Fox & Friends Hosts Discredited Conspiracy Theorist To Attack DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Muslim Civil Rights Group

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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade hosted former Department of Justice attorney, Republican activist, and conspiracy theorist J. Christian Adams, who claimed that Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the head of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ Vanita Gupta are “hanging out with the wrong crowd,” naming the civil rights group Muslim Advocates as an example. Adams also attacked the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, saying it “is populated with the most radicalized lawyers … who think America is the problem” and that in the wake of the Orlando massacre it “is doing all the wrong things.”

J. Christian Adams is a thoroughly discredited Republican activist and conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly leveled racially charged corruption accusations against the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which have been debunked. Muslim Advocates is a legal advocacy organization “that works on the frontlines of civil rights to guarantee freedom and justice for Americans of all faiths” and has been the target of attacks from right-wing media for years.

From the June 22 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:

BRIAN KILMEADE (HOST): Why is the Justice Department ignoring what seems to be obvious? Here with us with some reaction is former DOJ official, J. Christian Adams. J. Christian, what am I missing here? It seems as though we got the motivation in three separate phone calls. What's going on?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Every American, except perhaps the ones at the Justice Department, know the motivation for why Omar Mateen shot up Pulse. He said it, it's clear. This attitude that Loretta Lynch has that we're never going to know for sure, it's political correctness endangering the lives of Americans. People with common sense know the motivation of Omar Mateen, it was radical Islam. Unfortunately our attorney general doesn't get it. 

KILMEADE: So, you were there with the Department of Justice, you left, you're a whistleblower. So where does this come from -- where does this mindset come from? After all, this is the same Loretta Lynch that was in New York, the site of the worst attack in our history. 

ADAMS: The Civil Rights Division is populated with the most radicalized lawyers, hundreds of them, who think America is the problem. Radical Islam isn't the problem, it's America. It's populated with people who have bought in entirely to political correctness. They're hanging out with the wrong crowd, Brian. Loretta Lynch and Vanita Gupta, who's the head of the Civil Rights Division, have been associating themselves with all the wrong people. For example, a Soros group called Muslim Advocates, they've gone to their gala. They've said, “We stand with you,” that's a quote from these officials, from Vanita Gupta. “We stand with Muslim Advocates.” This is an organization that hassled the New York Police Department to stop monitoring radical mosques. This is an organization that is trying to stop the war on terror, stop the war on radical Islam. Why is the Justice Department associating itself with groups like Muslim Advocates?

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ADAMS: Lynch still is in charge of an agency that is making America less safe. The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is doing all the wrong things. They're airbrushing radical Islam out of the Orlando attack. It's a dangerous precedent, it's going to cause more harm in America.