DHS $$ TO GOP ‘HATERS’

Grant to college

The Department of Homeland Security doled out more than $350,000 to a university program that placed the Republican Party and mainstream conservative groups on a “pyramid of far-right radicalization” alongside neo-Nazis, according to documents obtained by a conservative media watchdog.

DHS’ Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program gave $352,109 in fiscal year 2022 to the PREVENTS-OH program at the University of Dayton after a seminar held at the Ohio school’s Human Rights Center tied groups such as the Republican National Committee, the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, and Fox News — which first reported on the documents — to known hate organizations including the neo-Nazi paramilitary group The Base and the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer.

Researchers at Dayton later referenced the seminar as part of their grant proposal for the DHS program, according to the documents obtained by the Media Research Center.

“This seminar was not funded, organized, or hosted by the Department of Homeland Security,” a spokesperson for the agency told The Post.

“Similarly, the presented chart was not developed, presented, or endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security, and was not part of any successful grant application . . . DHS does not profile, target, or discriminate against any individual for exercising their constitutional rights protected by the First Amendment.”

Dan Schneider, a vice president at MRC, said in a statement that DHS was “lying through its teeth.”

“DHS did indeed fund the PREVENTS-OH program a year after a graph and documents were presented that equated Nazis to conservatives, Christians, and Republicans,” he said. “Laughably, the DHS Ohio grantee quickly scrubbed its website following this report, something innocent groups don’t do. But it is too late; we have already copied it.”