Expert whose investigations led to Trump critical race theory ban challenges Brian Stelter to debate

"Hey @brianstelter! Why don't you have me on your show to explain it to you? I will rip your lazy and dishonest arguments apart," Rufo challenged Stelter.

Then in direct messages "to see if he has the stones," Rufo told Stelter: "Your recent segment on my CRT investigations gets it all wrong. I hereby challenge you to debate me about it on youu show! Let's do this."

Over several months, Rufo found that numerous agencies held taxpayer-funded training sessions that Trump alleged "sow division and racism."

The Treasury Department told its employees that “virtually all White people contribute to racism” and demands that white staff members “struggle to own their racism” and accept their “unconscious bias, White privilege, and White fragility.” Howard Ross, the seminar's leader, has billed the federal government more than $5 million for diversity training over the past 15 years, Rufo reported.

According to Rufo, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) conducted a session for 8,900 employees that argued that America was “founded on racism” and “built on the blacks of people who were enslaved."

Last year, Sandia National Labs—which produces the country's nuclear arsenal—held a three-day reeducation camp for white males, teaching the employees how to deconstruct their “white male culture” and forcing staffers to write letters of apology to women and people of color.

"Whistleblowers from inside the labs tell me that critical race theory is now endangering our national security," Rufo cited in a Twitter thread.

Rufo also named Argonne National Laboratories for commanding white lab employees to admit that they “benefit from racism” and atone for the “pain and anguish inflicted upon Black people.”

The Department of Homeland Security hosted a training on “microaggressions, microinequities, and microassaults,” in which white employees were instructed that they had been “socialized into oppressor roles," Rufo found out.

And the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion is hosting weekly “Intersectionality Workshops."

The mainstream media has since covered the leftist indoctrination as "sensitivity training," while ignoring documented evidence of racially-segregated training sessions, the revival of the race essentialism, and subjecting employees to ritualistic self-denouncement.

In a recent clip, Stelter, the anchor of Reliable Sources and CNN's chief media correspondent, denounced ring-wing reporting of Trump's executive cease and desist order, calling out Townhall, Breitbart, and Fox News among other news outlets.

Stelter then linked the president's executive order back to Rufo, who has repeatedly urged Trump to take action.

"Chris calls it toxic and racist ideology," Stelter went on, noting that Rufo appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show last week and captured the nation's attention with what Stelter called "catnip."

"No more talk about white privilege. No more examination of systemic privilege. The Trump administration doesn't want it inside federal agencies, even though 2020 is being defined in part by this long overdue reckoning about race," Stelter continued. "Trump doesn't want it to happen."

Then Stelter attributed a quote to former Fox News personality Eboni Williams that he included in his new takedown book of Trump, titled Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.

"After she left the network, Eboni Williams, who is black, decried Fox as racist and fear-based. The entire programming strategy, she said, was to address conservatives' fears 'of intrinsic devaluation of whiteness in this country.' White identity politics, in other words," Stelter wrote.

Stelter concluded: "It all comes back to whiteness and the backlash to a browning America. And the president? He eats it up, and the feedback loop spins round and round."

Conservative reporters have since rallied against Stelter.

"Your con is over, @brianstelter. You know it as well as we do," PJ Media's former New York City editor David Steinberg rebutted on Twitter.

"The media really leaning on this euphemistic 'racial sensitivity training' is not doing journalism or the public any justice," The Daily Caller's editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll wrote. "They make it sound like a 20 minute powerpoint presentation you get right next to sexual harassment as you’re onboarding a new job."