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Rielle Hunter: yes, John Edwards was the father
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Rielle Hunter with John Edwards' baby, Frances. AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds
Oh my: yes, John Edwards was and is indeed the father of the baby , Frances, born to Rielle Hunter. That, at least, is what the National Enquirer is reporting.
Yes, really, a US Senator was not only cheating upon his cancer stricken wife, he then had a child by his mistress and ran to be US President while covering the matter up. He even got one of his aides to make claim to paternity.
At the moment of course we don't actually know that John Edwards is the father of Reille Hunter's baby: we only have one report of a "secret DNA test" and it's in National Enquirer. Not, we usually assume, the most accurate of media outlets.
However, there's one thing we do need to remember, National Enquirer was the one outlet that did in fact pursue the whole John Edwards and Rielle Hunter story in the first place. Don't you remember what it was like back then? Major, mainstream, outlets simply wouldn't touch the story at all, it was as if someone had burped at the dinner table. Embarassing, something we just don't mention.
This, assuming the story is true, really has to be the end of John Edwards' political career. It's not the sex and certainly not the child, it's the cover up afterwards. Simply inconceivable that he would even attempt to return to politics after he'd got one of his aides to take the fall for this.
Hopefully.
