The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on 11 federal counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. The Department of Justice alleges more than $3 million was funneled to people embedded with Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups by the very organization that spent decades branding conservative groups like Tea Party Patriots Action, Family Research Council, Turning Point USA, and Moms for Liberty as "hate."
In this segment, Washington Examiner Commentary Editor Conn Carroll joins Jenny Beth Martin to unpack the news. Conn previously served as communications director for Senator Mike Lee and is a graduate of the Antonin Scalia School of Law. He calls the SPLC a "hate fraud factory" and walks through how the organization's false "hate maps" have been used by federal agencies, including USAID and the FBI under the Biden administration, to de-list, defund, and target legitimate conservative voices.
Jenny Beth also raises the concern that textbooks and school systems across the country have cited the SPLC as an authoritative source. Conn and Jenny Beth discuss whether the Department of Education should act to stop school districts from using SPLC materials to spread disinformation.
The SPLC has approximately $1 billion in endowment funds. The question now is whether the mainstream media that has cited the SPLC for years will treat this indictment the way they would for any other organization charged with defrauding donors of millions.
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00:00 — SPLC Indicted: 11 Federal Counts
00:45 — Hate Fraud Factory: The Charlottesville Connection
01:40 — How SPLC Targeted Conservative Groups
02:30 — Trump's Dismantling of SPLC's Power
03:25 — USAID and FBI Partnerships Gone
04:10 — Stopping SPLC in Schools
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