The top aide to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley was caught red-handed bragging that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed. Mike Davis is the Chief Counsel for Nominations for Sen. Grassley. His tweets, which he has since deleted, appeared to suggest that no amount of investigation, nor any negative findings related to the allegations against the Supreme Court nominee would get in the way of confirming Kavanaugh.
Senator Harry Reid’s former Chief of Staff, Adam Jentleson, took screenshots of Mike Davis’ tweets before they were deleted. Davis later locked his Twitter account but has since reopened it.
“Unfazed and determined. We will confirm Judge Kavanaugh,” reads one tweet. In another he attacks Dr. Blasey Ford’s attorneys, accusing them of not being able to “find time between TV appearances to get back to me.”
Jentleson adds, “the question of whether Grassley’s staff can conduct a fair investigation is central to the debate & Mike would conduct the questioning of Kavanaugh & Ford.”
Colin Seeberger of the Center for American Progress posted this photo of Davis with Kavanaugh.
Explaining his decision to delete tweets and reopen his account, Davis chose to attack Democrats:
Davis’ claim that the Senate Judiciary Committee has undergone a “thorough and fair investigation” is false.
In Davis’ LinkedIn profile he brags about “setting [an] all-time record for a president’s two years in office by confirming more than 22 federal circuit judges nominated by President Trump.”
He also notes he was a Law Clerk to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, and had previously clerked for then-Judge Gorsuch. He also interned for then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.