Jailed lawyer Michael Avenatti came into the limelight earlier this year when he was once a staunch enemy of Donald Trump. Expressed sympathy towards the former President Amid his myriad criminal charges, observers speculate that he may be seeking pardon if Trump returns to the White House.
Yet now that Trump is president-elect, Avenatti told Fox News Digital from a California jail that it would be “foolish” to trust him.
“If the President were so inclined, he could show some sympathy and commute my sentence or reduce some of the charges,” Avenatti said in a phone interview. “I am not ready for this. There are many other things in his mind right now. Perhaps some day, he may show some sympathy towards me, or he may not. But I think it would be foolish to trust him at this point. And, for that reason, I’m just trying to do what I need to do and stay close to my family and my faith during this time.
A liberal media star, Avenatti rose to fame in 2018 with her aggressive representation of Stormy Daniels as she sought to overturn the nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2006 regarding an alleged affair with Trump, which she denied. Is done.
Daniels was at the center of Trump sentenced in New York Earlier this year, he was accused of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments during the 2016 campaign.
Called “an existential threat to the Trump presidency” by Stephen Colbert, Avenatti was a frequent television presence in 2018, doing hundreds of interviews on CNN and MSNBC and popping up on Bill Maher, “The View,” the cover of Vogue and more. Was doing.
But the faster he got up, his criminal life exposedWhich includes stealing from customers, stealing the income from Daniels’ books, and attempting to extort millions from Nike.
Now an inmate at the minimum-security Terminal Island federal prison in California, the 53-year-old says he is trying to get his life together, and he now talks about Trump in an almost reverential tone.
He said, “The President is a force of nature… He is probably the most effective communicator in modern times, certainly one of the most effective presidential communicators the country has ever known.” “He is a fighter. I don’t know of anyone else who has been able to endure what he has endured over the last eight years and still come out on top.”
As a fellow multiple-convict, Avenatti said he knows the strain it can place on a person and his or her family.
“As someone who has been there, I don’t know how he did it, but it’s extremely impressive,” he said.
His fame was such that Avenatti was named as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 cycle — MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace memorably praised him in a speech he planned to give in Iowa in 2018 — but now He says the party is in such a bad shape and out of track that he is more in line with Republicans.
He described Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris as predictable.
“I’m currently a member of the Democratic Party, but that may change as soon as I get out of jail,” he told Fox News Digital. “I may become a Republican because the Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party I have known for the last 30 or 40 years. I am Bill Clinton a Democrat and if Bill Clinton ran for president today, he would not run as a Democrat. The Republican Party has become the party of the working class, and there are very few issues on which I agree with the Democratic Party.”
Avenatti said the Democrats were directionless and had a branding problem, and the former “resistance” leader said such a movement was unlikely to be effectively built in Trump’s second term.
Given the suspended lawyer’s badly damaged reputation, it is unlikely that Democrats will be concerned about his evaluation.
“I think it would be better for Democrats to start thinking about how they potentially find some common ground with them moving forward,” he said. “But this whole idea that we’re going to reconstitute the resistance, and we’re going to demonize Trump day after day, and we’re going to engage in Trump derangement syndrome, those days are gone. “It hasn’t gone anywhere before, and it’s not going to go anywhere in the coming months.”
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