Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon revealed the wild situation she walked into after joining the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the new Trump administration.
Dhillon told Tucker Carlson during a podcast that lawyers in the DOJ’s Civil Rights division held “unhappy hours,” “crying sessions,” and resigned after President Donald Trump won the White House in 2024. But it wasn’t merely that Trump won that got these lawyers all spun up; it was that their reign of terror would be over.
“They weren’t going to be able to do those the way that they wanted,” Dhillon told Carlson.
“There were career lawyers there who were doing the same thing, no matter who is the president. Suddenly, their little fiefdom that had remained untouched, like Shangri-La, was suddenly having to be responsive to elections,” she said.
When Dhillon took charge of the division, she sent an email to the staff explaining that their new focus would be on enforcing the Trump administration’s agenda, including investigations into men in women’s sports, the rise in antisemitism, and anti-Christian bias.
“The zealous and faithful pursuit of this section’s mission requires the full dedication of this section’s resources, attention and energy to the priorities of the president,” Dhillon wrote, according to the New York Times.
The email sent the left-wing activists posing as DOJ lawyers into a tailspin. They were openly “crying in the halls” and even “lined up in a phalanx and approached the elevator together, and then left the building together, to show their solidarity for one another there, as if they were persecuted,” according to Dhillon.
Imagine being this fragile. They are working in the CIVIL RIGHTS division. The greatest civil rights issues of our time certainly include the issue of women being forced to share locker rooms, bathrooms, and compete against men, not to mention the toll the DOJ and FBI investigations took on Christian pro-life activists and their families under the Biden Administration.
These lawyers targeted conservatives and had no mercy for them. But now, because they are being asked to stop their discrimination against the right and protect Americans being persecuted by left-wing ideologies, they want to pretend to be victims.
The leftwing ideologues who served as Joe Biden’s weaponized jackboots had their authoritarian rug pulled out from underneath them. They’ve been replaced by common sense and people who will follow the law and the constitution instead of the edicts of a socialist dictator.