The lawyers for Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels returned to CNN Monday night, this time debating Stormy Daniels’ claim that she was threatened not to talk about her alleged relationship with President Donald Trump in 2011.
The last time the two attorneys appeared on CNN, the debate got heated, and the same occurred on Monday, with the two men constantly raising their voices and talking over each other.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, has suggested that the threat to his client was likely linked to Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, though Avenatti has not stated outright that Cohen orchestrated the threat.
Arthur Schwartz, Cohen’s lawyer (who is not representing Cohen in the Daniels case), pushed back on Avenatti’s suggestion.
“It’s an utter fiction,” Schwartz said. “And that in and of itself is defamatory to say that was Michael Cohen or someone sent by Michael Cohen.”
“It’s a figment of her imagination. That person doesn’t exist,” he added.
Later in the interview, Avenatti called Cohen a “thug” several times.
“You’re a thug,” Schwartz hit back before questioning why CBS’ “60 Minutes” did not air a lie detector test with Daniels.
“This thug doctored it,” Schwartz claimed.
Watch the debate via CNN:
"Later in the interview, Avenatti called Cohen a “thug” several times.
“You’re a thug,” Schwartz hit back before questioning why CBS’ “60 Minutes” did not air a lie detector test with Daniels."
“No puppet, no puppet. You’re a puppet!” Trump during the debates.
I am sensing a pattern here in their debate strategies.
I caught that last night too, I don’t usually watch CNN, I was channel surfing and stopped when I saw Avenatti. Avenatti demolished that Schwartz guy who was flailing about like a fish out of water and could not sustain one second of self control from interrupting Avenatti constantly. Schwartz embarrassed himself, bigly.
Why was Stormy Daniels threatened in the first place? She had a one-time fling with Trump. Was she talking about it afterwards, and Trump wanted her to keep quiet (while he continued to have other flings)? What is it about her that has Trump/Cohen behaving badly?
It’s like the flying monkeys–Trumpworld seems to have a near-infinite supply of blustering, lying, vulgarian thugs. It’s almost as though he feels some sort of affinity with that type of person.
Preshitident Manslut-Peehooker, Iwank and Melaria Trump should walk on to the White Hole garden and hold a press conference saying that the Preshitident was whoring around, threatening women and paying hush money with their approval. Many politicians and their wives have done this before.