WASHINGTON—White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday said the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a “criminal organization,” according to a grand jury indictment, and that the allegations the Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought against it should be front-page news nationwide. Leavitt responded to Breitbart News’s question about the White House’s reaction to the SPLC indictment and the DOJ’s allegations.
“Yeah, I saw the indictment yesterday. I saw the acting attorney general and FBI director do a press conference on it. It was quite shocking to me to learn of the egregious violations of the law the Southern Poverty Law Center was committing,” Leavitt said. “And I think that’s a story that should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country because they’ve obviously been duping their supporters and the American taxpayers for far too long,” she added. “It’s a criminal organization, clearly, and that’s not our DOJ saying that, or Todd Blanche saying that, that’s a grand jury indictment saying that.” As Breitbart News noted, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that an Alabama grand jury indicted the SPLC “with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering” on Tuesday.
