Trump’s DOJ dismantles hate-crime prevention office and pretends nothing happened
A whistleblower claims the Trump Justice Department effectively eliminated the government’s only office dedicated to preventing hate crimes and community violence, cutting it from 57 staff to just one.
Then, according to internal warnings and documents now surfacing in court, DOJ leadership allegedly hid those warnings from a federal judge while insisting everything was normal.
The insider account alleged that CRS leaders sent formal warnings to top DOJ brass saying that slashing the agency from 57 employees down to one was flatly illegal under the Civil Rights Act, the Church Arson Prevention Act, and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Those warnings allegedly fell on deaf ears, the official alleged.
The whistleblower also claimed that Trump’s DOJ deliberately omitted those warning memos from court records and a federal judge had to force officials to hand them over. Even then, DOJ allegedly applied heavy redactions to bury the damning internal dissent, the documents said.
Furthermore, DOJ’s claimed “restoration” of CRS appears to be pure theater. The employees brought back reportedly haven’t been allowed to do any actual CRS work, the documents allege.
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If your plan is to stop hate crimes, apparently, step one is eliminating the office that stops hate crimes. Step two is pretending the office still exists. Not sure there is a step three.