Our current administration and Republican-led Congress want to cut the budgets from things like Holocaust museums, affordable housing, agencies that work on civil rights protections, and the funds that were earmarked to help fight far right-wing violence. In the shadow of Charlottesville you might think Trump would propose something monetarily—even as a token—towards combating hate groups. But he can’t. He’s a racist. Reuters is reporting that actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer, are donating $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center—to fight the very issues of hate and violence that Trump feeds so heartily off of.
"What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate," the Clooneys said in a joint statement.
The donation comes from the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which the couple established in 2016 to promote justice in classrooms and courtrooms around the world.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still trying to figure out how to fleece his base for cash.