Trump admin attorney fired for insubordination is now accusing DOJ of intimidation

A former Trump administration attorney who was fired for insubordination is now accusing the administration of trying to intimidate her into not testifying before Democrats.

The fired attorney, Liz Oyer, reportedly testified against the administration during a “shadow” hearing held on Monday by congressional Democrats.

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is trying to intimidate and silence Liz Oyer — a Justice Department attorney who was fired for doing her job.

Today we’ll be hearing her story. pic.twitter.com/8TGRCACq0B

— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) April 7, 2025

That same Monday, her own attorney, Michael R. Bromwich, penned a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche accusing the DOJ of having tried to intimidate her into not testifying.

The letter claimed that the DOJ had dispatched Special Deputy U.S. Marshals to Oyer’s home last Friday to hand-deliver a letter warning his client against divulging DOJ secrets at the hearing.

“Ms. Oyer became aware late Friday evening that your Office had directed the Department’s Security and Emergency Planning Staff to have two armed Special Deputy U.S. Marshals personally serve her with a letter at her home that night,” Bromwich wrote.

“The Deputy Marshals were directed to serve the letter between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm, when Ms. Oyer’s teenage child was home alone. Fortunately, while the armed officers were en route to Ms. Oyer’s home, she was able to confirm receipt of the letter, which had been sent to a secondary personal email address at 7:58 pm, and forestall the hand delivery by the Deputy Marshals at her home,” he added.

Bromwich continued by calling what the DOJ did “completely inappropriate” and claiming it was an attempt “to intimidate a former employee” into not blowing the whistle.

“This highly unusual step of directing armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former Department of Justice employee who has engaged in no misconduct, let alone criminal conduct, simply to deliver a letter, is both unprecedented and completely Inappropriate,” he wrote.

“You appear to be using the Department’s security resources to intimidate a former employee who is engaged in statutorily protected whistleblower conduct, an act that implicates criminal and civil statutes as well as Department policy and your ethical obligations as a member of the bar,” he added.

Democrats have, of course, bought into this narrative hook, line, and sinker:

The Trump Admin sent armed marshals in a mafia-style intimidation campaign to silence and intimidate a witness set to testify in my spotlight hearing with @SenAdamSchiff.

Today, Liz Oyer appeared undaunted, standing for what is right, lawful and just, to give her testimony. pic.twitter.com/w6twYHaC8T

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) April 8, 2025

As previously reported, Oyer was terminated after she refused to sign off on Hollywood actor Mel Gibson’s gun rights being restored.

The beginning of the end for her job in the administration began in late February when she was assigned to a working group tasked with restoring the gun rights of convicted criminals who don’t necessarily deserve such a ban.

After the team had pieced together a list of 95 deserving candidates, Blanche cut the list down to just nine convicts and then added a special request.

“They sent [the list] back to me saying, ‘We would like you to add Mel Gibson to this memo,’” Oyer later recalled to the New York Times.

Attached to the request was a letter Gibson’s attorney had written to DOJ officials arguing that his rights deserve to be restored.

“The letter said that Mr. Gibson had in recent years tried to buy a gun but was refused because of his prior domestic violence conviction,” the Times notes. “In 2011, Mr. Gibson pleaded no contest in Los Angeles Superior Court to a misdemeanor charge of battering his former girlfriend, as part of a deal with prosecutors that allowed him to avoid jail time.”

But despite the domestic violence having occurred over 10 years ago, Oyer refused to let it go.

“Giving guns back to domestic abusers is a serious matter that, in my view, is not something that I could recommend lightly, because there are real consequences that flow from people who have a history of domestic violence being in possession of firearms,” she said.

And so she replied to her DOJ bosses, saying that she couldn’t and wouldn’t recommend that Gibson’s rights be restored. A few hours later, she received a call from an official in Blanche’s office.

“Is your position flexible?” the official asked her.

It wasn’t, she replied.

“He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,” Oyer continued.

This pushback didn’t please the official, who reportedly switched from being friendly to being somewhat nasty.

In response, Oyer told the official she’d “think about whether there was a way we could thread the needle.” She meant that too, for she spent the next night tossing and turning.

“I literally did not sleep a wink that night because I understood that the position I was in was one that was going to either require me to compromise my strongly held views and ethics or would likely result in me losing my ability to participate in these conversations going forward,” she said.

“I can’t believe this, but I really think Mel Gibson is going to be my downfall,” she recalled telling a trusted friend.

The next morning, she penned a letter to Blanche’s office, doubling down on her refusal to recommend that Gibson’s gun rights be restored.

“Hours later, she was sitting in an unrelated meeting when she got a frantic call from a member of her staff, saying she had to come back to her office right away,” according to the Times.

“When she got there, two building security officers were waiting to hand her a letter from Mr. Blanche firing her. They watched as she packed up some of her belongings into boxes and escorted her out of the building,” the Times’ reporting continues.

Elizabeth Oyer, the former pardon attorney recently terminated by the Trump Administration, said it was “very upsetting” to receive a DOJ notice reminding her not to share sensitive job information.

She was one of the witnesses today for the first “Shadow Government” hearing. pic.twitter.com/FZoke1O0BN

— Trending Politics (@tpbreaking) April 8, 2025

Meanwhile, Oyer reportedly talked a lot of trash during Monday’s hearing.

“Career experts are being marginalized and mistreated [at the DOJ],” she claimed, presumably referring to herself as a so-called expert. “Institutional morale is eroding. Leadership is prioritizing political loyalty over ethics and integrity.”

“All of this has real and dangerous consequences for public safety and national security. This is not a political issue. It is something that should deeply concern Members of both parties and all Americans who share the desire to live in a free and safe society,” she added.

Listen to more of what she said below:

Oyer: Perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today. On Friday night, I learned that the Deputy Attorney General’s office had directed the department’s Security… pic.twitter.com/Ah3wx9HD37

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 7, 2025

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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