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Trump Threatens $5B Lawsuit Over Crime Report, Think Tank Refuses

Published 22 August 2026

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank, for $5 billion in a defamation lawsuit unless it retracts a July report that concluded his National Guard deployments to several U.S. cities did not reduce violent crime.

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