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Memories. It’s strange how our brain files them away. Embarrassingly, I often forget the name of someone I just met minutes earlier. However, I can recall details of political dirty tricks. The lies, deceit and the bastards behind them as if they happened yesterday.
It was in August of 2017, I wrote about the skullduggery of the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the hate activities of which were identified with the group that is now – nearly 10 years later – finally revealed in an 11-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Alabama’s Middle District.
The hate is directed at President Trump. His America first agenda is in the way of their socialist progressive ideology and is fostering hate on the left in Congress and the groups they support who are against everything “Trump,” from ICE to his decision to end Iran’s hold on the Middle East.
I haven’t seen the manifesto of Cole Allen, who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the president at the Washington Correspondents dinner on Saturday night, but I’m told his hate of Trump will be obvious when I do.
“I don’t think this should be lost on anyone either, the fact that we have a third assassination attempt on President Trump,” said Ohio’s Rep. Jim Jordan.
“In that same week we learn that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been paying and generating hate, the very hate they’re supposed to be fighting, and they’ve been charged by the Justice Department.”
The hate extends to MAGA supporters of Trump, like Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA organization, who the president credits with his victory in 2024.
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party).
I recall how the leftist Arizona Republic was hoodwinked by the SPLC, accepting its full-page advertisement seeking financial support. Actor George Clooney and his wife donated $1 million, as did Apple CEO Tim Cook.
When I read that J.P. Morgan donated $500,000, I began to think how its clients indirectly became SPLC sponsors.
“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”
The SPLC later fed on President Biden’s frequent references to white supremacy, citing it as the greatest danger we face.
You may recall how he said he decided to run for president after the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
Knowing Trump’s comment on that rally was not only misquoted, and debunked, Biden repeated it during the CNN debate:
“People coming out of the woods carrying swastikas on torches, torches and singing the same anti-Semitic bile they sang when back in Germany and a young woman got killed I spoke to the mother and they asked him what do you think of those people…and he (Trump) said I think a fine people on both sides.”
He ordered Sec Def Austin to conduct a thorough survey of extremism in the military.
In his conclusion, Austin noted, “Extremist activity within the Department of Defense is rare.”
But soon thereafter, black Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown declared, “White male population will decline as other demographics increase.”
Although later promoted as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brown was relieved of his position by incoming SecDef Hegseth, as the ill-advised DEI was discontinued in the Trump administration.
But today, even with the revelation of the shady financial dealings of the SPLC, Democrats are in denial as they heap praise on the organization.
President Trump “is seeking to undermine civil society organizations like the SPLC, and to reduce our ability to defend ourselves against the virus of racial violence,” said Maryland Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin, who has failed twice in his effort to impeach Trump.
Progressive gang member Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal has also been extremely vocal in support of the SPC, scolding fellow lawmakers for scrutinizing the SPLC’s finances.
Democrat Minority Leaders Hakeim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer could tone down the hate rhetoric, including the statement that their party would file an order of impeachment against Trump on the first day they return to leadership.
While President Trump is at the center of Hate, Inc’s agenda, they hate ICE and its deportations, hate Israel and the Jews, hate the church and religion, hate school choice, hate patriotism and voting by citizens only, and hate those who oppose gender transformation.
Don’t hold your breath, but it was interesting to note that Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wrote: “Please stop trying to murder the president” on social media.
(I apologize to journalist/author Matt Taibi for “borrowing” the title of his book, ”HATE INC.: Why today’s media makes us despise one another” for the headline on this blog.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
