President Donald Trump has announced plans to sue the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) over a new report dismissing the impact of National Guard deployments on crime in major U.
S. cities.
According to Breitbart, the president used a Truth Social post to blast a study authored by Chandler Hall, Associate Director of Public Safety for CAP, which claims that sending in the Guard did not reduce violent crime. Trump revealed that a lawsuit was being drawn now, and added that he was strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization, signaling that he intends to challenge not only the think tanks conclusions but also the powerful network of corporate and foreign donors behind it. The post, which Trump had originally shared on August 10, underscores his broader argument that the American left and its institutional allies are determined to undermine his law-and-order agenda regardless of the data on the ground.
Chandler Hall, representing, on Television, the foolish Center for American Lack of Progress, stated that adding the National Guard to Cities, including our now Great Again, Washington, D.C., had NO impact on Crime, Trump wrote in his latest salvo against CAP. How crazy is that. Hall was met with furious dissent. The report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics, including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal. By naming a roster of progressive mega-donors and multinational corporations, Trump framed CAP not as an independent research body but as a political weapon financed by globalist interests that have long opposed his presidency and his border-and-policing priorities.
Trump further highlighted that the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, among others, have provided foreign funding and contributions to CAP. For conservatives already skeptical of foreign influence in domestic policy debates, those ties reinforce concerns that left-wing think tanks are advancing agendas that do not necessarily align with the interests of ordinary American citizens. The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything TRUMP, Trump continued, tying CAPs work directly to the Democratic Partys broader resistance to his policies. These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country. Their stated course is anything to hate or demean TRUMP.
At the heart of the dispute is Halls report, which insists that the Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America despite the fact that this trend began before it took office. The document argues that The second Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America despite the fact that this trend began before it took office, and it is using these declines to justify expanding policies that are unpopular, ineffective, and costly. In CAPs telling, the White House is leveraging a preexisting downward trend in crime to rationalize tougher security measures, including the deployment of the National Guard, that the left views as heavy-handed and politically motivated.
The report goes on to claim that Even though the data clearly show that violent crime and homicides were already dropping in American cities in 2023 and 2024, the Trump administration has continued to threaten city and state leaders and argue that its extreme actions, such as deploying the National Guard to support law enforcement operations, are improving public safety. CAPs analysis concludes bluntly that new Center for American Progress analysis finds no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime. Moreover, if these deployments are extended and continue through the end of 2026, they could cost American taxpayers more than $1.7 billion. From a conservative standpoint, this framing not only downplays the deterrent effect of a visible security presence but also treats the cost of restoring order as more objectionable than the human and economic toll of unchecked crime.
The study further asserts that Trump is exploiting the fact that violent crime and murder were already declining in the cities his administration targeted with these extreme interventions. CAP contends that In an effort to falsely claim his policies have reduced crime, the president is exploiting the fact that violent crime and murder were already declining in the cities his administration targeted with these extreme interventions. On average, the 11 cities where the National Guard was deployed or threatened to be deployed saw a 14 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling violent crime rate and a 22 percent decrease in their 12-month rolling murder rate from June 2024 to June 2025, before the National Guard was first deployed to Los Angeles. While CAP uses those figures to argue that Trump is merely riding a preexisting trend, critics of the report note that the same data can also suggest that firm federal pressure and the credible threat of intervention helped sustain and accelerate those declines.
The CAP document acknowledges that the National Guard has been dispatched to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New Orleans to confront crime waves and riots. Those deployments came after years in which progressive prosecutors, defund-the-police activists, and soft-on-crime policies had eroded public safety and emboldened criminals in many Democrat-run jurisdictions. Breitbart Newss Hannah Knudsen reported in August 2025 that overall violent crime in the nations capital dropped by 22 percent in the week after Trump announced his crackdown in Washington, with no murders in the city over the last seven days. That real-world outcome stands in stark contrast to CAPs insistence that the Guard had no impact on Crime, and it is precisely this clash between lived experience and left-wing theory that Trump appears eager to test in court.
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