密歇根州民主党参议员埃莉萨·斯洛特金（Elissa Slotkin）指责特朗普的亲密法律盟友迈克·戴维斯（Mike Davis）“动员死亡威胁”针对她及其工作人员。
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) accused close Trump legal ally Mike Davis of “mobilizing death threats” against her and her staff.
斯洛特金在社交媒体上表示，戴维斯曾是前司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）离职后特朗普总统下一任司法部长的候选人之一，但“现在正在一个MAGA暗钱组织里，为了娱乐而动员针对我及我工作人员的死亡威胁。”她继续说道：“如果你利用司法系统制造无意义的诉讼来恐吓和监禁你的政治对手，你应该通过你的律师资格对这种行为负责。没有滥用职权，也没有违反法律？那么我们就没有问题。”
Slotkin stated on social media Davis was in the mix to be President Trump’s next Attorney General after former Attorney General Pam Bondi left her posting but “is now at a MAGA dark money group, mobilizing death threats against me and my staff for sport.”“And if you use the justice system for frivolous lawsuits used to intimidate and jail your political opponents, you should be held accountable for that via your bar status. No abuse of power and not violating the law? Then we have no problem,” she continued.
“针对我、我的工作人员和我的家人的威胁和恐吓 — — 正是这种手段的目的。这个家伙和许多其他人只是希望我们在回应时闭嘴，”斯洛特金写道。
“The threats and intimidation — of me, my staff, and my family — are the point of this kind of play. This dude and so many others are just hoping that we’ll shut up in response,” Slotkin wrote.
该参议员最近因在芝加哥大学举办的一次活动上的言论而受到特朗普及其他右翼人物的批评。她当时表示，她希望年轻人在考虑为特朗普政府工作时能想到：“天哪，这可能会给我带来我不想要的一堆麻烦，所以让我避免参与其中。”她继续说：“我想要这种威慑信息。”
The senator has received criticism recently from Trump and other figures on the right over remarks she made at an event at the University of Chicago where she said she wanted young people thinking about working for the Trump administration to think, “lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.”“I want that deterrence message,” she continued.
作为回应，戴维斯在社交平台X上发文称，如果斯洛特金“采用非法逮捕和政治迫害来恐吓持有不同政治观点的年轻美国人”，她“将明白我们为何有第二修正案”，并在另一篇帖子中补充道：“了解第二修正案吧，亲爱的。”特朗普还对记者称斯洛特金“是个低等之人，正在毁掉她的州”，并指责民主党“确实在劝退人们远离政治”。
In response, Davis posted on social platform X that Slotkin “will learn why we have the Second Amendment” if she employed “illegal arrests and political persecutions to intimidate young Americans with opposing political views,” adding in another post, “learn about the Second Amendment, sweetheart.”Trump additionally called Slotkin “a low-life who is running her state” to reporters, accusing Democrats of “really discouraging people from going into politics.”
戴维斯此前在特朗普第一任期内曾担任参议院司法委员会主席查克·格拉斯利（共和党-爱荷华州）提名事务的首席法律顾问，期间他为总统的提名人扫清了障碍。此后，在FBI对马阿拉戈度假村进行突袭期间，戴维斯在媒体上为总统辩护，从而与特朗普关系更加密切。
Davis previously served as chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) during Trump’s first term, where he cleared the way for the president’s nominees. Since then, Davis grew closer to Trump during the FBI’s raid of the Mar-a-Lago resort when he defended the president in the press.
他还支持特朗普政府对前奥巴马时期官员的调查，在福克斯新闻上表示：“这已经是最严重的情况了。这是一场刑事阴谋。”“证据很清楚，这里存在刑事阴谋，没有人能够凌驾于法律之上，”戴维斯说。
He also backed the Trump administration’s probe into former Obama-era officials, saying on Fox News, “It doesn’t get more serious than this. This is a criminal conspiracy.”“The evidence is clear there’s a criminal conspiracy here and nobody is above the law,” Davis said.
如今，他领导着“第三条款项目”（Article III Project），该组织在其网站上宣称自己“将带着铜拳套去对抗左翼法律战”。
He now spearheads Article III Project, a group which says it “brings brass knuckles to fight leftist lawfare,” according to its website.