Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.
The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.
1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.
The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…
A reminder that the number one domestic terror threat in America remains white supremacist and right-wing terrorism.
How many times has the Trump Administration talked about this threat? What have they done to stop it?
Oh yeah, they're part of MAGA. Nevermind.
Let's go after SPLC instead!
gotta respect kash patel for trying to go with "the splc is funding white supremacy (derogatory)" as a federal charge
Indictment of @splcenter.org is based on clear false narrative.
False: DOJ and Kash Patel's claim that SPLC supported white supremacist groups via paying informants.
Reality:
“We frequently shared what we learned from informants with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI."
i have a variety of gripes about SPLC but this is Some Bullshit and i might have to start giving them money again
its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now
The theory of the case -- that the SPLC defrauded donors by promising to "dismantle" hate groups while secretly paying informants inside said hate groups, a tactic that it has carried out for nearly half a century -- is completely absurd.
I used to live not to far from the SPLC headquarters and read their magazine and probably the thing they are most up-front to donors about is establishing an intelligence network to monitor the far-right
The Trump regime doesn’t like the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling hate groups as hate groups, so it’s weaponizing the Justice Department to try to destroy the SPLC. This is DOJ taking the side of the Klan.
the extremists the govt alleges have been paid snitches for the SPLC for years are not named in the indictment but there is enough info to identify them if you have some knowledge of the organizations involved... a couple of racists are about to get a lot of angry phone calls from their friends
Guys they’re charging SPLC with wire fraud on the theory that it was a knowing material falsehood which induced donors to donate for SPLC to say they were “dismantling” hate groups while also paying informants in said groups, which DoJ is saying SPLC thereby funneled money to said groups
This is about exposing the SPLC's informants in right-wing extremist orgs and driving them out so they can plot in secret. The bullshit criminal charges are just a bonus.
read through the SPLC indictment and while it seems plausible enough to a jury i suspect that it will not survive first contact with actual court
So Trump’s cocksucker Todd and KA$HLOL are indicting the SPLC for tracking and investigating right wing hate groups, is that right?
Look, you can't believe anything the government says, much less Kash Patel, but also... we all know there's a lot of grifting in the "countering violent extremism" nonprofit space and antifa's been howling about how terrible the SPLC are for decades.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...
See this photo?
These are the people the SPLC investigates.
The degenerate extremist scum that are hell bent on violence.
The SPLC is a private intelligence organization. When you give to a org that prominently advertises that it has an Intelligence Project, it's a fair bet that they have informants and maybe some of them are paid.
Full SPLC Indictment.
TLDR: Ludicrous theory of the case on the "fraud" part. DOJ desperately wants to get its hands on the civil rights group's money.
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.
In general, Trump DOJ's effort to weaponize DOJ founders on the incompetence of MAGAt lawyers (as Chad Mizelle was quoted as confessing). But this SPLC indictment? Shit. Evil genius.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."
It was @ryanjreilly.com who grilled Patel in this revealing moment of self-contradiction during today's SPLC press conference.
