Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank…
President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, unless they retract a report that claims his National Guard deployments to cities did not lessen crime. The letter, sent to the organization, gave them until the end of business on Friday to issue the retraction or face a $5 billion lawsuit.
The report, published on July 13, criticized the administration for claiming credit for a decline in violent crime while the decrease was already happening. The analysis found that Trump's deployment of the National Guard "had no measurable effect on violent crime trends." The nonprofit's president and CEO, Neera Tanden, stated that the lawsuit is an attempt to silence them and that they will not back down.
Trump's attorneys argue that the center's report is "false, malicious, and defamatory" and that it harms the president financially and reputationally.
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