Kathy Griffin speaks about Trump photo controversy: 'I'm not afraid of Donald Trump. He's a bully'

The 2017 news cycle doesn't usually allow stories to stay, but Kathy Griffin's Trump photo isn't done with you. Griffin hosted a press conference Friday at her lawyer's offices in San Francisco to address the photo controversy and fallout.

"If you don't stand up, you get run over," Griffin told the assembled reporters and cameras. "A sitting president of the U.S. and his grown children and the First Lady are personally trying to ruin my life forever. You guys know him, he's never gonna stop."

"I don't think I'm going to have a career after this," Griffin said later on, just before breaking down.

Griffin caused a major stir earlier in the week when she posted a photo of herself holding a bloodied, disembodied Trump head. The photo shocked and angered people from both parties and garnered responses from the likes of Chelsea Clinton to Trump himself. Longtime pal Anderson Cooper issued a statement and CNN cut ties with the comedian.

"I sincerely apologize," she previously said in a video.

"I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people," Griffin tweeted on Wednesday.

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"I'm not afraid of Donald Trump. He's a bully," Griffin said to open her statements at the press conference. "I've dealt with older white guys trying to get my down my whole career."

Griffin and lawyer Lisa Bloom also shed light on what the past couple days have looked like for Griffin, as well as enumerating aspects of Trump and his presidency that trouble them.

"We all get what's going on here," Griffin said. "They're using me as the shiny object so that nobody's talking about his FBI investigation."

Bloom talked through what led to Griffin's photoshoot, which was inspired by Trump's 2016 comments about Megyn Kelly.

"It was a parody of Trump's own sexist remarks taken to an extreme absurdist visual," Bloom said, adding that Trump "has never apologized" for his comments to Kelly.

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Griffin and her lawyer were direct in saying that "This is a woman thing," citing examples of male artists with controversial Trump art, including Marilyn Manson and GWAR (who were actually mad they didn't get credit for decapitating Trump first) and the lack of public reaction.

"His misogyny knows no bounds," Bloom said of Trump, calling him "the most woman-hating and tyrannical president in U.S. history."

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The RNC issued a statement regarding Griffin's press conference.

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