Donald Trump did a rotten job picking Michael Cohen for his personal attorney. That allowed adult entertainment star and director, Stormy Daniels’ attorney an opening to blast Cohen into another solar system. Her attorney took full advantage of the opportunity during an interview.
Stormy Daniels is the stage name of Stephanie Clifford, and she hired a pit bull attorney, Michael Avenatti, to defend her against Trump and Cohen. Her attorney has made excellent use of the media, by dropping cookie crumbs all the way to the final event.
Avenatti appeared with CNN‘s Jake Tapper with a huge clue, one that set Trump back on his heels. He said that a new video showed Cohen hanging out with cigar-smoking men, who had “ties to the Russian government:”
‘Michael Cohen was videotaped and photographed sitting with a number of men. We believe that a number of those actually had ties, Russian ties, as crazy as that sounds. This story gets more strange and more strange by the day. You couldn’t make this up if you wanted to.’
Tapper appeared surprised by Clifford’s attorney’s comment, but he jumped right on it and pressed him for more details.
‘Can you shed more light on what you said? I mean, I saw a picture of one of the people he was sitting with, and he has ties to one particular Russian wealthy individual. What else are you talking about?’
Then, the attorney drew back, not wanting “to say too much:”
‘I don’t want to say too much this morning, but you can’t make this stuff up. I don’t understand what he is doing, what Michael Cohen’s doing with each passing day. This is getting worse and worse for him and getting worse and worse for the president.’
The host asked Avenatti what he thought about Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) interview on Fox New radio. The senator said that Michael Cohen was “an idiot for recording conversations which were later seized by investigators,” according to CNN.
Avenatti replied that he “couldn’t agree more.”
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