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Benny Johnson
The Southern Poverty Law center is now facing criminal charges. Not possible because an indictment has now come up by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama. Just moments ago, behind me, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch and FBI Director Cash Patel held a news conference announcing this indictment, which included bank fraud and wire fraud and some other serious allegations. This was an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law center as an entity, not state specific people. Now, the agency began 55 years ago, John, focusing on racial equity via legal services and other advocacy of the South. It spread nationwide. The indictment alleges that the organization paid leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other controversial groups while they were supposedly in public trying to stop the hatred. According to the indictment, the organization created bank accounts for fictitious organizations, passed from the Southern Poverty Law center to two sham accounts, then to prepaid cards. It was used to shield funds, according to the doj. Six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Now, the SPLC was paying leadership groups that started the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. You remember that several years ago, that's where Heather Heyer tragically lost her lives. Somebody was paid $270,000 by the agency over over eight years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch joined the FBI director to make the announcement. Watch.
John Rich
The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
Benny Johnson
Now, the splc, knowing that charges were possible, put out a statement hours ago, said the use of informants was necessary because we are no stranger to threats of violence. In 1983, our our offices were firebombed. And in the years since, there have been countless credible threats against our staff. For decades, we engaged in unprecedented litigation to dismantle the Klan and other hate groups. In light of that work, we sought to protect the safety of our staff and the public. We frequently shared what we learned from the informants with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI. Now the group says it no longer uses paid informants. The SPLC also put out a report last May criticizing Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk. Several months later, he was shot and killed at a Turning Point rally in Utah. But long before his assassination in August 2012, John, a man in Washington, D.C. opened fire on a security guard at the Family Research Council. At the time, the head of the Family Research Council blamed the Southern Poverty Law center for including the Family Research Council on a group of hate organizations. And they believe that there was a connection there of Course, the Southern Poverty Law center denied that at a time, but at this point, an indictment for one of the biggest groups, as you mentioned, in the United States by the Justice Department.
Clayton Bigsby (Character)
Sir, my message is simple. Jews, homosexuals, Mexicans and all kinds of different chanks stink and I hate it.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
What exactly is your problem?
Clayton Bigsby (Character)
How much time you got, buddy? First of all, they're lazy, good for nothing tricksters, crack smoking swindlers, breathing all the white man's air. Lead up all the chicken power. Let's talk about Chinese people.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Let's talk about Chinese people. Jerry, you trying to break me? Jerry tries to break me every single morning. And that one sent me. I hope they bring back the Chappelle Show. Chappelle show was Healing for America. Clayton Bigsby, an icon of our time, a man who truly showed that America can be a melting pot with a black KKK member. That is exactly what the SPLC has done. It's exactly what Jesse Smollett has done. There is a supply and demand problem for hate crimes in America and it's actually because of our founding. It's because of how incredible our country is. There's no shortage of hate crimes in Europe. There's no shortage of hate crimes all around the rest of the world. Therapy secretary and violence and gang violence rules the day. But not here. Why is that? I'm going to respond to Vivek Rom Swami who said something that I thought was extremely wrongheaded and disrespectful last night at a Turning Point event. I'm gonna respond to him also tonight at a Turning Point event that I'm going to be hosting in Baylor. And I hope that you can join us. If you're in the Waco area or in the greater Dallas, Fort Worth area, drive on down to Baylor. Should be a fun time. But ladies and gentlemen, all of these narratives kind of collide together. And we have a short show because we got to catch a flight. So let's get rocking and rolling. Today's Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Jerry, you sent me with that meme. It's really funny meme. Thank you for that. Needed that this morning. DOJ says Southern Poverty Law center far left wing group funneled three plus million dollars to white supremacists and extremist groups in order to fund the hate that they said they were trying to destroy so that they could raise more money. Democrats Win Virginia Redistricting Fight Threatening Republican House Majority and Andy Ogles joins the show. My name is Benny Johnson and this is the Benny Show. 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That's 888-528-1219americanfinancing.net Benny? Okay, so last night I just want to like pop this up because a little bee in my bonnet here made me a little angry because it's wrong, you know, it's just wrong. And it's something that Charlie wouldn't have agreed with and it's certainly something that we don't agree with and I want to denounce it frankly here on the program. Vivek said this at a Turning point event. Now, by the way, just want to let you know this is about good faith debate. And in the interest of the future of our party, in the interest of the future of our movement and our country, you have to be able to call out your own side. And what Vivek said last night, in part, he gave a good speech, but this is like fundamentally wrong. You can travel to Italy, but you'll never be an Italian. You can travel to France, you'll never be a Frenchman, you can live in Germany, you'll never be a German. You can pack your bags and go to China or Japan, but you'll never be Chinese or Japanese. You can come to America and as long as you work hard, you're an American. As long as you have the right paperwork, you're an American. Nope. No, I fundamentally disagree. Not only do I find this particularly insulting to the people that built America because there is an ideology that built America, every country has an ideology that built them, but it's fundamentally disrespectful to what it means to Be an American. Let's. Let's rip through this, I think, like, because the argument actually defeats itself and it's an insane thing. I mean, he's getting ratioed here into the sun. It's par for the course for Vivek on X. And I say this out of no personal animus. I know vague. I like vague. But you have to be able to call out people who are wrong. What is it that makes being an Italian, Frenchman, German, Chinese or Japanese better than being an American? Maybe that's a good starting point there. Why is it that those are protected cultures and we're not answering that. Why is it that you can't be a Chinese person or a Japanese person? And by the way, I agree with that. I agree with the top half of what Vivek says. But what is it that makes America nothing? Because what this is saying is that anyone can be an American. And that's not true. Our founders didn't believe that. They certainly didn't believe that for the first 200 years of this country. You can't go to the North Sentinel Islands and grab a cannibal off an island, still exist, uncontact a tribe, give him the right paperwork, and he's suddenly an American. Why is that? And why are these other cultures protected when our culture is not? And that is truly at the root of the problem here. And it's because we don't acknowledge what our culture is. So why don't we do a quick history lesson here? Our culture is European. Our culture is Christian. For the first 200 years of this country, over 90% of our population were European, Christian, Christians, different denominations of Christians, but they were Christians. That is plus 90% of the nation. There were de minimis. I mean, like at statistically zero percent of the country was Hispanic or Asian origin. There were Africans here from the slave trade that spent part of the American fabric while we were still colonies. But nonetheless, to not fundamentally say that America is different and better than the lands that people are leaving to come here because of our founding and because of who founded our country is being obtuse or intellectually dishonest and quite frankly, disrespectful. Nobody named Muhammad fought in the Civil War, okay? And nobody named Vivek Ram Swami fought in Civil war, for that matter. And so you are disrespecting the reason why this country is great in the first place, which is foundationally our Christendom heritage, which, of course, all of our founders were Christian, all of them were deists, all of them wrote about the fundamentals of Christ. And they wrote those fundamentals directly into our founding documents. Peppered all throughout our founding documents are calls back to Christ, Christendom and God. It's on our currency, it's on our building, it's carved in marble. So you can't have a country like this. And John Adams, who's a founding father, said that you can't have this nation without a holy moral people. This is a nation that is foundationally at its core, based on the tenets of the Ten Commandments, the New Testament, the Gospel and the worldview of Christian, which is a wonderful world. It's what makes this place so exceptional. And now allow me to, now that we've covered the history lesson, allow me to fast forward here and to look at this utterly self defeating argument because man, I. This pisses, it pisses me off, frankly, because the, the top half of the tweet defeats the bottom half the tweet because he's right technically on the top half of the tweet. You can't just move to Italy and become an Italian. Answer me this. I live, I'm in Florida. If you took all the people in Florida, all of them, and you were to snap your finger and they all went to Italy, and then you took all the people in Italy, you snap your finger and they all moved to Florida. Kind of the same shape, right? Both, both land masses are like peninsula, right? Shaped or whatever, Would that, would Italy stay Italy? Answer me this. My executive producer is Italian. His name's Alx. He goes to Italy actually all the time. The birthday of Rome yesterday. No, I can tell you I live in Florida. There are a bunch of yeehaws in the state. They're hilarious. They're fundamentally different than Italians. Italy is the culture of the people, the songs, the language, the traditions, the food. That is what Italy is. Italy is not the rocks and the trees on the landmass. It is the human beings that make the nation. That is why you're not an Italian. If you move there from India, you're not and you never will be. You could be a paperwork Italian, meaning you could have the right to work there, I guess legally and pay taxes. But what we understand is Italian culture. That's, that is a thing, right? It is something that deserves to be protected, just like it. And I agree that it deserves to be protected. You shouldn't water it down with infinity. Third World mass migration. And that's why this entire ideology is self defeating. And it's what we must fight because it is worth preserving what it means to be French. It is worth preserving what it means to be German. It is worth preserving what it means to be Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Saudi Arabian for all I care. These are cultures that are distinct and their distinctions are valuable. And you can't just move all the people from one culture into America and call them Americans and think, we're going to preserve our culture. No, this is the Club for Growth Chamber of Commerce way to view populism, which is that America is simply for tax cattle. That is simply an economic zone, that we don't have our own culture that is derived from our European ancestry and our Christian ancestry. And if you unmoor yourself from that, if you unlink yourself from that, the entire nation is lost. Why is it okay for France to have their culture, for China to have their culture, for Japan to have their culture, but America doesn't have our culture? There's nothing worth preserving about American culture, is what this tweet says. I disavow it. Fundamentally, it is something that is, quite frankly, ideological cancer that has led to the current state of America. It's the last thing I'll say on this, and sorry that I popped off. Sometimes you got to be able to say these things. The only way we have a land, the only way we keep a country is if you have neighbors that speak your same language. That's true. And everybody knows it in their bones. If you have neighbors that you can communicate with. There's a map, Alx. I don't know if you have it available, a map of who is proficient in English. You know, it's like something like 10 states where 50% of the people don't even know English anymore. Well, that's not a country. That's. That's not a. That's not a nation. That. That's not a melting pot. Even though that entire idea is absurd on its face and it's been. It was, you know, manufactured propaganda in the first place. That is a.
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Wouldn't work, as in your marriage. That wouldn't work as a business partnership. That wouldn't work if it was on your softball team. And you, you know, first baseman didn't speak your language. You. You wouldn't win a game. Pitcher and the catcher don't speak the language. So it doesn't work as a country either. What works as a country is when you have people that come here utterly, you know, if there are immigrants. And of course, my family immigrated here about 100 years ago, but my family immigrated here, like, disavowing entirely where we came from. It's like a mishmash of, like, England and Germany and embracing wholly the American culture, the superseding American culture, leaving entirely the old world behind. That's not what's happening here, is it? We're constantly talking about the number of Hindu temples that are being built, mosques that are being built. And fundamentally, that's not American. What do I mean by that? That's not what has been American culture. That's not what is the prevailing culture in this country. As Bren Gill eloquently says, I want my children not growing up in the call to prayer for a mosque or inside of the caste system in their schools. And those exist, by the way, all throughout the country. Percentage of the total population with limited English proficiency in states in 2021. Look at this. Wow. There are nine states where 10% of the population doesn't speak English. There's like a dozen states where 10% of the population where, yeah, okay, we're over 10 of the population. Approximately 10% of the population. 5 to 10% of the population doesn't speak English.
Benny Johnson
Whoa.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Well, that's not a country. I mean, those aren't people that you could trust to help if there's a fire on your block because you wouldn't be able to communicate with them. This is what I'm talking about. And so just that entire worldview needs to be called out. I plan on doing that tonight at my Turning Point event and saying that we need to be extremely caught. We'll lose the country. The country will spiral into sec. You know, into what the rest of the world has, which is secretarian violence and intra intergroup. Intergroup violence. Victimhood positioning. If we do not think very, very carefully about the way that our immigration system works and how it works for the benefit of the American people. That's the point of immigration, actually, and having people that don't speak English and are on permanent welfare, as we covered yesterday. Afghans, Somalis, Haitians, they're on rates of welfare that are 89%. That is not adding to the wealth and the prosperity of the American people. It's just subtracting from it. It's not addition, it's subtraction. It's good to be able to have these conversations, ladies and gentlemen. All right, sorry for the rant. Rant over. I want to bring in our guest for today's show. We can cover the hysterical news for out of the DOJ with Representative Andy Ogles, who's been very patient as I sort of bang on and on this important subject. But they're tied, they're linked in very short so that I can set up the congressman here. The DOJ was able to expose entirely the Southern Poverty Law center, which is a far left wing group that allegedly fights hate. This group paid the KKK and other white supremacist groups in order to create hate. Do you see the supply and demand problem there? There's a supply and demand problem with hate crimes in America. This is why they have to create a Jesse Smollett. This is why Jesse Smollett has to pay black guys to beat him up. This is why they have to put innocent men in prison for George Floyd. There's a hate crime deficiency in America and that's because of our Christian founding. Christianity, a peaceful religion. It's because of the founding of this nation that brought together like, brought people together and did not allow atomization of groups. The atomizational. Like anyone, any cannibal can be an American. He's just a cannibal. No, that's idiotic, actually. No, it's fundamentally wrong. And so the Southern Poverty Law center realized that their grift, they'd go out of business if they didn't have more hate crimes. So they needed to create more hate crimes and they paid for them. It's wild, ladies and gentlemen. That's what the DOJ is alleging here. They did a big press conference on it yesterday. I want to bring on the congressman who I'm sure is primed and ready to talk about this. Onto the program, Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who's just bang on on the subject. Let's go, Congressman. Sorry for my rant off the top there, but I, you know, maybe we can just, maybe we just start with this. But I just fundamentally reject that. Like, you know, there's 9 billion people on this planet. I fundamentally reject that all 9 billion of those people can become an American with the right paperwork.
Representative Andy Ogles
Well, I mean this, this is part of a larger narrative that you're seeing
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
from the left, right.
Representative Andy Ogles
They're constantly attacking our heritage, our culture, our values. And if you put up an educated debate, then they call you a racist or a bigot or they manufacture crimes to incite your opponents to come after you. I mean, like, there's a cycle here, right? So Ilhan Omar is talking about how Somalis helped build this country. Oh, bull crap.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Right?
Representative Andy Ogles
You know, there weren't Muslim prayer rooms in the United States of America until 1920. The first one was in Chicago. Wasn't a mosque in this country until 1934. It actually was built in. Up in Idaho because of the railroads, because you had displaced Syrians from the Ottoman Empire that came to this country to work on the railroad. So if anybody was talking about what the Founding Fathers were contemplating, it was Baptists and Methodists and Puritans and Quakers. It wasn't Islam. In fact, Jefferson and Adams met with the ambassador because the Barbary Pirates to say, why you keep attacking our ships. And the ambassador said, it's because you're not Muslim and it's our job to kill you. I mean, like, they wrote about the fact that they are a people content with war. And so this idea of attacking who we are. And so you're right. We're not a melting pot. This is not some giant fondue pot. I like fondue. Right. But that's not what America is. Right. And so this is. And I understand what he was trying to say, but the delivery, I think, and ultimately his misunderstanding of who we are as a people. If you want to be an American, you've got to earn it. Right? You've got to be part of our culture. You've got to own and be a part of our heritage. You have to want to build this country in the same way our founding fathers did. And so if you're building temples or mosques and you're under undermining Christianity, you're not assimilating.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
That's exactly right. And also, it's like, it's unbelievably disrespectful to say that these other cultures have the right. Because these other cultures are real cultures. They have the right to exclude people who aren't Chinese and aren't Japanese. That's like a. That's a thing. And, you know, it's.
Representative Andy Ogles
It's.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
It's crazy. Congressman, it's not exactly what I wanted to spiral off and talk about here, but I just. I saw that in my timeline this morning. I said, man, this is.
Benny Johnson
But this is.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
What I got to go in on is like there are people, there is something that built China, right? It's why you go to China and you take photos of the Great Wall of China, you take photos of these big old temples, right? They have there in Japan, you go and you take photos with the Eiffel Tower, something built, the Colosseum, right? And we think about that as Roman and then dispersally Italian. And so to reject that, to say that that doesn't matter, your ancestors don't matter at all and what the cultures and the foundations that built this great society, that is worth preserving, that's what the top half of the tweet says, that like French, German, English, Chinese, Japanese, that's worth preserving, America's not worth preserving. It is like the most self defeating for a smart guy. It's like the single most self defeating argument I've ever seen in one tweet.
Representative Andy Ogles
And then you look at the crime rates in Europe, you look at London, you look at France, you look at Italy and all migrants that they've allowed into their country where they're 6 to 10% of the population but 50 to 60% of the sex crime doesn't sound like that. They're the new UK or the new France. They're not French anymore. They brought their third world values to France, they brought their third world values to the UK and they're raping their way across Europe. That's what they've invited in, which is why I've been so vocal on this issue. Like they're not like us, they don't think like we do in Guatemala. Every 14 minutes a 14 year old gets pregnant by an adult. I don't want those type of people here. Right, I'll say that again, every 14 minutes a child gets pregnant by an adult. And those people have come here in mass so they look at your daughter differently. And so we've got to have this conversation about who's coming across our border and what. It's great, the characteristics that you have to, to have to come here and if you don't like this country, just get the hell out.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
It's a great point. I look forward to like having a debate. You know, apparently you find Ilhan Omar wandering around the halls of Congress. Some times reporters get a chance to ask her questions like, you know, when you look at the actual data, you know, Ilhan Omar calls herself a feminist, right? But if you look at the data of Somalia, there's, there can't be a worse land for any woman to live in, right? The amount of child brides like incest by the way, like, the UN says that Somalia has the highest coefficiency of incest of any country on earth. But also child brides is like an absolutely regular cultural thing there. Well, like, no feminist, this is why, this is why leftism is just so retarded and so self defeating. Like, no feminist would ever be in. Like, if you ask a feminist, are you in favor of child brides for, like, forcing women into child bright and then, and then forcing women to marry their own family members.
Benny Johnson
Right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
To engage in like tribal strength.
Benny Johnson
Right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
They, they'd shriek in your face, of course, and they'd say no. And they'd be right, by the way. They'd be right because those things are like wrong and evil and culturally.
Representative Andy Ogles
And they would call you a racist or, you know, a bigot or something. For.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Even if you say, are you for infinity Somalian immigration, they'd say yes. So they're like, they're, they're wantonly bringing the things that they hate into the country.
Representative Andy Ogles
There's a reason they left.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
How do you defeat that? How do you defeat that? Right. Like, how do you, how do you argue that, Congressman?
Representative Andy Ogles
You can't. I mean, it's completely illogical. And that's why, you know, you know, at large, the Democratic Party doesn't have true leadership or a platform for solutions. Right. It's all about creating a crisis, which is really kind of the gist of the press conference from the FBI and the doj. They create a crisis, they want you dependent on them, and then suddenly they ride in on a white horse. But when you look at the basis of the foundation of what they've built, it's all smoke and mirrors. It's all lies and stealing. Just like the referendum in Virginia. If you look across the board, early voting, day of voting, it was, it was a fairly even split, but then suddenly the mail in ballots are like 75, 25. Like, you can predict this. You can see this coming. There's a whole separate conversation about, you know, we should have anticipated it, we should have had a better turnout model on our side. And, but that's, that's a separate conversation.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
So you think the election last night to gerrymander Virginia, which, by the way, let me just set the framing for all of this. So it was, it came down 51, 49. That's how they won. That's how they always win. That's always the percentage. That's the percentage of Joe Biden in every single algorithmically won swing state. It's always that exact same. Yep. And that's what every Georgia Senate seat that they stole as well. Like it's 51, 49 every single time. That's the numbers they plug into the computer. Right. In order to get the results. But you know, I chuckled to myself when I saw the final numbers this morning. What that is, is 51% of the population stripping away the civil rights of representation from 49% of the population. That's how you get a civil war. Yeah, right. Like that's how you get, I mean, that's like almost a human right violation. But it certainly is constitutionally a massive violation. And you can't have like these limited. Kamala Harris won Virginia by what, four, four and a half points.
Benny Johnson
Right, right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
And now there's one, there is one to nine, one to ten congressional split.
Benny Johnson
Yeah.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
With Northern D.C. with Northern D.C. controlling six different congressional districts.
Representative Andy Ogles
That's right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Congressman, this is a broken system.
Representative Andy Ogles
It is broken, but you also look at the math. I mean, like again, early voting, day of voting, it was a fairly even split. And, and the mail in ballots are disproportionately out of skew from the population at large, the mass majority of the votes. And so that tells you something is off. There was a coordinated manufactured result with the mail in ballots, which is what the Democrats are good at. I mean, you saw it in the presidential election when Trump was defeated, is that suddenly there was all of these mail in ballots because. Oh wait, we need what, we need 10,000 more ballots. Oh, look, we found a box under the table and they're not postmarked or stamped or anything, but that's ok. Know we're going to sue to make sure they're counted and so that that's what they do and they, they lie, cheat and steal, which, which again, the Save America act, you know, 83% of Americans think that you should, you should be a citizen to vote and yet the Senate won't do anything. Well, we're literally handing the next election to the Democrats. If the Senate doesn't get that passed. I don't know what the crap Thune is thinking. There's no reason they shouldn't be passing this right now.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Congressman, I believe your mic. Yeah, there we go. Did your mic just fall? Okay, thank you.
Representative Andy Ogles
It did.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
There we go. Here we go. Take that congressman off screen here and then producer can pop him back on. Yep. And you producer, can check with the congressman and just let me know because I have nothing. Nothing. I have. Yep, Good. Okay. Sorry about that, Congressman. Give you some dignity as you reassess
Representative Andy Ogles
as you get to mic with my hands, you know?
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Yes, yes. So you believe that the Virginia election was rigged and stolen. Do you think that the Trump administration should put a little pressure on Virginia?
Representative Andy Ogles
Just look at the numbers. Follow the numbers and see where they lead.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
And I've seen $65 million of dark money that went in. Just crazy. All of it was outside of Virginia. Sure.
Representative Andy Ogles
I mean, but again, that's what they do. But this was a predictable outcome. And where are the Republicans? Why wasn't this not a priority? You know, look at the money that's being spent against Massey. Look at the money that's being spent in the Texas AG race when we had this right in front of us that literally can determine the future, the course of our nation, and somehow or another, we didn't deliver a victory. I have a problem with that. And I think there should be some really tough conversations had about that. Who was responsible, how it could have been, the outcome could have been different, and whether or not people should be fired.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Yes, well, I mean, yeah, we have the map up right here. Look at the. I mean, look at this. 4951. Just. Just like you. Like, just. You plunk it right into a machine. This is the numbers. It's always the numbers. This is the numbers in the Brazilian election.
Representative Andy Ogles
That's right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
It's always the same. And then as soon as the left seizes power, which is what they did in Virginia, as soon as the left seizes power, they immediately, immediately rigged the game, and they called it fairness. This isn't fairness. This is stripping the rights away from Virginians. This is what it is. It's. It's total and complete disenfranchisement. Yeah. For the red state of Virginia, which just had a Republican governor. I mean, it's like a couple months ago, they had a Republican governor. And now in the time span of a few weeks, Democrats have stripped all power from Republicans and disenfranchised them and frankly, taken away their civil rights.
Representative Andy Ogles
It'll be interesting. You know, ultimately, there'll be a lawsuit. It'll go to the Virginia Supreme Court. I would expect that they'll uphold the referendum, but we'll see. But it should never have gotten this far. Republicans should have had a better turnout model. We should have won that. And quite frankly, you should have a representative government in Virginia, which now you won't because of the referendum.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
It's totally evil. It's what they're gonna do to the entire rest of the country. I mean, they're signaling all of this. I Can't let you go, Congressman, without asking about my favorite topic, which is Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures. How do you just like suddenly magically find liabilities that make you not a multimillionaire? Have you ever. We know each other. I saw you. I've hung out with you once or twice. Socially. Like right at John Rich's house. Like. Like you didn't come up to me and be like, hey, I'm a multimillionaire.
Benny Johnson
Yeah, right.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Like accidentally, like this. Normal things.
Representative Andy Ogles
I'm a working class dude, man.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Yeah. How does that happen exactly? Is that a crime to lie on those documents? Just, it's such an egregious extent.
Representative Andy Ogles
Ultimately they'll do, you know, their investigation, they'll take a look at it. You know, mistakes happen, but typically they're smaller. I think there's about a 30 million dollar mistake and it was being widely reported, I guess that, that the context of is that her wealth was being inflated. And it was, it was a big media cycle. Right. It was part of the story and the narrative. And then suddenly you find that actually that's not true. And so was there a bankruptcy? Like, what happened? I'm not going to prejudge, but yeah, there's a lot of questions that have to be asked there. But again, go. You know, kind of shifting to the DOJ in this press conference. People need to understand that this conspiracy that was built by the left to paint the right as racist and Nazi and violent is totally fabricated. So that begs the question, this heat map that they created, this vile contempt for Republicans, how did that play into Charlie Kirk's murder? Were they there on January 6th? Like you have millions upon millions of dollars. I mean, even in Nashville you had the Patriot front. They were posing as Nazis marching in Nashville. Right. You have a conservative organization, several in my district that are on this heat map of being, you know, the alt right, hate groups. And even here in D.C. where you had someone go into the Family Research Council and shot at a security guard, you know, these types of things, there's a pattern and violence that follows this heat map. That follows what they were doing and what they were paying these conspiracies to, to incite violence against Republicans and to attack people like me. Target, may I have 24 hour security because of this type of rhetoric that is leveled against conservatives in this country and that should be a crime. And kudos to the DOJ for going after it.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Client has the hate map right here, Congressman. You can see there's plenty of little red dots on The SPLC hate map in your state. There it is right there. Wow. So. So, yes. So they're funding. They're potentially fund. Funding your assassination. And do you. Did you. You said that. Because they went after Charlie Kirk and they did it constantly. Charlie said that the SPLC is a hate group. There's a tweet for everything. Charlie was constantly on Fox News talking about the SPLC attacking him. We have the clips, of course. Do you believe that they played a part in Charlie Kirk's murder? What do you think should happen to them? Do you think that there's culpability here since they were actually funding the hate that they claim to be fighting?
Representative Andy Ogles
Absolutely. If you and I did that, they would be coming after us. They threw everything at us that they could. And so, I mean, again, just follow the facts, don't prejudge, but I think the facts lead to an ultimate conclusion, is that this crisis that they were creating, this crisis of hate, that suddenly that they need to take down Confederate monuments in Virginia because of all this hate crime. Hate crime that they pay for, right? You have the riots in the streets, whether Charlottesville or elsewhere, that they were paying for, right? They brought the gasoline, they brought the matches, and they hand them to some homeless guy and they lit it like they knew what was going to happen. And so this kind of nonsense has got to stop. And again, if the right was doing this to the left, I mean, we all would have been in jail.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Do you think that they're funding Patriot Front? Do you think that that's what's going on? Patriot Front's constantly in Nashville, right? With their little. Little vans and their little outfits.
Representative Andy Ogles
Yeah, absolutely. So again, just follow the money. And you know, this organization supports. This organization supports that organization. It's an incestuous octopus. The tentacles are spread all throughout the left. Look there. This is a criminal enterprise that's been undermining our republic. And again, kudos to the DOJ for going after this. And really, I mean, this, it can't be lost. Ladies and gentlemen, when you think about the murder of Charlie Kirk, when you think about some of these hate crimes that have happened across this country, what would they have happened had it not been for this vile rhetoric from the left? Even yesterday against me, CAIR held a press conference labeling me as some racist because I'm defending my country, because I'm speaking the facts about the data in Europe about the mass rape of women and young girls in Europe by Muslims. Those are facts. Those aren't my statistics. That's from the French Interior Ministry. That's from the London Police, right? I talk about that publicly and suddenly I'm a racist? No, I can just read data points. And the data points say that Muslims are disproportionately raping young girls across Europe. People should know that. They should just know it, right? Because it's fact and it's truth. And I'm not going to back down.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Data is racist, Congressman. You know that. That's the rule. All right? That's the iron law. That data is racist. Don't talk about America's founding. Don't talk about who actually created this country. You know, it's just an economic zone. Don't talk about, like, why America is great, like, in the first place. Like, why is America on Asian that. Like, who are the actual settlers here? Who were the actual people that settled this country? And then who are the aptly named? Like what again? Like, don't talk about those things. It's racist. We're going to talk about them and we're going to thank you, Congressman, for always talking about them. Follow Andy Ogles right here, the great congressman from Tennessee. He's got hundreds of thousands of followers. And you know why, guys? Godspeed, Congressman.
Representative Andy Ogles
Thank you.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Well, we covered what we needed to cover in the show. You know, sort of like climbing. Sort of like went through the news blocks there with the congressman. Obviously, Democrats rigged and stole another election and. Exactly. The Perfect algorithm. Algorithmically, perfect.5149. It's amazing how that always happens. And then the SPLC was exposed as also rigging hate groups. I just. Honestly, I can't believe it. I can't believe they were funding. Just real quick, let's put up just one. Let's put up one banger. My screen. Let's put up one banger. Here we go. Here's what the far left was funding. This is what the far left anti hate group was funding. Kkk, American Nazi Party, Aryan Nation, United Clans of America. Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the American Front. I'm gonna tell you how this all gets woven together in just one second, ladies and gentlemen. 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Joe Biden, he constantly used and even through the presidential debates with Donald Trump, both of them, by the way, including the one that he, you know, of course was like brain dead at constantly banging on about Charlottesville. Oh, is it a post? There's like a million times that he says it, but whatever. Here's. There's a bunch. Okay, so here's like, it's just constantly. Biden claimed the entire reason that he ran for president in 2020 was because of Charlottesville. And now we find out today and you know, this is the core mythos of Joe Biden. The core tenet of his political life is Charlottesville. And everyone was so, it was so hateful. Did you, can we get some, some, some sound on this? Yeah, yeah. I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Okay. That's all we need. Yeah, it's the, it's extremists funded by you, Jack. Jack. They're funded by you. You created. There's a supply and demand problem for hate crimes in America. He created. This is the, the, the functional mythos of the Democrat Party. They Actually created the hoax. They created the Russia. I can't believe it. They did the same thing at whatever video that is perfect Per is perfect. Right? So like, so like, you can see what the Charlottesville, you know, rally was and certainly some ugly images. And you need to like, go through and match the images to like, how much were these people getting paid? They were all being paid. Maybe not all of them, but certainly some of them here. According to your own federal government, for the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally, close to $300,000. $300,000, bro. We, I mean, I, we put on events. I put on events. Turning Point puts on events. You can throw a heck of an event for 300 grand. You could actually pay for all the buses. You could pay for the, all the tiki torches. You could pay for the whole thing with 300 grand. Is that what they did? I guess we'll wait and see. Where is this being tried? 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The markets are saying that Trump will announce the end of military operations in Iran by, I don't know, June. Skyrockets. May it skyrockets. Would really like to see it done. I have stated very consistently on the show, and I'm going to be interviewing Tom Homan tonight from the administration that I want the focus on domestic policy issues. We're going to talk about some of those domestic policy wins tonight with the immigration and deportation numbers, which are good, which are exceedingly good, which is the best they've been in my entire life. But you got to be able to wrap up foreign entanglements. So lock it in, ladies and gentlemen. Hope for the best for the Trump administration. I'm going to read the verse of the day and then why don't you play all of these Ilhan clips because they're really funny. Ilhan Omar got trolled. And while I have to head to the airport, Ilhan Omar getting trolled is the funniest thing ever. Proverbs 3.
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John Rich
It's about your net worth dropping. Dropping down to about 100,000.
Reporter/Interviewer
The whole like thing.
John Rich
Could you just elaborate on what mistake was made, Congresswoman? What mistake was made on your financial disclosure forms to bring it down to 100,000 from up to 30 million? Just want to give you a chance to clear it up because people are wondering why it dropped so far down. Does your husband still have the consulting business worth about8.8 million?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
The last time I spoke to you, you said that I was stupid for asking you about your financial disclosure. But there's some discrepancies on there. Would you like to explain them?
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
How did you make such a big
Reporter/Interviewer
mistake before asking me anything?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
I have.
Reporter/Interviewer
Yes.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Well, what about the American who are wondering how you made such a big mistake?
Reporter/Interviewer
Explain to the American people what's the explanation? I have given them the explanation.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Do you want to tell our viewers? Because they're.
Reporter/Interviewer
I don't want to tell you jack shit. How about that? Okay. Okay.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Have a good day.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Thank you. You were just talking about how Trump's economy has failed the American people, but I think the American people really want to know how you went from a negative 65,000 before coming into Congress to over $30 million in just seven years.
Reporter/Interviewer
My disclosure is public now.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Yeah, it is. And so a lot of people now are looking into that and finding Est Crew Winery. A winery that doesn't actually seem to exist. Is that a real winery?
Reporter/Interviewer
Or do you all actually look at and read things or do you just ask silly questions?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Well, it's listed in the financial disclosure. So can you explain it? Because we have a lot of questions about it and things just aren't adding up. There's no real phone number. There's no real location.
Reporter/Interviewer
Why? Did you want to bite some way?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Probably not from you, to be honest. Recently stated that the American people should be afraid of the white man. They should be fearful of the white man.
Reporter/Interviewer
I never said that.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Yeah, but you're on video saying our
Reporter/Interviewer
country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths with in this country. I did not.
Unidentified Male Host/Commentator
Yes, you again.
Reporter/Interviewer
This is like what I said. You need to prepare yourself because you can't continue embarrassing yourself like this.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
So I'm just a liar?
Reporter/Interviewer
What I was quoting was an actual study done by the FBI.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
Okay, thank you. All right. Thank you, Congresswoman.
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Episode Title: PANIC: Trump INDICTS Left-Wing Group For Funding the KKK | Massive Hate Crime HOAX Exposed
Host: Benny Johnson
Date: April 22, 2026
This explosive episode of The Benny Show focuses on the reported federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for their alleged financial and operational involvement in enabling hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and others. Benny Johnson and guest Representative Andy Ogles explore the implications of these allegations, tie them into broader debates over American national identity, immigration, and political culture, and scrutinize recent controversies in Virginia's election, the financial disclosures of Rep. Ilhan Omar, and national narratives around hate crimes. The show heavily criticizes the left, the establishment media, and activists who, in the hosts’ view, manufacture crises for political gain.
The episode is combative, overtly critical of the political left, and characterized by unsparing and raw commentary, mixing political analysis, cultural criticism, and satirical barbs. Both host and guest rely on pointed—often incendiary—language and recurring themes of establishment corruption, media malpractice, and the mythologizing of hate for political gain.