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Michael Avenatti Calls Into MSNBC From Prison to Attack Hush Money Case Against Trump

by Bradley Cortright
April 10, 2024 at 9:04 am
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Michael Avenatti Calls Into MSNBC From Prison to Attack Hush Money Case Against Trump

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 23: Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti speaks to the media outside of a New York court house after a hearing in a case where he is accused of stealing $300,000 from a former client, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on July 23, 2019 in New York City. A grand jury has indicted Avenatti for the Daniels-related case and a second case in which prosecutors say he attempted to extort more than $20 million from sportswear giant Nike. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Former attorney Michael Avenatti is speaking out from prison to attack the hush money case against former President Donald Trump.

Avenatti, who is in prison for extortion and fraud, spoke about the charges against Trump stemming an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

The former lawyer was sentenced to four years in prison in 2022 for stealing from Daniels, who he represented.

On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Ari Melber noted Avenatti had a role in bringing the case to light and and asked, “How do you assess the strength of the prosecution’s case?”

“Well, I think what I’m about to say is going to surprise a lot of people, and that is that I think this is the wrong case, at the wrong time, Ari. I think that the case is in many way stale at this juncture. You’re talking about conduct that occurred some eight years ago. I think the fact that it’s occurring in state court in New York is a mistake,” he continued.

Listen to his comments below:

Michael Avenatti is doing MSNBC hits from prison defending Donald Trump.

What is 2024?

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— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 10, 2024

Avenatti went on to warn against depriving “tens of millions of Americans of their choice for the presidency of the United States — whether we agree with those folks or not or regardless of what we may think of Donald Trump — I think it’s a mistake to do it based on a case of this nature.”

He explained he hoped Trump would have faced charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021 and expressed his belief it would have prevented “the situation that we’re in right now” from occurring.

Despite his criticism of the hush money prosecution, the former attorney said, “I think the case has a lot of problems. Now that does not —I don’t mean to suggest that that means that Trump will not be convicted because I think he will be convicted.”

“And I think it rests on a legally tenuous theory, namely that the crime that was attempted to be covered up was a federal election crime. I think that could be a problem potentially on appeal for the state,” he continued. “And I think it’s going be tested on appeal when Trump is convicted. And again, I think he will be convicted. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going hold up.”

Finally, he said, “I believe if you’re going bring a case against a sitting president or a former president, who tens of millions of people support, especially in today’s day and age with how divided we are, I think it needs to be a rock-solid, lock tight, nearly perfect prosecuted case. Because otherwise, you run a huge risk as to what it’s going mean for the country.”

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Bradley Cortright

Bradley Cortright

IJR, Senior Writer He's written for Independent Journal Review since 2019.

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