{"id":34093,"date":"2018-12-08T03:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34093"},"modified":"2018-12-08T03:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:47:59","slug":"avenatti-wont-run-for-white-house-hooray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34093","title":{"rendered":"Avenatti won&#8217;t run for White House . . . hooray!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/avenatti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33979\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/avenatti-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/avenatti-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/avenatti-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/avenatti.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cannot let the day pass without acknowledging my joy at the news that Michael Avenatti, the loudmouth lawyer and cable talk show blowhard, won&#8217;t seek the Democratic Party&#8217;s nomination for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Avenatti was an unknown lawyer before he agreed to represent a woman named Stephanie Clifford, who&#8217;s better known as Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who alleges she and Donald John Trump engaged in a one-night tumble in a hotel room in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>She then took a $130,000 payment from Trump to stay quiet &#8212; about an event Trump said didn&#8217;t happen. Go figure, man.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Avenatti thought he would parlay his instant celebrity status into a presidential candidacy. Now he says he won&#8217;t do it. He has talked to his family and decided he has better things to do. The allegation that he struck a woman also might have had something to do with his decision to pass on a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Count me as delighted to know we won&#8217;t have to listen to Avenatti make political pledges he can&#8217;t &#8212; or <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> &#8212; honor. I just wish he would forgo all those cable news show appearances. I am weary of the sound of his voice and the sight of his face.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot let the day pass without acknowledging my joy at the news that Michael Avenatti, the loudmouth lawyer and cable talk show blowhard, won&#8217;t seek the Democratic Party&#8217;s nomination for president of the United States. Avenatti was an unknown lawyer before he agreed to represent a woman named Stephanie Clifford, who&#8217;s better known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avenatti won&#8217;t run for White House . . . hooray!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,1424,7655,7822,7555],"class_list":["post-34093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hush-money","tag-michael-avenatti","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34094,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions\/34094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}