Coming off a trip to Iowa — aka the “land of nascent political ambitions” — personal attorney to adult film stars Michael Avenatti is talking about a presidential bid.

Instead of dismissing this as a publicity stunt, the political media class appear to be ignoring what many would call folly, continuing to provide precious airtime to the publicity hound. In doing so, they may very well be making the same mistake they made in the run-up to the last general election…just like how Trump was treated by the media early on in his long-shot bid.

There is no denying it’s been quite a year for the California-based attorney, largely due to his public litigation of the Stormy Daniels affair and allegations that President Donald Trump was involved in a pay-off to keep his alleged extramarital affair with the adult film actress out of the public sphere.