Trump threatens think tank with lawsuit over disagreement with National Guard effect on crime

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President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank and perhaps some of its donors over the organization’s report that undermines the National Guard’s effect on violent crime in cities.

Trump went after the Center for American Progress in a Truth Social post late Monday night after Chandler Hall, the think tank’s associate director of public safety, spoke on C-Span about the recent report.

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