DR. BEN CARSON: I know how bad the SPLC was, it came after me and put me at risk |
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DR. BEN CARSON: I know how bad the SPLC was, it came after me and put me at risk
The 11-count fraud and money-laundering indictment alleges the SPLC bankrolled the KKK and a Charlottesville rally organizer
By Ben Carson, M.D. Fox News
Published May 1, 2026 5:00am EDT
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Rep Jim Jordan requests documents on SPLC over alleged payments to extremists
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett discuss Jordan’s request for documents related to allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid extremist groups as well as the DOJ indictment of James Comey on ‘Hannity.’
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For years now, the only question worth asking about the Southern Poverty Law Center has been whether the SPLC had become a cynical grift for the radical left … or a hate group itself. The latest findings from a Justice Department investigation indicate it’s both.
The Justice Department’s 11-count fraud and money-laundering indictment of the SPLC last week may have shocked the country. But it did not surprise anyone who has paid attention to the organization’s long descent into alleged corruption — least of all those of us the SPLC slandered.
In 2014, the SPLC added me to their list of dangerous extremists, for the "hate crime" of being a Black, Christian conservative. They called me a bigot knowing that it was false and knowing that it would put my family and me in danger.
They knew that because two years prior, a........