"Not guilty." (Photo from Fox News)
Read the below article by Fox and see if you can spot the contradiction. (Don't peek.)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/03/former-presidential-candidate-john-edwards-indicted-by-federal-grand-jury/
And the answer is...............................................................
"There's no question that I've done wrong, and I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and harm that I've caused to others," he said in a brief statement outside a federal courthouse in Winston-Salem, N.C. after being arraigned."But I did not break the law, and I never ever thought I was breaking the law."
"Negotiations between Edwards' attorneys and federal prosecutors to settle on a charge to which Edwards was willing to plead guilty continued through Thursday but proved fruitless, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations. Prosecutors had insisted he plead to a felony, which would endanger his ability to keep his license to practice law."
When Pat Nolan pleaded guilty to corruption charges, resigned from the California legislature, and went to prison, his conservative Republican buddy, an old-fashioned guy from Orange County whose face and voice I remember better than his name told the press "Innocent people do plead guilty sometimes, and I'm convinced that's what happened here."
ReplyDeleteI don't think Edwards is innocent. But the "contradiction" is a rhetorical one that is invoked only when convenient.
No contradiction? So he says he never broke any law, but was involved in plea negotiations.
ReplyDeleteGimme a break.
Explain that to Pat Nolan.
ReplyDeleteAre you familiar with an "Alford plea"?