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DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights


Elizabeth Oyer claims justice department senior ‘bullied’ her due to Trump’s relationship with actor sentenced for domestic violence in 2011

The pardon attorney of the US justice department was recently fired after refusing to recommend that Mel Gibson be allowed to own guns again, a right denied since the actor, director and prominent ally of Donald Trump was sentenced to probation for domestic violence in 2011, the New York Times reported. On 16 January, four days before starting his second presidency, Trump said the 69-year-old star of Mad Max, Braveheart and other blockbusters had been named, alongside two other veteran actors, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone, “special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California”. Like Bove, Blanche was an attorney for Trump in criminal cases, including one in New York which resulted in 34 felony convictions arising from hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who claimed an affair.

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