Mike Davis

Mike Davis has been mentioned by Donald Trump, Jr., as a potential Attorney General, and media sources refer to him as a “close ally” of the former president. Davis has promised a “reign of terror [that] will be a bloodbath” and that he would indict all the Bidens and throw Trump’s perceived enemies into a “gulag.” He has also pledged he is “going to deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing,” including American citizens born to immigrant parents, adding “we’re going to put kids in cages; it’s going to be glorious.” He has also claimed: “The violent Black underclass is a danger to America. Especially hard-working, law-abiding Black Americans and other minorities trapped in their ghettos. We must resume the mass-incarceration of these thugs. In the meantime, Americans must arm up. These monsters will kill.” Echoing Project 2025, Davis has also said “we’re going to fire a lot of people in the executive branch.”

Davis was U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s chief counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee when President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel, Davis helped limit access to records of Kavanaugh’s role in the George W. Bush administration and also helped orchestrate the cross-examination of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified that Kavanaugh sought to sexually assault her, which Kavanaugh denied. Davis dismissed the allegations against Kavanaugh as “bogus” and repeatedly referred to Blasey Ford as “crazy” and a “lying nut-job” and even asserted she “should be put back in the padded cell.”

Davis also worked with the White House Counsel, Don McGahn, to limit the scope of the FBI’s examination of Ford’s allegations and those of other potential witnesses of Kavanaugh’s treatment of women. Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by one of the narrowest margins in history, called Davis “a warrior.” Davis reportedly also “led the outside support team for Justice [Neil] Gorsuch’s successful confirmation to the Supreme Court.”

Davis regularly defends the Big Lie and downplays the events of January 6th, mocking Democrats for turning it into a “religious holiday.” He has also asserted that the criminal prosecutions of people who violently stormed the Capitol were politically motivated. He has alleged that the House Investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol was a vast conspiracy to “not only to take out Trump, but […] to take out Trump’s entire movement.” He also claimed: “They hate Trump because Trump was a populist billionaire who had a better house and better cars and better airplanes and better helicopters and so the globalists in the uniparty could not control him. That’s why they hated him. That’s why they tried to destroy him as president, that’s why they are trying to destroy him now.”

Davis has defended Trump in the face of his multiple indictments, calling them “bogus charges” brought by “radical activist Democrat judges” who are engaging in “a criminal conspiracy.” Referring to Alvin Bragg as “a buffoon” and a “Soros-funded DA,” Davis asserted that Trump would not get a fair trial in New York and that hush money is not a crime in the first place, despite the evidence and laws cited in the New York prosecution, which an impartial jury found compelling and convicted Trump on all 34 felony counts. Davis also claimed that the search warrant based on probable cause of crimes that was used to seize classified documents from Mar-a-Lago was a Deep State operation.

In 2019, Davis set up the Article III Project (A3P), a group pushing for “conservative” nominees to the federal bench and that claims to “protect[] judges once they are on the bench.” He also launched the “Internet Accountability Project,” which describes itself as opposing “Big Tech.” He also launched another group dubbed the “Unsilenced Majority,” which claims that its goal is to “end cancel culture by using cancel culture tactics.” His projects are closely linked to the $63 million MAGA “nerve center” known as the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI). Davis has also been closely tied to Leonard Leo, who helped Davis cement his role on judicial appointments. Davis has also reportedly worked “hand-in-glove” with Leo-tied groups like the Judicial Crisis Network and CRC Advisors/Creative Response Concepts.

Davis has described his tactic with his operations thus: “As we’ve shown… when you take off the gloves, put on the brass knuckles and punch back, you’ll break the left’s glass jaw.”

In February 2024, Davis re-launched his Denver-based law firm, MRDLaw, which has been receiving regular payments from the congressional campaign of Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and her political action leadership committee (E-PAC). He previously interned for House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).