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VIDEO: FBI Profiler: John Edwards Likely Lied During Nightline Interview
Wednesday August 13, 2008


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Did John Edwards tell the truth during his August 8 Nightline interview about his Rielle Hunter fling?

Expert polygraph examiner Jack Trimarco doesn't think so.

Trimarco (former FBI Unit Chief in Los Angeles) — who analyzed the segment for Usmagazine.com — reports that Edwards' frequent attempts to dodge questions and sketchy body language imply he often lied during the chat.

At the beginning of the interview, he was asked if he had an affair with Hunter. Edwards' reply? He thanked Bob Woodruff for "honoring the request and giving me a chance to talk."

Trimarco says "that's a delay tactic. He's just been asked a sledgehammer question, and he wants to thank the guy?"

At one point, Edwards is asked if the story of the affair is accurate. He says, "I've been in love for the same woman for 30-plus years.... Warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."

Trimarco says Edwards "is not answering the question. He's buying time to give an appropriate, innocent response. They weren't asking, 'How great is your wife?' They were asking about the accuracy of the story."

Asked if he would participate in a paternity test, Trimarco notes that Edwards "nodded his head 'no,' when he said he would be happy to participate in a paternity test.

"That is known as a mixed signal," says Trimarco.

Asked about the photo of him holding Hunter's baby in the National Enquirer, Edwards replied, "The picture in the tabloid?"

"When a person is getting ready to tell a lie, they repeat the question back because they need time to formulate an innocent response," Trimarco notes.

Trimarco adds that Edwards' body language throughout the interview is also suspect: He smiled when he was asked how his wife found out about the affair.

"It's pretty clear that when John Edwards is getting ready to tell a lie, his affect is inappropriate," he says. "He smiles a lot during this interview when he shouldn't be smiling. It's almost like a nervous preparation to get his lie out."

The only time Trimarco felt Edwards told the truth: When he said he kept the affair a secret "because I did not want the public to know what I had done."

Says Trimarco, "That was the first comment he made that smacked me in the face as being true."

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