>>2790132The Southern Poverty Law Center was absolutely not "funding right-wing extremist groups." Even if you take Trump's DoJ at its word (even though it has openly acted as a servant of the Trump regime and doesn't even pretend to be an impartial law enforcement agency), what they're ultimately accusing the SPLC of doing is paying informants infiltrating hate groups (and thereby supposedly giving money to hate groups by some technicality they're trying to spin up.)
So, the charges are mostly bullshit even by the abyssal standards of the Trump DoJ.
The SPLC is basically like the Southern version of the ACLU, and for this reason alone right-wingers hate it and this is a brazen attempt to bury it (along with the fact that the SPLC defines a significant chunk of the right as hate groups, which its right about.)