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John Oliver Takes Jab At Mel Gibson Following Justice Dept. Attorney Firing: “Best Known For His Work In Screaming”


John Oliver took a jab at Mel Gibson after the news a high-ranking Justice Dept. attorney was seemingly fired for refusing to restore his gun rights.

Following the news that a high-ranking Justice Department attorney, Liz Oyer, was seemingly fired for opposing the restoration of Mel Gibson ‘s gun rights after he lost them due to a domestic violence misdemeanor conviction, John Oliver took a jab at the scandal-riddled actor and director himself. ‘Hutton Peter Gibson was an American conspiracy theorist, holocaust denier, writer on sedevacantism’ — which is a belief that there hasn’t been a valid pope since 1958 — ‘a World War II veteran, the Jeopardy! Tying in that news with Mahmoud Khalil ‘s detention, which the ACLU has condemned as “unlawful,” Oliver said president Donald Trump’s claim that the arrest was to crack down on antisemitism is “pretty rich, given the top DOD press secretary was recently found to have a history of racist and antisemitic tweets; Musk and JD Vance both recently supported Germany’s AFD, a party with ties to neo-Nazis; and of course, there was this sh– [flashing on screen an image of Musk’s Nazi-like salute] and that was all before you get to the efforts this week to make sure that this f—ing guy [Gibson] — whose views on the Jews are let’s say a matter of public record — got his guns back.”

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