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Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Trump's Destruction of DOJ Civil Rights Division!

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's dirty DOJ leadership has not only decimated the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, but they've actually weaponized that division to PERPETRATE civil rights abuses.

The Civil Rights Division is vindictively investigating former Trump administration official Cassidy Hutchinson, who bravely testified before the January 6 House select committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol.

Glenn sat down with Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, and Reagan Rush, a former DOJ attorney who served in the Civil Rights Division for more than 15 years representing the interest of the American people.

They talk about Donald Trump's attack on the Civil Rights Division, and his attempts to weaponize that storied division against his perceived enemies.

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0:00.0

It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner.

0:15.5

Today, Glenn speaks with Sky Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward, about Donald Trump's attack on the

0:23.0

Civil Rights Division. That's next on Justice Matters.

0:28.7

Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast.

0:33.1

This makes George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney seem like they were playing five-layer chess. Yeah. There's no plan whatsoever because this is how Donald thinks. He doesn't think two, four, five steps down the road. He's thinking, okay, what's next? I'm going to do that thing that's on the plate next. And then I don't care about anything else that comes after that. And that's evidenced by the fact that he felt as though Iran was about to attack the United States and Israel. He had a spidey

0:59.4

sense which is good enough for me. Exactly. Yeah. And that's why he didn't evacuate any Americans

1:04.1

out of the region. And two, that's why he authorized this attack against this preemptive attack against

1:09.5

Iran. And guess what Iran is doing in response?

1:12.0

It's attacking the United States and Israel

1:14.0

and half a dozen other countries.

1:15.6

Who could have seen that coming?

1:17.0

Subscribe to the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast on Apple Podcasts,

1:20.9

Stephanie Miller.com or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

1:24.0

You know, favorite podcasts.

1:45.8

So friends, Donald Trump's dirty DOJ leadership has not only decimated the civil rights division at the Department of Justice, but they've actually weaponized that division to perpetrate civil rights abuses. Like vindictively investigating

1:54.2

former Trump administration official Cassidy Hutchinson, who, you'll probably recall, bravely testified before the January 6th House

2:06.2

Select Committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

2:12.1

I just sat down with Sky Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, and Reagan Rush, a former DOJ attorney

2:22.5

who served in the Civil Rights Division for more than 15 years representing the interests

2:28.8

of the American people.

2:31.1

And we discussed Donald Trump's attack on the civil rights division, his decimation,

2:39.5

his attempted destruction of that storied division.

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