Lin Wood, Cain’s attorney, told the AJC on Wednesday he thinks most of the messages were asking for money, which Cain has admitted to providing White, who has repeatedly faced eviction. Cain has denied a physical relationship with White, who lives in Dunwoody, Ga., an Atlanta suburb.
“Maintain common sense,” Wood said in an interview. “Mr. Cain was extremely busy in his campaign. He didn’t have time to send a lot of texts.”
A review of the records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows Cain sent 17 text messages to White, almost always responding to messages from her.
On Wednesday, Wood sent a letter to White’s attorney, Edward Buckley, asking for her phone records to “test her credibility and motive” for coming forward to the media. Wood, in the letter, said he wanted to “ascertain whether the decision to grant interviews was politically motivated and to determine whether she has received or (been) promised money for participating.”
White, 46, first disclosed her relationship with Cain on Monday in an interview with Fox 5 Atlanta, where she produced months of phone records detailing 60 calls and text messages between her and Cain. White has given two more television interviews this week talking about the alleged affair, the latest coming Wednesday on national television. During an interview on “Good Morning America,” White said she knew Cain, 65, was married. She claims the retired McDonough executive lavished her with gifts and flew her around the country to meet him at places where he was speaking, or on one occasion, to Las Vegas to watch a boxing match. Cain denies that trip happened.
White’s attorney, Buckley, said his client had nothing to gain from revealing the alleged relationship and only came forward because a former friend was pitching the story to the media. He said White did not seek money to keep the relationship secret and wants only to tell her story on her terms.
“I can’t imagine waking up and deciding to come out with this if this was not true,” White said in the “Good Morning America” interview. “This has been a very difficult situation for myself, for my family. It is nothing I am proud of. The truth of the matter is, when I entered into this inappropriate relationship with Mr. Cain I was single. I was not married. Mr. Cain has been married throughout the entire relationship and it is unfortunate.”
Critics of White, including Cain supporters, said they think money is at the root of her allegations.
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