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The DOJ Is Burning Down—and She’s Tweeting Through It

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down the chaos inside the DOJ’s civil rights division, where Harmeet Dhillon’s Twitter habits and leadership style are raising eyebrows and prompting resignations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:22.4

bulwark, joined again by Will Summer, who is the author of False Flags. You should read that

0:27.1

newsletter. It's awesome. You should subscribe to this YouTube feed. It's awesome. Today we're going to

0:32.2

be talking about another unique character in the Trump orbit. This person actually has been

0:37.2

confirmed,

0:38.1

has a very serious job. It is Harmeet Dillon. She oversees the Civil Rights Division at the

0:43.5

Department of Justice where she serves as assistant attorney general. Harmeet is a long time

0:49.6

lawyer in conservative circles. I believe I might might be wrong, that she represented Trump on some

0:56.6

prior matters. She got a very big job and she got confirmed for it. But I've been tickled to

1:05.7

watch that even as she's gotten this job and that she's gotten her feet wet and all that stuff,

1:11.6

she's remained a fairly robust, if not obsessive Twitter user and mostly from her

1:18.8

private account, which I happen to follow. And it's like the most amazing stuff. It's like,

1:27.0

here's some recommendations for how to deal with the pollen in Washington, D.C. and like, you know, engaging, you know, her trolls in, like, very direct manner in which I would, I don't personally do. I don't really know many people who do it, but she's, she's right there in the mentions. So, Will, you dove into this and I think you have some data for us. What is the situation with Hermit? So Harmeet Dillon, she's she's right there in the mentions. So, Will, you dove into this, and I think you have some data for us. What is the situation with Hermit? So Hermit Dillon, she's the assistant attorney general. And this is a job that typically handles, you know, housing discrimination, voting rights, please brutality. But the way Hermit Dillon is doing it, it also includes a lot of tweeting, tweeting, tweeting. so she was sworn in april 8th um she's

2:03.6

tweeted over 200 times so 11.9 times a day according to that's that's like my level and i'm bad

2:11.0

yeah i mean she she she's she's just she's jamming them out and to be clear a lot of these are

2:16.5

not like um you know hey stop discriminating or like what And to be clear, a lot of these are not like, you know, hey, stop

2:18.6

discriminating or like what the Justice Department is doing. A lot are, what color Tesla should I buy?

2:24.0

And the one you referenced was, which was, you know, oh my gosh, there's so much pollen in D.C.

2:31.5

But, you know, you might want to get a netty pot, you know.

2:36.0

And so, you know, you put it in your nose.

2:36.3

Yeah. And so these are like, here's what I'm having for lunch today. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, this is, I think it's an interesting experiment we have going on in the Trump administration where we take these right wing media personalities. Now, I mean, Dillon is obviously, she is a lawyer, but she's, I think, most famous for being sort of a Republican legal talking head. She's a fox fixture, right? Exactly. And sort of taking on these conservative causes legally. And so now she's in charge of this division of, I think, roughly 400 lawyers, although many of them are quitting. And so, you know, like other people we've seen,

3:09.7

like Pete Hegseth, Christine Ome, Dan Bongino, she's also still kind of tending this personal

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