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Donald Trump is back. And he’s brought a cadre of familiar, and not so familiar, faces with him.
The Trump 2.0 brain trust isn’t wholly dissimilar from Trump 1.0, including the longtime loyalists who stood beside the president through his Florida exile and his Manhattan courtroom days as well as an array of friends and donors who have long traveled the Mar-a-Lago circuit.
But it also features an array of newcomers who proved their mettle, and loyalty, on the 2024 trail by using their platform, or their dollars, to support the MAGA cause — and reflect the broad coalition the president now helms.
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Mike Davis
A key MAGA attorney, self-proclaimed “viceroy” and founder of the Article III Project, which is focused on bringing, in its words, “brass knuckles to fight leftist lawfare” — i.e. the revenge tour.
Davis is known for his combative presence on social media and as Trump’s chief legal defender on cable news and right-wing media. He also operates as a legal think tank committed to defending Trump in the courtroom and on the airwaves. (Trump has called him “tough as hell.”) But he also has establishment street cred: He was the chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley during the Trump administration and, as an outside adviser, shepherded Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh through their Supreme Court confirmation fights. He will be one to watch if and when Trump gets another SCOTUS pick.
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