On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time jumping right into his main topic: the “bizarro-world version of civil rights” that he says Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is persuing.
“In 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,” said Oliver. “For all the headlines about bullsh*t cases like the reflecting pool and the ‘sandwich murderer’ [the man who famously threw a sandwich at ICE officers], the real decay at the department has unfortunately
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