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Trump Lawyer Mike Davis Threatens Letitia James with Prison in Fiery Podcast Tirade

Trump Lawyer Mike Davis Threatens Letitia James with Prison in Fiery Podcast Tirade

President Trump’s defender and possible attorney general nominee went full nuclear, verbally attacking New York State Attorney General Letitia James during a podcast, warning her to forget any thoughts she might have about filing. additional criminal charges against the elected president.

“Big Letitia James let me say this. I dare you to try to continue your legal activities against President Trump,” Mike Davis said during his appearance on Benny Show. “Listen, honey, we’re not messing around this time and we’re going to put your fat ass in jail for conspiracy against rights.”

Ms. James’s pointed message is the calling card of Mr. Davis, a known legal firebrand who has pulled no punches in his impassioned defense of Mr. Trump at X and elsewhere in recent years.

“Mike Davis was a standard Republican lawyer, a member of the Federalist Society, right? Standard things. Played by the rules. Helped get guys confirmed, could play hard, but stayed inside the lines,” said Stephen Bannon. Politico Magazine last month. “(Now) he’s a true MAGA warrior.”

The aggressive lawyer has a history of unabashedly supporting Trump, making crude jokes about putting “children in cages” and throwing political rivals into the “gulag.” He also called Democrats “Marxists” and “evil.”

Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren told Politico that the new president-elect is a big fan of Mr. Davis, the founder of the legal advocacy group Project Article III. “Donald Trump loves him,” she said. “If he is not attorney general, he will play some role.”

Regardless of the position, Mr Davis said he vowed to “raise hell” in Washington if he was given a role in a future Trump administration. Mr Davis, who often describes himself as Mr Trump’s viceroy, appears to be in retaliation mode, posting further comments about Ms James on his X page.

“Big Tish James needs to step away from the cameras and really think about how she broke the law by using the justice system as a weapon against her political enemies,” he wrote in one post Thursday. “This is not a game any of these Democratic prosecutors want to play with the new Trump administration.”

He has also expressed a desire to target others in Washington who oppose President Trump. “This is my current mood,” he said. wrote on X the morning after the elections. “I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them and throw them off the wall. (Of course, legally, politically and financially.)”