Abrams Backs SPLC in Fraud Mess

Adriana Stone 0 2 min read

Abrams Backs SPLC in Fraud Mess

Stacey Abrams is once again making headlines, and this time it is for defending a group under a very dark cloud. The two-time failed Georgia governor candidate put out a video in support of the Southern Poverty Law Center after the organization was hit with serious federal charges. That is not exactly the kind of company most politicians rush to keep.

According to Breitbart News, a federal grand jury in Alabama charged the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. Those are heavy accusations. They are the kind that make people wonder who was getting played, who was getting paid, and how much of the public story was built to keep the money flowing.

Abrams tried to cast the SPLC as a long-running civil rights group with a mission tied to the South’s ugly past. Speaking with Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, she defended it as a “legal organ that was founded in the south” and argued that it had spent years fighting what she called authoritarianism.

She also said, “Often what you see on the national stage got incubated in the south, and so we know, in the south, we’ve always needed, for example, litigation as one of the tools to fight back against authoritarianism,” and added, “Whether that was Jim Crow, the KKK, the antisemitic behaviors that were manifest in the deep south.”

Then she went further, saying, “The anti-Asian, anti-Latino. If there’s anti-community, it probably had some genesis in the South. And the SLC has spent its decades fighting back,” before adding, “It recognizes what hate groups are and says we’re not going to let you get away with it, we’re gonna tell people about you. It invests in communities and says we’re not just going to say this is wrong, we’re going to help invest in what makes it right.”

That is a bold defense, especially with fraud charges hanging over the group. When an organization gets accused of serious financial wrongdoing, the smart move is usually to wait for the facts. But Abrams went straight to bat. That tells you plenty.

For a lot of people, this is the real problem in politics now. The left keeps finding ways to defend institutions first and ask questions later. If the charges are right, that is a disaster. If they are wrong, then the SPLC still has a lot of explaining to do. Either way, Abrams picked a messy hill to stand on.

Here’s the video making the rounds:

The bigger issue is trust. People are tired of being told to believe the same activists, the same nonprofits, and the same political figures no matter how bad the allegations get. When money, messaging, and ideology all blend together, accountability tends to disappear fast. And that is exactly why this story is getting attention.

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