Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime
Summary
President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank, for a report that said his National Guard deployments to cities did not lower crime rates. The think tank refused to retract the report and said the lawsuit is an attempt to silence them.Key Facts
- President Trump sent a letter demanding the Center for American Progress retract a report on National Guard deployments and crime.
- The report claimed the deployments had no measurable impact on violent crime trends.
- The nonprofit is based in Washington, D.C., and issued the report on July 13.
- The report said violent crime was already declining before the deployment.
- Trump’s lawyer threatened a $5 billion lawsuit if the center did not retract the report by Friday.
- The center’s president, Neera Tanden, called the lawsuit an effort to silence their free speech.
- The nonprofit’s lawyer said their report is protected by laws that support truthful speech.
- Threatening lawsuits over negative media coverage is a known strategy used by President Trump.
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