Conservative lawyer Mike Davis, President-elect Donald Trump‘s potential nominee for attorney general, is seeking a list of people convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Davis made the request in a post on X on Thursday, asking fellow conservative lawyer Julie Kelly for her “pardon and commutation lists.” Kelly describes herself as a “January 6 conspiracy theorist” and “insurrection denier.”
Davis also requested Kelly’s “Biden-Harris Justice Department bad actor list.”
Both lawyers have been highly critical of the legal dangers facing Trump, who this week was elected to a second term in the White House. Davis had previously suggested he would take “severe” legal action against special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is leading both federal criminal investigations into Trump.
Davis threatened New York Attorney General Letitia James as she spoke The Benny Show Thursday, saying, “This time we won’t waste any time and put your fat ass in prison for an anti-rights conspiracy.” James’ office won a civil lawsuit against Trump and his family business this year after a judge found that the former president and others associated with the Trump Organization were responsible for deceiving lenders and insurers to get better terms .
Trump campaigned on a promise to pardon at least some of the several hundred defendants found guilty of participating in the Jan. 6 attack. A spokesperson for the president-elect’s transition team said Thursday news week via email that Trump “will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis.”
Then-outgoing President Donald Trump is shown speaking on a Jumbotron screen as crowds gather for the infamous “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer who can…
Then-outgoing President Donald Trump is seen speaking on a Jumbotron screen as crowds gather for the infamous “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer who may be on the shortlist for Trump next Thursday’s attorney general asked for a list of Jan. 6 defendants in need of clemency.
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Davis said On Thursday, the new Justice Department under Trump is expected to end prosecutions of the Jan. 6 defendants, which he described as “political persecution.”
It is unclear whether Davis, one of Trump’s lawyers, will be part of the new administration. However, he was praised by several people close to the former president. In an interview with Politico magazine published in September, Donald Trump Jr. called Davis “the tip of the spear defending my father from these corrupt Democratic prosecutors. He’s exactly the kind of fighter I’d like to see involved in a second Trump administration. ” “. “.
Davis’s rhetoric has also received much attention. During an appearance in The Benny Show Last year, he described a “three-week reign of terror” that he would carry out as Trump’s “acting attorney general before being run out of town with Trump’s pardon.”
He posted on Wednesday
Other names touted as Trump’s possible attorney general pick include Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, who served as his state’s attorney general before being elected to Congress in 2023. Utah Sen. Mike Lee, another ally, be it a close friend of Trump in Congress, is on the list. list.
Jeff Clark, Trump’s former deputy attorney general, has also been mentioned as a possible option. Clark had his license suspended for two years for his role in pressuring the Justice Department to prevent the transfer of power after the 2020 election. He was also indicted along with Trump and several others in Georgia, accused of attempting to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
