It doesn't surprise anyone when it's disclosed that Trump was involved in every aspect of the Stormy Daniels hush-money deal. Also, no one is surprised when it's pointed out that this makes Trump a bald-faced liar. https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-played-central-role-in-hush-payoffs-to-stormy-daniels-and-karen-mcdougal-1541786601?mod=hp_lead_pos1
"Stormy's" lawyer Michael Avenatti has been having a rough week. First he was arrested by the LAPD for domestic battery https://apnews.com/a75d5e0924764ba59024806d0ce2977f Then an Orange county court ordered his law firm evicted from their swanky Newport Beach offices over failure to pay some $213,000 in past-due rent. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/17/michael-avenatti-law-firm-evicted-ca-office-skipping-213000-rent/
update https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/los-angeles-prosecutor-declines-felony-case-against-avenatti/ar-BBPXIB6?ocid=spartandhp
Avenatti in hot water https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-avenatti-indicted-fraud-theft-charges-20190411-story.html
When I first listened to Avenatti, I though he was smart and strident. I was only half-right. What did it for me was when he showed up on TV with a CD, claiming it had damning evidence on it. (Really? A CD?) But when nothing came of it, it was obvious he was grandstanding. We didn't yet know about his treatment of his client, nor the Nike shakedown, but that stuff seems to fit what we were seeing.
