Avenatti blames Trump for his legal morass, and casts himself as 'Icarus'American Thinker, May 23, 2019, Monica Showalter
Michael Avenatti is back in business, not practicing law of course, but wooing the press, now that he's been charged with multiple felonies for defrauding clients, running out on his tax tab, and attempting to shake down a major corporation for a big dollar payout. He's got a big spread in Vanity Fair, comparing himself to Icarus, the classic figure of Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun and fell into the sea, tragic, as in all tragedy, only because he was once great.
No not exactly. Who's he blaming for this comeuppance? Not himself, of course. According to Vanity Fair, the sun was Trump.
“I never imagined that this case would take on the magnitude that it did and would have thrust me into the spotlight and into the national spotlight like it did,†he said. “I have said many, many times over the last year, this is either going to end really, really well, or really, really badly. I am most fearful of the fact that the rate of descent is greater than the rate of ascent. Some would argue at this point that I flew too close to the sun. As I sit here today, yes, absolutely, I know I did. No question. Icarus.â€
This is delusions of grandeur. So he tried to take on Trump in an epic clash ... and met his tragic downfall? Nope, he got his downfall based on his bad habit of thumbing his nose at the law, something that puts all sorts of self-regarding jerks who break the law into the slammer. In his case, he's looking at 400 years. The sun that melted his wings wasn't Trump, it was his own misdeeds, merely backlit by the secondary sun of media publicity.
It sure as heck wasn't Trump who made Avenatti help himself to that wheelchair-bound client's judgment money he won for him and then put it into one of his own accounts instead, which is one of the things he's now under legal scrutiny for.
And no, it wasn't Trump who made him bankrupt a Seattle coffee company by diverting its paid payroll taxes taken out and leaving it onto the employees.
Trump didn't even have anything to do with Avenatti's pocketing of the money of his other mediagenic client, porn "star" Stormy Daniels, for her bookings, a deed so apparently dishonest it makes one actually sympathize with Daniels.
Did Trump make Avenatti wheel out a client with a phony, shifting, dirty story about Bret Kavanaugh at his Senate confirmation hearings?
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