What did John Edwards ask Andrew Young to claim?”
According to reports, John Edwards talked a campaign aide into claiming he fathered a child born to Edwards’ onetime mistress. From CNN: Edwards admitted to his affair with Rielle Hunter in August 2008 after months of denials, but said he could not have been the father of Hunter’s daughter, who was born the previous February. Former Edwards staffer Andrew Young has said he was the girl’s father — but has recanted and says he made it because he believed in Edwards, lawyers and others familiar with the matter told CNN. Young was married with children when he claimed to have fathered Hunter’s child. He never signed any affidavits or legal papers, however, and reversed his claim after Edwards, as one of the sources put it, dropped Young “like a hot potato.” The news comes as a grand jury in Edwards’ home state of North Carolina is investigating payments made to Hunter — who had been hired as a campaign videographer — by the former senator’s campaign and supporters. Hunter was photographed
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Sept. 20) – A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards’ mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that he and Edwards worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday. The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards once told Hunter they would wed after Edwards’ wife, who has cancer, died.
John Edwards asked a campaign aide to claim that he was the father of a child born to Edwards’ onetime mistress, CNN reported. Edwards finally admitted that had an affair with Rielle Hunter in August 2008, but said Hunter’s daughter was born before that. Edwards asked Andrew Young one of his staffers to claim the child was actually his, and Young was married with children at the time, and has since recanted his story after Edwards, began to disassociate himself from Young.
