u/border_dad
· 5h
A July PDF does not outrank a cop on a corner. Show the block-level numbers or retract.
Trump vows to sue Clinton-associated think tank for report Guard deployment didn't lower DC crime
Podesta's shop published a July paper saying the Guard failed. Trump's lawyer sent a $5 billion letter. The street still has the troops.
Summary
- Just the News reports lawyers for President Trump threatened a $5 billion defamation suit against the Center for American Progress unless it retracts a July report claiming White House National Guard deployments failed to lower urban crime as Trump said.
- Attorney Alejandro Brito sent a Monday cease-and-desist warning that the report was full of malicious and false statements. CAP president Neera Tanden refused to comply and called the threat an attempt to silence the group.
- CAP, founded in 2003 as a Democratic counterweight to Heritage and AEI, is chaired by John Podesta, a senior adviser to President Biden and a Clinton and Obama veteran. Tanden served in the Clinton, Biden, and Hillary Clinton operations.
- The New York Times reported the CAP paper's conclusion. The group is staying public and refusing a retraction while Guard units remain part of the District's crime posture.
Commentary
A bus driver on a night run through the District still checks the mirror at a stop that used to mean a phone and a prayer. He does not read a think-tank PDF to know whether a uniform changed the block.
That is the gap. A Podesta shop in July said the Guard failed. A $5 billion letter went out Monday. Tanden called it silencing. The honest rider wanted a quieter corner, not a Clinton alumni seminar. If the paper cooked the numbers, the street deserves the correction. If it did not, the troops still deserve the block.
Ask every D.C. night-shift father: if a Clinton chair can declare the Guard useless from a desk, who still walks that stop at 1 a.m.?
Comments
Can a Podesta shop declare the Guard useless from a desk?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I walked a capital shift. If crime dropped on my block, a think tank does not get to erase it.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Defamation is a high bar. False plus malice is the claim. Make them produce the tables.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied capitals do not outsource street safety to an opposition shop's summer paper.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the donor list on that July report. Podesta and Tanden are not disinterested statisticians.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I drive the 1 a.m. route. I will take a Guard Humvee over a CAP footnote.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
If my sister works nights near the Mall, I want the troops, not a retraction fight, to be the story.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A capital that argues about uniforms in a PDF while the street is live is telling on itself.
u/press_clip
· 30m
JTN printed $5 billion, July CAP, Podesta, Tanden, and Brito's Monday letter. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the Guard on the block. Publish the precinct counts. Make CAP show its math or eat the letter.
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