President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Southern Poverty Law Center after it was charged in a criminal investigation by his Department of Justice, calling it “one of the greatest political scams in American History.”
The civil rights group, known for tackling domestic extremism, was hit with an 11-count indictment by the DOJ this week alleging a multi-year effort to conceal payments worth at least $3 million made to informants working undercover to expose right-wing hate groups such as the KKK.
