Edwards donor says he told Obama camp about affair

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4. Don't count anything out.

Mellon's lawyer's testimony is more relevant to the legal issues:

Forger testified today that Mellon gave Edwards $725,000 during the his presidential campaign out of an abiding sense of loyalty and friendship and not as a political contribution.

"In later years she had few close friends," Forger said of his longtime client. "Her husband had died, and her daughter was ill. She took a liking to John Edwards as she had done with others. She liked him as an individual, as a person, not because he was a candidate."

Mellon gave Edwards all that money because "she felt very strongly for John Edwards," adding, "she wasn't interested in becoming secretary of state."

That testimony contradicts the prosecution's narrative that Mellon gave Edwards the money as a political contribution, which he used in part to hide his mistress and their love child.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-edwards-chip-shot-heiress-give-50-million/story?id=16296169&page=2#.T6lmplJG3Kc

The issue is whether Edwards misused political contributions, not whether he is a bad guy or had an affair or what he said about his friend Bunny Mellon.