Trump Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center in frame-up to aid fascist groups

The charges, announced by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, turn the SPLC’s use of informants inside violent far-right groups into a supposed fraud against donors, under conditions in which the Trump administration itself is packed with fascist operatives and is seeking to rehabilitate the very forces the SPLC has exposed for decades. The 14-page indictment, filed in the Middle District of Alabama, charges the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to banks and money laundering conspiracy. Its central allegation is that the organization solicited funds to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly paying informants inside those groups. The indictment lists informants associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, American Front and the online leadership group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.