The Twit tweets: Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations...

[demmiblue]

Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships - a total low-life!

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. Go for it Donny, this guy will eat your lunch and scare the crap out of you.

[demmiblue]

3. Yep.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Not a fair fight... which is just fine with me.

[Scurrilous]

2. That's all he's got?

[eleny]

5. A word salad seasoned with projection

[H2O Man]

7. !!!

Sure to go over well with those who fail an IQ test.

[eleny]

9. Yeah, chock full of enough baloney to keep them happily full of crap

[lunatica]

6. Avenatti just broke out laughing!

[nolabear]

8. Right? Let the games begin!

I’ve always been curious about how well Avenatti could play him. He’s taken the bait, now let’s see those skills. 🐟

[More_Cowbell]

10. Is this his first tweet about Avenatti?

I know that, for some reason, Avenatti and Stormy have been relatively unscathed by Trump's Twitter messages. No stupid nicknames, for example.

[JaneQPublic]

11. Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't this the first time SCROTUS tweeted about Avenatti?

At the height of the Stormy dust-up, TV talkers were all amazed at how Trump said nothing about her or her lawyer.

Maybe Trump figures it's only Avenatti's work directly against Trump he has to keep quiet about.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. As Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain did not say:

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

Abraham Lincoln? Mark Twain? Biblical Proverb? Maurice Switzer? Arthur Burns? John Maynard Keynes? Confucius? Anonymous?
....

The earliest known appearance of the adage discovered by QI occurred in a book titled “Mrs. Goose, Her Book” by Maurice Switzer. The publication date was 1907 and the copyright notice was 1906. The book was primarily filled with clever nonsense verse, and the phrasing in this early version was slightly different: 5

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

(5) 1907, “Mrs. Goose, Her Book” by Maurice Switzer, Page 29, Moffat, Yard & Company, New York. (Google Books full view) link ↩

[spanone]

13. Mr. Avenatti replies....

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“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.

[Kablooie]

14. Trump has finally taken the bait and started attacking Avenatti.

This is a first.
Avenatti's been goading him for months but Trump refused to give him any attention.

Trump knows that Avenatti can leverage the media effectively, like Trump, so mentioning him would just increase his strength and make him a more dangerous opponent.

[OliverQ]

15. First time Trump has ever mentioned Avenatti directly.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. You can only aspire to be as good as a third rate president! NT

[SunSeeker]

17. Avenatti's response:

“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.

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Of course Trump can't respond to that.