No, Stormy Daniels' lawyer didn't say he has Trump dick pics
Chill out, everyone.
Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, didn't just claim he had a picture of Trump's orange wang. (Sorry, allegedly orange.)
A bunch of people on Twitter freaked out after this tweet went viral.
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Even Chrissy Teigen, who is the official queen of the internet, shared her opinion on the matter.
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Alas, the transcript of the exchange between Avenatti and The Beat's Ari Melber, provided by MSNBC, shows the real quote isn't so juicy:
MELBER: You alleged that there was a physical threat made against your client, Stormy Daniels. Why didn’t you include that in your legal filings thus far?
AVENATTI: Ari, I didn’t allege that, I stated it as a fact. And I’m going to state it again today as a fact. It is not an allegation. Ari, you know as a good lawyer yourself, that good lawyers don’t play their entire hand on the first go-around. We have a lot of information, a lot of evidence, a lot of documents that haven’t come to light yet. Numerous pieces of evidence, numerous facts, and we’re not gonna show our hand in the beginning weeks of any case. No good lawyer would do that, and we’re certainly not gonna do it here.
You can see full video of the exchange here.
So, he said he had "documents," not photos of a naked Trump pouting into the camera. And it's not clear if he's talking about evidence of a threat against Daniels, or just evidence of the affair in general.
A little background: Daniels is suing Trump to void a non-disclosure agreement that she says is preventing her from sharing the story of her affair with the president in 2006 and 2007 — right after his wife, Melania, gave birth to Barron.
On Friday, Avenatti claimed that Daniels was threatened with physical violence to keep quiet about the affair.
And so the cesspool that is 2018 keeps oozing forward. At least it doesn't involve Trump nudes ... yet.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
