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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Avenatti Is Scum

DRAMA Stormy's Lawyer's Wife

Goes to Fox News

05/18/2018
Source: TTN
by: TTN Staff

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DRAMA Stormy's Lawyer's Wife Goes to Fox News

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The self-proclaimed woman's rights lawyer, Michael Avenatti who represents Stormy Daniels' has come under fire as of late. The latest accusation comes from his current wife, who is in the process of divorcing him.

Apparently, he has been neglecting the proceedings while spending a vast amount of the marital assets. She contacted Fox News to air her grievances.

According to Fox News:

Lawyer Michael Avenatti is too busy defending porn star Stormy Daniels to attend to important business involving his own wife - who desperately wants a divorce, she told Fox News.

The ubiquitous attorney, who has become CNN's favorite prime time guest, represents the porn queen, who claims she had a 2006 fling with President Trump and believes Trump is defaming her by denying it. But while he is basking in the limelight, his wife says their divorce proceedings have stalled.

“I need to be divorced and if [Michael Avenatti] continues to paint the narrative, he can ignore our case!” Lisa Storie-Avenatti wrote in a text message from their home in Newport Beach, Calif. Storie did not explain what she meant by “the narrative” and how exactly Avenatti was ignoring the divorce.

Storie married Avenatti in 2011. Just months before he started pursuing the legal challenge against Trump, he filed for divorce. Court records claim Storie kicked him out of the house and changed the locks.

Mr. Avenatti's current wife is the founder of a swimwear company and has been disputing media reports contradicting the actual facts.

Mr. Avenatti has been facing tough scrutiny lately, including the claim that he discriminatorily fired a pregnant manager at one of his companies.

[READ MORE: Stormy Daniels' Lawyer BUSTED]

Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/drama-stormy-s-lawyer-s-wife-goes-to-fox-news#DZkeWMETOem5aGjC.99

For Once We Agree With Chuck Todd

Chuck Todd has a stunning take on Trump’s ‘animals’ controversy – here’s what he said

May 18, 2018 6:16 pm

MNSBC anchor Chuck Todd disagreed with most of the mainstream media and said it was reasonable for President Trump to call members of a violent street gang "animals." (Image Source: YouTube screenshot)

While the rest of the mainstream media kept misquoting President Trump’s comments about murderous MS-13 gang members, NBC’s Chuck Todd went against the grain and agreed with the president.

Here’s what Todd said

Todd was on the “Bernie & Sid in the Morning” radio show on WABC when he spoke about the “animals” controversy Friday.

“He’s speaking about these violent gang members. A lot of people have called violent anybodys animals,” Todd said.

“Anybody who is a violent criminal in my book can get called an animal if they’re sitting there mauling, killing and raping people,” he explained. “I don’t care where they’re from. This is not about that.”

Todd was referring to the online furor that ensued when it misreported that Trump called illegal aliens “animals” when he was actually responding to a question about vicious MS-13 gang members.

“These aren’t people,” Trump said. “These are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a rate that’s never happened before.”

How the media hurt its own credibility

Todd continued to add that the media was hurting its own credibility by misrepresenting the president’s words.

“This is where I think that my colleagues do us all harm,” Todd said. “You know, cover this legitimately. There is plenty of legitimate stuff to ding him on, if you think he deserves to be dinged on.”

“Just be careful,” he added. “Don’t be sloppy about it.”

Some media outlets corrected their reporting on Trump’s comments, but others stuck to their guns and cited his past comments to justify misrepresenting what he said. The president was asked to clarify his comments, and he reiterated clearly that he was referring to vicious MS-13 gang members.

Liberal Has To Eat Her Words

CNN contrib Ana Navarro: Trump saying ‘animals’ is what ‘Nazis did.’ She should read her own tweets.

May 18, 2018 2:07 pm

CNN contributor Ana Navarro likens President Donald Trump's 'animals' remark to 'Nazis.' Perhaps she should review her own tweets. (Image source: YouTube screenshot)

CNN political contributor Ana Navarro — along with a bevy of other journalists and major media outlets — accused President Donald Trump of calling “illegal immigrants ‘animals.'”

But even after CNN’s Chris Cuomo pointed out to Navarro on Thursday that Trump said his “animals” remark referred to the murderous gang MS-13, Navarro said that’s “not good enough.”

The Nicaraguan-born journalist added during the interview that because of Trump’s reported “s**thole” remark in reference to Haiti and other nations, along with statements he’s made about immigrants, “he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.”

“It is a very slippery slope when you start dehumanizing people this way,” Narvarro continued. “It’s what the Nazis did. It’s what slave owners did. It’s not what Americans do.”

Here’s the clip. (Content warning: One instance of profanity):

Navarro sent the same message on Twitter, saying “Trump is in very bad company” for his remark since Nazis referred to Jews as “rats” and slave owners viewed slaves as “sub-human animals.”

She added in her interview with Cuomo that Trump should “measure his words.”

Oops

Perhaps Navarro should take her own advice — or at least be a little more thoughtful about what else she posts on Twitter.

Because in October 2016 she tweeted that Trump should drop out of the presidential race — presumably over his hot-mic “grab ’em by the p***y” remark recorded on a bus in 2005 — and then she issued the magic word.

“He is an animal,” Navarro wrote in reference to Trump. “Apologies to animals.”

Numerous individuals have doubled down against Trump’s “animals” comment, saying the president shouldn’t use the term even to describe the likes of MS-13.

Singer John Legend noted that Trump’s characterization of MS-13 is wrong, saying “even human beings who commit heinous acts are the same species as us, not ‘animals.'”

Navarro as of Friday afternoon has not addressed on Twitter her reference to Trump as an “animal.”

If Trump Campaign Was Being Spied Upon, This Is Illegal And Those Promoting It Should Be In Jail

Secret FBI Informant Reportedly Met with 3 Trump Campaign Advisers

By Jack Davis
May 19, 2018 at 8:23am

New reports claim that a professor who is also an FBI informant met with three advisers to President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, prompting an angry response from Trump that the FBI was acting “for political purposes.”

George Papadopolous, Carter Page and Sam Clovis — all of whom were part of the campaign — were all contacted by the informant, according to The Washington Post.

The New York Times reported that during the summer of 2016, while he was in London to write a research paper about a Mediterranean gas field, the informant asked Papadopolous about any contact between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The informant reportedly met Clovis in the summer of 2016 and offered to provide foreign policy advice.

Page said that he recalled a conversation with the informant, who was described as a retired American professor, but not its contents.

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“You are asking me about conversations I had almost two years ago,” he told The Post. “We had extensive discussions. We talked about a bunch of different foreign-policy-related topics. For me to try and remember every nuance of every conversation is impossible.”

Trump lashed out at the reports on Twitter.

“Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!” Trump tweeted Friday.

Trump had earlier tweeted his reaction to the first reports of the informant, which surfaced Wednesday.

“Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI ‘SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.’ Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.’ If so, this is bigger than Watergate!” he tweeted.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devon Nunes said a full investigation is needed into the FBI’s tactics.

“What we’re trying to figure out are what methods the FBI and DOJ used to investigate and open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign,” said the California Republican, according to The Washington Post.

Nunes said that if the FBI was trying to tap Trump’s campaign staff for information, Trump has a right to be angry.

“If you are paying somebody to come talk to my campaign or brush up against my campaign, whatever you call it, I’d be furious,” Nunes said.

According to the Washington Examiner, The Post and The New York Times have been given the identity of the informant, but have not published it, citing concerns for the safety of the source. The Post wrote that he was a retired American professor. The Times said he was an academic who worked in Britain and had long been an informant for the CIA.

Democrats are fighting to keep the source’s identity a secret.

“It would be at best irresponsible, and at worst potentially illegal, for members of Congress to use their positions to learn the identity of an FBI source for the purpose of undermining the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in our election,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a statement on Friday. Warner is a ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. “Anyone who is entrusted with our nation’s highest secrets should act with the gravity and seriousness of purpose that knowledge deserves.”