Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti has a rebuttal to his many critics calling him an attention seeker.
Avenatti just revealed there is apparently a strategy behind his prolific media appearances, though his admission seemed only to earn him a new round of mockery.
The attorney representing the adult film actress has made television appearances part of his legal strategy, convinced it will ultimately lead to a win in the court case against President Trump.
Listen up: Not all cases are the same nor is the winning strategy. Here, the constant media/PR pressure has forced Trump, Cohen, et al. to make a series of huge errors and to make damaging admissions helpful to our case. This was not by accident. And we’re not changing. #basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 6, 2018
“You tweeted that you are just getting started,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Avenatti Tuesday. “Is that hyperbole, do you have more information, and if so, why not just release it now?”
“Look, if anybody’s been paying attention for the last 8 or 9 weeks they know that there’s not a lot of hyperbole,” Avenatti replied. “We make a lot of statements but we back them up and then some.”
We are just getting started…
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 8, 2018
“I have to tell you this — I’m going to touch on this, okay?” Avenatti added. “There’s been a lot of criticism lately…about how our media strategy, and how often I’m on CNN and how often I’ve been on your show.”
“It’s all a bunch of nonsense because here’s the bottom line, Anderson. It’s working. It’s working in spades,” he said. “Because we’re so out front on this, people send us our information. People want to help our cause.”
The attorney has been making the media rounds and even inviting himself to appear on shows, according to the Washington Examiner. He even issued a challenge to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to meet face-to-face for a “discussion” on live television about the case against the president in which Avenatti is seeking to void an agreement his client, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, made to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
But Avenatti’s plan to use media appearances to gather more information on Trump as a means to win the lawsuit seemed like a questionable strategy to many.
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – The Art of War
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 6, 2018
CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter tweeted about the lawyer’s appearance with Cooper and his admission, sparking rebukes and mockery in response.
Former Obama official and a national security analyst for CNN, Samantha Vinograd, led the charge of CNN employees asking the obvious questions.
So he is going on TV as a means of getting more evidence?
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) May 9, 2018
Yes Sam, this is what I was taught in the Secret Service Academy and @JamesAGagliano, @AshaRangappa_ & @joshscampbell studied at the FBI Academy; evidence is always gathered from primetime cable news broadcasts. #investigation101
— Jonathan Wackrow (@JDWackrow) May 9, 2018
It was part of the five pillars of our training:
– firearms
– defensive tactics
– law
– interrogation
– primetime pomposity— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) May 9, 2018
I remember diligently studying the TV Guide trying to figure out what show would garner the most evidence of criminal activity.
— Jonathan Wackrow (@JDWackrow) May 9, 2018
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