Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, critiqued journalists who have come to the defense of the Daily Caller after Avenatti publicly mused filing a defamation lawsuit against the publication.
“If an attorney engaged in unethical behavior or conduct, I wouldn’t naturally jump to their defense just because they’re a member of the bar,” he said on a Tuesday episode of Pod Save America. “I think it’s somewhat improper for other journalists to jump to this knee-jerk reaction and defense of the Daily Caller without knowing all the facts.”
He added that he “isn’t doing anything wrong,” that the Daily Caller disregarded journalistic standards and “engaged in basically unethical conduct.”
Daily Caller reporter Peter Hasson posted an email from Avenatti threatening legal action to twitter on Monday.
Note: @MichaelAvenatti tried to call this off record, which of course aren’t terms I agreed to since it was an uninvited email pic.twitter.com/Ve6Guftwqq
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) May 14, 2018
The danger of litigating your case in the media. He was doing extremely well, but I suppose some push back was to be expected. Note this dustup is more or less comtemporanious with Trump’s lament that he needs better TV lawyers.
Amusing that the Daily Caller and Fox News “dirt” about Avenatti are that he has a dispute with a supplier and has filed for bankrupcy and this is somehow considered a defense for Trump.
Personally, I would be more than happy to see Avennati bury The Daily Caller and, if I had my druthers, take Tucker Carlson down with it. Nothing would warm my heart more than knowing Carlson had been reduced to eating freezer-burned Swanson TV dinners.
Daily Caller are fools if they think he’s bluffing. He’s a loud mouthed shark lawyer who wants everyone to know he’s a loud mouthed shark lawyer. I don’t even understand what his case is, since I believe Stormy has already said everything she has to say. I’m assuming they’re both just looking for attention and whatever cash they can get out of this, so fighting the Daily Caller only fits in with his plans.
So maybe he’s bluffing and just trying to scare them away from telling the truth about him. But the scammers at Daily Caller haven’t seen a fact that they couldn’t nuance into lie, so I wouldn’t be betting that they’re the ones with their shit together. I haven’t bothered checking to see what they’re writing about him, but I’m hoping it’s something he can hit them for.
And the real story here is that the media actually treats Daily Caller as if it’s a legitimate news source. If journalism was truly a profession and not a popularity contest, real journalists would be calling out the Daily Caller and all other conservative media for being propaganda. But the only standard they have is that they all stick together and consider it beneath them to actually care about truth or objective reality.