Jim Jordan

Jordan: It’s always worse than we thought. The one thing we get wrong when we start these investigations, when we start this oversight, is it’s always worse than we thought. We now have the superseding indictment from the Justice Department; it wasn’t $3 million that they were paying these field sources, it was actually $4 million The Southern Poverty Law Center paid to field sources, and they didn’t just pay them to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting, they actually dated them! That’s right. Southern Poverty Law Center employee was in a romantic relationship with Field Source number nine, a member of the racist National Alliance. This SPLC employee, who was supposed to be dismantling hate groups with the Intelligence Project was dating the Field Source that they were paying, and in fact, they had a joint bank account. Wow.

And guess what the SPLC paid this individual. $1.2 million to, again, create and foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting. Now, it gets worse. An individual who led the Nationalist Socialist Party, a faction of the Aryan nations, reached out to SPLC. He wanted out. He wanted help in leaving this racist group, and what the SPLC do? They said, ‘No, no, no, stay in the group. We’ll pay you a monthly salary. We’ll reimburse you for hosting rallies, purchasing racist materials.’ Of course, that was Field Source number 30.

How about F37, Field source 37? This person is the one who coordinated transportation and attended the 2017 rally in Charlottesville. The Southern Poverty Law Center paid him $300,000 to the guy who helped put together the event where a young lady was killed. F 27, he was paid $350,000. What’d he do? He ran the Aryan Nation motorcycle club. F43, president of some crazy group, was previously convicted of cross burning, but the SPLC thought he was worth $19,000 of their donors’ money.

Again, all told, $4 million to manufacture hate. We said this last hearing. I still remember Rahm Emanuel saying, talking about Democrats, ‘never let a crisis go to waste.’ The SPLC took it a step further. They created the crisis, they manufactured the crisis, and by so doing, they became the standard, the source for determining who was a hate group. They labeled Family Research Council a hate group, Moms for Liberty was labeled a hate group, Turning Point USA labeled a hate group. Alliance Defending Freedom, even though they argued 16 multiple cases, won 16 cases in front of the Supreme Court, they were labeled a hate group, but never Jane’s Revenge, never the group who vandalized crisis pregnancy centers, churches, in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. They never got labeled, and the Biden Justice Department helped make them the standard.

This is probably the part that bothers me, I think, bothers most people the most. They help make the Southern Poverty the standard in evaluating who’s a hate group, who isn’t, because they consulted with them. They had quarterly meetings. The Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, quarterly, met with SPLC. They would give SPLC any information they had. The Justice Department, the FBI had to give it to them first. They even used them to train prosecutors, and of course, we know what it resulted in. The now famous memorandum from the FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, where the FBI said if you’re a pro-life Catholic, you’re an extremist. And, of course, who did they cite for that? You guessed it, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Southern Poverty Law Center became part of the weaponized Garland Biden Justice Department. Now, here’s what’s interesting, the Biden DOJ knew all about this scam that they were running. They knew the SPLC was doing this, but they didn’t pursue the case; they dropped the case because when you meet with them, when you consult with them, when you have them train your prosecutors, you’re not going to prosecute. Nope, you’re not going to do it because it’s too valuable politically. And here’s the scary part. And I’m sure we’ll have questions for Mr. Fair later on about this. Here’s the scary part. It all worked.

Field source 37, the guy at the Charlottesville rally, helped plan that rally, coordinate transportation there, was paid to attend after the event— again, after the event, where a lady was killed— the Southern Poverty Law Center almost tripled their income, 51 million to 133 million after they were coordinating the hate that took place at that crazy rally. You run a scam, you become the standard, you don’t get prosecuted, and you make a ton of money. They got 800 million assets, 700 million in an endowment, such a deal. And they would have gotten away with it, but for the oversight of Congress and, more importantly, the work of the Justice Department. So, God bless the Attorney General and the work him and his team are doing, and we look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and asking them questions.