Posted on 02/04/2022 12:06:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump.
Avenatti stared straight ahead as the verdict was read. It was another crushing defeat for the California lawyer, who has faced a host of legal problems after briefly rising to fame as one of Trump’s leading antagonists on cable news early in the Republican’s administration.
Avenatti dumped his lawyers and decided to represent himself shortly after the trial began, setting up a face-to-face showdown with Daniels, his former client, who appeared in a new role as star witness.
Prosecutors portrayed Avenatti as a common thief and serial liar. He countered by seeking to cast himself as a white knight who came to the rescue of Daniels until he turned on her.
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CNN said even Presidential material!
Remember when CNN was giving him a nightly nation-wide Trump-bashing platform for what seemed like months? Lol...
Between this and the compete management meltdown of CNN, I'm surprised they are still on air and not showing a test pattern of old. Remember the one with the Indian head in the center and all the registration marks? Showing my age or what?
Was this a civil suit or criminal charges?
reminds me of the line when Ul Brenner in the Mag 7 said, “Now we are seven”
Stormy Daniels and the paranormal.
I don’t think I’ll go there..
Well, isn't taking and spending other peoples' money a qualification for a Democrat?
Sleazebags par excellence. No longer media darlings with Trump out of office.
So he’s not the Democrat nominee for President after all?
Not as dangerous as stealing from drug-dealers, but its the same ethical ballpark.
No worries. Tucker will cover it on Monday. This is just to delicious for him to let it go. Bet it takes up more than one segment, which will probably seque into the whole CNN debacle. They've had it coming for some time.
Next up, MSNBC.
Reliable Sources...heheheh
Didn’t seem to impede, Congressman Alcee Hastings!
I remember that when I was a kid, waiting for Dewey Compton's Farm Journal to start (first show on Sat mornings), which aired before the Saturday cartoons came on.
Brian Stelter commented yet
The real “Trump legacy” was, and continues to be the daily unmasking of America’s scum class. It started with Obama, but now it’s all out in the open that the left hates this country to its core. No one with any intelligence trusts the media anymore. We swim in an ocean of lies and propaganda so thick and ubiquitous that we don’t notice it like fish don’t notice water.
Stealing from a prostitute. How low...
Criminal, I take it because there is a 'sentencing' date set.
After Biden pardons him:)
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