The plot sickens

“So, Mika, you are familiar with the fact that a week ago, Judge (Kimba) Wood ordered Michael Cohen’s attorneys to disclose all of his clients for the last three years,” Avenatti said, “and there were three clients listed — three clients listed. Do you recall which three?”

Brzezinski listed Trump, Fox News host Sean Hannity and Republican donor Elliott Broidy — but Avenatti said she was making the same mistake everyone else had.

“No, no, no,” he said. “Mr. Trump, the Trump organization and Sean Hannity. Mr. Broidy was not disclosed in open court as one of Michael Cohen’s clients.”

Co-host Joe Scarborough asked the attorney what that meant.

“I think at some point we are going to find out, if in fact, the client in connection with the ($1.6 million) settlement was, in fact, Mr. Broidy. I’m going to leave it at that.”

Avenatti wouldn’t say it, but the implication seems clear.

  Raw Story

“I think at some point we are going to find out, if in fact, the client in connection with the settlement was, in fact, Mr. Broidy. I’m going to leave it at that.”

— Attorney Michael Avenatti, interviewed on Morning Joe, suggesting that the $1.6 million hush money payment to a Playboy model who became pregnant during an affair and then had an abortion was not for GOP donor Elliot Broidy since he “was not disclosed in open court as one of Michael Cohen’s clients.”

  Political Wire

I must say, $1.6 million did seem like an awful lot of money to be paid out on behalf of a mere RNC official.

Is this what got Trump so exercised he called in to rant on Fox News this morning?  Or did his call come first and the Avenatti tease followed?  It does seem like Avenatti has been playing the idiot like a fiddle.

Yes, that also seemed odd.

Also, Trump's fixer may simply have had a  "form" document that he used for every such case.











I wonder if anything has developed on that sketch of the man who threatened Daniels and her child.  I think that is the more dangerous facet for Trump.  His base could care less if he's been paying off women to silence them.  There's no legal problem for him there if he just owns up to it.  But having someone threaten someone's life, that's a different story.