Michael Avenatti's Criminal History Exposed As He Heads To Prison

Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from his client Stormy Daniels. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from his client Stormy Daniels. What everybody doesn't understand is this guy has stolen from everybody. He, the most compelling story is he stole from one of his paraplegic clients where he just basically stole all the money that was supposed to go to the client.

Yeah.

And so, so this, this is an awful person who, oh, by the way, oh yeah, the Democrats thought he might be the new great white hope for the Democratic party. You remember that?

Yeah. Right. When this guy emerged in 2017, 2018 with Stormy Daniels, he was on every single cable news show, every Sunday morning talk show.

Yeah.

A whole profile was written about how this guy and his fighting style, this is what the Democrats have been sorely needing. Is he possibly gonna be our 2020 nominee? They were saying at the time, back in 18.

Because he, he, he attacked Trump. He was good at the Trump, I mean, who couldn't attack Trump?

Right.

I mean, anybody, anybody had enough information to go after. But from the very beginning, you, you identified the guy as an absolute utter fraud.

Yeah.

I mean, you had some of the first stories about this guy being an absolute fraud and on the other, because you had the stories where he had this long history of him stealing money from clients, committing fraud, complete, committing wire, you know, wire transfer.

Wire fraud, tax fraud, bank fraud. I mean, his firm was going under, by the way, before Stormy Daniels showed up and basically saved everything for him.

Did I get it right though? My memory is that the Democrats thought, oh, this is the guy.

Well, they, they really did. There were think pieces in every major media outlet that, could this be the future of the Democratic party? I mean, people go, go look.

Why, why does that happen?

It's hero worship. It is 100%. We're so pathetic. We need a leader. And this conman who is just like Donald Trump shows up and he says, hey, I'm your leader. Look at me. I've got a fancy law degree. I've, I've, I've helped people and forget the stealing part.

Yeah, yeah.

And I'm, I'm, I'm a tough talker. I'm not taking any crap while I'm on cable news.

Yeah.

And people said, wow, it's so rare for us to see anybody on the left fight that, sure, we'll follow you wherever you're going, Mr. Piper.

So right now he's looking at potential six years, right? Two that he's already been, two that where he's, he's, he threatened Nike. If you, if you don't pay me 20, it was, it was ransom.

Yeah.

You gotta pay me a ransom or.

Pay me $20 million or I'm going public.

Yeah. And then, and then you got four years that are new. Correct?

Yeah.

And then you've got other charges throughout the, throughout the country. Now I wanna point something out. Most all of that was already known.

Yeah.

When MSNBC was putting him up as the talking head, when CNN said he might be the great white hope, all of that was already known, but they, the corporate media didn't tell that part of the story. So the average voter thought, wow, this is the guy. He's a tough talker. Right?

Right. And then of course, after Avenatti fell from grace, the next person they flocked to was immediately Andrew Cuomo.

Yeah.

So.

Jesus.

They, they don't have a good track record on picking their next Democratic hero, if those are the two guys that at one point were supposed to save the party.

Well, Republicans aren't any better.

Right.

It's the Democrats the same as, I mean, it's human nature. We need a hero and we are just so tied into hero worship in this country. We really are. It's just so sad that we, you know, we've fallen so far that, yeah.

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