John Oliver Calls Out The ‘Bizarro World’ of Trump’s Department of Justice

Martin HolmesMon, August 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM UTC

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John Oliver spent a large segment of Sunday’s (August 9) episode of Last Week Tonight on Donald Trump‘s Department of Justice and the “bizarro-world version of civil rights.”

The topic began with interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, and her collapsed case against former Olympian David Hearn. As Oliver noted, Pirro was moved to drop the charges against Hearn, the man federal prosecutors had accused of damaging the National Mall’s recently renovated Reflecting Pool, despite repeatedly claiming “he damaged the pool.”

“Don’t take what I’m about to say out of context, but we shouldn’t always have to believe women,” Oliver joked. “Because, sometimes, women, like Jeanine Pirro, and many men, can be, and again, don’t quote me on this, dumb as f***, wrong as s***, and louder than a drunk parakeet.”

A judge rejected Pirro’s claims, and in a 20-page court filing, wrote, “The damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.”

Following the judge’s decision, President Trump said he was “disappointed” in Pirro, saying that she “choked” and “folded like an umbrella,” a turn of phrase Oliver found amusing.

“Honestly, in another universe, a much better one, Trump would be a sassy upstairs neighbor in a long-running sitcom,” the comedian said. “Sadly, instead, he’s the president and his bitchy quips about being bummed that the U.S. Attorney for D.C. isn’t getting the results that he personally wants are signs of a slow-moving constitutional crisis.”

Oliver said there are countless examples of the DOJ “acting at Trump’s behest,” noting how the president’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, was recently confirmed as Attorney General.

“In normal times, the DOJ does some incredibly important work, but sadly, under Donald Trump, while political prosecutions have risen, other genuinely important ones have either been messed up or just tossed aside,” the HBO host continued.

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He added, “For all the headlines about bulls*** cases like the reflecting pool and the ‘sandwich murderer’ [the man who threw a sandwich at ICE officers], the real decay at the department has unfortunately gotten much less attention. Which isn’t 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.”

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Oliver then turned his attention to the new head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, who recently said that some of the biggest social justice issues facing Americans today are, “They 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’t agree with them.”

“My audience is not pretending to find my jokes funny,” Oliver retorted. “They are simply laughing out of an abundance of politeness until I get to the sad facts and numbers that we all know they came to see.”

Oliver called Dhillon’s comments “a bizarro-world version of civil rights where the only ones that matter are those of conservatives,” which mostly appears to be multiple investigations into potential voting fraud.

“Notably, their record in those cases is 21 straight losses,” Oliver added.

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