Michael Avenatti Teases Rudy Giuliani Porn-Watching Revelation

NEW YORK CITY—Last week, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and public spokesperson Rudy Giuliani launched a shocking personal attack on Stormy Daniels, who is currently suing Trump on multiple fronts, and on women in porn in general, calling porn a “slimy business.”

He also said that Daniels and other women who have chosen careers as porn performers “lack credibility” and “don’t have a reputation,” among other derogatory comments—comments that Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, labeled “disgusting” and which led him to slam the 74-year-old former New York mayor as “an absolute pig.”

But when Giuliani, in his rant against Daniels, made a point of saying that he, himself does not “really look at porn,” Avenatti appeared to see an open line of attack.

“I want to test Mr. Giuliani’s claims of being adamantly against pornography and having no use for adult film stars,” he said on his Twitter account Saturday. “If anyone can provide me with any evidence of him voluntarily viewing pornography, I will protect you as a source and publish it.”

On Sunday, Avenatti posted a second message on Twitter, simply stating, “The sheer power of the Internet and Twitter never ceases to amaze me...”

So... had Avenatti come up with some sort of evidence that Giuliani had indeed “voluntarily” viewed porn? As of Monday, the PR-savvy lawyer still wasn’t saying. But he did drop another hint.

“Mr. Giuliani: my client deserves an apology for your sexist, disgusting comments about her and women in general. I strongly suggest you provide one,” Avenatti wrote on Twitter Monday morning. “Are you really taking the position that you have not viewed porn in the last year? Ever hear of something called an IP address?”

An IP, or Internet Protocol, address is a series of numbers that designates the location of a specific computer in cyberspace. Digital forensics experts can use IP addresses to track down the physical locations of computers, and record the online activity of the user at a specific computer. 

“It looks like the internet has delivered as Avenatti has been teasing a release of some sort, which one would be a fool not to believe is Giuliani’s porn predilection,” wrote Stephen A. Crockett Jr., senior editor at The Root, on that site Monday. “Now, we wait for the bombshell that is the porn websites of a 74-year-old white man who still has the physical dexterity to continuously put his own foot in his mouth.”

Avenatti also suggested that the upcoming week would be “interesting,” and suggested following his Instagram account, which can be followed at this link

As of Monday afternoon, Giuliani had not publicly commented on Avenatti’s suggestive hints.

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