{"id":36359,"date":"2026-08-10T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36359"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:25:30","slug":"john-oliver-eviscerates-trumps-bizarro-world-doj-on-last-week-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36359","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Eviscerates Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Bizarro World&#8221; DOJ On &#8216;Last Week Tonight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/last-week-tonight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-week-tonight\" data-tag=\"last-week-tonight\">Last Week Tonight<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-oliver\" data-tag=\"john-oliver\">John Oliver<\/a> wasted no time jumping right into his main topic: the \u201cbizarro-world version of civil rights\u201d that he says Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice is persuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn normal times, the DOJ does some incredibly important work. But sadly under Donald Trump, while political prosecutions have risen, other genuinely important one have either been messed up or just tossed aside,\u201d said Oliver. \u201cFor all the headlines about bullsh*t cases like the reflecting pool and the \u2018sandwich murderer\u2019 [the man who famously threw a sandwich at ICE officers], the real decay at the department has unfortunately gotten much less attention. Which isn\u2019t good, because after [Pam] Bondi took over, the agency began shutting down more than 23,000 investigations into things like terrorism, white collar crime, drugs and other offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oliver went on to point out that the new head of the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, recently said the biggest social justice issues facing Americans in 2026 are the following: \u201cThey have to lie every day about pronouns. They have to lie about the person in the cubicle next to them being qualified. They have to laugh at certain kinds of jokes [from] late-night comedians, even when they don\u2019t agree with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oliver took particular umbrage at that last one, but called all Dhillon\u2019s assertions \u201ca bizarro-world version of civil rights where the only ones that matter are those of conservatives.\u201d He cited as an example the the Civil Rights Division\u2019s investigations into potential voting fraud. \u201cNotably,\u201d said the host, \u201ctheir record in those cases is 21 straight losses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time jumping right into his main topic: the \u201cbizarro-world version of civil rights\u201d that he says Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice is persuing. \u201cIn normal times, the DOJ does some incredibly important work. 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