Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Tells TPM: We Both Fear For Our 'Physical Safety'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Caitlin MacNeal | March 16, 2018 2:24 pm

Listen to the interview on “The Josh Marshall Podcast” »

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn actress Stephanie Clifford in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, told TPM’s “Josh Marshall Podcast” on Friday that both he and Clifford, who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, fear for their physical safety.

Avenatti told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” earlier Friday morning that Clifford has been “physically threatened,” but he emphasized to TPM later on Friday that he and his client are taking at least some of those threats seriously.

“I think she’s very concerned about her physical safety right now, and I think she has very — or a lot of reasons to be concerned. I likewise am slightly concerned about my physical safety,” Avenatti told TPM’s Josh Marshall. “There’s been a series of death threats that have been received by her and me. There’s a lot of kooky people out there. Many of those threats we laugh off, some of which we don’t laugh off. But regardless of the death threats, or threats of injury to us or our families, we’re not going home. We’re not packing up.” Avenatti would not go into detail on the nature of the threats when Marshall followed up to ask whether any of the threats appeared to be credible. However, Avenatti said that the intimidation Clifford has faced should be addressed in her upcoming “60 Minutes” interview, set to air March 25, and he indicated that he believes viewers will find the threats serious.

“I think when the interview airs, people are going to hear in detail what happened, and they’re going to judge for themselves as to whether that was some kook, if you will, some wing-nut, that just happened to come out of the blue, or if it was more than that. And I think they’re going to conclude it was certainly more than that,” he said.

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[lark]

1. Trumpers, Russians or actual people associated with drumpf?

It's bound to be from at least one of the above and maybe more?

[lagomorph777]

2. They may want to keep hazmat suits at the ready.

[jberryhill]

3. Anyone who attracts any sort of media attention in a controversy gets threats from trolls

That's not even an ideological divide.

The internet outrage machine is accessible to all comers, including the invariable percentage of any population with mental health issues.

Kill a lion in Africa - you'll get death threats.

Protest against this that or the other thing - you'll get death threats.

Get mentioned in a widely distributed twitter or youtube video doing something stupid - you'll get death threats.

There are people who sit at their keyboards all day long and do just that. It doesn't matter who you are, why you have attracted media attention, or anything else. You'll get death threats.

It's what the internet does, and it is a fairly mundane addendum to any controversial media plaything.