Michael Avenatti tries the Jacob Wohl defense

Published November 15, 2018 5:42pm ET



The Los Angeles Police Department arrested Michael Avenatti yesterday on charges of felony domestic violence. Despite TMZ citing multiple corroborating sources that Avenatti beat up a woman in a Century City apartment and LAPD authorizing an emergency protective order against him, Avenatti maintains not only that is he innocent, but also that he was framed by none other than Jacob Wohl.

Yes, Avenatti’s defense is that a 20-year-old Twitter troll and former fraud financier, who’s potentially under FBI investigation for orchestrating the dumbest and most incompetent smear campaign in modern history against special counsel Robert Mueller, successfully framed Avenatti to the point of his arrest.

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