January 2
Following two weeks of intense speculation, Senator Edward King withdrew his candidacy in next year’s presidential race.
“While it is, of course, a disappointment to withdraw,” he said in a prepared statement, “I realized the toll the campaign might take on my relationship with my family.”
Though the senator cites personal reasons for the withdrawal, Washington insiders have been whispering for weeks about dirty dealings in the King camp, including accusations that the senator may have been blackmailing several individuals in exchange for their financial and political support. Several weeks ago, a recording surfaced in which the senator can be heard yelling about the loss of “everything we had to keep them in line.” In the recording, he laid blame for the loss of this information on his son.
It was revealed that the senator had a son from a previous marriage. In a strange twist, that son attended Ellingham Academy in Vermont, which has been in the news recently as the scene of several tragic events, including the death of YouTube star Hayes Major. The senator’s son was also the subject of a viral video in which he was beaten on a Burlington, Vermont, street . . .