Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti wants to depose Trump in the case involving the legitimacy of a non-disclosure agreement between Trump and Stormy. Avenatti is claiming that a missing signature from Trump on the document allows him to take his deposition.

According to wral.com:

But in President Donald Trump’s recent scandal involving Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels, something that was never there to begin with could play an unexpected role.

The missing item is the signature Trump failed to place on Clifford’s nondisclosure deal two years ago. And if her lawyer has his way, there is a chance that the inch-long blank space could force Trump to testify about what he knew of the arrangement.

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But now that Cohen has pleaded guilty, he may no longer be able — or choose — to avail himself of the Fifth Amendment’s safeguards. Because of that development, Avenatti vowed last week to ask the judge to lift the stay and to let him question Trump about Clifford by taking his deposition.

“The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it,” Avenatti wrote on Twitter on the day Cohen pleaded guilty. “We will disclose it all to the public.”

This remains a legal long shot for Avenatti. Deposing a sitting president isn’t an easy task, but if he is granted the opportunity it opens up the president for all sorts of questions from the publicity-seeking attorney.