“There’s Just a Lot of Shadiness Around Avenatti”: MAGA World Is Not Quite Coming to Terms with Stormy’s Lawyer’s Latest Bombshell
At this point in the Russia investigation, Trump’s allies in the conservative media are expressing a rather creative interpretation of events.
Indeed, while CNN and MSNBC went into breaking-news mode, and the nation’s leading newspapers scrambled to reorganize the next day’s front page, Fox News and other bastions of Trump-aligned thinking insulated themselves in a comforting cocoon of ignorance, or apathy. “I think it’s pretty safe to say that a lot of the Trump world has willfully checked itself out of the news surrounding Michael Cohen,” Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch told me, surveying the fake-news landscape. “Trump world has paid even less attention to this recent development, aside from insinuating possible foul play in Avenatti’s acquisition of the records in question,” he added. “Rather than deal with the facts coming out of the investigation and reconcile with what it may all mean, they’ve chosen to look elsewhere.
It’s pure cognitive dissonance.”