Trump threatens $5bn lawsuit over National Guard policy report

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Donald Trump's lawyer sent a letter threatening a $5bn lawsuit against the Center for American Progress unless it retracts a report released on 13 July. The report concluded that National Guard deployments in Washington DC, Memphis, and Los Angeles failed to have a measurable impact on crime despite costing an estimated $1.7bn, noting that crime rates in cities without National Guard intervention were not statistically different from those with intervention.