JOHN EDWARDS’ trial explodes as key prosecution witness ANDREW YOUNG testified he feared for his life during an eerie backroads meeting.
During a cross examination by Edwards’ defense team in the Greensboro, North Carolina courtroom, Young, who was given immunity by federal prosecutors after he helped cover up Edwards' affair with mistress Rielle Hunter, described his final car ride with Edwards on August 18, 2008 through a remote wooded area.
Their friendship was already strained by the stress of the disgraced two-time Presidential loser’s conspiracy of silence in the wake of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER’s series of world exclusives revealing the secret details of the hush money conspiracy.
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After Edwards admitted the affair on ABC News after the ENQUIRER published photos of his secret meeting with Hunter and their love child, Frances Quinn, and their relationship disintegrated After Young told the “master manipulator” he was going to rat him out.
"If he wasn't going to tell the truth about what transpired, then I WAS going to tell the truth,” Young testified.
He then made the shocking revelation that he had saved voicemails, text messages, emails and photographs as well as the notorious sex tape depicting of Edwards and Hunter.
Edwards did not respond favorably as Young told the jury "at one point I was scared for my life,” when Edwards became sweaty and agitated.
"Did you think John Edwards was going to shoot you?" defense lawyer Abbe Lowell asked.
"Not personally," Young replied.
"You thought there was a gunman in the woods who was going to come and shoot you?" suggested Lowell.
"That thought did cross my mind.”
Working for Edwards and had started out being “a true privilege, inspiring and exciting,” said Young.
"The things that happened since then were in direct contradiction to the man I knew back then and it's very hard for me to put those two men together,” said Young.
Young also defended hiss use of funnelling some of the hush money for himself and his wife Cheri in an attempt to relieve the stress.
Edwards has pleaded not guilty to the six counts he's accused of: four counts of illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one count of false statements, RadarOnline.com stated.
ALSO: the opposing legal teams then argued before the judge whether or not the Edwards sex tape would be shown to jurors. The sex tape debate is ongoing.
