Porn star Stormy Daniels’s lawyer announced on Wednesday he might launch a bid for the White House in 2020 if there’s no other candidate to beat President Trump.
“IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think that there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him. We can’t relive 2016,” Michael Avenatti wrote on Twitter. “I love this country, our values and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed.”
IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think that there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him. We can’t relive 2016. I love this country, our values and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed. #FightClub #Basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 4, 2018
Avenatti, whose aggressive and self-publicizing legal strategy for Daniels has earned him equal measures of praise and criticism, was asked whether he had political ambitions after tweeting “only a street fighter has a chance at displacing the ‘King.” His tweet was in response to the Daily News’ front page on Wednesday that depicted Trump as an Independence Day “clown who plays king.”
Avenatti is representing Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in her lawsuit against Trump before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The suit argues that her nondisclosure agreement with the president regarding an alleged sexual encounter they shared more than a decade ago is invalid because he never signed it. She is also suing Trump and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen for defaming her reputation in their defense against her accusations.
