President Donald Trump says a lawsuit against the Center for American Progress is being prepared after its analysis rejected his National Guard crime claims.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the lawsuit was “being drawn now.” He also said he was “strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization.”
No court, jurisdiction, legal claim, or filed complaint was identified. For now, Trump has announced a planned legal challenge rather than a completed lawsuit.
Trump acted after Chandler Hall, the Center for American Progress associate director of public safety, argued on television that National Guard deployments had “NO impact on Crime.” Trump also named George Soros among those he said fund CAP, placing the dispute within wider scrutiny of Soros-backed media activity.
The dispute reaches beyond one television appearance. CAP published an analysis arguing that violent crime had begun falling before Trump took office and before the first Guard deployment covered by its review.
As Breitbart News reported, CAP made its central case in blunt terms:
“However, 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.”
CAP examined 11 cities where the Guard was deployed or threatened with deployment. From June 2024 through June 2025, those cities recorded a 14 percent drop in their rolling violent-crime rate and a 22 percent drop in murder.
A rolling rate measures the latest 12-month period rather than one isolated week. CAP said those declines occurred before the first National Guard deployment to Los Angeles.
That timing forms the backbone of CAP’s argument. The organization contends Trump is taking credit for a trend already underway and using it to justify policies CAP calls costly and ineffective.
The fight also reflects a broader dispute over how left-wing institutions shape public claims, much like recent questions involving coordinated progressive messaging. CAP’s analysis does not merely question the size of the Guard’s effect; it says it found no evidence of one.
Breitbart News reported that overall violent crime in Washington, D.C., fell 22 percent during the week after Trump announced his crackdown. The city also recorded no murders over the seven-day period cited in that account.
Those short-term figures do not settle what caused the decline. But they give Trump a concrete basis to challenge Hall’s categorical claim that adding the Guard had no impact on crime.
The two sides also use different time frames. CAP relies on trends measured before the Los Angeles deployment, while the Washington figures cover one week after Trump announced his crackdown there.
That gap matters. A long decline can begin before a policy change, while later enforcement may still affect what happens next. CAP’s timing argument alone does not resolve every city’s results.
Trump named Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, major banks, retailers, automakers, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal among CAP’s alleged funders. He also claimed CAP received foreign contributions tied to Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates.
The post did not specify which contributors Trump might seek to add to a lawsuit. His criticism comes as conservative readers have followed another Soros-funded nonprofit dispute involving political advocacy.
Several basic questions remain unanswered. No complaint, court, legal theory, filing date, or list of proposed defendants was disclosed. CAP’s exact report title, publication date, full city list, and detailed methodology also were not provided.
Until a complaint appears, the legal scope cannot be judged. The public dispute is clearer: Trump says Guard-backed enforcement helped cities, while CAP credits a decline that began earlier.
Public safety deserves honest measurement, not absolute claims built to serve an ideological side. Taxpayers and lawful residents should get the full record.