“I’ve known about Brad having had an affair for a long time, but it wasn’t until just recently that I learned his affair was with Sarah Palin,” Jim Burdett, a former relation of Brad Hanson’s, tells the National Enquirer. “Sarah was elected mayor of Wasilla, Brad became a city council member in the nearby town of Palmer, and they started an affair. Todd found out about the affair and was so mad he broke up their partnership at the snowmobile dealership.”

It’s a tale as old as time—and a leading reason for the dissolution of many snowmobile partnerships—so the Enquirer isn’t single-sourcing this story: