Avenatti started bringing up Cohen’s history of intimidating statements, and he eventually brought up the time Cohen said there’s no such thing as spousal rape.

“The guy doesn’t even know the law. He’s a thug,” Avenatti shouted. “Your friend is a thug!”

Avenatti kept yelling “thug” at Schwartz, who questioned the credibility of the lie detector test Daniels successfully took. Toobin and Cooper tried to intervene at multiple points to discuss more about hush payments and alleged “extortion,” though their efforts were mostly in vain since the two lawyers kept fighting.