Michael Avenatti is just $10 away from impeaching President Donald Trump. Send money now if you are a Democrat desperate to have your fantasy fulfilled.
Making record numbers of appearances on various news outlets to the detriment of actually practicing law doesn't come cheap so the lawyer of porn star Stormy Daniels can use all the help he can get, especially from Democrats who think his off-scale grandstanding can somehow remove Trump from office. The June 1 New York Times in fact has reported that Avenatti has solicited money from Democrats in an article written by Kenneth Vogel, Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump:
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives....
The solicitations call into question Mr. Avenatti’s insistence that he and Ms. Clifford have never actively sought to raise money from major political donors because “we will not allow this to be politicized.”
In an interview Thursday, Mr. Avenatti reiterated that “this isn’t about politics.”
“I can’t tell you the name of every person that I have spoken to, or not spoken to, over the last three months,” he said, “but what I can tell you is that we have not taken any political-associated dollars from anyone on the right or anyone on the left. Period.”
This is ludicrous. As we pointed out (and Vogel does, too), Avenatti is being funded by crowd-sourcing, and which crowd does he think wants to fund this legal war on Trump? The liberal ones who tell him they love watching him on liberal TV networks. Vogel noted Avenatti's background in campaigns:
Mr. Avenatti, who has become a hero on the left for his brash condemnations of Mr. Trump and his allies, has a background on the periphery of Democratic politics. In his website biography, he notes that during college and law school he worked at a political consulting firm run by Rahm Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, and boasts that he worked on more than 150 campaigns in 42 states, though he said on Thursday that about 50 of the campaigns on which he worked were for Republicans.
Vogel left out Avenatti's contributions to Democratic candidates -- including three 2004 presidential contenders -- and how he lied to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes when he said he hadn't been involved in politics for "20 years."
Exit question: With 162 interviews from March 7 though May 30, is Michael Avenatti trying to break into the Guinness Book of World Records?
