Or, should that be tat for tits?
Avenatti: FYI, there's a sensational new tabloid story out involving Stormy and the police. But maybe it's not true.
http://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/29/avenatti-fyi-theres-sensational-new-tabloid-story-involving-stormy-police-maybe-not-true/
Are Alex Griswold and I wrong to read this as a thinly veiled attempt by Avenatti to promote a story that's damaging to his own client?
Avenatti would say no, of course. To the contrary, he's protecting his client by warning the public that this report at the Blast claiming that a police report was filed last night might be wrong. But you can't read his tweet in isolation; less than 24 hours ago Stormy publicly all but accused him of stealing money from her legal defense fund and filing lawsuits in her name without her approval. And the Blast story was sufficiently obscure that I hadn't heard of it before his tweet piqued my curiosity and made me go looking for it.
Which was the point, right? It's payback by Avenatti to Stormy for yesterday. If not, why not wait to tweet about it until after he'd confirmed with the police whether or not a report had been filed?
It gets worse. I didn't see it but apparently his original version of the tweet actually named the Blast, helpfully alerting his followers where the Stormy story could be found.
Weird that a supremely media-savvy lawyer like Avenatti would make a basic PR mistake like naming the source of a damaging report that wasn't yet already circulating in the media. He must have gotten an earful from his Twitter fan base to make him delete it and replace it with the vaguer version. ...
Per The Blast, Stormy's estranged husband supposedly threatened a homosexual couple who set up and run Stormy's online merchandise store - "Stormy Store." He apparently accused them of figuratively stuffing $1 bills in Stormy's g-string when they were supposed to be sliding $100 bills in there, instead. In the process of supposedly threatening them with bodily harm if they do not cough up $25,000, Stormy's husband committed a much more heinous crime that could land him in the annals of genocidal and war crimes alongside the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Hillary Clinton - he called them "FAGGOTS"!!! OH MY ... you can't call homosexuals "faggots," don'tcha know ... that's ... that's ... that's too damn FACTUAL!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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