How the mighty Michael Avenatti has fallen. In just four years’ time, the loudmouth lawyer went from media superstar to prison inmate.
Not exactly how he thought life would go when he first came on the scene, is it?
The media, eager to turn anyone anti-Trumper into a household name, grabbed onto this showboating mid-wit with near-orgasmic gusto.
And now the guy our media betters floated as a possible 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate won’t be spending four years in the White House but fourteen years in the Big House.
I know. It’s wrong to mock someone who is about to spend the next fourteen years in prison.
But when you think about it, Avenatti brought this on himself.
He knew he was a shyster who defrauded his clients when he first agreed to step into the role of ResistanceLOL Heartthrob. But the lure of media fawning and ResistanceLOL fangirling was too hard to … well … resist.
So here we are.
Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced Avenatti to fourteen years for defrauding his clients and obstructing the IRS from collecting payroll taxes from his coffee company.
In addition to the prison sentence, Avenatti also has to cough up $7 million in restitution.
This 14-year sentence is in addition to the five-year sentence Avenatti already received in New York for extorting Nike and stealing from the very client who made him a media superstar in the first place, porn star Stormy Daniels.
A fitting end for the guy who loved to pester Donald Trump Junior on Twitter by calling him “Biff” and telling him he’s heading to prison.
On October 11, 2018, Avenatti tweeted: “Donald Trump Jr. will be indicted before his birthday on 12-31-18. If you doubt my prediction, please check my record over the last 7 months. #Winning”
Here we are nearly four years later, and Donald Trump Jr. still hasn’t been indicted and the only guy going to prison is Michael Avenatti. #Winning
But it isn’t Michael Avenatti who made this journey so freaking entertaining.
It was the dopes in the media that turned this into such rollicking fun.
Nobody did more to destroy the credibility of the American corporate news media than Michael Avenatti.
Back in May 2018, I called the media’s Avenatti love-fest “Suicide by Avenatti.”
Anybody with half a brain knew back then that this was going to end badly.
And from the way things turned out, we now know that “badly” was a bit of an understatement.