to stay quiet about her alleged affair with trunt. a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job. the complaint drafted by daniels attorney, michael avenatti alleges that the president defamed daniels who is referred to by her real name, stephanie clifford. quote, mr. trump s statement falsely attacks the veracity of march ms. clifford s account and expressly states ms. clifford falsely accused an individual of committing a crime against her when no such crime occurred built. calling the incident a con job, mr. trump s statement would be understood to state that ms. clifford was fabricating the crime. both prohibited under new york law. here is how michael avenatti spoke about this new suit late today. what s really interesting about this is if he didn t know anything about miss daniels, never had a relationship with her, never knew anything about the in touch story, michael cohen and he never discussed it,
threatened her. there is the sketch right there, she talked about it on the view. donald trump has responded to that and he tweeted about it, he retweeted somebody who he then added a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job. playing the fake news media for tools but they know t what s your response to that? well, it s entirely irresponsible and it s also stupid. i mean, it s basically now given rise to a potential additional claim for defamation which i believe that we will file, we may file it in the los angeles matter, we may institute a new case or begin a new case in connection with it. i mean, it s irresponsible. it s absolutely baseless. he called my client a liar to the american people and i m outraged by it. we re going to hold his feet to the fire in connection with it. all right. if you could stay with us, michael, i want to bring in our daniel, danny savalos and katie fang. i will come to the table, danny, for your thoughts on this. these two cases ta
new tonight, the president is tweeting about an alleged affair with stormy daniels after her attorney released a sketch of a man they say tried to silence daniels with the threat. the president issued this response, quote, a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job. playing the fake news media for fools, but they know it. closed quote. we re joined now by michael avenatti, the attorney for stormy daniels. thanks for having me. and what is your reaction to the tweet. it is a gift from the heavens. he has no reason to tweet about me or my client while a party in litigation when it comes to making misstatements about his client. he is now told the american people that she s a liar, that she s a con, and that she has made up this threat and this
handsome. when i saw him when i was parking, oh, that is somebody s husband. greg: the president today responded to this saying a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, total con job, playing the fake news media for fools but they know it. his tweet linked to a comparison in which a twitter user thinks there s a comparison between the mystery man in stormy s husband. for the media gets on their high horse, be aware everything a media mouthpiece is doing the very same thing. the sketch invites comparison. and in a circus like this, a circus made more absurd every day by media and legal hysterics, it s another mad attraction to challengers any decorum we have left. after stormy shows up in court and reveals the sketch on a morning gabfest. it s hard to take any of it seriously, especially as the president makes potentially historic progress with
cohen. they were this is important, for information about trump s lawyers involvement in this effort to buy karen mcdougal s story and use that to silence her, a different route to another nda. all of this comes on the same day that donald trump for the first time attacked stormy daniels by name. i ll show it to you this morning. trump responding to that sketch she released. he called it, quote, a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job. i am joined now on these breaking stories as we await the press conference by my panel. caddie, we, i m going to be full disclosure to the audience, we booked you as an international reporter and expert and we may yet get to those stories. the president here will be taking the stage for the first time for a press conference since the fbi s raid.