On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested creepy porn lawyer-turned-Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Avenatti on suspicion of felony domestic violence.
In case you’re wondering how much probable cause that means there must be, consider that this is the same police department that has reviewed multiple cases against serial predator and former Hollywood kingpin Harvey Weinstein and has yet to make a single charge stick.
TMZ broke the story that Avenatti allegedly beat a woman after kicking her out of his Century City apartment on Tuesday night, initially mistaking the victim for Avenatti’s ex-wife and later correcting their report. Sources saw the alleged “swollen and bruised” victim with “red marks” on both cheeks “on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, “I can’t believe you did this to me. I’m going to get a restraining order against you.”
Evidently she did, not of her own volition, but through LAPD directly. The police confirmed that Avenatti was being held on $50,000 bail. After his release, he held a brief press conference, asserting that he “never struck a woman” and looks forward to his investigation to be “fully exonerated.”
[Read more: Stormy Daniels says she’ll fire Michael Avenatti if allegations prove true]
So an allegation, in and of itself, is no longer evidence? Due process is no longer a sexist sham? The presumption of innocence is now back in vogue?
That was the sound of my eyes rolling so hard that they broke.
Call it karmic retribution. Or poetic justice. Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the Supreme Court, Tucker Carlson is receiving widespread support against dubious Avenatti charges, and even Stormy Daniels is crossing into the mainstream as Avenatti wails and moans that “She hit me first!” (literally) and sits in jail.
Law enforcement attests that Avenatti’s alleged victim had visible injuries and bruises. While Avenatti will have his day in court, most of his critics have never ignored that the court of public opinion has a lower evidentiary standard than any court of law. But Avenatti insisted, at the threat of publicly destroying an innocent man’s life, that a woman’s testimony alone, with no material witnesses, corroborating witnesses, or a single shred of circumstantial or material evidence, suffices in establishing guilt.
Again, we can wait for all of the facts to play out, but consider: LAPD notoriously lets high profile figures paint the town red (and black and blue). For them to affirm that Avenatti’s alleged victim had bruises, and for TMZ sources to confirm both the incident on Tuesday and the injured woman on Wednesday sobbing, “I can’t believe you did this to me. I’m going to get a restraining order against you,” provides a lot more evidence of guilt than Avenatti has about anything so far.
Oh, how far the degenerate have degenerated. To think that CNN platformed this abusive crackpot with countless scandals, from refusing to pay rent on his Newport Beach office to stiffing people hundreds of thousands of dollars left and right, at least 59 times in two months, and that the Democratic establishment and highest echelons of the media have taken the charlatan seriously as a viable presidential hopeful…
It’s beyond parody. It’s hysterical enough to laugh and pathetic enough to cry. One person who’s certainly in tears today: the creepy porn lawyer himself.
