Michael Avenatti, the earlier lawyer for former porn star Stormy Daniels, reportedly stated he has been in touch with presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s authorized protection crew.
Avenatti advised to the New York Submit from Terminal Island in Los Angeles — the place he’s at the moment serving 19 years in federal jail for an array of crimes together with extortion, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement and different crimes — that he can be “more than pleased to testify” in Alvin Bragg’s trial in opposition to Trump..
“The protection has contacted me,” Avenatti stated. “I’d be more than pleased to testify, I don’t know that I will probably be known as to testify, however I’ve been in contact with Trump’s protection for the higher a part of yr,” in line with the outlet.
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Avenatti stopped representing Daniels in March 2019. The disbarred lawyer was discovered responsible of defrauding Daniels of about $300,000 in February 2022. Avenatti was additionally discovered responsible in February 2020 of all three prices referring to his scheme to extort over $20 million from Nike. (RELATED: Dismissed Juror Tells MSNBC Of ‘Jarring’ Expertise With Trump In Court docket: ‘This Is Simply One other Man’)
“There’s no query [the trial] is politically motivated as a result of they’re involved that he could also be reelected,” Avenatti advised the outlet. “If the defendant was anybody apart from Donald Trump, this case wouldn’t have been introduced right now, and for the federal government to try to deliver this case and convict him in an effort to forestall tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals from voting for him, I believe it’s simply flat out flawed, and atrocious.”
“I’m actually bothered by the truth that Trump, in my opinion, has been focused. 4 circumstances is simply excessive and I believe there’s a big probability that that is going to all backfire and goes to propel him to the White Home,” Avenatti stated.
Trump was charged with 34 felony counts in New York after being accused of falsifying enterprise data to cowl up an alleged “hush cash” fee associated to what Daniels claimed was an extramarital affair.
