{"id":36240,"date":"2019-03-25T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36240"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:56:35","slug":"legal-loudmouth-gets-more-bad-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36240","title":{"rendered":"Legal loudmouth gets more bad publicity"},"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\/2019\/03\/Avenatti-947159352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36241\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Avenatti-947159352-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Avenatti-947159352-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Avenatti-947159352-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Avenatti-947159352-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you know about this?<\/p>\n<p>Michael Avenatti, the loudmouth lawyer who once represented Stephanie Clifford &#8212; aka <em>Stormy Daniels<\/em> &#8212; has been arrested and charged with trying to extort $20 million from Nike Corp.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t whether to laugh or . . . laugh some more.<\/p>\n<p>Avenatti became a talk-show staple while he was representing Clifford\/Daniels, the adult film actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with the future president of the United States, Donald Trump. She received a $130,000 payment to keep quiet about the alleged encounter, even though Trump said it didn&#8217;t happen. Well, go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Avenatti got so much mileage from his representing the future president&#8217;s one-night squeeze he considered running for president of the United States in 2020. He has scrapped those POTUS plans.<\/p>\n<p>He has been accused of threatening Nike with negative publicity if it didn&#8217;t pay him the dough.<\/p>\n<p>This clown is entitled to his presumption of innocence. I&#8217;ll grant him that presumption.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s another part of me that secretly is cheering federal prosecutors on in their quest for a conviction. Why? Let&#8217;s just say Avenatti pi**** me off with his constant talk-show blathering about Trump, his client and how he intended to savage the president were he to run as a candidate for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>His moment in the limelight looked for all the world like someone seeking to capitalize on the proverbial &#8220;15 minutes of fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the complaint, which is contained in this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/michael-avenatti-charged-arrested-on-federal-wire-and-bank-fraud-charges-live-updates-today-2019-03-24\/\">link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a doozy.<\/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>What do you know about this? Michael Avenatti, the loudmouth lawyer who once represented Stephanie Clifford &#8212; aka Stormy Daniels &#8212; has been arrested and charged with trying to extort $20 million from Nike Corp. I don&#8217;t whether to laugh or . . . laugh some more. Avenatti became a talk-show staple while he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legal loudmouth gets more bad publicity<\/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":[1424,7822,8507,7555],"class_list":["post-36240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-avenatti","tag-nike-corp","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36240","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=36240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36242,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36240\/revisions\/36242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}