Trump's Threats of a $5 Billion Lawsuit: A Familiar Pattern of Intimidation President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the Center for American Progress (CAP) for $5 billion over a report analyzing the administration's National Guard deployments.
The report, which found little measurable impact on violent crime rates, is inconvenient for Trump's narrative of success on law and order.
This threat is part of a pattern of behavior that has become all too familiar in the Trump era: using courts and threats of lawsuits to silence critics and intimidate anyone who dares challenge his claims.