John Edwards repeatedly called liar at trial
Source: Washington Post
In a packed, tense courtroom room here Wednesday, jurors heard over and over again that former presidential candidate John Edwards is a liar.
They heard it from Edwardss defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, and they heard it from a staffer who worked to draft public statements in an effort to contain the damage from revelations about the former senators affair with a campaign staffer. Edwards even lost credibility with his closest advisers. Jennifer Palmieri, now deputy White House communications director, testified that she advised Edwards not to do an August 2008 interview with ABC if he wasnt prepared to tell the truth.
Even I didnt believe what he was saying, Palmieri told jurors.
Edwards went ahead with the interview, saying he wasnt the father of mistress Rielle Hunters child. He also stated that he didnt know money was being spent to support her.
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'd bet the house her accounts are ten times dirtier than JE's
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)lies are not believed. There is nothing unusual about lying about an affair. Could happen to someone near you.
I haven't done it, but I know that people who have affairs have a hard time admitting it even to themselves. It's like an addiction, I suspect.
cali
(114,904 posts)so the combination of those two makes it unlikely that it could happen to someone near me or you or most of us.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We are all capable of rationalizing in amazing ways. It's a survival technique, perhaps an outgrowth of our survival instinct.
How do you think George Bush reconciles having killed so many Iraqis and American soldiers when there was utterly no reason to go into Iraq that he or his aides could articulate.
cali
(114,904 posts)confronted him about it.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Sorry, but I would rather read was the NYT has to say. WaPo is little better than the Washinton Times now.
alp227
(32,018 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)... whoppers, in fact.
Iraqi occupiers were tossing Kuwaiti babies out, and sending the incubators back to Baghdad.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy. And, he was acting alone.
The U.S. Navy was brutally attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
Or, maybe they're not lies. Who knows?