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A Republican lawyer believed to be in the running to become Donald Trump’s attorney general has said he wants to drag Democrats’ “dead political bodies” through the streets and “burn” them in an explicit post on social media.

Mike Davis, a former Supreme Court clerk and Senate aide, shared the violent post on X on Nov. 6, shortly after Trump surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

“This is my current mood: I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them and throw them off the wall,” Davis said.

“(Legally, politically and financially of course),” he added.

“F*** unity… We have the votes. And they tried to kill Trump,” he said in another expletive-laden post, referring to Democrats.

Trump privately announced Davis’ name as attorney general WashingtonPostand publicly praised Davis in October when he touted him for a top job in his second administration.

“The founder or president of the Article III Project, this guy is tough as nails,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado. “We want him in a very high capacity.”

GOP fundraiser Caroline Wren told it Politics in a profile piece on Davis that Trump is a fan of the Republican lawyer, and that other Republican donors and senators are “drooling” over his regular appearances at Steve Bannon’s speech. War room podcast.

“If he’s not the attorney general, he’s going to have some kind of role,” she told the outlet.

Donald Trump Jr. said Politics in a statement at the time that Davis was “exactly the type of fighter” he would want involved in his father’s second administration.

In the same profile, author Adam Wren wrote that he witnessed Don Jr. told Davis at the Republican National Convention, “I want you to be my father’s attorney general for all four years.”

Davis, according to Wren, said he would give Trump three weeks “as his viceroy.”

An advisor later reportedly told Wren that Don Jr. “wasn’t serious” about the job offer.

Davis is one of Trump’s biggest defenders on social media and has said he would help the newly elected president “appoint even more bold and fearless judges” in his second term. He also praised Trump for “transforming” the Supreme Court.

Prior to his inflammatory post on

In a conversation with right-wing commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson last year, he explained what he would do if, in theory, he became acting attorney general for three weeks.

“During my three-week reign of terror as Trump’s acting attorney general, before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will rain hell on Washington, DC,” he said.

‘We’re going to put children in cages. It will be glorious.”