During an appearance on the ABC News daytime talk program The View on Wednesday, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti lashed out at Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Guiliani and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, over comments each had made about Daniels—comments in which they attacked Daniels’ credibility simply because she is a porn performer.
On the program, Avenatti referred to Carlson and Giuliani as “pigs” whose attacks on Daniels “belong in the ‘Fifties,” adding, “No man should be making comments like that about a woman. Period.”
On his own Fox News program later on Wednesday, Carlson responded by calling Avenatti “creepy,” and saying that the fact that Avenatti represents Daniels is evidence of his “low standards.” The 49-year-old Carlson also hit out at Daniels again, describing her derisively as “a newly-minted political pundit who had a career having sex with strangers for money."
On his Twitter account later Wednesday night, Avenatti addressed Carlson directly, accusing him of hypocrisy for attacking porn stars while, Avenatti says, having viewed porn himself.
“Do you truly expect people to believe that you have never viewed porn? When is the last time you viewed porn?” Avenatti wrote. “You demean my client and me because of her profession, meanwhile you are an absolute hypocrite. Nobody likes a hypocrite.”
In an interview with the political news site The Hill, Avenatti responded to Carlson’s characterization of him as a “creepy porn lawyer.”
"He’s been calling me that for months. I noticed that he doesn’t call his president the 'creepy porn president,' when Donald Trump is the one that had unprotected sex with my client four months after the birth of his son,” Avenatti said. “I find that rather ironic.”
Now, Avenatti says that he will appear on Carlson’s Fox News broadcast on Thursday night, September 13. The program airs at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, 5 p.m. Pacific. “Get your popcorn ready,” Avenatti told his 728,000 Twitter followers.
Carlson has previously refused to bring Avenatti on his show as a guest, because Avenatti had set a condition that Carlson must stop using the “creepy porn lawyer” epithet. The Fox News pundit has refused to do so, according to MediaIte. While Avenatti has been a frequent guest on the cable news networks MSNBC and CNN, he has appeared on Fox News only one time, and the only on the late-night program Fox News @ Night. Assuming the appearance happens as Avenatti has announced it, his confrontation with Carlson will Mark Avenatti’s first prime-time appearance on Fox News.
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