Lawyers for President Donald Trump are threatening a $5 billion defamation lawsuit against a progressive think tank unless it retracts a report analyzing the administration’s National Guard deployments across the country, which reported no measurable impact on violent crime rates.
The president lashed out at the Center for American Progress and one of its employees who appeared on C-SPAN to discuss the report earlier this month. The analysis determined that the president’s decision to send federalized troops into American cities was largely ineffective at a cost of roughly $1.7 billion.
