A former lawyer for Stormy Daniels on Thursday accused a key witness in President Donald Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial of lying.

Michael Avenatti, who represented Ms. Daniels against President Trump before he was sentenced to 19 years in prison on various charges, targeted lawyer Keith Davidson in a post on social media, claiming that he tried to extort the former president along with Ms. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.

“Keith Davidson is lying. After I confronted her [with] her own text [messages], Daniels admitted to me in early 2019 that she [and] Davidson had extorted Trump in Oct. 2016 - it was a shakedown. This was one of the many reasons I fired her as a client in Feb. 2019,” Mr. Avenatti wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday afternoon.

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