ID THE THUG

Did a 'Young Willem Dafoe' Threaten Stormy Daniels? Internet Goes Wild Trying to ID Her Sketch

The sketch of the man accused of threatening Stormy Daniels has taken Twitter by storm.

May God have mercy on whoever’s job it is to monitor IDthethug@gmail.com.

That’s the tabloid-worthy email address Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, created to solicit information regarding the identity of the man who purportedly threatened the adult-film star and her newborn child in 2011.

According to Daniels, the encounter occurred in the weeks after she spoke to InTouch magazine about her alleged affair with now-President Donald Trump. A man approached her, she says, in a Las Vegas parking lot, where she was unloading her car with her baby daughter in the backseat. “Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,” he warned, adding that, “that’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.”

The mysterious enforcer has so far succeeded in evading the spotlight, swept up in a fast-moving political scandal with countless other points of intrigue.

But on Tuesday morning, Daniels and Avenatti joined the hosts of ABC’s The View to share a riveting new development: a forensic sketch of the man, along with the promise of a $100,000 reward for information leading to his identification.

The internet, of course, immediately did what it does best: identify the man’s pop-culture look-alikes.

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