"Former attorney Michael Avenatti ripped into the hush money case against former President Trump, arguing it was politically motivated to prevent the former president from taking back the Oval Office in November.

“I certainly see [Trump] as a victim of the system,” he said in a phone interview with Fox News Digital while in prison. “And that’s something that I never thought I would say. So if Michael Avenatti is coming to his defense, and I was one of his staunchest opponents for a very significant period of time, that should tell people something.”

“You’ve got a group of individuals in the United States who have decided that they know better as to who should be the next president, and they’ve decided that they don’t want to leave it to ‘the little guy,'” he said. “So they’re going to take matters into their own hands to prevent those people from being heard, and I am deeply disturbed and disgusted by it.”

Avenatti said the question of Trump’s presidency should be “settled at the ballot box” and argued the prosecutors involved in the four cases had personal motivations to gain prominence.

“If the defendant was anybody other than Donald Trump, this stale case would not be being brought right now,” he said. “He has definitely been targeted … There is no question that these prosecutors are trying to make a name for themselves.”