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Trump AG hopeful says he wants to drag Democrats’ ‘political corpses into the streets and burn them’
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Trump AG hopeful says he wants to drag Democrats’ ‘political corpses into the streets and burn them’

A Republican lawyer who would be in the running to be Donald TrumpIt is Attorney General said he wanted to hang out Democrats“Dead political bodies” in the streets and “burned” in a graphic social media post.

Mike Davis, a former Supreme Court clerk and Senate aide, shared the violent post on X on November 6, shortly after Trump surpassed 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency.

“This is my current mood: I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them and throw them off the wall,” Davis said.

“(Legally, politically and financially, of course),” he added.

“F*** unity…We have the votes. And they tried to kill Trump,” he said in another expletive-laden post. jobreferring to Democrats.

Trump privately proposed Davis’ name for attorney general, according to the Washington Post, and publicly praised Davis in October when he touted him for a top job in his second administration.

“The founder or chairman of the Article III Project, that guy is a tough guy,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado. “We want it at a very high level.”

Mike Davis tapped for top job in Trump administration (CQ-Roll Call/Getty)Mike Davis tapped for top job in Trump administration (CQ-Roll Call/Getty)

Mike Davis tapped for top job in Trump administration (CQ-Roll Call/Getty)

GOP fundraiser Caroline Wren said Policy in a profile article on Davis, Trump is a fan of the GOP lawyer and that other Republican donors and senators are “drooling” over his regular appearances on That of Steve Bannon War room podcast.

“If he is not attorney general, he will play some role,” she told the outlet.

Donald Trump Jr said Policy in a statement at the time, Davis was “exactly the type of fighter” he would want to be involved in his father’s second administration.

In the same profile, author Adam Wren wrote that he saw Don Jr. tell Davis at the Republican National Convention: “I want you to be my father’s attorney general for all four years.” »

Davis, according to Wren, said he would give Trump three weeks “as viceroy.”

A counselor later reportedly told Wren that Don Jr. “wasn’t serious” about the job offer.

Donald Trump assured his return to the White House in the early hours of Wednesday morning (AP)Donald Trump assured his return to the White House in the early hours of Wednesday morning (AP)

Donald Trump assured his return to the White House in the early hours of Wednesday morning (AP)

Davis is one of Trump’s biggest defenders on social media and has said it would help the president-elect “appoint even more bold and fearless judges” during his second term. He also praised Trump for “transforming” the Supreme Court.

Before his incendiary article on

In a conversation with a right-wing commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson last year, he explained what he would do if he were theoretically appointed acting attorney general for three weeks.

“During my three-week reign of terror as Trump’s acting attorney general, before I’m run out of town with my Trump pardon, I will rain hell on Washington, D.C.,” he said .

“We are going to put the children in cages. It’s going to be glorious.