A Judicial Watch Open Records lawsuit reveals that Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays seems to have used her office for political purposes by threatening to prosecute President Trump on the eve of the 2024 presidential election. In the final days before the 2024 presidential election, Mays publicly stated that she had directed her criminal division chief to investigate this comment made by Trump about former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrel shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it.

You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh gee, Will, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy. Judicial Watch filed a public records request in November 2024 for documents related to this investigation. Only one document supposedly tied to a criminal investigation was located but was ultimately withheld from disclosure. However, dozens of media related documents show the Attorney General engaged in a media campaign suggesting Trump committed a prosecutable crime. I have already asked my criminal division chiefs to start looking at that statement analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said this about the matter. Our lawsuit and investigation into the Democratic Arizona Attorney General shows that the announcement of the investigation on the Friday before the 2024 presidential election was a sham to try to influence the outcome of the election in an important swing state. This is yet another example of law fair abuse targeting Trump. Attorney General Mays officially ended the investigation on November 13, 2024, just days after President Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. President Trump won Arizona by over five and a half percent.

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