President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said.
The letter gave the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to issue the retraction or face a $5 billion lawsuit. The center declined.
The nonprofit’s president and chief executive, Neera Tanden, said in a statement that the lawsuit “is a transparent attempt to silence us. We will neither cower nor bend in the face of it.”
The report, published July 13, criticized the administration for taking credit for a historic drop in violent crime at a time when that decline was already underway. The analysis concluded that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard “had no measurable effect on violent crime trends.”
One thing Delusional Donnie hasn't yet grasped: Claiming "financial harm" means that a victim of Trump's lawsuits gets to do financial discovery of Trump's affairs. Trump sued the BBC with the same bullshit claims and they're alreadly asking to depose Trump's family members and dig into his financial records.
If you want to read the CAP's report on Trump's Potemkin-like deploymet of the National Guard, it's available here.
As to "reputational harm", that's laughable. Most everyone outside of the MAGAts know what Trump is a fascist buffoon whose built his wealth on a longstanding pattern of fraud and deceit. If Putin is the richest corrupt leader on the face of the Earth, Trump is the richest fraudster and grifter. The CAP and the BBC didn't get Trump convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud, he did that all by himself.
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