Trump threatens defamation suit against left-leaning think tank
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President Trump's legal team is threatening to sue left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress for defamation over a report it issued that found "no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime."
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Attorney Alejandro Brito sent the letter to the Center for American Progress this week after the think-tank released a report last month that claimed the deployments were not improving violent crime rates.
The president threatened a prominent liberal think tank over its report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime.
President Trump has demanded a liberal think tank retract a critical report on his National Guard deployments by Friday evening, threatening to file a $5 billion defamation suit if it doesn’t. In a nine-page letter sent Monday by Trump’s personal attorney, which was reviewed by The Hill, he claimed …
President Trump is trying to sue for defamation after yet another report found that the National Guard takeover of cities across America had no significant impact on reducing violent crime levels. In July, the Center for American Progress, or CAP, published a study analyzing the impact of Trump’s de…
A report released by thinktank Cap argues the deployment of the National Guard failed to have a measurable impact on crime, despite costing billions The Center for American Progress (Cap) received a letter from Donald Trump’s lawyer threatening a $5bn lawsuit unless the liberal research organization…
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.
President Trump's legal team is threatening to sue left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress for defamation over a report it issued that found "no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime."
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