Did Trump ally Mike Davis swear at Gabby Giffords after she posted about slain National Guard member?

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In November 2025, lawyer Mike Davis, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told former Rep. Gabby Giffords to “f*** off” on X in response to her post about slain National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom.

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In late November 2025, social media users (archived here, here and here) claimed that lawyer Mike Davis, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords to “f*** off” on X in response to her post about Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old National Guard member fatally shot that month in Washington, D.C.

Several people who shared the claim pointed out that Giffords was a victim of gun violence. The former congresswoman was severely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting that killed six people and injured a dozen others, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury that affected her movement and speech.

According to the social media posts, Davis shared the profanity-laced post shown below in response to Giffords offering her condolences to Beckstrom’s loved ones and calling for action against gun violence.

Multiple Snopes readers searched our website and emailed us to confirm whether Davis really made the post. 

Those words were correctly attributed to Davis. He posted that message from his verified X account (archived) on Nov. 28 in response to the following message that Giffords posted (archived) that day:

Specialist Sarah Beckstrom deserved a long, full life. My heart is with her family, friends, and fellow servicemembers.

Gun violence steals too many futures. We must honor her by fighting for a safer country—one where all Americans are protected from gun violence.

Specialist Sarah Beckstrom deserved a long, full life. My heart is with her family, friends, and fellow servicemembers.

Gun violence steals too many futures. We must honor her by fighting for a safer country—one where all Americans are protected from gun violence. https://t.co/yOEQWUIxyk

— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) November 28, 2025

In response, Davis wrote:

Gun violence??? 

F*** off, Gabby. 

The real problem is your piece-of-s*** husband @SenMarkKelly and other Democrats, who mass-import terrorists, demonize the National Guard members saving cities, and call on 18-year-old enlistees to disobey the President of the United States.

Snopes could not immediately reach Davis for comment.

Davis is the founder and president of the conservative advocacy group The Article III Project. He previously served as chief counsel for nominations, advising Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other senators on the confirmation of federal judges and executive branch appointees, according to his bio on the organization’s website.

A vocal supporter of Trump and his policies, Davis has also reportedly served as an informal adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top administration officials, ABC News reported.

In his reply to Giffords, Davis appeared to refer to a Nov. 18 video shared on Facebook (archived) in which six Democratic members of Congress, including Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona — Giffords’ husband — urged U.S. service members to “refuse illegal orders.” The lawmakers did not reference any specific orders that they deemed illegal.

As Snopes previously reported, Trump accused the Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior” that was “punishable by death” in a post on his Truth Social platform. He also referred to them as “traitors to the country” and said they should “be arrested and put on trial” (archived).

For further reading, we investigated a claim that the Trump administration granted asylum to the man suspected in the Washington shooting that killed Beckstrom.