CNN Weakly Challenges Avenatti Threatening Journalists: ‘What’s That About?’

[See NewsBusters for more.] Given how CNN views Donald Trump as a “grave and existential threat” to the survival of a free press, one would think that the network would aggressively challenge Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti over his attempt to bully and threaten the conservative Daily Caller. Yet when Don Lemon talked to Avenatti on Monday night, he only gently brought up the intimidating e-mail sent by the lawyer. As reported yesterday, Avenatti sent a threatening e-mail to the Caller, attempting to intimidate the journalists there into stopping the reporting the site has done on him. The subject headline was “Cut It Out” and the e-mail included sentences like this one: “Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces that are full of lies and defamatory statements, I will have no choice but to sue each of you and your publication for defamation.”