\n<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump commented on the federal charges facing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) early Friday morning, arguing that the leftist group\u2019s potential fraud \u201cis another Democrat Hoax\u201d that places the 2020 election results into doubt.<\/p>\n
Trump made the comment in a post<\/a> on Truth Social, marking the first time he has publicly addressed the allegations against the SPLC, which was charged earlier this week with multiple counts of wire fraud over its scheme to pay the leaders of multiple white supremacist groups in exchange for information.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD. This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIf it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n The SPLC, which started in the 1970s as an organization to push back against racism and segregation in the South, has been paying leaders of extremist groups for decades, according to an indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on Tuesday. The indictment states that the SPLC secretly used donor cash to pay so-called informants affiliated with racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, over $3 million between 2014 and 2023.<\/p>\n The SPLC is closely aligned with Democratic Party goals and talking points and has a political action fund that almost exclusively endorses<\/a> Democrats in state and local elections in the South.<\/p>\n