Nicolle Wallace on Trump Tapping Harmeet Dhillon to Run DOJ Civil Rights Division: ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Hen House’

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WALLACE: “For the next 4 years, there will be a lot to cover and report on in the category of norm busting and grifting, unqualified individuals doing previously unheard of things atop government agencies while Donald Trump crows about a so-called mandate and Republicans in Congress feel around for whatever remains of their sense of duty and accountability to the Constitution and the rule of law. For that reason, it will be important to track mile markers or signposts along various trajectories. One we have focused on a whole lot around here is democratic norms versus autocratic impulses, and in that category, Donald Trump made a very big move yesterday, tapping someone who departs perhaps as dramatically as any other pick from the normal parameters for the individual overseeing the Civil Rights division at the Department of Justice. In her case, Trump is letting the fox guard the hen house, tapping a loyalist who has at every single turn since the 2020 election and the emergence of the Big Lie enabled Donald Trump’s attacks on voting and democratic norms in the name of Trump’s lie about voter fraud, leading to his defeat in 2020. Her name is Harmeet Dhillon and she is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the DoJ Civil Rights Division.”