Trump Threatens to Sue Over National Guard Report He Doesn’t Like

Donald Trump is threatening a $5bn defamation lawsuit against the Center for American Progress (CAP) unless it retracts a report on National Guard deployments. The CAP study analyzed interventions in Los Angeles, Memphis, and Washington, D.C., concluding that the effort cost $1.7bn but had no measurable impact on reducing violent crime levels. The research compared these results with crime rates in cities without National Guard presence to determine the effectiveness of the administration's federal law enforcement rollout.