Michael Avenatti, the onetime attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels, said late last week that he has been in contact with former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial team and has offered to testify on Trump’s behalf if needed.
In an interview with the New York Post, Avenatti called Trump’s trial politically motivated and unfair, while suggesting that his former client, whom he was convicted of defrauding, was dishonest with him regarding her unsuccessful lawsuit against Trump during his term.
“The defense has contacted me,” Avenatti told The Post by phone from Terminal Island, a minimum-security federal prison in Los Angeles, where he is currently serving a 19-year sentence for extortion, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, and other federal offenses.
“I’d be more than happy to testify. I don’t know that I will be called to testify, but I have been in touch with Trump’s defense for the better part of a year,” Avenatti noted, without offering any further details of his conversations with Trump’s legal team.
