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, because it published a report saying his use of the National Guard in some cities did not reduce crime. The think tank refused to retract the report, which said the crime drop was already happening before the deployments.Key Facts
- President Trump sent a letter threatening a $5 billion lawsuit to the Center for American Progress.
- The center's report argued that National Guard deployments did not lower violent crime rates as Trump claimed.
- The report was published on July 13 and based on crime data analysis.
- The Center for American Progress is a left-leaning nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
- The center’s president, Neera Tanden, said the lawsuit aims to silence their research.
- The report stated the decline in violent crime was already in progress before the National Guard involvement.
- The center refused to retract the report by the given deadline.
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