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    Trump meets his match: Stormy Daniels' combative lawyer Michael Avenatti

    by Michael Finnegan and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Apr 09, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Michael Avenatti, the newly famous lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, has more than a few things in common with President Donald Trump.

    He's brash. He's media savvy. He enjoys the high life. He revels in antagonizing opponents.

    In short, Trump may have met his match in this Newport Beach lawyer whose client, now America's best-known stripper, is suing the president to break free of a deal that bars her from discussing what she says was a one-night stand with Trump in 2006.

    With a swagger worthy of the young Trump who barged his way into New York's tabloids decades ago, Avenatti has spent weeks shuttling among Manhattan TV studios to taunt the president and his fixer Michael Cohen.

    His pugnacious edge makes Avenatti a natural on cable news.

    "Wait a minute, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done," he snapped at Cohen spokesman David Schwartz on CNN.

    His casual allusions to impeachment - "To address the rumor: We DO NOT

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