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DailyMail.com Editor-At-Large Piers Morgan told Fox New’s host Sean Hannity Monday night that the U.S. media’s, more specifically CNN and MSNBC, coverage of Michael Avenatti as he represented porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Donald Trump, is a lasting ‘stain’ on their news networks.

“Michael Avenatti, I mean just looking at him and listening to him, he was like a sort of refugee from the set of prison break. I mean he just screams sleaze ball. Every time I saw this guy, and he was popping up on cable news, not Fox I might add, on CNN and MSNBC maybe every two, three times a day and they were treating him like he was this extraordinary superman-like savior who had come to rescue the world from devastating Donald Trump, and, yet, the more he talked, the more it was clear it was never about his client Stormy Daniels who he completely, in my view, destroyed,” Morgan explained.

He continued, “You know, he destroyed her reputation, he destroyed a life, he… seems took her money, and, rather look after his client, what he was doing was really boostering himself and making himself out to be something which he was eminently unqualified to be and I think it’s a stain on U.S. media who fell for this.”

Avenatti was found guilty Friday on charges of extortion after he threatened Nike and demanded they pay him $15 to $25 million. The charges included conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort and conspiracy to commit extortion.