National Harbor, MD– Former Colorado Special Assistant Attorney General Mike Davis says he serves an effective role from outside the Trump administration. 

“I can say and do a lot of things you can’t say and do when you’re inside the government,” Davis said in an interview with the Colorado Times Recorder. 

Davis, who’s always been a combative partisan, didn’t exactly hold back while working for Republicans during the first Trump administration. While working for U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on the Senate Judiciary Committee as Chief Nominations Counsel in charge of shepherding Trump’s judicial nominees through the approval process, Davis tweeted a photo showing a bloody U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) holding up the severed head of former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

After leaving government service Davis launched the Article III Project, an advocacy group that is set to fill the judicial system with conservatives. He calls it restoring “integrity to the justice system.”

“I am helping President Trump find the best judicial and Justice Department picks he can find,” Davis said. 

He’s also continued to push the limits of right-wing punditry, telling Benny Johnson in a 2023 interview that if Trump won and named him Attorney General, he would “put kids in cages.”

“I will rain hell on Washington, D.C… We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing – anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents,” said Davis. “We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo. And list number five, I’m gonna recommend a lot of pardons. Every January 6th defendant is gonna get a pardon…”

Comments such as these earned Davis a place on Rolling Stone’s “Twelve Worst People in Trump’s Orbit” list, published just after the election. And while he wasn’t appointed to the administration, his stated goals of firing federal workers, mass deportations and pardoning J6 criminals have all become reality.

These days, Davis is still working behind the scenes to help confirm Trump’s cabinet and subcabinet, which is in the process of being swiftly confirmed by the U.S. Senate. 

“We had over 50,000 Americans make over 200,000 phone calls, emails and social media posts with their home state Senators and we gave the Senate an attitude adjustment and we confirmed President Trump’s cabinet and now we’re going to help confirm his subcabinet,” Davis said.

Davis’ talk at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, titled “Nowhere to Run: The Takedown of Left Tech,” focused on communication law and censorship. However, Davis and U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)  shared their excitement for FBI Director Kash Patel’s confirmation. 

“Washington said his nomination was dead on arrival, but now he’s Director Kash Patel,” Davis said during the talk. 

Switching gears during the talk, Davis and Schmitt criticized Section 230, which is a law that protects media companies, such as Facebook, from being sued for what individuals post on them. 

“Big tech’s gatekeeping power over information in commerce and we need to break up that gatekeeping power,” Davis said. “They have too much control over information in commerce with Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple and that needs to end.”

Davis argued that these companies boost news sites, such as CNN or MSNBC. However, Section 230 does not involve protecting from claims that companies’ algorithms are discriminatory.

Davis said he was glad Mark Zuckerberg funded Trump’s inauguration, calling it a “fun party.” But he said the “$1 million he contributed” to the inauguration was not enough to make up for his lack of support in 2020. Davis referenced his ties to the Trump administration with an indirect threat to Zuckerberg. 

“I think he has a lot of catching up to do and I don’t think that he’s going to buy antitrust amnesty from the Trump 47 Justice Department,” Davis said during the talk. “To these big tech platforms, nobody’s above the law.”