Trump Administration Indicts Critic: Why SPLC May Have Been a Target

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“There is nothing political about this indictment or this investigation.”

That was what Acting U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche claimed Tuesday as he ceremoniously announced the indictment of another Trump administration foe—this time, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights group that has battled white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other forms of right-wing extremism.

To be clear, what the Department of Justice is doing is going after the money of a group that has been highly critical of the Trump administration.

Time will tell how much meat there is on the bones of those charges.

Still, there are plenty of reasons that I will detail below why the SPLC has been a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump and his associates—and why they might have been motivated to try to take the organization down.