Tim Heaphy on January 6, Weaponized Justice, and Whether Democracy Still Works

As I'm recording this, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, has just been indicted for their work infiltrating and reporting on neo-Nazi organizations, one of the most effective counter-extremism organizations in the country, an organization that didn't just work alongside the FBI, it helped train the FBI, and now it's being accused of fraud for doing the exact work that law enforcement has relied on for decades.

Former FBI Director James Comey has also just been indicted for posting a photo of seashells in the shape of the numbers eighty-six forty-seven.

That's the whole case, what the Trump administration considers a credible threat to the president's life.

And the current FBI director, Kash Patel, someone I've personally watched stand on stage at a QAnon conference, shoulder to shoulder with people calling for violence against their fellow Americans, he says he spent months investigating those seashells.

At the same time, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, he just went on 60 Minutes and told Americans that the SPLC funded the Unite the Right neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville to the tune of millions of dollars as part of a conspiracy to make him look bad during his first administration.