President Trump on Friday called for the 2020 election to be “permanently wiped from the books” if the Southern Poverty Law Center is totaling $3 million to members of white supremacist groups that the organization claims to fight.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD,” Trump write in a fiery Truth Social post.
“This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others.”
The SPLC was indicted Tuesday — with prosecutors claiming $3 million worth of donated funds was secretly funneled to groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the National Socialist Movement, United Klans of America, and Unite the Right, between 2014 and 2023.
The SPLC prides itself on fighting white supremacy and in the 1980s, the organization started to operate a covert network of informants who were either linked with or had infiltrated violent extremist groups.
The indictment alleges that those informants, known as field sources or Fs, were paid in a “clandestine manner,” all while donors continued to pump money into the organization under the belief that funds would be used to “dismantle” such organizations.
A former director of the Aryan Nations, who also was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was featured in the SPLC’s “Extremist Files” — despite getting paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016, the court docs claim.
The organization is accused of secretly paying $19,000 to an informant — a felong convicted for cross burning — between 2016 and 2019.
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair claimed the group was being targeted for “prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups.”
But Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters the organization was not “dismantling these groups.”
“It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” he said.
“There is nothing political about this indictment or this investigation.”
Last October, FBI Director Kash Patel severed the agency’s relationship with the SPLC.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” he write on X at the time.
“Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”