- President Trump threatened a $5 billion lawsuit against the Center for American Progress over a report saying his National Guard deployments didn’t reduce crime.
- The think tank refused to retract the report; CEO Neera Tanden said they “will neither cower nor bend,” and its lawyers argued truth isn’t defamation.
- First Amendment experts call the demand a pressure tactic and part of a pattern of Trump using legal threats to try to intimidate critics.
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