Avenatti 2020..? It felt like just yesterday that Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyer of Stormy Daniels, was the belle of the media ball. He was a loud and omnipresent thorn in Trump's side, swigging martinis at industry parties and issuing soaring predictions on cable news sets. He said in 2018 that Donald Trump Jr. would be arrested by the end of the year. (He was not.) Avenatti even announced a potential run for president. Safe to say Avenatti will not be celebrating a presidential victory in 2020. That's because he was convicted Friday of trying to extort. A jury found him guilty on all counts he was charged with, including extortion and wire fraud. He faces more than 25 years in prison. AYYYY I'm walking here!!! Imagine two septuagenarian New Yorkers hanging out of the windows of their apartments across the street screaming at each other. That's basically what the 2020 political race has devolved into this week, as Billionaire New Yorker 1 (President Donald Trump) continues his war of words with Billionaire New Yorker 2 (Mike Bloomberg). Just yesterday, Trump tweeted, amongst other petty-isms, that "Mini Mike Bloomberg is a LOSER." Bloomberg replied by claiming that their mutual friends in NYC all laugh at Trump behind his back. On Friday, the Bloomberg campaign showed no desire to relent, releasing a video mocking Trump's comments that coronavirus will go away in the spring because of the heat. Watch that here. Speaking of coronavirus... One professor is freaking out. Marc Lipsitch, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gave an ominous forecast to the Wall Street Journal on Friday. “I think it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic,” Lipsitch said in an interview. “If a pandemic happens, 40% to 70% of people world-wide are likely to be infected in the coming year.” 6.5.0 |