Michael Avenatti. Politico/Getty.
Michael Avenatti, lawyer of Stormy Daniels and one of the Brett Kavanaugh accusers and a potential Democratic candidate for President in 2020, has been arrested on domestic violence charges. Politico. Los Angeles police arrested Avenatti for felony domestic violence with injuries and bail was set for $50,000. It is unclear who the accuser is as both Avenatti's ex-wife and his current estranged wife have released statements saying that he didn't do anything. Avenatti has been campaigning for president in 2020 on the Democratic ticket.
My Comment:
I'd like to say that we shouldn't pre-judge this case even though Michael Avenatti has never done the same thing to his various victims, including President Trump, Brett Kavanaugh and Tucker Carlson. Just because Avenatti was arrested doesn't mean that he is guilty of the crime. Until he either pleads guilty or is found guilty by a jury of his peers, he is entitled to the same due process that he would deny others.
Avenatti has a long history of falsely accusing people of serious crimes. The fact that he is blaming this on a vast right wing conspiracy is pretty hilarious as it's obvious he can't claim that a woman is lying after all. He has always said that we should believe accusers no matter what so if we take him at his word we should just believe that the arrest means he is guilty.
That being said, these accusations seem pretty serious. Felony domestic violence with injuries is a very serious charge and if he is convicted his law license is gone and his presidential aspirations are completely out of the question. It's very hard to run for president if you are sitting in a prison cell.
It is unclear who the victim is. Both Avenatti's ex-wife and his current estranged wife have denied being victims. It's very possible that the alleged victim was a third woman. That wouldn't be surprising as Avenatti's marriage had fallen apart, so it's very possible he had a mistress or a girlfriend. We should find out who the victim was in time.
If the allegations are true then Avenatti is the worst kind of hypocrite. He has positioned himself as someone that protects the rights of women from evil men when he may be the very same monster he claims to be fighting. I'm not feminist but I am pretty sure you can't claim to be one if you are beating on women. He's also accused of something way worse than Donald Trump (who supposedly paid off a pornstar) Brett Kavanaugh (unfounded accusations of sexual assault) and Tucker Carlson (who's son may have gotten into a fight with someone who called his sister a "cunt" and "whore).
I do think that this probably torpedoes Avenatti's chances for 2020. Not that those chances were all that great to begin with. Avenatti was polling at near zero to begin with so there wasn't much of a chance of him winning the 2020 primaries, let alone beating Donald Trump. He essentially had no chance to begin with and I always said that his running was nothing more than a stunt.
Still, even though Keith Ellison's abuse scandal didn't destroy him, I doubt that a straight white male could ever get away with accusations of abuse in the current Democratic Party. And I never thought that the Democratic Party wanted much to do with him anyways. If he somehow still decides to keep on the campaign path, even if these charges get dismissed, he's not going to win.
I also think that this destroys Avenatti's career as a news pundit. Avenatti has been showing up on talk shows all the time but I doubt that will continue. Obviously if he is convicted, he won't be calling in from prison but even as the case makes it's way through court, he won't be in demand anymore.
I have to say that though I don't think domestic abuse is a laughing matter and that Avenatti's alleged victim shouldn't be made light of, I do hope that Avenatti is done. The man is a scumbag even if he isn't a beater of women. He's been on the wrong side of too many issues and I am glad that he isn't going to have anymore impact on this country.
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