Mike Davis, an ally to former President Donald Trump, has listed several legal analysts as "potential targets" for investigation if Trump beats President Joe Biden in the November presidential election.
Himself a lawyer, Davis is president of the conservative group Article III Project that supports "Constitutionalist" judges. He took to X, formerly Twitter, following a Politico report that analysts who have been critical of Trump regularly gather on Zoom calls for "off the record" discussions on the latest developments in the former president's myriad legal cases.
According to the article, published Tuesday, the discussions occur weekly and allow the pundits to "intellectually stress-test" Trump's legal arguments.
Davis highlighted a passage that listed several alleged regular participants—conservative commentator Bill Kristol, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, former White House counsel John Dean, conservative lawyer George Conway, MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman, and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Potential targets of the Trump 47 Justice Department's criminal probe of Biden Democrats' criminal conspiracy against Trump:
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 24, 2024
"The regular attendees on Eisen’s call include Bill Kristol, the longtime conservative commentator, and Laurence Tribe, the famed liberal constitutional…
"Potential targets of the Trump 47 Justice Department's criminal probe of Biden Democrats' criminal conspiracy against Trump," Davis wrote, responding to the article.
In a statement to Newsweek, Davis wrote, "No one is above the law."
It remained unclear, however, what these legal analysts would specifically be investigated for, as the Politico article did not raise concerns about any crimes—only that the regular meetings could lead to "groupthink" or feed into concerns "damaging perceptions" about the media.
Newsweek reached out to Eisen, Tribe and Weissman, and Dean, Conway and Toobin through their publishers, via email for comment. Newsweek reached out to Kristol for comment via his online contact form.
Newsweek has previously reported on each of these legal analysts, including their statements about the former president.
Davis came under scrutiny from the Biden campaign on Tuesday after it posted a clip to X of him being interviewed by conservative commentator Benny Johnson, discussing the possibility of being Trump's attorney general.
"During my three-week reign of terror as Trump acting attorney general, before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will reign hell on Washington, D.C.," he said.
In a follow-up post, Davis wrote that he is "not going to serve as AG" and "can't get confirmed." He also disputed a separate post from the Biden campaign accusing him of saying there will be consequences for Americans who do not support Trump.
"I didn't say there'll be consequences for Americans who won't support Trump. (For Biden Democrats running illegal criminal conspiracy,)" he wrote.
As Trump has faced legal investigations at federal, state and local levels, some Republicans have called for investigations into Democrats and the Biden administration, accusing the president of being behind Trump's prosecutions, though these claims have not been proven.
Trump has described himself to his voters as their "retribution" on the campaign trail.
Davis previously filed an ethics complaint against a judge who criticized Trump's behavior toward jurists.
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