George Stephanopoulos has a bombshell of a blog post today, about the 2008 Edwards campaign. Most aides didn’t believe the affair rumors, he said, but some that he talked to did:
But by late December, early January of last year, several people in his inner circle began to think the rumors were true.
Several of them had gotten together and devised a “doomsday” strategy of sorts.
Basically, if it looked like Edwards was going to win the Democratic Party nomination, they were going to sabotage his campaign, several former Edwards’ staffers have told me.
They said they were Democrats first, and if it looked like Edwards was going to become the nominee, they were going to bring down the campaign.
Late December. In the first quarter of 2008, the Edwards campaign raised $8 million, according to OpenSecrets.org:
That’s $8 million that those staffers — who may have been involved in raising that money — knew would come to nothing.
At what point would this be considered fraud?
SATURN SMITH 