For a time, not terribly long ago, it seemed impossible to escape the bald head and hyperactive countenance of Michael Avenatti. The heretofore-unknown loudmouth lawyer burst into the public consciousness at the side of a busty porn star, spearheading the Stormy Daniels legal campaign at a pace that gave Donald Trump’s MAGA machine a run for its money.
Avenatti, temporarily, seemed especially good at playing the 45th president at his own game – going low, then lower, then louder and more grandstanding. He appeared 254 times on television over a year starting in March 2018, according to Newsbusters figures cited by a Washington Post column the following May – in which major US media players took petty hindsight swipes at each other for so frequently featuring a man then facing criminal charges on multiple fronts.
