Rielle Hunter & John Edwards - John Edwards quietly asked mistress Rielle Hunter about her growing baby bump — and in the next breath insisted to campaign staffers that the two were not having an affair, a political aide testified yesterday.
“I heard him ask Rielle if she was showing yet,” former campaign “body man” John Davis said about a September 2007 phone call he overheard between Edwards and Hunter in a New Hampshire Holiday Inn.
“Can people tell that you’re showing?’’ asked Edwards, who commonly borrowed Davis’ cellphone for private calls to Hunter, the aide said.
But when Davis inquired about an affair, Edwards denied it.
Soon afterward, at a Detroit hotel, Hunter went into Davis’ room and explained that “she and Senator Edwards were very much in love,” Davis said.
The next morning, Edwards “told me that she was crazy and we needed to make sure she did not contact him,” Davis said.
Davis and other staffers couldn’t figure out what she did for the campaign.
“Everyone else on the team had a political background. Rielle didn’t have that sort of résumé. She talked a lot about meditation and yogis,” he said.
Eventually, Elizabeth Edwards forced her husband to fire Hunter, but the hanky panky continued.
Davis was also tasked with ditching the “Batphone” — Edwards’ secret, pay-as-you-go cell.
“He had told me to get rid of it, but not in my house, in case somebody would go through my garbage,” Davis said
He kept the phone — and later turned it over to the feds.
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