How To Beat a Con Man? Find Another Con Man
Would-be President Michael Avenatti won't be the leader of the free world--he may go to prison. Stormy Daniels' righteous lawyer has been under investigation for years, it turns out. Among other things, he attempted to extort millions of dollars from Nike, apparently not realizing that trying to rip off a mega-corporation would make him a marked man. His CNN pundit job as a "Trump corruption expert" ended several months ago after he was accused of battery by his girlfriend. Every time I saw him on television he seemed pissed off. Now we know that legal officialdom has been breathing down his expensive shirt collars for a long time, causing, perhaps, the build up of steam that always seemed about to whistle from his head orifices whenever he spoke about Donald Trump.
He lived lavishly, accumulating debts, sometimes using his businesses and law firm to help him buy Ferraris and Porsches. His California coast mansion cost twenty million dollars. He bought expensive watches, clothes, purchased membership in an exclusive rich man's club where he received handjobs from King Midas.
He siphoned money from his employees' paychecks, drove his coffee business into the ground. Note: I resisted the easy pun, "grounds."
All of this activity, making him the definition of a shyster, seemingly contradicted his holier than thou television crusade to take down another low life who's guilty of many of the same practices, Donald Trump.
Avenatti, to those who didn't know him well--including those unfortunates who worked for him--appeared as a reasonable, fierce advocate of Truth; the man to take on Trump, to give the President hell on CNN and MSNBC, plus a segment or two of Fox News. I remember seeing Tucker Carlson on the latter network giving Avenatti a hard time. Carlson, alone among cable news personalities, was ahead of everybody in seeing through the shit-talking porn lawyer. Watching Carlson's interview with Avenatti at the time, I thought Tucker was too harsh but now I see he was right, as he sometimes is about contemporary personalities and events. Fox News apparently uses Carlson as the occasional voice of reason.
Why did Avenatti do all these unethical and illegal things? According to those who know him and those who have been burned by him, he needed money to maintain a living large lifestyle. Was he addicted to that lifestyle? Apparently so.
Failing to recognize the likelihood that news media exposure would dramatically illuminate his corrupt existence (the same thing happened to Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn), Avenatti brought forth his big-boobed blonde client, Stormy Daniels--she wanting to be able to tell her story, which included an account of her fling with Trump in 2006. I never doubted Daniels' account. Regarding this, I agree with Avenatti's approach, how he stuck with the case, but afterwards he lingered on as a pundit sharing "valuable" insights into the character of President Trump.
A corrupt man addicted to wealth recognizes another corrupt man addicted to wealth.
Avenatti, following the usual trajectory, traveled to Iowa to bullshit ordinary people, the kind he would never allow within a hundred feet of his house. He went to New Hampshire, did the same thing. His presidential campaign will remain an abortion, something his own past and present practices killed. Knowing he had so many proverbial skeletons in the closet, what made him believe he could surmount such obstacles and make it to the Oval Office?
Ego.
His adversary Trump is the same way. Many of the current president's troubles and distractions stem from his past shitheel business practices: not paying workers for work done, just as Avenatti cheated his own employees. Both men are tax dodgers, both men are worth less money than they claim to be, both men have gravitated towards Stormy Daniels' tits, using her for, in Trump's case, adulterous sexual pleasure, and in Avenatti's, career climbing, i.e., getting inside the big news media tent where news corporations thrive on high ratings. Pornstars mixed with politics make money for these organizations more concerned with profits and business success than journalistic ethics and truth telling.
Trump and Avenatti are both creatures of news and entertainment media. Comparatively speaking, Stormy Daniels is the only honest one of the trio. Having sex on camera to make a living is far less harmful to society than the power mongering tendencies of two luxury-obsessed degenerates trying to rule the world.
Avenatti's self-exposure in his CNN punditry career, his excessive unethical behaviors, his ambition to lead this country (with shameful establishment Democratic support, including Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign advisers and donors), point to a cry for help, perhaps. That's a joke, really. Egomaniacs don't realize they're hateful and destructive in their relationships with others. We're the problem: they're perfect. President Avenatti would've been hounded by the doings of his past, just as Trump has been since he became president. President Avenatti, like Trump, would've fought off his frustrations by punishing others, including the peoples of other countries, thus committing crimes against humanity--as a Hell-bound Democrat. Curiously, as with all presidents, his mass murders would never be punished, but he would maybe get prison time for not paying taxes.
That TV screen-loads of idiots actually believed Avenatti was worth serious consideration as a presidential candidate should tell us that cable news corporate journalists and pundits don't understand the nature of the damage they do; or they don't care, because like Avenatti, they're in it for the money, public service and the truth be damned.
Vic Neptune
