Peter Scher, John Edwards' Former Adviser, Says Then-Candidate Dismissed Warning About Affair

Let's see if I've got this straight, take 2.

The defense argues Edwards knew nothing about the secret payments, which his attorneys say were intended to hide Edwards' pregnant mistress from his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, and not to influence the election.

Edwards is claiming that the money used to support Hunter was from the campaign (and not Edwards' personal money) because he was trying to hide the affair from his wife, not from the public (because Edwards was "afraid of Elizabeth").  

It would seem then that the defense is going to try to make Elizabeth the fall guy, the scapegoat, the power hungry one who wanted Edwards to become president.   That that was why Edwards ran for president: To have an alternate source of money in order to support his mistress without his wife finding out.

Why is Edwards's daughter willing to be any part of this?
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