President Trump Calls for Nullifying 2020 Election if SPLC Convicted of Fraud

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stated on Friday that the 2020 presidential election should be "permanently wiped from the books" and have "no further force or effect" if the Southern Poverty Law Center is convicted of fraud. He made the comment in a post on Truth Social, referring to the organization as having been charged with fraud and linking it to other alleged hoaxes.

The 2020 election resulted in Trump's loss to former President Biden.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors allege that between 2014 and 2023, the organization secretly paid $3 million to members of groups including the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the National Socialist Movement, the United Klans of America, and Unite the Right.

The Southern Poverty Law Center operates a network of informants linked to or infiltrating extremist groups, which it began in the 1980s to gather intelligence on violent organizations. The indictment claims these payments were made in a clandestine manner, while donors contributed under the belief that funds would be used to dismantle such groups.

One unidentified leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, allegedly received more than $270,000 over eight years. That individual was part of an online group that planned the rally and coordinated transport.

to the indictment, an informant identified as F-9 was paid more than $1 million and stole 25 boxes of documents from the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. Another person allegedly received $6,000 to falsely take responsibility for the theft. A former director of the Aryan Nations, who was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was featured in the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Extremist Files" despite allegedly receiving $70,000 between 2014 and 2016.

The organization is accused of paying $19,000 between 2016 and 2019 to an informant who is a convicted felon for cross burning. Southern Poverty Law Center CEO Bryan Fair stated that the group was being targeted for its prior use of paid confidential informants to gather intelligence on violent groups.

stated that the organization was not dismantling these groups but was instead paying sources to stoke racial hatred. He added that the indictment and investigation are not political. Last October, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the agency had severed its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Patel stated on X that the organization had abandoned civil rights work and become a partisan entity, with its hate map used to defame individuals and inspire violence, making it unfit for FBI partnership.