For three years, Mike Davis, a Republican lawyer and former legal counsel to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has pushed for federal criminal investigations of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and senior FBI, CIA and Justice Department officials.
Now, a series of recent investigations approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi suggests to Davis that his long-sought goal is most likely approaching.
Bondi this month approved
two federal criminal investigations of New York Attorney General Letitia James and one of Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Bondi also instructed an unnamed federal prosecutor to begin a
grand jury investigation of whether Obama administration officials committed federal crimes when they assessed Russia’s actions during the 2016 election.
Bondi’s order came weeks after National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard accused Obama and his aides of a “
treasonous conspiracy” and said she had sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
Davis applauded Bondi’s actions in a recent interview.
“This is the greatest conspiracy in American history,” he said, referring to what he says are Democratic plots against President Donald Trump.
“There must be the most severe legal, political and financial consequences for this unprecedented weaponization. This must never happen again.”
Bondi’s office and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Obama, Biden, Clinton and former FBI, Justice Department and CIA officials have repeatedly dismissed the allegations. Democrats say new probes are an effort to distract attention from allegations that Trump has abused his power in his second term and from his failure to release
the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Former senior Justice Department and FBI officials note that a Trump-appointed special counsel and Republican senators already investigated the claims and found no crimes. They called the idea “absurd,” “bananas” and “insane.”
Davis said he is unaware of Bondi’s next step. But he praised the recent
party-line Senate confirmation of a new U.S. attorney in South Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, whom he called a personal friend and urged senators to support.
“I want Jason to set up his own grand jury and pursue this aggressively,” Davis said.
“And I want him to put criminals in prison for a very long time.”
Davis called for Quiñones to convene a special federal grand jury in Port St. Lucie, the seat of St. Lucie County, which Trump carried by 10 percentage points last year. It would investigate what he calls a Democratic conspiracy to undermine Trump stretching from the 2016 campaign to the 2022 FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate to today.
Quiñones, a Miami-Dade County judge appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a year ago, is a former federal prosecutor in Miami and a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He was a major crimes prosecutor but received poor performance evaluations,
The Miami Herald reported. Quiñones filed and dropped a racial discrimination complaint and moved to the Civil Division, where he received satisfactory reviews.
Quiñones and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Viewing the Mar-a-Lago search as part of a decadelong anti-Trump conspiracy serves a legal purpose, legal experts said. It could allow prosecutors to treat alleged acts from 2016 and 2017 as part of a single conspiracy and bypass a five-year statute of limitations on denial of rights charges.
Davis said a “
conspiracy against rights” federal criminal charge could be used in the Florida investigation that he called for Quiñones to open. A special grand jury could investigate whether actions by Clinton and Obama in 2016 and 2017 violated Trump’s rights as part of a single broad, anti-Trump conspiracy by Democrats that Davis believes includes the Mar-a-Lago search and continues today.
