No Surprise Here – John Edwards is the Baby’s Daddy

And baby makes three for former Sen. John Edwards and filmmaker Rielle Hunter.

So the jig is up for John Edwards, the disgraced presidential aspirant who slept with a campaign aide while his wife, Elizabeth Edwards battled breast cancer. Said aide, Rielle Hunter, gave birth to a girl Frances in February 2008, a few weeks after Edwards dropped out of the Democratic Primary. Turns out, the National Enquirer reports, his DNA matches the child’s. The positive test is the proverbial cherry on the hot fudge sundae that is the Edwards’ relationship.

Sen. Edwards denied, denied, denied published reports in the Enquirer of an affair with Hunter and the paternity of her child. In August, the house of cards fell when he finally admitted – like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar – that he did cheat on Elizabeth. It was only a matter of time the world would find out Edwards fathered a very young daughter with some woman who was not his wife.

But the fun doesn’t end with the DNA test. The Enquirer reports Hunter has testified against her former lover to a federal grand jury on Aug. 6 for nine hours. The grand jury is investigating whether he broke campaign finance laws by secretly funneling money to her.  There is no more appropriate place to use the most cliche of lines right now: Karma’s a bitch.

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