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Trump threatens lawsuit over report on National Guard deployments
AP News • • nation
Key Points:
- President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the Center for American Progress for $5 billion unless it retracts a report stating his National Guard deployments did not reduce crime, a claim the center refuses to withdraw.
- The report, published on July 13, argued that the decline in violent crime was already underway before Trump's interventions and found no measurable impact from the National Guard deployments.
- Center president Neera Tanden condemned the lawsuit threat as an attempt to silence the nonprofit, emphasizing that their findings were based on crime data analysis.
- Trump's attorney accused the center of making false and defamatory statements, while the nonprofit's legal counsel rejected the defamation claim, citing protections for truthful speech.
- Legal experts view Trump's lawsuit threats as tactics to intimidate critics rather than legitimate efforts to seek damages.
