Gee, I guess the Democratic ESTABLISHMENT was right about Michael Avenatti

[still_one]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/democrats-avenatti-swetnick-accusation/index.html

[wryter2000]

1. Guess he won't be running for president

[Roland99]

2. As well as many of us who saw him for what he was!

Yet were still alerted on and thread banned and ...

I swear. Some people just yearn for anyone to do something that they don’t care about the methods or the character of that person

Avenatti was on display for anyone remotely willing to see him for what he was. Or is

A lowlife grifter

[Hortensis]

14. +100. No one who looks for good character in those they support

were lead astray by Avenatti's skills in front of the camera. He'd already revealed himself to be an underprincipled attention seeker well before he showed up during Kavanaugh to inject poisonous complications and doubt into the conversation.

[Peacetrain]

3. Ahhh Yep!

[hlthe2b]

4. He BECAME what he (initially) was combating--a Donald Trump facsmile...

Ego, Ego, Arrogance, Ego, unrestrained narcissism.

[theboss]

7. I think he was that going in

Character is destiny and all that jazz.

[BamaRefugee]

5. Presumed guilty, eh DU'ers?

Personally I find it interesting that one of tRump's larger enemies is charged by tRump's boot licking DOJ within 48 hours of tRump being proclaimed innocent, by the boot licking Attorney General.
I'm sure tRump's enemy list is long, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

With climate change though, where is tRump locating his Gulag??? There aren't many frozen wastelands here in West Russia.

[Skidmore]

6. Still wouldn't make him

the best candidate now.

[theboss]

8. So we no longer trust the SDNY?

I though they were the last honest men/women?

[onenote]

10. No. We no longer idolize Michael Avenatti

Well, some of us never idolized him.

[theboss]

11. Is Trump attending a baptism today?

Good heavens.....

[uponit7771]

15. Not the part under purview of Red Don and Barr, the Trump investigations aren't under that guy

[onenote]

9. First, he wasn't indicted. He was arrested based on a warrant issued by a Magistrate

who reviewed the charging document and concluded there was probable cause.

Second, Avenatti was the one who dictated the timing of this by picking the date on which he was going to carry out his threat against Nike.

It's all there in the charging document if you want to read it. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5780145-U-S-v-Michael-Avenatti-Complaint.html

[BamaRefugee]

17. Point taken on my use of "indicted" and I edited it.

However the Feds will still need to obtain an indictment to go forward, as required for every Federal felony case under the Constitution.

[onenote]

19. Yes. I believe the government has 30 days to obtain an indictment from a Grand Jury

[BamaRefugee]

20. Correct

[JonLP24]

12. I saw Avenatti's tweet

He did it to himself. Charging him with extortion 2as a lot easier after that public Nike tweet.

[LanternWaste]

16. Only courts presume guilt or innocence.

We merely speculate on it (but I get it... "speculating a guilty sentence, eh DUers?" doesn't validate bias with as much effectiveness as accuracy would).

[lame54]

13. Kavanaugh on the ropes? - when?...

He gave a horrible performance at his hearing
He lied several times
The only convincing thing he said was that he likes beer
The confirmed him anyways
They were always going to confirm him

[scrutineer]

18. He was entertaining

And provided a number of uncomfortable, easy to report for our lazy media, easy enough even for people as dumb as Republicans to understand, news cycles for the Orange Quisling.

But take Avenatti seriously? Nah. Once upon a time Junior Samples claimed to want to run for office in Georgia...

Still it would be nice to have more uncomfortable, easy to report for our lazy media, easy enough even for people as dumb as Republicans to understand news stories to haunt widdle DonJon.