Fox News goes all-in trying to character assassinate Michael Avenatti

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Trump's favorite network keeps raising questions about Stormy Daniels' lawyer that could be answered with seconds of research.

AARON RUPAR MAY 11, 2018, 9:55 AM

On Thursday night, Laura Ingraham devoted an entire segment of her show to raising an ominous-sounding question: Who is paying Michael Avenatti?

Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, has played a key role in breaking open the scandal surrounding Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer.

Speculation about the source of his funding was the topic of a lengthy conversation. Watch:

That wasn’t the first time a Fox News host raised questions about Avenatti’s funding on Thursday evening. In a segment just before Trump’s speech in Indiana, host Bill Hemmer also raised questions about Avenatti’s funding, citing the same Hill op-ed as Ingraham.

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-michael-avenatti-character-assassination-trump-39b2d9b7f0be/


Maybe, Ari Fleisher should first and foremost get the blood off his hands when he was standing at the podium when men and woman were getting killed in war that was based on lie, and now he is making money off those deaths by beings some so called source of ..................of horseshit, and then there is the right wing self serving woman that got here comeuppance when 17 students were murdered and a high school student called her out on here fucking right wing hypocrisy.............

Here Ingram try this again, just one more time..............Avenatti, has your proverbial number and Fleischer and Hemmers proverbial number ..........................get over it...................


The tweet links to a statement that says “ALL fees and expenses of this case of either been funded by our client, Ms. Stephanie Clifford [aka, Stormy Daniels], or by donations from our crowdjustice.com page.”

“Further, no political party or PAC is funding this effort,” it adds. “No left wing conspiracy group is behind this. And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge. Get over it.”

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[JNelson6563]

1. I wondered where they'd go with this.

I mean the shit is hitting the fan, clearly they couldn't go on ignoring him. Of course he exposed dirty money stuff so they imply... he's got dirty money.

*yawn* I'm gonna need a minute to absorb this shock...

[Laffy Kat]

2. Saw an earlier post re a tweet about Avenatti:

That said Avenatti has a lion rug in his bedroom. It's not dead, it's just too scared to move.

[Jon Fogerty]

3. Wait a minute...

Fox News is questioning HOW an extremely successful lawyer for a porn star is being paid while not questioning WHY a mediocre lawyer for the POTUS was paid over 4 million dollars by various Fortune 500 companies?

[Mr. Ected]

4. I don't give a shit if George Soros himself is photographed handing Avenatti huge checks

The GOP certainly doesn't care that the source of their funds are the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and Vladimir Putin, among others.

If the best character assassination you've got is questioning the source of a lawyer's funds to create a media blitz based on facts and revelations of right wing crimes and scandals....well....they've lost. Bigly.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I'm with you!!

[workinclasszero]

8. Great post!

F the GOP who are taking bales of blood money from Putin to betray America!

[gratuitous]

5. Avenatti Measure of Effectiveness: 9.5/10

When some whack job is apprehended with a vehicle full of weapons on his way to kill Avenatti, it will be 10/10. For now, Fox will see how the old reliable public smear job works.

[oasis]

6. I guess Laura won't have that guy Payne back on her show.

He gives her an honest response "who cares?".

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Heilman's take

John Heilman was on Nicolle Wallace's panel today. He'd shadowed Avenatti earlier in the week for his Showtime political show, "The Circus". He talked about Avenatti's media strategy and said that Avenatti has been so visible that he has effectively "crowdsourced" evidence gathering - that people are sending him info "over the transom" related to Cohen (et al).

[B2G]

10. So here's the thing.

He's kind of put a target on his back in this regard, going on cable news 24x7.

And let's be intellectually honest here. Rachel would be doing the exact same thing if he was on the other side.

[Kirk Lover]

11. Here's the thing. Avenatti has done nothing wrong. He is not a criminal and RUMP and Co.,

ARE. The moral of the story is that if RUMP wasn't CORRUPT there would be no there there with any lawyer, anywhere.

[peggysue2]

12. The Trumpster and his enablers are . . .

going to go after him full guns blazing because he's effective and poses a danger to their continuing scam. Avenatti needs to be careful and absolutely spot on with future 'revelations' because any major slip up will be used to crucify his credibility. Any skeletons in his closet will be exposed. They're hot to bring the man down.

[SunSeeker]

13. So they're worried that Dems may be paying Avenatti, but not that Russians did pay Cohen?