Trump Escalates With $5 Billion Suit Threat, Framing CAP's National Guard Findings as Hurt Feelings

Trump Threatens Think Tank With Libel Lawsuit For Telling The Truth About National Guard Deployments

Whenever Trump doesn't like the facts, he calls it "fake news" or does what he's doing here: tries to shoot the messenger by threatening them with a lawsuit. The administration has been sending National Guard troops to various US cities ever since it became clear its mass deportation efforts weren't nearly as popular with US…

Trump Threatens $5 Billion Lawsuit Over Study Challenging Guard Deployment: Report

President Donald Trump is reportedly threatening to sue a think-tank for $5 billion over a study that challenged one of his claims. ... The post Trump Threatens $5 Billion Lawsuit Over Study Challenging Guard Deployment: Report appeared first on The New American.

Trump Escalates With $5 Billion Suit Threat, Framing CAP's National Guard Findings as Hurt Feelings

President Donald Trump has escalated his confrontation with the Center for American Progress (CAP) by threatening a $5 billion (£3.7 billion) defamation lawsuit over its findings on National Guard deployments. The think tank's July analysis concluded there was no evidence the troops reduced violent crime in key cities, a claim the president has framed as little more than an expression of hurt feelings rather than objective research. His personal…

Trump Threatens to Sue Think-Tank for Publishing a Report He Doesn’t Like

https://share.google/DwYvniOIxZNXpV1Md The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a centrist, Democratic-aligned think tank in D.C. It is known as a haven for high-Democrats when Republicans are in power and as an incubator for new policies. It is to the Democratic Party what the Heritage Foundation is to the Republican Party, except that the Heritage Foundation is allied with the extremists in the GOP, not the centrists. CAP recently published a…

The $5 Billion Fight Over a Crime Report, and the Math Nobody Checked

Motive Verbs, Not Coefficients  – Center for American Progress @amprog  https://www.facebook.com/americanprogress/  @americanprogress.bsky.social A think tank said $1.7 billion in National Guard deployments failed to cut crime. A presidential attorney answered with a nine-page letter, a retraction demand, and a $5 billion deadline. The think tank refused, first through its president, then through its general counsel…. Read More “The $5 Billion F…