President Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels. Getty Images

President Donald Trump lashed out at porn star Stormy Daniels in a tweet Tuesday, calling her "Horseface" and lambasting her "3rd rate lawyer" Michael Avenatti after a federal judge dismissed their defamation case against him a day earlier. Trump tweet Avenatti was quick to respond, escalating an already nasty feud between the president and a woman who says she had extramarital sex with him. The lawyer tore into Trump on Twitter, asking the president: "How many other women did you cheat on your wife with while you had a baby at home?" Avenatti tweet Daniels sued Trump in April, after Trump sent a tweet accusing the adult film actress and director of a "total con job" following her appearance on daytime talk show "The View."

During the broadcast, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, held up an sketch artist's image of a man she said had threatened her to "leave Trump alone" in Las Vegas in 2011. The alleged threat against Daniels and her daughter was made a time when she was in talks with a magazine about going public with her story of the tryst with Trump. Daniels responded derisively to Trump's attack with a tweet of her own. Daniels tweet Daniels alleges she had sex with Trump during a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006, just a few months after Trump's third wife, Melania Trump, gave birth to Trump's youngest child. Trump has denied he had sex with Daniels. Trump tweet 2 After Trump's April tweet, Daniels sued, arguing that Trump had posted a false statement against her that was defamatory because it suggested she was falsely accusing a man of committing a crime. California-based U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero, however, said in his ruling Monday that "Mr. Trump's tweet displays an incredulous tone, suggesting that the content of his tweet was not meant to be understood as a literal statement." He also said in the court filing Monday night that the tweet was "the definition of protected rhetorical hyperbole." Otero ruled that Trump deserved to receive attorney's fees from the case — an outcome his lawyer Charles Harder called a "total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels."