Lawyer for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, continued his attacks on President Donald Trump Wednesday and in doing so reinvented a famous slogan deployed by former first lady Michelle Obama during the 2016 campaign.
Avenatti, who has suggested he could run against Trump in the 2020 presidential election, proposed adopting a more combative approach than Obama's famous line, "When they go low, we go high."
"Different people have different approaches at different times. Here is mine for the next two and half years: WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE HIT HARDER," he tweeted.
Earlier, Avenatti mocked Trump's claim during a Florida rally Tuesday that a photo ID was required in order to buy groceries. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the following day that Trump was referring to needing an ID to purchase alcohol.
"People ask me why I think I can prevail against Mr. Trump," Avenatti wrote. "I tell them it's because (1) I've bought groceries before and (2) I know you don't need an ID to buy groceries."
Avenatti has become an outspoken critic of the president and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen since Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit against Trump earlier this year. The adult film star is seeking to get out of a non-disclosure agreement signed before the 2016 election in order to ensure her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
Earlier this week, a federal judge refused to grant Cohen's request to issue a gag order to prevent him from making public comments about the case. The judge ruled that Cohen's main concern was with Avenatti's attacks impacting a separate investigation into Cohen in New York. In April, Cohen's office, home and hotel room were raided by the FBI.
Avenatti's criticisms of the president have expanded far beyond the Daniels case. He has condemned the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that led to the separation of thousands of children from their parents after illegally crossing the southern border.
More recently, he has said that he will put himself forward for the 2020 election if the Democrats fail to supply a candidate he thinks has what it takes to take on the current president.
"IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think that there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him," he tweeted last month. "We can't relive 2016. I love this country, our values and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed."
Obama's slogan deriding Trump's personal insults and a wave of scandals failed to prevent Hillary Clinton from being defeated in the 2016 presidential election.
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