Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti was basking in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s utterly disastrous interview on Fox & Friends on Thursday.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Avenatti turned to the camera and urged the president to continue killing his own legal defense by appearing on the Fox News program every morning.
Avenatti said, “Every time he goes on Fox & Friends he makes a statement that helps us out.”
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Avenatti said:
The president’s statements on Fox & Friends, and by the way, I want to encourage, if you’re watching, please go on Fox & Friends every morning because our case gets better every time you do it. Every time he goes on Fox & Friends he makes a statement that helps us out. … All these statements are inconsistent. … What that does is provide a further foundation for our efforts to depose the president and actually place him under oath and cause him to stake out a definitive position as to these issues.
Trump’s admission makes it more likely that he’ll be deposed under oath
After repeatedly claiming that he had nothing to do with Stormy Daniels, Trump admitted this morning on Fox & Friends that Cohen “represents me like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal.”
“From what I see, he did absolutely nothing wrong,” the president added.
As Michael Avenatti noted in his interview on MSNBC, Trump’s inability to remember his lies, particularly with the Stormy Daniels matter, makes it more likely that he’ll be forced to go under oath.
The adult film star’s attorney even went as far as saying that he’s more likely to land an interview with the president than Robert Mueller is.
Avenatti said, “Bob Mueller does not, I think, technically have the ability to force him to come to a deposition, whereas if Judge Otero, in our case, grants our motion and issues that order, that’s going to be a very powerful order, commanding him to be deposed.”
In addition to that brewing storm for the president, the Fox Interview also went a long way in destroying whatever attorney-client privilege Trump thought there was with respect to the documents seized by the FBI.
As NBC News reported on Thursday: “Prosecutors in New York quickly referenced Trump’s comments on Fox in a court filing later Thursday to suggest that there are not large amounts of documents that would be protected by attorney-client privilege that were seized by the FBI earlier this month from Cohen’s office and hotel room.”
Fox & Friends might be Donald Trump’s favorite TV show, but it did him no favors on Thursday. It was an absolute trainwreck – and Michael Avenatti is loving it.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
