Michael Avenatti, the Deep State Tool

Trump antagonist and left-wing character assassin Michael Avenatti, whom Tucker Carlson has taken to calling “that creepy porn lawyer,” is threating to sue journalists for a conservative-leaning media outlet for defamation for daring to report on the attorney’s highly questionable ethics and business dealings.

Avenatti’s uncharacteristic loss of self-control could indicate that the attorney is beginning to realize his vexatious lawsuit against President Trump to free plastic surgery-addicted X-rated film star Stormy Daniels to talk about the alleged affair she had with Trump – that she has already talked about at length over and over and over – is about to collapse.

The media-savvy attorney who has become a household name across America has to know he has close to zero chance of succeeding in his own defamation lawsuit because he is now a hugely famous public figure who no longer enjoys the same civil law protections he enjoyed when he was relatively unknown.

Avenatti “is a guy who’s been on CNN and MSNBC more than a hundred times in a couple of months"

He is the front man for a well-funded and well-coordinated operation that has received next to no criticism or reflection by many people in the media. I saw something that showed that he had $175 million in free coverage on the various networks. And I think it is worth asking, Who is this guy? How does he have access to Special Counsel or Treasury Department documents? Who are his connections? Who’s paying for this? We know that he ostensibly represents Stormy Daniels. She has said she’s not paying him. It’s worth finding out just a little bit more about who’s driving the coverage.

Avenatti filed for bankruptcy in December 2017. Stormy is not paying him. Who is funding this slime ball and his attacks on Trump?

Cohen should file an ethics complaint against Avenatti:

Rules of Prof. Con., Rule 4.4 McK.Consol.Laws, Book 29 App.

Rule 4.4. Respect for Rights of Third Persons

a) In representing a client, a lawyer shall not use means that have no substantial purpose other than to embarrass or harm a third person or use methods of obtaining evidence that violate the legal rights of such a person...

Avenatti is using a tried and true lawyer trick when a reporter is onto something:

AVENATTI: “Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces that are full of lies and defamatory statements, I will have no choice but to sue each of you and your publication for defamation,” Avenatti email ed TheDCNF. “During that process, we will expose your publication for what it truly is. We will also recover significant damages against each of you that participated personally. So if I were you, I would tell Mr. Trump to find someone else to fabricate things about me. This is the last warning,” he warned.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer successfully fended off accusers by sending put similar letters.

SOURCE LA TIMES: Weinstein’s lawyer’s “cease and desist” and proceed “at your peril” letters to media outlets and accusers on behalf of clients are legendary. The missives, which would not have seemed out of place in the Hollywood novels of Elmore Leonard, were the pummeling prose of a legal pugilist looking for an early knock-out.

Excerpts from lawyer Marty Singer’s recent letters to the LA Times included repeated use of standards by which a public figure could sue for defamation and hyperbolic rejections of allegations. From Singer’s letters “… the height of recklessness …” “… extreme recklessness and with constitutional malice …” “… such conduct amounts to constitutional malice.” “… is totally nonsensical.” “… has been recklessly and maliciously attempting …” “It is completely illogical and absurd …” “Equally ridiculous and disputed are …”

”But as accusations against Harvey Weinstein and a seemingly ever-widening cast of others increase, Singer’s hard-edged style is colliding with a sudden cultural shift toward empowering women (and men) to speak out about abuse. Strategies like Singer’s of pointedly challenging an alleged victim’s account, history and possible motivations are being questioned during a time when men in entertainment, government, business, academia and the arts are being called out for sexual misconduct.

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