Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime
CAP said it will not retract the report as Trump’s lawyer demanded a personal apology and warned of a $5 billion defamation suit.
- President Donald Trump is threatening a $5 billion defamation lawsuit against the Center for American Progress unless it retracts a National Guard report by 5 p.m. Friday, according to Trump's personal lawyer Alejandro Brito.
- The CAP report, published July 13, concluded there is "no compelling evidence that these deployments reduced homicides, violent crime, or gun violence," prompting Trump to call the analysis "another Radical Left SCAM" on social media.
- Supporting the findings, a Reuters investigation found National Guard soldiers were mentioned in just 1.3% of cases brought before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, while CAP lawyer Kevin H. Metz called the threat "utterly absurd."
- Rejecting the retraction demand, CAP President Neera Tanden vowed the organization would "neither cower nor bend" in the face of what she called a "transparent attempt to silence us."
- Experts note that such legal threats often aim to push opponents into submission rather than address merits, reflecting Trump's broader pattern of using the legal system to intimidate critics and media outlets over unfavorable coverage.
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Trump has deployed the National Guard to several major American cities to combat violent crime. A new report from a liberal think tank concludes that it has not worked. Now Trump is threatening to sue.
The study questions that the military deployment has reduced the violence and points out that the fall was already underway
Trump is stark raving mad — and this proves it
I need to inform you of a very serious matter. Trump is threatening the Center for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit over a report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime. This is nuts, for several reasons. First and most obviously, his lawsuit violates the First Amendment. Even if the Center for America…
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The Seattle TimesTrump threatens suit over report he doesn’t like, aiming to intimidate a critic
President Donald Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes, threatening a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit over a report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime. The post Trump threatens suit over report he doesn’t like, aiming to intimidate a critic appeared first on West Hawaii Today.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Jae-woo = U.S. President Donald Trump's measure to deploy the National Guard to major cities has not had a significant effect on reducing violent crime...
Trump threatens lawsuit over National Guard crime study
Washington: President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime, as he said. The letter gave the Washington, DC-based Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to issue the retraction or face a USD 5 billion lawsuit. The center declined. The nonprofit’s president and chief executive, Neera Tanden, sai…
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