After ridiculing Stormy Daniels appearance and stating that “porn stars desecrate women, porn stars don’t respect women,” on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and public spokesperson Rudy Giuliani continued his attack against the porn industry on Thursday in an interview with CNN.
In the interview, Giuliani called porn a “slimy business” and claimed that feminists must, by definition, oppose porn.
"If you're a feminist and you support the porn industry, you should turn in your credentials," Giuliani told CNN’s Dana Bash Thursday morning—comments that came after he said in an interview in Israel the day before that women who work in the porn industry lack “credibility” and “don’t have a reputation.”
“If you’re involved in a sort of slimy business, [that] says something about you. Says something about how far you’ll go to make money,” Giuliani said in his Thursday remarks. “Our real point about [Daniels] is that she’s not just generally uncredible, she’s uncredible from the point of view of wanting to get money. She’s a con artist.”
In comments made in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday, Giuliani not only attacked Daniels' credibility and reputation, he also ridiculed her appearance, saying, “Just look at her,” and wincing when comparing her to Trump’s three “beautiful” wives.
Giuliani also spoke to interviewer Hallie Jackson on the MSNBC cable network Thursday, who asked him if he wanted to retract his derogatory comments about Daniels, and about women who work in porn, generally.
“Why would I withdraw them?” the 74-year-old former New York mayor said. “You’re going to tell me that being involved in pornography isn’t demeaning to women?”
Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti labeled Giuliani an “absolute pig” over the comments, and called on Trump to fire him as his lawyer.
“My client Stormy Daniels should be celebrated for her courage, strength and intelligence. She is one of the most credible people I have ever met regardless of gender. Period. I would put her character up against Mr. Giuliani’s any day of the week,” Avenatti said on his Twitter account. “If any attorney for any Fortune 500 company made the public comments that Giuliani did yesterday (which he affirmed this morning), they would be immediately fired. Giuliani must be fired by Mr. Trump NOW. Otherwise, it sends a message to the world that the comments are acceptable.”
As of Thursday afternoon, Trump himself had not made a public comment about his lawyer’s remarks. Trump, of course, is the target of two lawsuits filed this year by Daniels and Avenatti: one over a “hush” agreement barring her from speaking about her sexual encounter with him in 2006, and a second accusing Trump of defaming her.
But according to longtime MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, Trump himself not only had sex with Daniels, a “porn star,” but is a fan of porn himself.
“I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently about life in the White House, and Donald Trump’s biggest complaint was that he’s not allowed to watch porn in the White House,” Brzezinski, a longtime Washington D.C insider whose father was Carter administration National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said on the Thursday Morning Joe program. ”So there you go; there’s a little bit of news for you. He's upset that he can't watch porn in the White House.”
The Morning Joe host also labeled Giuliani a “misogynistic fool” over his remarks about Daniels and porn performers.
"Are you kidding me? 'Just look at Stormy Daniels?’ Just look at yourself. Are you kidding me? At this moment, where we are with women, you're going to ask us to just look at her?" an outraged Brzezinski said.
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