It takes some mettle to represent a porn actress who’s suing a sitting president, especially this president, given his litigiousness and indifference to the norms that constrained his predecessors.
Says Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, who is presently tussling with Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen in court in California: “Well, once you’ve driven 190 miles per hour in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, down the Mulsanne Straight with prototype cars whizzing by you at 240-plus miles per hour… compared to that, what I’m doing right now is a warm-up lap.