Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, already thinks American reporters are sliming him and got awfully defensive when reporters accused him of blocking them on Twitter (it was “inadvertent,” he explained).
Now, though, he thinks the Russians are trying to plant damaging pieces about him in American media.
BREAK: @MichaelAvenatti tells @woodruffbets that the Russians are trying to run a smear job on him. https://t.co/k5pKgdUK7X
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 12, 2018
Betsy Woodruff reports in The Daily Beast:
Michael Avenatti, the outspoken attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, says the Russian government is trying to smear him in the press. Avenatti told The Daily Beast that people in the Kremlin have been trying to plant damaging stories about him in media outlets.
Avenatti did not offer concrete proof to support the claim, but said two media figures and a high-ranking American intelligence official have all told him about the alleged Russian effort.
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Avenatti said people in the Russian government have claimed that he traveled to Moscow and had questionable encounters with women there.
This all sounds … familiar.
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1006606376389500928
Lol no https://t.co/hzIEAQxG6m
— S K (@nolesfan2011) June 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1006607092873129985
https://twitter.com/kebejay/status/1006602348553072640
Is Fusion GPS shopping around a salacious and unsubstantiated dossier on him also? https://t.co/1l1Qp8GdW9
— boomdudecom (@boomdudecom) June 12, 2018
Clown. https://t.co/bJjDccqXcK
— Azusa?光?? (@PositiveInt) June 12, 2018
Can you believe Russians are trying to make Avenatti look bad in the press?
The problem being, of course, that he's way out in front of them on that. https://t.co/tnFUoa3nzZ
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) June 12, 2018
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He's got a FEVER! Michael Avenatti is the cowbell of CNN and Brian Stelter's GOTTA have more COWBELL https://t.co/AXIi7vBRiM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 11, 2018
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