One thing that has always stuck out about the long-running Stormy Daniels saga is that there are no good guys to cheer.
The whole sordid episode is like a Matryoshka doll of sleaze, and you’re better off rooting for injuries.
First, there’s President Trump, the philandering husband. Then there’s Michael Cohen, the philandering husband’s fixer lawyer. Next, there’s Daniels, the now-retired porn star who claims the fixer lawyer paid her $130,000 to keep her extramarital affair with the philandering husband a secret. Lastly, there’s Michael Avenatti, the now-retired porn star’s self-serving, media-hungry attorney, the least sympathetic and most obnoxious of them all.
Avenatti’s desire to be seen and heard at all hours of the day is legendary. He is now talking about running for president in 2020. This is an obvious attempt to spark new life in his gradually dimming media star, but carnival barkers got to carnival bark.
Avenatti responded this week to the New York Daily News characterization of Trump as a clown who plays king by tweeting, “I always liked the Daily News! Be clear – only a street fighter has a chance at displacing the ‘King.’ Otherwise, this country and its principles will be in pieces and non-recognizable. #FightClub #Basta”
His obvious wink-winking to his followers was picked up immediately by fellow resistance grifter Brian Krassenstein, who tweeted in response, “When are you announcing your 2020 run?”
The attorney answered with, “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.”
He continued, tweeting, “To those that claim that only a traditional politician with ‘experience’ can beat Trump, go back & look at the results from 2016. He beat all 15 of those candidates that he faced (crushed many). If we go down the same path and are not smart, don’t be surprised with the result.”
Avenatti also laid out some of his policy positions, including that he is “solidly pro choice. Would never nominate a justice to the SCOTUS who did not believe in Roe or who would seek to outlaw same sex marriage. Fully support equality for women & people of all races, & gay rights. We don’t separate families at the border. And we don’t kiss-up to Putin.”
Avenatti is highly unlikely to follow through on this. As we’ve seen with his representation of Daniels, 95 percent of everything Avenatti does is about self-promotion. The man likes being a star, and he clearly wants to graduate up from being a cash-strapped, low-level lawyer.
As Hot Air’s Allahpundit correctly noted, teasing a White House bid that will probably never happen doesn’t hurt Avenatti any, and “at a minimum it’ll keep him in front of television cameras, natural habitat, which is destined to lead to more clients and maybe his own show eventually.”
