Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, told Newsmax on Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey was treated properly at his arraignment — calling it a sharp contrast to what she described as the “shock-and-awe” arrests of several Trump-era officials and supporters under the Biden administration.
“It definitely was a violation of protocols to have these sort of shock-and-awe armed guards and CNN watching,” Dhillon said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”
“When Roger Stone was arrested, having people like Jeffrey Clark out in the street and his little children terrorized while the media is watching — that’s an outrageous abuse of power and it’s overreach.”
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