Trump SUES for $5 Billion to HIDE THE TRUTH?!?!

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover Trump personal attorney Alejandro Brito's nine-page letter threatening the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit unless the left-leaning think tank retracts, apologizes for, and pays compensation over a July 13 report finding no measurable link between National Guard deployments and reduced crime in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Memphis. Brian breaks down CAP's findings: violent crime was already declining before the deployments began, and the operations are on pace to cost taxpayers $1.7 billion a year, a number Brian notes lines up suspiciously well with Brito's $5 billion demand covering roughly three years of Trump's term. Shant explains why the threat fails as a matter of law under New York Times v. Sullivan: Trump is unquestionably a public figure, meaning CAP's report, an evidence-based policy disagreement, would need to show actual malice, not just a conclusion the president dislikes. Brian and Shant point to Brito's track record, failed defamation suits against The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CNN, plus a sanctions referral to the Florida Bar over Trump's IRS lawsuit, and note CAP flatly rejected the demand, with CEO Neera Tanden calling it "a transparent attempt to silence us." Shant's bottom line: the goal was never to win in court, it's to make examples of institutions willing to publish inconvenient research.

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