John Edwards Voicemails Reveal Code To Hide Affair

More voicemails from John Edwards have become public as his criminal trial reaches the end of its first week. Transcripts reveal that Edwards used the phones of friends and aides to hide his affair from his wife, Elizabeth, according to the New York Post. He even established secret codes with Andrew Young, the aide who housed his mistress, Rielle Hunter, so that Young would know when Elizabeth was in the room. He left Young this voicemail in December 2007, two months before Hunter gave birth to their daughter:

“I’m gonna leave you this message just in case you get a call from me where I ask you what’s goin’ on. It’s the, the reason we’re calling is because Elizabeth’s standing there. So just be aware of that. Uh, if that’s, if I’m calling saying what happened, how did this happen, what’s goin’ on, then that’s because Elizabeth’s standing there with me."

Young turned over some voicemails to a federal grand jury last month. In one, Edwards waxed on about the elderly heiress who ended up supporting Hunter, then told Young he loved him:

"Andrew, hey it's John. It's 7:27 east coast time. I had a wonderful conversation with Bunny. She will be there no matter what. She's offered me to come up there and stay if I need to and I may end up doing that some. Anyway, she's a terrific person, God what a sweetie. Anyway, she's totally there and I think we can completely count on her and I just wanted you to hear that and to once again to tell you I love you… uhh, I really love you Andrew."

The love between Edwards and Young went both ways. When defense attorney Abbe Lowell asked Young this week whether he fell in love with Edwards, he said, "We all did. A lot of people in the country did."

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Comments

[Basselope]

11:22 AM on 04/28/2012

John Edwards co-sponsored the Iraq war resolution.

Karma works.

Rot in jail warmonger.

[MightyYowp]

05:30 PM on 04/29/2012

And Hilary Clinton Voted for it.

[Basselope]

06:06 PM on 04/29/2012

Which is why I didn't support her in the primary and wouldn't vote for her as President.

[urbrainwashed2]

06:06 AM on 04/28/2012

If Edwards were a TeapubliKant CONartistservative this wouldn't be news. But Faux Nooze has to have something to rant about being Ole Rumour Murdoch is on the grill.

[heartsick]

10:22 PM on 04/27/2012

Citizens United should be on trial, not John Edwards.

[coloagnt]

09:22 PM on 04/27/2012

If I were on a jury it would be plainly clear to me that John Edwards was using sweet "Bunny" to provide monetarily for his mistress... if her money came in the form of campaign contributions then I'm definitely voting guilty.

His refusal to accept a plea bargain is yet another sign of the man's arrogance.

Enjoy prison!

[heartsick]

10:10 PM on 04/27/2012

This trial is a disgrace and I wouldn't accept a plea either.

[dewey6]

08:38 PM on 04/27/2012

i am always amazed that things like this are always a ''democrat'' thing... god knows that repubs never do anything like this... lol.... really?????... i am not an obama fan, but i also cant wait till the 2012 election, and i am actually hoping for the repubs to win EVERYTHING... and in 3 or 4 years when the country has no middle class left because the big repub corporations and banks control everything, and the country is completely trashed and christian... i wonder who the repubs will blame???... obama, no doubt... you partisan political pundits make me sick

[coloagnt]

09:51 PM on 04/27/2012

Well, vote for Romney and a straight republican ticket, then you might possibly get your wish where there's "no middle class left because the big repub corporations and banks control everything, and the country is completely trashed and christian"...

Certainly, Mitt Romney and a republican controlled congress will start right where George W. Bush left off.

[johnmarlin]

08:06 PM on 04/27/2012

OMG!!! Can dems be imperfect too?

[ljmck]

07:56 PM on 04/27/2012

Long live the press for outing corruption like this!

I hope there's significant jail time for this man's perversion of our politics.

[ljmck]

07:50 PM on 04/27/2012

Of the two, Elizabeth Edwards was more valuable by far. Fate made a big mistake.

[raddison4x]

07:48 PM on 04/27/2012

She had her agenda and he fell for it. Good for him. Just another dirty politician. I am surprised he isn't from Chicago.

[giddy1]

07:40 PM on 04/27/2012

SCHMUCK! Is there anymore to say?

[jajemmell]

07:34 PM on 04/27/2012

this is the man that was awarded "father of the year" and the liberal media gushed over this man and the DEMOCRATs were willing to elect this man president! how many people refused to acknowledge that this man was a sleaze..

[Willing to Consider]

08:09 PM on 04/27/2012

About the same number who refuse to acknowledge that Newt Gingrich did the same sleazy things.

Affairs aren't limited to Democrats or Repubicans, men or women, blacks or whites, gay or straight, or any other group versus another.

[jajemmell]

08:34 PM on 04/27/2012

you are right, it happens on all types of parties.. but it is how it is exposed.. the edwards situation, the MSM refused to touch it and it was finally exposed by a joke of a sleazy tabloid magazine that they, the MSM, finally had to investigate. watch the MSM reporting carefully (listen to how they say it, the tone and the editing) and you will see clear as day who they favor and who they desperately try to hide. the MSM is on the side of the democrats, big time.after all they were giddy when Edwards was awarded "father of the year"...

[golions]

08:44 PM on 04/27/2012

Well stated. And the difference is that there's no way John Edwards would make a credible run for office again.

[dewey6]

08:41 PM on 04/27/2012

lets see... newt gingrich is on his third marriage, and cheated on his cancer-stricken wife as well... and he is STILL running for the repub nomination, even though he KNOWS he has no chance...

[dlp7202]

01:27 AM on 04/28/2012

...and as soon as Callista gets some illness. Newt will be looking for a fourth. What is he going to do when HE gets ill?

[tn1125w]

07:27 PM on 04/27/2012

I'm not a dem. and this has nothing to do with the party.

[oibigsyke]

07:23 PM on 04/27/2012

So beyond all the terrible things he put that poor woman through, he couldn't even use his own money to help hide the affair?! Wasn't he a millionaire many times over? Please send him over with Blago

[nitroreefclub]

07:54 PM on 04/27/2012

Actually I do not think he was at the time. That is why he had to hide the affair. Big deal the whole thing is bs and I am not a dem either

[Luke1618]

07:15 PM on 04/27/2012

“The man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.”
Proverbs 6:32

http://www.cadz.net/mdr.html

[zahavi]

09:05 PM on 04/27/2012

“The man who commits adultery is a horny fool, for he destroys trust.”
Antiverbs 1:2

[lizandrsn]

07:09 PM on 04/27/2012

The skin-crawling-willies factor is very high thanks to the "I love you man" points of this story. If Johns Edwards had gone on the down low, there wouldn't have been a baby to hide. And maybe THAT's the story behind the story that no one is telling.