Stormy Daniels and her Creepy Porn Lawyer are on the outs. Michael Avenatti apparently sued Trump for defamation on Stormy's behalf without first asking his client - and she's having a hard time getting answers from him on where all the various GoFundMe campaign money has gone. Both of these are big ethical no-noes: The most common reason for the disbarring of American lawyers is the "co-mingling" of client funds, and Avenatti strikes me as a fairly serial co-mingler. As for suing someone without first seeking your client's permission, that's particularly reckless when the defendant is the President, the claim is defamation, and your client is a porn star. (See Bob Guccione vs Larry Flynt for relevant case law on the concept of the libel-proof plaintiff.)
I have stated for some months the obvious - that Avenatti is a peculiarly shameless version of a very American legal species, the attorney whose only real client is himself; and that at the end of it all Stormy would be broker than ever. Creepy Porn Lawyer lost her the stupid defamation case against Trump, and the judge thought it so meritless he ordered Miss Daniels to pay the President's legal fees. That's on Creepy. Here's what I said about him a couple of months back following his interview with Tucker:
Mark saw this coming a couple of months ago.
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