Threats of Lawsuits Won't Silence Fact Based Reporting President Trump's lawyers have threatened to sue the Center for American Progress (CAP) for defamation over a report that found National Guard deployments had no measurable effect on violent crime.
The report, which drew from multiple analyses of citywide crime data, is just the latest target in Trump's long history of using lawsuits to silence critics and intimidate opponents.
Trump's lawyers claim that the CAP report contains "materially false statements" intended to damage the president. This argument essentially boils down to saying that the truth is whatever Trump says it is.