{"id":2643072,"date":"2026-08-11T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-threatens-think-tank-with-lawsuit-over-national-guard-report\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:33:00","slug":"trump-threatens-think-tank-with-lawsuit-over-national-guard-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-threatens-think-tank-with-lawsuit-over-national-guard-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens think tank with lawsuit over National Guard report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-threatens-think-tank-with-lawsuit-over-national-guard-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2643072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump has announced plans to sue the Center for American Progress and possibly its donors over a report claiming that deploying the National Guard in cities dose not reduce violent crime. This follows Hall\u2019s remarks on C-Span, criticizing the management\u2019s claims about the impact of National Guard deployments. Trump criticized the think tank as a &#8220;Foolish Center for American Lack of progress&#8221; and indicated that a lawsuit is being prepared,perhaps targeting its donors,which he accused of funding a &#8220;Radical Left SCAM&#8221; supported by foreign entities like George Soros,Bill and Melinda Gates,and several corporations.<\/p>\n<p>The report, published July 13 by the Center for American Progress, found no evidence that National Guard deployments decreased urban violence over the past year and estimated costs exceeding $1.7 billion if continued through year-end. trump and his allies, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham, have publicly promoted the narrative that the Guard\u2019s presence has contributed to crime reduction, despite Hall&#8217;s expert disagreement that these interventions had any effect. <\/p>\n<p>One year after deploying thousands of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., there are mixed reactions. The Make D.C. Safe and Gorgeous task Force reports over 16,000 arrests since last August,with around 4,600 troops still stationed until at least 2029 at a cost of over $1.4 billion. Some residents have praised the deployment, while critics and experts argue that the reduction in crime was happening before the intervention and that the costs and federal overreach are unjustified. Trump remains committed to fighting the report&#8217;s conclusions and has expressed intentions to hold those involved accountable through legal action.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank and perhaps some of its donors over the organization\u2019s report that undermines the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-guard\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1956\">National Guard\u2019s<\/a> effect on violent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"8761\">crime<\/a> in cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump went after the Center for American Progress in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117074526504264990\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117074526504264990\">Truth Social post<\/a> late Monday night after Chandler Hall, the think tank\u2019s associate director of public safety, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/washington-journal\/chandler-hall-on-center-for-american-progress-report-on-national-guard-deployments-and-urban-crime\/683792\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/washington-journal\/chandler-hall-on-center-for-american-progress-report-on-national-guard-deployments-and-urban-crime\/683792\">spoke on C-Span<\/a> about the recent report.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4682411\/trump-threatens-think-tank-lawsuit-national-guard-report\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump threatens think tank with lawsuit over disagreement with National Guard effect on crime<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4681451\/lauren-boebert-son-arrested-child-sexual-exploitation-charges-video-17-year-old\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Lauren Boebert\u2019s son arrested on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lauren-boeberts-son-arrested-on-child-sexual-exploitation-charges\/\" title=\"Lauren Boebert&#039;s son arrested on child sexual exploitation charges\">child sexual exploitation charges related<\/a> to video of a 17-year-old<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4681559\/one-year-later-dc-residents-trump-national-guard-deployment\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>One year later, some DC residents praise Trump\u2019s National Guard deployment<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-trump-administrations-1-7-billion-national-guard-deployments-fail-to-reduce-urban-crime\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-trump-administrations-1-7-billion-national-guard-deployments-fail-to-reduce-urban-crime\/\">center\u2019s analysis<\/a>, published July 13, found no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime over the past year and estimated that the deployments would cost more than $1.7 billion in taxpayer money if they lasted through the end of this year. The president disagreed with its findings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChandler Hall, representing, on Television, the foolish Center for American Lack of Progress, stated that adding the National Guard to Cities, including our now Great Again, Washington, D.C., had \u2018NO impact on Crime.\u2019 How crazy is that,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cHall was met with furious dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump appeared to be referencing Fox News host Laura Ingraham\u2019s interview with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"8767\">White House<\/a> border czar <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tom-homan\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11681\">Tom Homan<\/a>, who praised his boss as the \u201cgreatest president in my lifetime\u201d for cracking down on crime in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"260\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, and other major cities. Trump posted a clip of the interview on his Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His screed against the Center for American Progress came exactly one year after National Guard units were deployed in the capital to rein in homicides and other crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the center\u2019s report and Hall\u2019s remarks on television, Trump vowed to bring a lawsuit, which he said, \u201cis being drawn now.\u201d He indicated that individuals and organizations that donate to the think tank could also be sued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am also strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cCrime is way down since I took Office, and they know it. Liars, at this level, must be held accountable!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He named some of these donors earlier in the post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics, including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal,\u201d Trump said. \u201cForeign support includes the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (Taiwan), and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the C-Span interview, Hall took issue with the Trump administration taking credit for the drastic drop in violent crime nationwide when those crimes were already on a downward trajectory before the Republican administration intervened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think it\u2019s unfortunate that the president is continuing to still choose to boast that these deployments, these very costly interventions, are showing any result to try to convince voters that they should sign on for more of these kinds of interventions and federal overreach when, again, there\u2019s no proof that they have any effect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4681559\/one-year-later-dc-residents-trump-national-guard-deployment\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4681559\/one-year-later-dc-residents-trump-national-guard-deployment\/\">ONE YEAR LATER, SOME DC RESIDENTS PRAISE TRUMP\u2019S NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force has made more than 16,000 arrests in Washington, D.C., since last August, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmarshals.gov\/news\/press-release\/make-dc-safe-and-beautiful-task-force-marks-one-year-of-relentless-action\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usmarshals.gov\/news\/press-release\/make-dc-safe-and-beautiful-task-force-marks-one-year-of-relentless-action\">according to<\/a> the U.S. Marshals Service. The White House <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4681006\/trump-administration-national-guard-dc-crime-crackdown-arrests\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4681006\/trump-administration-national-guard-dc-crime-crackdown-arrests\/\">touted the figure<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly 4,600 National Guard troops remain in the federal district, and they will<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4649037\/national-guard-deployment-dc-extended-2029\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4649037\/national-guard-deployment-dc-extended-2029\/\"> stay<\/a> until the next president\u2019s inauguration in 2029 unless Trump terminates the order earlier than expected. The extended deployment will cost taxpayers at least <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4673930\/national-guard-dc-deployment-cost\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4673930\/national-guard-dc-deployment-cost\/\">$1.4 billion<\/a> in additional expenses, according to information that the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"335\">Department of War<\/a> provided to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"31\">Congress<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump threatens to sue think tank over crime report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2643073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26219789286717.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4585,37479,42890,3634],"class_list":["post-2643072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-lawsuit","tag-national-guard","tag-think-tank","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26219789286717.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643076,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643072\/revisions\/2643076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2643073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}