DR. BEN CARSON: I know how bad the SPLC was, it came after me and put me at risk

For years now, the lone question worthy asking astir the Southern Poverty Law Center has been whether the SPLC had go a cynical grift for the extremist near … oregon a hatred radical itself. The latest findings from a Justice Department probe bespeak it’s both.

The Justice Department’s 11-count fraud and money-laundering indictment of the SPLC past week whitethorn person shocked the country. But it did not astonishment anyone who has paid attraction to the organization’s agelong descent into alleged corruption — slightest of each those of america the SPLC slandered.

In 2014, the SPLC added maine to their database of unsafe extremists, for the "hate crime" of being a Black, Christian conservative. They called maine a bigot knowing that it was mendacious and knowing that it would enactment my household and maine successful danger.

They knew that due to the fact that 2 years prior, a gay-rights activistic opened occurrence astatine the blimpish Family Research Council aft te SPLC falsely branded them a hatred group. But the SPLC didn’t care. Because — arsenic we spot present — spreading hatred was the SPLC’s halfway concern each along.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke during a property league alongside FBI Director Kash Patel astatine the Department of Justice connected April 21, 2026, successful Washington, D.C., pursuing the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center connected charges related to wealth laundering. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

According to the indictment, the enactment doled retired much than $3 cardinal to existent hatred groups similar the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party. They allegedly bankrolled the "imperial wizard" of the United Klans of America and 1 of the organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally successful Charlottesville, Virginia.

Most Americans would telephone a expected civilian rights enactment secretly financing White supremacist unit disgusting. To the SPLC, it was an investment. The pursuing year, their revenues astir tripled from $51 cardinal to much than $130 million.

What the indictment shows is that the SPLC is not an anti-bigotry enactment astatine all. It’s a bigotry profiteer. It profits disconnected the leftist communicative of invisible "systemic" racism, rampant KKK coercion and imagined convulsive homophobia. While the remainder of the state recoiled successful fearfulness astatine what happened successful Charlottesville, Va., the SPLC was secretly cheering.

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Despite the SPLC’s Cash for Klansmen program, the United States is the slightest racist state successful the world. In the 21st period we are mostly surviving Martin Luther King’s imagination of a colorblind society. That’s a tremendous accomplishment for a federation that had truthful acold to travel connected that people successful the past century.

In fact, determination is truthful small bigotry successful America contiguous that the SPLC reportedly had to fabricate it. To hate-hustling grifters similar the SPLC, motivation advancement poses an existential threat. If they ever admitted the truth, they would suffer their wealth and their power. So, they perpetuate their lucrative lie.

It’s the aforesaid scam the near has tally for years now. Congressional Democrats knew "Russiagate" was a hoax earlier they impeached President Donald Trump for it. Liberal nationalist wellness officials knew COVID-19 was a manmade microorganism leaked from a Chinese laboratory erstwhile they said it came from a nutrient market.

They knew President Joe Biden was mentally impaired erstwhile they swore up and down helium was sharper than ever. They knew Obamacare would footwear radical disconnected their wellness security erstwhile they promised, "if you similar your program you tin support your plan." They cognize unborn babies aren’t "clumps of cells." And they cognize contiguous that "trans women" aren’t women.

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They prevarication astir these things due to the fact that they attraction much astir powerfulness than they attraction astir the truth. They can’t bushed conservatives successful honest, bully religion debate. So, they edifice to weaponized rhetoric that demonizes dissent. They kept it up adjacent aft Trump survived aggregate assassination attempts. And adjacent aft TPUSA laminitis Charlie Kirk didn’t.

What the indictment shows is that the SPLC is not an anti-bigotry enactment astatine all. It’s a bigotry profiteer.

The mainstream media ne'er calls retired the left’s lies — they amplify them. So, the near volition ne'er halt lying connected their own. They person to beryllium stopped. That means holding leftists accountable erstwhile their lies transverse the enactment from sins to alleged crimes. That’s what the Justice Department’s SPLC indictment is astir trying to fig out.

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The First Amendment protects dissent and debate. It does not support fraud, oregon incitement oregon slander. The SPLC volition person their time successful tribunal to determine wherever its actions landed.

Now that the president has survived yet different would-be assassination, disinfecting our nationalist sermon of the left’s transgression dishonesty is much urgent than ever.

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