Just Dictator Trump threatening (in writing) a witness. I'm sure he knows nothing about it, just ask him.
'Alarmed': Ousted DOJ lawyer testifies she received late night 'threat' from ex-employer
Former Justice Department prosecutor Liz Oyer appeared before a House and Senate "spotlight hearing" on Monday and spoke about the ways in which the department has operated under President Donald Trump's presidency.
In her opening statement, Oyer told the Democrats, "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."
She explained that at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Friday night, she learned that the deputy attorney general's office directed the Department of Security and Emergency Planning Service to send two armed U.S. Marshals to her home to serve her with a letter. It was the same letter that had already been sent via email. The marshals, she was told, would arrive between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The letter had been emailed to me just before 8:00 that night. At no point did Mr. [Todd] Blanche's staff pick up the phone and call me before they sent armed deputies to my home. The letter was a warning to me about the risks of testifying here today."
She said she wouldn't "be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power at the Department of Justice."
The DOJ is entrusted with keeping Americans safe, she explained. That does not include being "a personal favor bank for the president."
"Its career employees are not the president's personal debt collectors," she added. "I see only Democratic members here today, but this is not a partisan issue. It should alarm all Americans that the leadership of the Department of Justice appears to value political loyalty above the fair and responsible administration of justice."
"I came because I don't want to be complicit in what is happening inside the Department of Justice, which is the misuse of the resources of the department to do political favors for friends of the president, for loyalists. And I just don't believe that that is right. I don't want to be part of it. So I feel I need to speak up," Oyer later said while answering questions.
Oyer became well-known after she revealed that she was told to reinstate Mel Gibson's access to firearms despite his conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence in 2011. Anyone convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or higher is prohibited by federal law from possessing firearms.
'Alarmed': Ousted DOJ lawyer testifies she received late night 'threat' from ex-employer
Former Justice Department prosecutor Liz Oyer appeared before a House and Senate "spotlight hearing" on Monday and spoke about the ways in which the department has operated under President Donald Trump's presidency.
In her opening statement, Oyer told the Democrats, "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."
She explained that at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Friday night, she learned that the deputy attorney general's office directed the Department of Security and Emergency Planning Service to send two armed U.S. Marshals to her home to serve her with a letter. It was the same letter that had already been sent via email. The marshals, she was told, would arrive between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The letter had been emailed to me just before 8:00 that night. At no point did Mr. [Todd] Blanche's staff pick up the phone and call me before they sent armed deputies to my home. The letter was a warning to me about the risks of testifying here today."
She said she wouldn't "be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power at the Department of Justice."
The DOJ is entrusted with keeping Americans safe, she explained. That does not include being "a personal favor bank for the president."
"Its career employees are not the president's personal debt collectors," she added. "I see only Democratic members here today, but this is not a partisan issue. It should alarm all Americans that the leadership of the Department of Justice appears to value political loyalty above the fair and responsible administration of justice."
"I came because I don't want to be complicit in what is happening inside the Department of Justice, which is the misuse of the resources of the department to do political favors for friends of the president, for loyalists. And I just don't believe that that is right. I don't want to be part of it. So I feel I need to speak up," Oyer later said while answering questions.
Oyer became well-known after she revealed that she was told to reinstate Mel Gibson's access to firearms despite his conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence in 2011. Anyone convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or higher is prohibited by federal law from possessing firearms.
