Taking $3 million from donors under the pretense of fighting hate and giving it to those who are infamous for stoking hate is the ultimate hypocrisy, FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday, discussing the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “Money doesn’t lie,” Patel explained in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity”: “The charity that supposedly fought the Klan - funded the Klan. “The charity that supposedly fought Neo-Nazis - funded Neo-Nazis. “The Southern Poverty Law Center led a methodical, calculated scheme to defraud their donor base of $3 million.” The FBI director said that The Southern Poverty Law Center: Lied to donors. Used an illicit banking structure system to create shell companies. Used the shell companies to hide its money and the fact that it was sent to infamous hate groups. Sent the money specifically for the purpose of sowing discord and hate into the U.S. Patel called SPLC’s behavior “the ultimate definition of hypocrisy,” since the organization was “paying the very villains of our society they supposedly wanted to protect us from,” Patel said: “If you look at the indictment produced by the Department of Justice and the FBI you will see that these banking institutions tie directly to the funding mechanisms, which the Southern Poverty Law Center used to fund at least eight hate groups they supposedly wanted to take out - but they were paying the very villains of our society they supposedly wanted to protect us from.”   The money doesn’t lie. The evidence shows the charity who supposedly fought the Klan - FUNDED the Klan. The charity who supposedly fought Neo-nazis - FUNDED Neo-nazis. The SPLC engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, funded the very hate groups they… pic.twitter.com/azUPhfEfgM — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 23, 2026   Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC allegedly secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including: Ku Klux Klan United Klans of America Unite the Right National Alliance National Socialist Movement Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party) American Front Charges in the 11-count grand jury indictment issued Tuesday include: Wire fraud, False statements to a federally insured bank, and Conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.   “These people knew what they were doing. It was calculated,” Patel said, noting that it’s impossible to accidentally set up shell companies, deceive the financial banking sector, solicit thousands of donations and millions of dollars and use the media to promote lies without creating a sophisticated complex system. The SPLC relied on the fake news media and friends in Congress to promote its narrative and lies, Director Patel said. “This was done in a caldron of hate by the very group that said they were going to eliminate hate,” Patel said.

With The View giving up the practice of issuing legal notes last year, they’ve effectively let themselves off the leash to make up and push whatever ridiculous reality they wanted. On Thursday’s episode, ABC News co-host Joy Behar suggested that President Trump was trying to kill everyone. Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg was busy suggesting that Trump had fired “all the women” from his administration. During a segment where they once again decried Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Behar suggested that his appointment and other Trump actions gave her the impression Trump wanted everyone dead: BEHAR: Sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us. GOLDBERG: You think? BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble.   ABC News co-host Joy Behar suggests the Trump administration is literally trying to kill everyone: "BEHAR: You know, sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us. GOLDBERG: You think? BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with… pic.twitter.com/71sZMfMtnz — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 23, 2026   Behar also bashed Kennedy for his past battles with addition, seemingly arguing that he wasn’t allowed to come back from it. “But here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict … And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. Do not put up with this! We're in a lot of trouble!” she rhetorically sneered. Giving an unintended example of someone she felt did deserve grace, later in the show Behar downplayed the child molestation allegations against deceases pop star Michael Jackson. “Nobody's perfect. [Composer Richard] Wagner was a Nazi, they still listen to his music,” she declared.   To downplay the allegations of child molestation against Michael Jackson, Behar claims German composer Richard Wagner was a Nazi, but he dies in 1883, almost 40 years before the founding of the Nazi Party: "Nobody's perfect. Wagner was a Nazi, they still listen to his music." pic.twitter.com/GBau9BrGUM — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 23, 2026   Besides giving a free pass to an accused pedophile and attacking a former addict, Behar’s invocation of German composer Richard Wagner was also factually false. Wagner died in 1883, nearly 40 years before the Nazi Party was founded in 1920. Adolf Hitler was indeed a fan of Wagner and made his music a fixture in German culture, Wagner should not be abled a Nazi because what a fan of his did decades after his passing. Back in the Kennedy minute-of-hate segment, Goldberg demanded that he’d be fired. Her argument hinged on the lie that Trump had fired all the women he had hired to fill out his administration: HOSTIN: And he did and now he's in a position that he’s so deeply unqualified for and now Senator Cassidy is questioning him, but to what avail? I think we're stuck with this guy. BEHAR: No. No. GOLDBERG: No. Listen, they're getting rid of people left and right. Get rid of some of the men. You got rid of all the women. Get rid of some of the men.   ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump "got rid of all the women" in his administration. "They're getting rid of people left and right. Get rid of some of the men now. You got rid of all the women. Get rid of some of the men," she claimed while demanding RFK Jr. be… pic.twitter.com/ryfIQAiUb7 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 23, 2026   Again, that’s not true. Just because Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer had left the administration, it didn’t mean Trump had fired “all” the women. It;s worth the reminder that ABC News regards The View as a news program. That’s why it’s important for NewsBusters to put a spotlight on the crazy things they say. ABC is laundering nonsense and propaganda through them. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View April 23, 2026 11:06:50 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG [speaking to camera with a message for Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)]: I'm really mad at you too. I’m really made at you JOY BEHAR: Sometimes I feel like they're trying to kill us. GOLDBERG: You think? BEHAR: Yeah. I mean, you got - you know, Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble. But here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict, a -- he swam in sewage. Who does that?! Who does that?! And that snorted cocaine off of a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. Do not put up with this! We're in a lot of trouble! Don't we -- don't people see that?! (…) 11:09:25 a.m. Eastern ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: RFK lied to him. He effectively lied to him. [Crosstalk] SARA HAINES: He said he wasn't going to mess with the vaccinations. SUNNY HOSTIN: And he did and now he's in a position that he’s so deeply unqualified for and now Senator Cassidy is questioning him, but to what avail? I think we're stuck with this guy. BEHAR: No. No. GOLDBERG: No. Listen, they're getting rid of people left and right. Get rid of some of the men. You got rid of all the women. Get rid of some of the men. [Applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: Very quickly though. This week, the administration appointed a highly qualified director of the CDC. GOLDBERG: Yes. HOSTIN: Dr. Erica Schwartz. FARAH GRIFFIN: I was a little bit surprised. HOSTIN: And I wonder if she's going to last. FARAH GRIFFIN: Let's confirm somebody who’s credentialed and ready to do the job. HOSTIN: She's actually a doctor. GOLDBERG: You know, wouldn’t that be something? Somebody who actually knew the job. BEHAR: How about a president like that? GOLDBERG: What a concept? We'll be right back. (…) 11:18:32 a.m. Eastern HOSTIN: By the way, Nia Long, that was the actress who plays Katherine Jackson, she sort of intimated that there may be a sequel and that that sequel may be able to address that part of his life. And so, I think people can see this movie and feel comfortable. BEHAR: Nobody's perfect. Wagner was a Nazi, they still listen to his music. (…)

Back in September, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel got himself suspended for remarks he made about the political identity of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, but on Thursday, he was able to turn that into a Peabody Award for allegedly becoming a free speech martyr. To recap, Kimmel declared on September 15 that "we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” There was no joke. There was no satire. Kimmel made a good, old-fashioned declarative statement about Kirk’s alleged assassin who, even at the time, was known to be on the left. Nevertheless, Peabody praised Kimmel: For more than 23 years, Jimmy Kimmel Live! has used humor and satire to critique powerful figures and reflect American culture, embracing the responsibility of comedy to reveal truths amid political volatility. The show faced unprecedented challenges as President Trump’s second administration came to power, culminating in a brief suspension by ABC (at the behest of the FCC) that sparked a bipartisan defense of free expression on the airwaves, ultimately reinforcing the importance of satire as a vital form of democratic speech.   Jimmy Kimmel claims "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" and "This is not how an adult… pic.twitter.com/KMhnskaYWD — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 16, 2025   Other 2026 winners included four anti-Israel Gaza-related pieces, including two by Al Jazeera English, and three LGBTQ-related winners, including Netflix’s Heated Rivalry. PBS’s New Hour was recognized for its immigration coverage, and Frontline: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram documentary was acknowledged for “revealing the vulnerabilities of youth to online fearmongering rooted in racism, antisemitism, and homophobia.” The Atlanta-Journal Constitution was also recognized for its ICE coverage. In addition to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC and its local affiliates received two other awards. KABC Los Angeles was honored for its coverage of the wildfires that included a focus on “environmental justice” and KMBC Kansas City’s report that “at least 102 individuals across 29 states died or were injured due to the misuse of restraint chairs by law enforcement, often involving excessive force such as beating or tasing restrained inmates, highlighting significant gaps in training and policy.” Left-wing Christians were the only Christians worth honoring. That included one documentary by the Wonder Media Network and iHeart Media that focused on “the radical Catholic left’s resistance during the Vietnam War” and another by Eureka Street Productions about “the powerful stories preserved in 1,200 cassette tapes from a queer church in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis, highlighting the resilience and creativity of LGBTQ Christians amid loss and isolation.” Like so many famous awards, the Peabody Awards are now just an opportunity for liberals to give awards to other liberals.

The April 21 indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) doesn’t just threaten a major organ of the left’s lawfare machine; it also puts in jeopardy one of the corporate news media’s favorite sources of activist data. For decades, but particularly since the first Trump administration, the SPLC has enjoyed a perverse symbiotic relationship with the left-wing press. Their absurd “hate group” designations provided the media with ammunition against their right-wing targets, and the media in turn held up the SPLC as the gold standard of analysis and objectivity. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS Since the start of President Trump’s first term, cable and broadcast networks have cited the SPLC 392 times. SPLC stats were cited 6,600% more than average during the week surrounding the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. CNN and MS NOW have aired a two-minute long SPLC advertisement hundreds of times in the past 24 months, with the estimated ad revenue totalling in the millions of dollars. MRC analysts combed through a combination of SnapStream and Nexis recordings of all coverage on liberal cable (CNN and MSNBC/MS Now) and broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS) networks from January 20, 2017, through April 20, 2026. Since the start of President Trump’s first term, those networks have cited the SPLC as an authoritative source a whopping 392 times, in addition to conducting 44 friendly interviews with SPLC personnel. MS NOW (including when it was still MSNBC) was responsible for 246 of those citations (63%, or nearly two-thirds), as well as 35 interviews (80%). CNN cited SPLC research or proclamations a total of 120 times, but aired just six of the 44 interviews. Broadcast networks were responsible for the remaining 28 citations and three interviews. Notably, 54 of the total citations (~14%) occurred during a single seven-day period surrounding the August, 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, which the SPLC allegedly helped fund, according to the indictment. Additionally, eleven of their 44 interviews (25%) occurred during that same week. Despite accounting for more than one-eight of all instances in which the SPLC was cited, that single week comprised just 0.2 percent of the 3,377-day scope of this study. That comes out to a 6,600 percent uptick in exposure for the SPLC, as a result of an event that they themselves allegedly secretly funded —quite the return on investment. In late 2024, CNN and MSNBC began running a 120-second fundraising advertisement for the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s since aired hundreds of times, meaning multiple millions of dollars in advertising revenue paid to these networks by the SPLC, absent some kind of special arrangement. Since the indictment was announced, MS NOW has continued to run these ads. Given the corporate press’s incessant, gullible (or perhaps cynical?) regurgitation of the SPLC’s assertions, this indictment draws into question a large chunk of their prior reporting. So far, most of the media have attempted to downplay or dismiss the allegations against their favorite shakedown outfit. The only stand-out exception has been a Wednesday CBS Evening News report on the charges against the SPLC. It’s anyone’s guess whether the other networks will eventually follow suit.

Despite listing the charges in the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center and without even questioning their validity, the Associated Press writes it off as a 'political weapon' on the part of the Trump administration. The AP's Collin Binkley, Alanna Durkin Richer, and Rebecca Boone came up with this remarkable summary of the indictment on Tuesday in "Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants." They gave an inclusive summary of the serious charges against the SPLC ...before essentially  writing them off as politically motivated. The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples. “The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said. The civil rights group faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought in the federal court in Alabama, where the organization is based. ...The Justice Department alleges the SPLC made false statements to banks in order to set up accounts used to funnel money to informants. The group created bank accounts for fictitious entities such as “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse” that were used to send money from donors to informants, in a scheme to conceal the money’s actual purpose, the indictment alleges. Prosecutors say the group never disclosed to donors details of the informant program. So what was the takeaway by AP on these charges? The investigation could add to concerns that Trump’s Republican administration is using the Justice Department to go after conservative opponents and his critics. It follows a number of other investigations into Trump foes that have raised questions about whether the law enforcement agency has been turned into a political weapon.... The center regularly condemns Trump’s rhetoric and policies around voting rights, immigration and other issues Note that the paragraph above was not in quotes so they weren't quoting the SPLC president or Democrats.  It is definitely an AP opinion hiding behind the worn "some say" type shtick which is not something they are supposed to engage in, namely editorializing in news stories. However, we have been seeing more and more of just such editorializing by the AP lately.