Documents uncovered by the Media Research Center (MRC) revealed that the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (TVTP), established by the DHS in 2011 to combat Al Qaeda, was vastly expanded in scope by the Biden administration. Its grants now encompass several “media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives,” the most radical of which accuse conservative organizations of turning Americans into violent neo-Nazis.
Under Biden, the program awarded eighty grants totaling $39,611,999. Fifty-two percent of the grants were awarded to public institutions, and 48 percent went to private organizations. One institution that was awarded a grant, the University of Dayton, used its DHS money to create a training program explaining how content from Breitbart News, Fox News, the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, PragerU, and the Republican National Committee among others led to far-right radicalization.
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According to MRC, one of the DHS-funded seminars at the university compared former President Donald Trump to the genocidal Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a “second Holocaust.” Several other seminars in the program featured lectures by Michael Loedenthal, a self-proclaimed member of Antifa who endorses committing illegal acts in the fight against the “far right.”
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The fact that taxpayer money, funneled through a DHS program established in 2011 to fight Al Qaeda, ended up funding Loedenthal’s seminars is another addition to a growing pile of evidence that the Biden administration is using the federal government to target domestic political opponents. The Republican majority in Congress has been alert to this trend, establishing the Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate and propose solutions.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has also taken action, working to cut funding to organizations used to censor conservatives, including NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI). “I think America is going to be shocked by how much government was doing, working in these—using these government agencies with these private companies to… censor what people can see,” McCarthy told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
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“You’re going to find not only are we going to hold them accountable, we’re going to be able to use that basis to know legislatively what can we do that they can never do this again.” Allum Bokhari, the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, commented on the issue, stating that this is another example of the Biden administration using the federal government to target domestic political opponents.
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