make it a dying declaration. It is the imminence of death that supposedly makes your statements more likely to be truthful.
Some of us are forgiven. Some share their wretchedness even after death. The forgiven forgive. Matthew 18: 21-35
She didn’t deserve a dead son, cancer, an early grave, or the infidelity of her wretched husband.
We are condemned by sin. We deserve much worse and would reap it if it wasn't for grace.
You said “SPeak no ill of the dead”......REALLY??? You have nice things to say about Hitler, Pol Pot, etc?? Good grief, you can’t be serious.
We're all sinners. She deserved exactly what she got. She enjoyed the fruits of her wretched husbands law practice and the public limelight he brought to her. Her accounts with God will be settled on Judgement Day. Her accounts with the people they mutually hurt are still wide open.
Daughter Kate, on the picture, looks to be pregnant. Maybe she got married after her mother died. Or maybe not - but the article says she was newly engaged at the time that Elizabeth was dying and had agreed to assume responsibility for the two younger siblings in the event John was sent to jail.
I noticed that Kate looks remarkedly like her mother on the news clips of John when he was before the cameras this week.
Just my observations.
John Edwards is narcissistic scum, but this deathbed video is troubling, less for what it says about John than about the nature of Elizabeth’s heart. It’s a bad and sad thing to go to one’s death filled with such rage and bitterness: we are told to forgive others if we expect to be forgiven, and making a revenge vid does not suggest Elizabeth had forgiven anybody anything.
People like John Edwards make their own hell. They don’t need help from our earthly vengeance.
One exception to the hearsay rule is for statements made when someone knows they are dying. This isn't a silver bullet, but it may be a gun belt carrying a whole row of silver bullets for the prosecutor to use.
Forgive me ladies but, men, if you are going to do anything wrong, NEVER tell your lady, and if she knows you better keep momma happy.
She too was a pretty sharp lawyer and knew the rules.
Did the late Mrs. Edwards know of the affair while her husband was running for prez? Did she help him keep that information from going public while he was running? If the answers to those two questions are yes, then I think that the late Mrs. Edwards was capable of anything.
She was an attractive lady. Pretty unusual for a liberal.
I’m wondering... If it isn’t admissible in an actual court case (because she can’t be cross-examined), would it have been a tool during Grand Jury hearing?
Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin will have a video of her own. Is weiner really that much different than Edwards?
Could have been. The guy is a slime ball but she stayed married and supported him while knowing that. Its taking the testimony of one scumbag against another, who do you believe?
Good grief! The Hitler argument!
Matthew 7:5.
She certainly knew of his actions in the courtroom.
But it is still great to see Silky Pony transformed into Rayon gelding...
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