Michael Avenatti bragged Wednesday that no one seems to be questioning his legal strategy against President Trump now that Trump was implicated by his former lawyer in a plan to pay off his porn star client Stormy Daniels.
“It is eerily quiet this morning,” Avenatti tweeted. “For some reason, for the first time in six months, I don’t have to listen to some pundit criticize my legal or media strategy today.”
“Nor do I have to listen to how my media appearances aren’t advancing the case,” he added. “Where did you go?”
[Related: Stormy Daniels speaks out about Cohen guilty plea: Michael Avenatti and I are ‘vindicated’]
It is eerily quiet this morning. For some reason, for the first time in six months, I don’t have to listen to some pundit criticize my legal or media strategy today. Nor do I have to listen to how my media appearances aren’t advancing the case. Where did you go?
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 22, 2018
Avenatti and Daniels scored a big win Wednesday for Democrats when Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he was directed by Trump to pay off Daniels, after which he was reimbursed by Trump. That could cause political headaches for Trump, who has said he didn’t know about the specifics of the payment to Daniels, and could face a push for impeachment if Democrats take back the House in November.
But the decision also frees up Avenatti and Daniels to push for a deposition of Trump. Daniels is suing Trump to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement about Daniels’ alleged affair with Trump.
That lawsuit was delayed until the end of Cohen’s case, and Avenatti said Tuesday he now wanted to press on.
“The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it,” he tweeted. “We will disclose it all to the public.”
The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. We will disclose it all to the public.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 21, 2018
Avenatti added early Wednesday morning, “we are coming for him.”
This is a big deal. The admission by Mr. Davis relating to the wire, if true, results in significant trouble for Mr. Trump. And we are coming for him. https://t.co/apILDbqaEI
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 22, 2018
