Michael Avenatti, the lawyer hired by porn star Stormy Daniels, is starting his own federal PAC called Fight PAC to aid Democratic candidates so they can “really fight back and advocate from a position of strength as opposed to weakness.”
Avenatti said he’s starting the PAC because he doesn’t see anyone leading the Democratic Party, and said the PAC would soon be making endorsements.
“There’s a leadership void in the Democratic Party,” Avenatti said, according to BuzzFeed News. “Someone has to step up and be that voice. Whoever that is will have to be intelligent. They’re gonna have to be able to communicate with people. They’re gonna have to understand the media age in which we live and operate.”
Avenatti announced in July that he was considering running for president if “there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance beating” Trump.
Since then, Avenatti has traveled around the country, including an appearance at the Iowa State Fair earlier this month. He also confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he will travel to New Hampshire in September.
Avenatti’s client Daniels has been embroiled in a legal battle with President Trump over an alleged extramarital affair. Trump’s former personal lawyer Cohen paid her $130,000 in exchange for her silence on the affair, but she filed a lawsuit earlier this year claiming the nondisclosure agreement she signed should be nullified because Trump didn’t sign it.
Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to a total of eight counts, including one count of willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution and one count of excessive campaign contribution.
