I'm torn with Avenatti.
He's a fighter and a bulldog, which you need when taking on Trump. At the same time, everyone has heard the expression "You don't mud wrestle with a pig - the pig likes it and you get muddy"
He would much rather everyone be talking about how he called Stormy Daniels "Horseface" rather than the actual problems in his administration. It's part of why he won in 2016, because people spent so much time talking about his insults that they didn't have time to think about how he didn't actually have any policy positions and how much better Hillary was.
Trump knows he's not smart enough to win in a battle of intelligence, so if he can turn it into a battle of insults, he'll win every time because he doesn't care what's being said about him as long as they aren't talking about policy.
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