TRUMP'S DOJ RETALIATES AGAINST ANTI-KKK POVERTY LAW CENTER

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — the same man who spent years as Donald Trump's personal criminal defense attorney before being handed the keys to the nation's top law enforcement agency — just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for fraud. 

The alleged crime? 

Paying informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other violent white supremacist organizations. The SPLC says that intelligence was regularly shared with local and federal law enforcement.

But in Trump's America, tracking the KKK is the crime.

This is the same playbook we watched a YouTuber named Nick Shirley run in Minnesota — viral videos, explosive "fraud" accusations, often without definitive evidence, aimed squarely at Somali-owned businesses and day care centers. 

Those accusations triggered state crackdowns, ICE operations, and a climate of terror for an entire community. Day cares targeted in those videos ended up suing the state of Minnesota just to defend their right to exist. We have seen with our own eyes what happens when this kind of politically manufactured "fraud" narrative gets unleashed — people lose their livelihoods, families are torn apart, and in the worst cases, people die. 

ICE raids in Minnesota have not been "enforcement." They have been the weaponization of government power against a community that was targeted by a propaganda campaign.
Now the federal government wants to call it fraud to pay someone to tell you where the Klan is meeting and what they are planning.

Let that sink in.

Because here is what the FBI's own history looks like when it comes to paid informants: 

*The FBI employed a paid Klan informant named Gary Thomas Rowe — and on the government's dime, Rowe was told in advance about the attack on the Freedom Riders and the FBI chose not to intervene. 

*That same paid informant was believed to be involved in the bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s motel room. 

*The FBI also believed one of its informants purchased the dynamite used in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that murdered four little girls. 

*And when civil rights volunteer Viola Liuzzo was chased down and shot dead on a highway after the Selma to Montgomery march, Gary Thomas Rowe — the FBI's paid informant — was in the car. He was not just present. He was a participant. And what did the federal government do with him afterward? 

They put him in witness protection and gave him a job as a deputy U.S. Marshal.

So to be absolutely clear about the rules as this government has enforced them throughout history: 

Paying an informant to infiltrate the KKK and track violence against Black Americans is fraud. Paying an informant who helped carry out that violence, covered it up, and got rewarded for it — that is federal law enforcement doing its job.

The SPLC was monitoring extremists to protect people. The FBI was paying extremists to participate in terrorism against Black civil rights leaders and then shielding them from accountability.

Todd Blanche and Donald Trump are not prosecuting fraud. They are prosecuting the people who had the audacity to take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously, using a legal system that has never once held itself to the same standard. 

This is not justice. This is retaliation dressed in a suit, wielded by a former defense attorney who made partner by keeping the most powerful man in America out of prison.