The conservative cable giant used to relentlessly mock and scorn Avenatti but now that the convict sympathizes with Trump, they’ll turn to him for expertise.
on Trump’s behalf and trashing Daniels, his former client, as an unstable liar, the tables have turned: Avenatti is now a commodity in the Fox News universe, scoring primetime interviews from prison, where he is serving 19 combined years for embezzlement, extortion, and fraud.
Avenatti, meanwhile, unsubtly compared his plight to that of the twice-impeached ex-president and Hannity’s late-night phone pal, adding that it’s “not true” that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Besides trashing the prosecution’s case as a “mistake,” Avenatti also told Melber that Cohen’s testimony had the “potential to be a disaster,” citing the ex-Trump lawyer’s past convictions and false public statements. Cohen pleaded guilty and served three years in prison for tax evasion and campaign finance law violations related to the scheme to not only buy Daniels’ silence but also to kill other potentially negative Trump stories before the 2016 election.
Avenatti embraced MAGA talking points by claiming that much like Trump, he too is a victim of a weaponized justice system. “I think that we were both targeted by the justice system,” he claimed. “There’s a lot of people on the left that were very concerned about my potential rise within the Democratic Party and my potential rise in Democratic politics. And the fact that I was not someone that was easily controlled.
For instance, when Hannity was infamously revealed as a secret Cohen client following the 2018 FBI raid on the fixer’s home and office, Avenatti—who had begun representing Daniels the month before—took great joy in bashing the Fox News star. "The disclosure relating to Sean Hannity proved my point exactly. He is radioactive,” Avenatti told the press in April 2018, adding that there was “significant danger” to Trump since he “trusted Mr. Cohen as his fixer for years.
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