Trump threatens $5 billion suit over report on Guard deployments
Why it matters: The demand targets a think tank’s analysis that found no measurable drop in violent crime tied to the city deployments.
President Donald Trump is threatening a $5 billion lawsuit against the Center for American Progress unless it retracts a report questioning his claims that National Guard deployments reduced crime in U.S. cities. A letter from Trump attorney Alejandro Brito gave the Washington-based nonprofit until Friday to pull the July 13 analysis. The group refused. Its report argued violent crime was already falling and that the deployments had no measurable effect on crime trends. Center president Neera Tanden called the threat an effort to silence criticism, while general counsel Kevin Metz wrote that defamation claims fail if the report is true. The dispute adds to a broader pattern of legal threats by Trump against critics and institutions he views as hostile.