I truly believe he thought he was helping a friend in need. I don't believe it was huge amounts of money and that is why his wife didn't know.
My husband has been known to help out friends with money from time to time without discussing it with me beforehand. Cain is wealthy and what may seem like a lot of money to you and I is but a drop in the bucket to him and not worth discussion. I believe you can take an innocent situation and make it appear to look bad....that's what has happened here.
I've seen a close relative with stage 4 cancer and they did not have "fooling around" on their mind let alone have a body that would cooperate. This is a sham.
We don't know because Cain refused to answer to a direct question about it, ‘On advise of council’.
He was asked exactly that in an interview by the ‘Union Leader’, and that was his answer.
I'm sorry, but to me you just should not do that without telling your wife. Your opinion may vary, but for me personally this revelation was not a good one for Cain. And I defended Cain up to this point. Cain's admission opens up, for me, doubts about Cain's veracity on all of this.
Just the fact that Cain didn't come clean to his wife on it before he entered the race is not good. What was he thinking? That a lid would be kept on it? You just don't run for the GOP nomination without making sure your closet is in working order. You deal with this kind of stuff BEFORE you run.
I agree a Dem would have this stuff buried instead of trumpeted in the media. But the double standard is well-known and a given. Newt will be shredded for his affairs if he wins the nomination. But in Cain I see a guy who could have done the damage control and due diligence beforehand and either did not understand or did not care enough to take care of such. And that fits into many other indications that he simply does not understand the nature of the gauntlet that he chose to run.