Obama World In DOJ’s Crosshairs After Trump Legal Ally Pushes For Probe
For the past three years, Republican lawyer Mike Davis, a former legal counsel to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), has pressed for federal criminal probes into Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and senior officials at the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department.
Now, with Attorney General Pam Bondi approving a series of new investigations, Davis says his long-pursued objective may finally be within reach, NBC News reported recently.
Last month, Bondi authorized two federal criminal investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James and one into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). She also directed a federal prosecutor to convene a grand jury to examine whether Obama administration officials broke the law in their assessment of Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
Bondi’s directive followed accusations from National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who alleged Obama and his aides engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” and said she had referred the matter to the Justice Department.
Davis praised Bondi’s actions in a recent interview.
“This is the greatest conspiracy in American history,” he said, a reference to the various 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.”
Obama, Biden, Clinton, and former leaders of the FBI, Justice Department, and CIA have all rejected the allegations. Democrats argue the new investigations are meant to divert attention from accusations that Trump has abused his power in his second term and from his refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, NBC News reported.
Davis said he does not know what Bondi’s next move will be but praised the recent party-line Senate confirmation of Jason Reding Quiñones as U.S. attorney in South Florida. He described Quiñones as a personal friend and had urged senators to back his nomination, the outlet reported.
“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 has urged Quiñones to convene a special federal grand jury in Port St. Lucie, a county Trump won by 10 points last year, to investigate what he describes as a Democratic conspiracy against Trump — from the 2016 campaign through the 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago to the present.
Quiñones, confirmed as U.S. attorney after serving as a Miami-Dade County judge appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a former federal prosecutor and Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel. He previously worked as a major crimes prosecutor, where he received poor performance reviews, according to The Miami Herald.
He later filed and withdrew a racial discrimination complaint before transferring to the Civil Division, where his evaluations improved, NBC said.
Legal experts say framing the Mar-a-Lago search as part of a yearslong anti-Trump conspiracy could serve a strategic purpose, allowing prosecutors to link alleged acts from 2016 and 2017 into a single case and avoid the five-year statute of limitations on denial-of-rights charges, said the outlet.
Davis argued a federal “conspiracy against rights” charge could be applied in the Florida probe he wants Quiñones to open. He said a special grand jury should examine whether actions by Clinton and Obama in 2016 and 2017 violated Trump’s rights as part of a broader Democratic conspiracy that, in his view, extends through the Mar-a-Lago search and into the present, NBC noted further.
Davis noted that former special counsel Jack Smith relied on the same charge when prosecuting Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in seven states he lost.
“The Democrats set the precedent that former presidents are fair game,” Davis said.
Some former FBI and DOJ officials told NBC News that the Mar-a-Lago search was conducted only after a federal judge signed off on a warrant, and that the search came as a result of Trump’s actions, NBC said.
