Harmeet Dhillon: Trump confidant resigns

This makes Dhillon the first senior Trump confidant to resign after Republicans lost their majorities in both chambers of the US Congress in Tuesday's elections. According to the Reuters news agency, Dhillon had already informed the White House in October that he would resign after the midterms. Citing two anonymous sources, Reuters reports that she was frustrated by a lack of promotions.

Dhillon had previously headed the Civil Rights Department in the Justice Department and transformed it in Trump's interests. The area was created during the country's civil rights movement to protect the rights of minorities. Critics accuse her of having abandoned this traditional mission in favor of conservative causes.

She ensured that the focus was no longer on combating discrimination against ethnic minorities and investigating controversial police practices, but rather on issues that were a priority for Trump. For example, Dhillon was responsible for the crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at universities after the outbreak of the Gaza war.

Dhillon repeatedly clashed with US universities over their admissions regulations, which allegedly disadvantaged white students. She filed a lawsuit against the elite Harvard University for allegedly tolerating anti-Semitism. The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge.

Dhillon had accused the Biden administration of pursuing a misguided liberal agenda. In an interview with the conservative commentator Glenn Beck, she said with regard to her department: "The job here is to enforce federal civil rights laws - not woke ideology."

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