For years the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) worked to encourage corporations and big tech to blacklist and isolate conservatives by falsely accusing them of hate or racism. Yet all the while the SPLC was allegedly paying a source to make racist online posts under its direction, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. The […]
"They are trying to steal the Governor of California primary and the Mayor of Los Angeles primary away from two great Republican candidates," the President claimed.
The Justice Department has been accused of violating grand jury secrecy rules in a scathing filing by the Southern Poverty Law Center.The longtime extremism watchdog, which is being prosecuted by the Trump administration on charges that it defrauded their donors through the use of paid informants embedded within hate groups, was hit with a superseding indictment on Tuesday.But in the filing on Wednesday evening, SPLC attorneys accused acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of blasting out a copy of the superseding indictment to the press before it was even docketed — which is not allowed under court rules."This action by Acting Attorney General Blanche’s Public Affairs Officer is all the more concerning in light of his earlier rush to begin a media campaign around the first indictment, his false statement in doing so, his need to make a correction, the motion that the SPLC filed in response, and the Court’s Order this week reminding the government of its heightened duty of candor as officers of the court," said the filing. "In light of those events, it is astounding that DOJ would not be even more vigilant in its actions directed at the media in this case. They were not."The filing asked the judge to order Blanche and his associates "to show cause to explain their conduct here, and hold a hearing to conduct targeted fact-finding to determine whether to impose appropriate sanctions against those involved."Already, the SPLC case has attracted intense controversy, as Blanche was accused of publicly lying about the case by saying on Fox News the group had not shared the information it got from informants with law enforcement — something the DOJ admitted it had done in court filings.
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The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Ku Klux Klan members for money spent on cross-burnings and materials used to make Klan garments, the Department of Justice […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) changed its website to “soften” criticism of a hate group that it wished to expand as it covertly funded racist movements, […]
Down from seven correspondents to four on “60 Minutes” after CBS News head Bari Weiss took a wrecking ball to the popular Sunday night newsmagazine, there are fears about the coming season’s launch as well as its long-term viability.According to the Washington Post, newly fired correspondent Scott Pelley “ignited a firestorm in a Monday meeting, questioning the credentials of the show’s new boss, Nick Bilton, accusing CBS News head Bari Weiss of 'murdering' the show, and demanding answers about why his colleagues, including fellow correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, were fired the previous Thursday.”The confrontation prompted media analysts to warn that "60 Minutes" could spiral into a ratings death dive—a stunning reversal for a program that has been a ratings juggernaut for decades.The tensions underlying the purge run deeper than personnel disputes. Alfonsi, Vega, and Pelley have all accused CBS News management of "interfering in its editorial work and inserting bias in an effort to appease the Trump administration"—allegations the network has strenuously denied," the Post is reporting.The report notes the stakes could hardly be higher. "60 Minutes" has been the rare CBS News program to thrive while competitors like "CBS Evening News" have languished behind ABC and NBC. The show averaged more than 9 million viewers per episode last season, a 9 percent increase from the prior year—making its current trajectory all the more catastrophic.Current and former staffers expect conditions to deteriorate further. All attention now focuses on whether the remaining correspondents—Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, L. Jon Wertheim, and contributor Norah O'Donnell—will abandon ship. Stahl, Whitaker, and O'Donnell declined to respond to inquiries Wednesday, while Wertheim refused comment.According to the Post, show production has effectively stalled. People with knowledge of the Wednesday atmosphere described a newsroom where "few people were working and the production had largely ground to a halt.""Nick Bilton has no time to lose," one former CBS News correspondent told the Post. "The next season will be highly scrutinized and even though the show is on so-called hiatus, a lot of work for those September stories is done over the summer. He better have some damn good ideas!"The obstacles appear insurmountable. "I don't see how they put a show on in the fall even if miraculously they cobble together a team," a former "60 Minutes" staffer said bluntly. "Not a single producer thinks they will have a correspondent to work with outside of Norah."Even optimistic assessments are grim. Another former staffer acknowledged that even with new correspondents, "there's a 'sharp learning curve.'" The prediction: "I'd guess they can probably squeeze out a strong season opener and then the wheels will fall off. Week to week, it is a grind."Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland and former network television correspondent, characterized the threat as existential. "This is the acid test for David Ellison, but unless he reverses course, I think 60 Minutes will die a slow, embarrassing death as the new management tries and fails to invent a new formula that works better than what's tried and true," Feldstein told the Post's Scott Nover.
Outgoing Democrat Rep. Al Green made a spectacle of the Congressional process when he started throwing slanderous allegations around on the House floor, and DHS Secretary Markwayne […]
President Donald Trump rehashed his hatred for mail-in voting in another overnight posting spree, per the Daily Beast, sharing "unhinged" conspiracy theories and accusing Democrats of "cheating" in elections.As highlighted in a Thursday morning report from the Daily Beast, Trump took to his Truth Social account at approximately 12:48 a.m., taking aim at the ongoing vote-counting processes in California, for its gubernatorial race and for the mayoral race in Los Angeles. Despite a long history in the state, and almost every other state, of using the system without issue, Trump nevertheless used these races to rehash his past assertion that mail-in voting amounts to cheating. This was a lie he spread with particular vigor in 2020 while trying to claim that his loss to Joe Biden was the result of fraud."The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to steal the governor of California primary, and the mayor of Los Angeles primary away from two great Republicans candidates. Here we go with the very late and massive numbers of mail in ballots," Trump wrote in his post.Vote counting processes in modern elections — especially in states with huge populations and with substantial numbers of mail-in ballots — can take a long time to wrap up. As the Daily Beast noted in its report, "As of early Thursday morning, only 56 percent of the votes had been counted in the California governor all-party primary, while 62 percent had been counted in the Los Angeles mayoral election."Each race is the subject of intense drama and scrutiny. In the governor's race, in which all candidates compete in the same primary and the top two candidates compete in the general, there was fear that a large field of Democrats would split the vote too much and create a general election in which two Republicans were on the final ballot in one of the biggest blue states. The Los Angeles race has also seen the divisive incumbent Karen Bass challenged by Republican candidate and former reality TV star, Spencer Pratt.Trump added in another post later on: “There’s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???”The Daily Beast noted that Trump did not elaborate on this alleged investigation into California voting.