Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel next to him, at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2026.
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The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a bombshell indictment accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funding right-wing extremist groups that it claimed to be battling.
“The SPLC was not dismantling the groups,” said Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche at a press conference. “It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”
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