Why are you all so gullible? Stop listening to resistance Twitter already.
An attorney for former adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with President Trump in 2006, did not tell MSNBC this week that his client has pictures of Trump’s genitals. (That’s officially the worst thing that I’ve had to write so far in 2018.)
Attorney Michael Avenatti didn’t come close to alleging anything of the sort during his interview Monday evening with MSNBC’s Ari Melber. Here’s what the lawyer actually said in response to questions about his client’s allegation that Trump’s people threatened her with physical harm:
That’s it. That’s all Avenatti said.
So, what’s this about pictures of Trump’s you-know-what? For this particularly annoying bit of misinformation, we turn to the ironically named twitter account “@TrueFactsStated,” which tweeted shortly after the interview, “Stormy’s Lawyer on MSNBC. I’ll paraphrase. ‘We have photos of Trump’s penis.'”
Stormy’s Lawyer on MSNBC. I’ll paraphrase. “We have photos of Trump’s penis”.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) March 19, 2018
Fun fact: It’s not paraphrasing if you just make it up. That’s just called lying. Easy to get the two mixed up, I know.
The author of the lie, Claude Taylor, insists that his tweet actually signals something very clever and deep, and that the nearly 7,000 people who have shared it on social media either get it or they don’t.
“Nope. Not going to delete it. Not going to apologize for it. You either got it. Or you didn’t,” he tweeted later Monday evening.
See, his tweet is actually very insightful. It is a very clever, and it’s not his fault if it went over your head. Never mind that the many, many verified Twitter accounts commenting on his very, very funny tweet don’t appear to be in on the very smart analysis. But whose fault it that really?
